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This blog takes its title from the fact that kindness originally meant being kin, or kindred, or of the same kind – a reminder that we are all humankind. I post regularly on Friday. Enter your email address below to Follow and receive each post direct to your inbox. A Few Kind Words is now also on Substack if you prefer to read it there: https://substack.com/@jamiejauncey.
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The sea, the sea
Stromness on Sunday is quiet. Very quiet. In another era one might imagine the whole town to be at prayer. The cobbled main steet is deserted. We glimpse the harbour in splashes of vivid blue at the bottom of wynds … Continue reading →
Posted in Landscape, Memory, Nature, Scotland, Stories, Travel, War
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Tagged Franklin expedition, Gunther Prien, HMS Royal Oak, Hudson's BAy Company, John Rae, Ludwig von Reuter, MAes How, Northwest Passage, Orkney, Scapa Flow, Skara Brae, Stromness, Stromness Museum
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