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Corinna
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Shrooms, plants, place-names, illicit whisky stills... currently working on the #PlaceNames of Eday, Rousay & Stronsay #Orkney https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/csva/research/place-names-of-northern-scotland.aspx
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 2d
Well this is on my Christmas list!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Fertility, decay and renewal in Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies – in pictures
In this new book from the Melbourne photographer, the mushroom is imagined as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor
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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 2d
Portrait of a young Solan goose, learning to fish. In a gale.

Bothican, Papay, yesterday.
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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 20d
'Animating the Dead: An #Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in #Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county. Available to pre-order now.
#BronzeAge #Prehistory
October release for institute director’s book on Bronze Age burial practice
'Animating the Dead: An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county.
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 2d
Rick Stein's Dalmatian fig tart...
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 2d
Made this with ones I was given from a friend's bumper crop!
A fig tart made with mascarpone and honey in a shortcrust pastry!
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 2d
Well this is on my Christmas list!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Fertility, decay and renewal in Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies – in pictures
In this new book from the Melbourne photographer, the mushroom is imagined as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor
www.theguardian.com
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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 2d
Just showing off. Solan goose in the Papay Sound.
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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 4d
South wick in light, the North end in shadow. A fine October day in Papay, with the sea showing true colours.
Also note our new boat naust seating area at The Kelp Store, constructed by our master builders Alistair Hourston and Son.
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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 5d
The Pillar of Mad Geo.
A line of sight.

Papay - Orkney.
Stonebuilt.
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 7d
It was growing on a bit of the field where the cows hang out (they get fed there and their water tank is nearby) so I think it was knocked a few times in its early development.
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 7d
ON hross n. 'horse' also occurs in the following #NorthernIsles #PlaceNames: Ross Geo & Russiger (with gjá f. 'Inlet, coastal gully' & garðr 'enclosure') in #Papay, and, Ruskilie (perhaps with hlíð f. 'slope, hillside') in #FairIsle
Colour photo of Ross Geo in Papay. A rocky inlet below a grass slope.
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 7d
Time well-spent! We love our Fulmar.
Painting of a Fulmar by David Roche.
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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 8d
🍄 ⭐ It's #UKFungusDay today! ⭐🍄 Join in with events, online activities, competitions. Share your favourite fungus facts, photos & creations. Learn about these amazing organisms & celebrate our fungal world. www.ukfungusday.co.uk
#fungi #nature #mushrooms #fungus
A photo of pin mould Spinellus fusiger covering the cap of a Mycena species fruitbody. White mushroom cap with brown stem on a green background. Taken by Mike Blacknell, a UK Fungus Day 2024 Photography Competition runner-up.
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 8d
The Henry Moore of fungi...? Misshapen Giant Puffball (Calvatea gigantea) for #UKfungusday today! @britmycolsoc.org.uk
A large white mushroom that looks like it is made up of three conjoined spheres.
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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 9d
Here are some installation photos of our show currently on at The Reid Gallery - Glasgow School of Art
Even better in real life though, so if you are in Glasgow pop in for a survey of our Papay SurvØY.

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Saoirse Higgins and Jonathan Ford – SurvØY, 20 September – 1 November 2025 Reid Gallery
SurvØY was developed over four years as a contemporary artist ‘island almanac’, surveying and monitoring scales of change in the context of the island environment of Papa Westray, one of the most nort...
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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 9d
A group chat along the East Road, Stone and Whin, a moment of serenity before it gets a little breezy over the weekend..
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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 9d
Some small place-names from the 2nd edition of the OS
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 10d
Two #Orkney #PlaceNames Knarston (Scapa Bay & Harray) may contain ON knǫrr­ m. a type of ship, specifically a ‘large Nordic merchant & warship’ (ONP) compounding with either staðr m. farm-settlement/dwelling’ or stǫð f. 'landing-place, jetty’. Find out more: open.substack.com/pub/uonengli...
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 11d
Happy to share a call for papers for our PGR/ECR research showcase on Life and Landscape. The showcase is a fantastic opportunity to share environmental research with both the academic community and the wider public. Please share widely!
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 11d
It might just be about some islands to the north of Scotland on 9th December!
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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 11d
We are delighted to announce our research seminars for this semester in Leeds. All will be hybrid. Keep an eye out for links to register for zoom nearer the time or come in person. All welcome! #medievalsky #medievalresearch
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 11d
The Scottish Society for Northern Studies day conference is now open for registration with a great line up of speakers #scotland #scandinavia #medievalsky www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...
SSNS 2025 Day Conference - Scottish Society for Northern Studies
We are happy to announce our next in-person conference at 10:45 BST on 22nd November in Arbroath. The conference will be followed by an optional visit to the St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum. There...
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 11d
Biggest surprise in #Eday today, while photographing the old North School, was what was inside! Other than the classroom with scale model of it and the attached house... was a submarine... a real one! Reconstructed inside the building! Well worth a visit (not to mention all the models).
Reconstruction of an Otter submarine inside the old North School House, Eday. Open to the public and well worth a visit. Lovely owner happy to show you aound it and his Lovely garden filled with models of windmills, castles, light houses and house.
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 12d
ON kista f. 'chest, coffin, casket' occurs in many #Orkney #PlaceNames, often referring to coastal rocks, incl. Calf of Eday where we find Kistin. This name appears to retain the ON definite article -in & so is perhaps a very old name for this bay! Also a good spot for creels I am told.
Colour aerial view of Kistin on the the small Isle called Calf of Eday and a detail from the 1880 OS map showing the place-name.
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 12d
Spent the afternoon writing up #Eday #PlaceNames on to a map. Folk have told me of field names and fishing grounds that I'm yet to find elsewhere.
Colour photo of me plotting names onto a clean map from my working map with which I have visited folk and we've made notes on.
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 12d
Another #Eday oral history interview today was followed by a prowl around Cusbay! Cusvy in 1750 & Cousbay/Cuthesbay in 1879. One spelling suggests ON kuithe/Scots cuithe 'young coalfish' but the 1750 spelling + its pronunciation, even today's, would seem to discount this option #PlaceNamePuzzles
Colour photo of Cusbay, a bay in Eday, Orkney.
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 13d
An#Eday #wildflowerhour
Whilst here researching #PlaceNames I spotted my favourite... #BogMyrtle growing near Skaill! Latin name Myrica gale, a plant of many uses not found in many sites (to my knowledge) in #Orkney
Top tip from @peediepus.bsky.social to look out for it here!
Colour photo of bog myrtle growing amongst reeds.
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