Autumn gold
Thoughts on autumn in Orkney: the golden season, when the barley and wheat ripen and stubble fields glow in the evening sun. And our minds turn to ...
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The Art of Jewellery Care
In a world where possessions are often treated as mere trinkets, disposable and interchangeable, there is something undeniably captivating about je...
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Artists of Orkney: Bryce Wilson
Bryce Wilson was born and grew up in Stromness, and was one of the post war generation who left Orkney to study down south. Amongst his contemporar...
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Farewell to the Puffins
Are the puffins watching back, out of those apparently big mournful eyes, with their streak of Cleopatra-like eyeliner? Probably not, but it’s almo...
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Ola Gorie – jeweller, pioneer and a much-loved mother
Ola Gorie Jewellery is a genuine Orkney family business. As we approach Mother’s Day, Ola’s daughter Ingrid Tait offers some thoughts about growing...
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Welcome to Birdland
If Orkney ever needed a new name, Birdland would be very fitting. We have 12 RSPB reserves here, and of course the birds know no boundaries – they ...
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Behind Every Successful Jewellery Designer there's a Cheese and Wine Shop
Ola Gorie established her jewellery business in Kirkwall in 1960. But her family had already been a weel-kent presence in Orkney for over a hundre...
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Ola Gorie's Ness of Brodgar movie. Read the blog to see the video.
nce again the Ness of Brodgar is entrancing and mystifying us. And no one is more entranced than Ola, who allowed us to film her reactions to the s...
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The story behind Ola Gorie’s new Ness of Brodgar collection
Discover. In 2003, Arnie and Ola Tait asked a local farmer to plough the field next to their house at Brodgar. Set a bit deeper than previous...
