How does this thing work? I see an endlessly repeating web. Does one have to respond to only one reply and does that reply then go out to everyone else? I guess to reply to individuals and not to everyone else, one clicks on the individual's e-mail address, right? Lisbeth Jardine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Peck" <Lyulfr@comcast.net> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 3:26 AM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > <Chuckle> The Pacific Northwest seems to be well represented on this > list, I'm in the Portland, Or. area myself. > Jeff Peck > > vanya tucherov wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:07:26 -0700, Charlie Petersen >> <charliep@olypen.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Lisbeth - >>> I'm your neighbor in Port Townsend, what a way to meet! >>> Charlie Anne Petersen >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisbeth Jardine" >>> <lisjardine@msn.com> >>> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:28 PM >>> Subject: [<orcadia>] introduce myself >>> >>> >>>> Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, Washington, >>>> U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da Fuca from Victoria, >>>> B.C. >> >> >> -- And i'd be both of your urban neighbour, vanya. I live in Seattle, >> after several years residence in Skagit Valley and commuting into the >> city to work. Like you, Lisbeth, Victoria is a compelling place for my >> family. ;-) >> >> -vanya >> >> >> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the >> word >> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >> >> > > -- > lyulfr@comcast.net | Moderator AsaHuntR > & Oregon Asatru Fellowship Lists > O_A_F-subscribe@yahoogroups.com > AsaHuntr-subscribe@yahoogroups.com > We carry in our hearts the true country, > and that cannot be broken. > We travel in the steps of our ancestry, > and that cannot be stolen. < "the Dead Heart" Midnight Oil > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >

Well, Bill, if you know any movie producers, let them know, send them my way. The question that's truly begged--or gone lapsed--is how come, unlike Switzerland with all its "Heidi" villages--there's no "Frankenstein's Laboratory" B&B on some small Orkney skar? How come no dives into Scapa Flow to search for the basket and Frankenstein's surgery tools, etc.? I mean, just think of the commercial, touristic, capitalist opportunities yon Orcadians have let slip! The next question is once Frankenstein dumped the basket, glug, glug, glug (and that's the last mention in Mary Shelley's story of the Female Creature), and sailed away from that spot, he falls asleep and is blown by a northeasterly storm to the coast of Ireland, how is that possible? Where in Ireland could he have landed. Maybe the wind was right, but the currents, so far as I can tell (alas I've never been but hope to some day), run towards the north. And, hey!, watch whom you're impugning there: my grandmother was a Skene. And there's a long story there I won't go into at this time. Lisbeth Jardine [and that's Portuguese Jardim, not Scottish (French bounders!) Jardine]. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Irvine" <wji@shaw.ca> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 8:19 AM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > sounds good to me > begs the question: "should i wait for the movie?" ;-) > one asks: "did she mean the mainland of Scotland" > definitely Mainland Orkney > ask an orcadian about Scotland (South) and the answer will be: > "There's nay good south!" > > bill > canadian orcadian, cyyj > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lisbeth Jardine <lisjardine@msn.com> > Date: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:28 pm > Subject: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > >> Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, >> Washington, U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da >> Fuca from Victoria, B.C. >> >> My interest in the Orkney Islands has to do with a novel I've >> written and hoping might be published fairly soon. It's called >> The Female Creature. It's about the 2nd, the female creature, >> Victor Frankenstein, on one of the smallest and most remote of >> Orkney skars--some "five miles from the mainland" Mary Shelley >> wrote (and anyone who's got a good guess of which of Orkney's she >> may have had in mind is most welcome to get in contact with me; >> the question is "did she mean the mainland of Scotland or the >> Orkney "Mainland"?)--nearly completed the female creature and then >> fearing that "future generations will think of me as a pest," tore >> her apart, put the parts into a giant Orcadian basket (that's my >> addition), put the basket into his skiff, sailed out into the >> North Sea, dropped the basket overboard, and sailed away from that >> spot. At any rate, to write the story of what happens after that, >> I've had to do a fair amount of research on the Orkney Islands. >> And the Creature, at t! >> he end of Frankenstein is not dead. Girl + boy = gotta meet. >> >> Lisbeth Jardine >> >> >> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with >> the word >> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >> >> > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >

