Ian Hourston
Orkney dialect poetry Continuing the recent theme of vernacular verse, here's a 'haep o bruck' written about 15 years ago ...
RAF dog-tags When picture #26240 showing my Dad's WW1 identity tags popped up in the OIL random column, I took it...
Tom Hourston of Hozen, Dounby, 1916 There are one or two pictures of my Dad in his later years on this site. To be fair to his memory, I...
Production line ca 1990 When I posted image #26680 I thought I'd previously submitted this one. Seems not, so here it is. Th...
Doing up their flies Picture #25096 prompted me to submit this one, taken in June this year. No escape for these flies.
Silver Explorer et al 28-08-2012 Through my rain-bespattered bedroom window half an hour ago, just before the cruise-ship sailed on a...
Poles apart Polish sail-training vessels in rainy Orkney today 29 August 2012. Barquentine Pogoria alongside Nor...
Pogoria leaving Stromness Polish Sail Training Ship Pogoria leaving Stromness this afternoon, 30 Sep 2012.
2009 Vintage Rally Picture #26695 put me in mind of this one taken at the 2009 rally. The ship here is Fred. Olsen's Bl...
DeHavilland Dragon Rapide Remember when planes like this regularly graced Orkney skies? You probably won't if you're much unde...
Geese This poor shot was grabbed out of my car window in the Marwick area on 17 Sep 2012. Next day (yester...
Groovy mark at Sand Geo Artefact at Sand Geo, Marwick. Photographed this evening 22 Sep 2012.
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