sounds good to me begs the question: "should i wait for the movie?" ;-) one asks: "did she mean the mainland of Scotland" definitely Mainland Orkney ask an orcadian about Scotland (South) and the answer will be: "There's nay good south!" bill canadian orcadian, cyyj ----- Original Message ----- From: Lisbeth Jardine <lisjardine@msn.com> Date: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:28 pm Subject: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, > Washington, U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da > Fuca from Victoria, B.C. > > My interest in the Orkney Islands has to do with a novel I've > written and hoping might be published fairly soon. It's called > The Female Creature. It's about the 2nd, the female creature, > Victor Frankenstein, on one of the smallest and most remote of > Orkney skars--some "five miles from the mainland" Mary Shelley > wrote (and anyone who's got a good guess of which of Orkney's she > may have had in mind is most welcome to get in contact with me; > the question is "did she mean the mainland of Scotland or the > Orkney "Mainland"?)--nearly completed the female creature and then > fearing that "future generations will think of me as a pest," tore > her apart, put the parts into a giant Orcadian basket (that's my > addition), put the basket into his skiff, sailed out into the > North Sea, dropped the basket overboard, and sailed away from that > spot. At any rate, to write the story of what happens after that, > I've had to do a fair amount of research on the Orkney Islands. > And the Creature, at t! > he end of Frankenstein is not dead. Girl + boy = gotta meet. > > Lisbeth Jardine > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with > the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >

<Chuckle> The Pacific Northwest seems to be well represented on this list, I'm in the Portland, Or. area myself. Jeff Peck vanya tucherov wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:07:26 -0700, Charlie Petersen > <charliep@olypen.com> wrote: > >> Hi Lisbeth - >> I'm your neighbor in Port Townsend, what a way to meet! >> Charlie Anne Petersen >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisbeth Jardine" <lisjardine@msn.com> >> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:28 PM >> Subject: [<orcadia>] introduce myself >> >> >>> Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, >>> Washington, U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da Fuca >>> from Victoria, B.C. > > > -- And i'd be both of your urban neighbour, vanya. I live in Seattle, > after several years residence in Skagit Valley and commuting into the > city to work. Like you, Lisbeth, Victoria is a compelling place for my > family. ;-) > > -vanya > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > > -- lyulfr@comcast.net | Moderator AsaHuntR & Oregon Asatru Fellowship Lists O_A_F-subscribe@yahoogroups.com AsaHuntr-subscribe@yahoogroups.com We carry in our hearts the true country, and that cannot be broken. We travel in the steps of our ancestry, and that cannot be stolen. < "the Dead Heart" Midnight Oil >

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:07:26 -0700, Charlie Petersen <charliep@olypen.com> wrote: > Hi Lisbeth - > I'm your neighbor in Port Townsend, what a way to meet! > Charlie Anne Petersen > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisbeth Jardine" <lisjardine@msn.com> > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:28 PM > Subject: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > > >> Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, Washington, >> U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da Fuca from Victoria, >> B.C. -- And i'd be both of your urban neighbour, vanya. I live in Seattle, after several years residence in Skagit Valley and commuting into the city to work. Like you, Lisbeth, Victoria is a compelling place for my family. ;-) -vanya

Indeed! I presume "Charlie Anne" is female? But it's not entirely strange. A couple of months ago I wrote to editor of Al Ahram, an online newspaper from Cairo, Egypt, thanking them for publishing an article by Adonis, a Syrian poet who's been nominated for Nobel in Literature, on what Iraq mess is about. They published my little letter on-line, and --this is the kicker-- the letter above mine was from someone from Sequim (altho' I couldn't find his name in phone book--but then, I'm unlisted as well). When I moved to P.A. two years ago, I had thought about P.T., but I hate tourists. I had a friend a few years back who lived in P.T. and had visited several times. I'm not utterly enamored of P.A., but I had thought I was going to have to end up in Aberdeen or some such, and I'm glad I didn't. Back in April, I had an article in the "Vigilance": Homosexual Cheeseburgers (not my title). Sometimes when I see all that goes on in P.T., I sort of wish I hadn't decided on P.! A., but c'est la vie. Actually, I'm starting to set my sites on Victoria, BC, as a compromise btw. Seattle, Vancouver, BC, and rather limited (intellectual resources wise) P.A. So, tell me a little about you, please. Lisbeth Jardine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Petersen" <charliep@olypen.com> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > Hi Lisbeth - > I'm your neighbor in Port Townsend, what a way to meet! > Charlie Anne Petersen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lisbeth Jardine" <lisjardine@msn.com> > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:28 PM > Subject: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > > >> Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, Washington, >> U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da Fuca from Victoria, >> B.C. >> >> My interest in the Orkney Islands has to do with a novel I've written and >> hoping might be published fairly soon. It's called The Female Creature. >> It's about the 2nd, the female creature, Victor Frankenstein, on one of >> the smallest and most remote of Orkney skars--some "five miles from the >> mainland" Mary Shelley wrote (and anyone who's got a good guess of which >> of Orkney's she may have had in mind is most welcome to get in contact >> with me; the question is "did she mean the mainland of Scotland or the >> Orkney "Mainland"?)--nearly completed the female creature and then fearing >> that "future generations will think of me as a pest," tore her apart, put >> the parts into a giant Orcadian basket (that's my addition), put the >> basket into his skiff, sailed out into the North Sea, dropped the basket >> overboard, and sailed away from that spot. At any rate, to write the >> story of what happens after that, I've had to do a fair amount of research >> on the Orkney Islands. And the Creature, at t! >> he end of Frankenstein is not dead. Girl + boy = gotta meet. >> >> Lisbeth Jardine >> >> >> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word >> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >> > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >

Hi Lisbeth - I'm your neighbor in Port Townsend, what a way to meet! Charlie Anne Petersen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisbeth Jardine" <lisjardine@msn.com> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:28 PM Subject: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, Washington, > U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da Fuca from Victoria, > B.C. > > My interest in the Orkney Islands has to do with a novel I've written and > hoping might be published fairly soon. It's called The Female Creature. > It's about the 2nd, the female creature, Victor Frankenstein, on one of > the smallest and most remote of Orkney skars--some "five miles from the > mainland" Mary Shelley wrote (and anyone who's got a good guess of which > of Orkney's she may have had in mind is most welcome to get in contact > with me; the question is "did she mean the mainland of Scotland or the > Orkney "Mainland"?)--nearly completed the female creature and then fearing > that "future generations will think of me as a pest," tore her apart, put > the parts into a giant Orcadian basket (that's my addition), put the > basket into his skiff, sailed out into the North Sea, dropped the basket > overboard, and sailed away from that spot. At any rate, to write the > story of what happens after that, I've had to do a fair amount of research > on the Orkney Islands. And the Creature, at t! > he end of Frankenstein is not dead. Girl + boy = gotta meet. > > Lisbeth Jardine > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >

Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, Washington, U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da Fuca from Victoria, B.C. My interest in the Orkney Islands has to do with a novel I've written and hoping might be published fairly soon. It's called The Female Creature. It's about the 2nd, the female creature, Victor Frankenstein, on one of the smallest and most remote of Orkney skars--some "five miles from the mainland" Mary Shelley wrote (and anyone who's got a good guess of which of Orkney's she may have had in mind is most welcome to get in contact with me; the question is "did she mean the mainland of Scotland or the Orkney "Mainland"?)--nearly completed the female creature and then fearing that "future generations will think of me as a pest," tore her apart, put the parts into a giant Orcadian basket (that's my addition), put the basket into his skiff, sailed out into the North Sea, dropped the basket overboard, and sailed away from that spot. At any rate, to write the story of what happens after that, I've had to do a fair amount of research on the Orkney Islands. And the Creature, at t! he end of Frankenstein is not dead. Girl + boy = gotta meet. Lisbeth Jardine

eheckel@comcast.net writes: >My name is Emily (you can address me as such). Sorry for leaving that >out : )

Oops - I'm missing the first part - I thought you were Bruce? Charlie Anne Petersen Washington state, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Fletcher" <claremont@stronsay.co.uk> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 12:15 AM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] New Orkney Mailing List Member > eheckel@comcast.net writes: >>My name is Emily (you can address me as such). Sorry for leaving that >>out : ) > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >

Three new stories posted tonight: Orkney Crannog dive results 6,500 year old forest in Sanday Brochs rethought - Was Iron Age Orkney the centre of a vast north warrior province?. Full details at http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/news.htm -- Sigurd Towrie Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk

Well, here's my short introduction. I am probably a temporary (but interested) member, because I am writing a story that takes place on the Orkney islands. I hope to gain an insight into the true culture, tradition, and details of this place. Thank you for the informative sight!

goodonya does peter mason of ruah, eday, use this forum? thnx bill

Nope, not this country boy. On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Bill Irvine wrote: > thnx for the note, Canorky > presuming by 'ontario' you mean the centre-of-the-universe (toronto) > we are 2110 miles west (victoria, bc) > yours aye, bill > > Bill Irvine > alternate email: wji@islandnet.com > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:55 PM > Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Eday > > >> He Bill, where do ou live in Canader? I am in Ontario. Canorky Stephen >> On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 09:07 AM, Bill Irvine wrote: >> >>> This is my first compose message here so my apologies if it doesn't >>> work >>> does anyone this forum live on Eday? >>> i have need of some pictures from there and want someone to do it for >>> me >>> i'd do it myself except eday is 4500 miles from here >>> thnx >>> bill >>> the canadian orcadian >>> >>> >>> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >>> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the >>> word >>> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >>> >> >> >> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the >> word >> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >> > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >

It's been a hectic few weeks.... New articles online covering the Mesolithic flints at Minehowe, the Knowe o' Skea Iron Age cemetery in Westray and the Quoygrew excavation now online. Links at http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/news.htm -- Sigurd Towrie Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk

He Bill, where do ou live in Canader? I am in Ontario. Canorky Stephen On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 09:07 AM, Bill Irvine wrote: > This is my first compose message here so my apologies if it doesn't > work > does anyone this forum live on Eday? > i have need of some pictures from there and want someone to do it for > me > i'd do it myself except eday is 4500 miles from here > thnx > bill > the canadian orcadian > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >

--- Tirabasso <zorahh@sssnet.com> wrote: > Can > someone tell me in better detail about the > Millennium stone? What is carved on it and what is > the significance of the carvings? Not much to tel. It was carved by Grimness man Willie Budge and erected to mark the Millennium. The stone is decorated with a number of carvings relevant to Orkney in the previous millennium, including a cross, a Pictish crescent and V rod, a viking ship, a pair of hands etc etc. ===== -- Sigurd Towrie Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com

thnx for the note, Canorky presuming by 'ontario' you mean the centre-of-the-universe (toronto) we are 2110 miles west (victoria, bc) yours aye, bill Bill Irvine alternate email: wji@islandnet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Eday > He Bill, where do ou live in Canader? I am in Ontario. Canorky Stephen > On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 09:07 AM, Bill Irvine wrote: > > > This is my first compose message here so my apologies if it doesn't > > work > > does anyone this forum live on Eday? > > i have need of some pictures from there and want someone to do it for > > me > > i'd do it myself except eday is 4500 miles from here > > thnx > > bill > > the canadian orcadian > > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > > word > > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >

This is my first compose message here so my apologies if it doesn't work does anyone this forum live on Eday? i have need of some pictures from there and want someone to do it for me i'd do it myself except eday is 4500 miles from here thnx bill the canadian orcadian

I certainly am enjoying the Blog and pictures. Can someone tell me in better detail about the Millennium stone? What is carved on it and what is the significance of the carvings? I did a search on Sigurd's site using Millennium stone with no success. I think I've seen some mention before of it, but can't remember much. Any able to help and tell me a little more about it? Thank you, Pat Tirabasso