Congratulations on the publication Fiona. I've put it on my never ending list of books to find and read. Karen

Karen, you seem to be right ... somehow ... From nearly all the "Re:[<orcadia>] XYZ I receive I am missing the originals ... I see them only as included originals of the "Re:" or - in some cases - I get them two or three days later ... Something that's out of my control: I get a message from "orcadia" and when I answer to "orcadia" it is going to "Orcadia-L", sometimes to both of them "Re: [<orcadia>] and [Re:<orcadia-L>] ... I have absolutely no controle ... Sorry, if that rsulted in any problems ... Wolfgang

>>>Very Interesting Wolfgang. Do any of the shops in Kirkwall stock your book? Not sure about this ... Tam of John Broom's (Stromness Books and Prints) had one or two copies of the first one last year (on the upper shelves on the left of his counter ... ;-) ) ... he will manage somehow I guess ... :-)

This talk of passion for Orkney being put into words... I feel it is the time for me to chip in here and tell all - i've just had my book published!! Historical fiction entitled "Merrybegotten" by Fiona Williamson Pearson. Set on Fair Isle and Orkney in the 1800s, loosely based on ancestors, family saga. In stock in the Orcadian Bookshop and online too - it's the first in the list of Orkney/Orcadian fiction!!! VERY excited about my dream come true. It was published mid July, just before my week in Orkney - which was w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l! Cover photos kindly from Dave Wheeler on Fair Isle. You can also view it at: http://www.kennedyandboyd.co.uk/biblio/1904999042.htm Family hols will take me away from my much loved orcadia rootsweb site from Sunday for a fortnight. But i'll be back! And thanks Sigurd for all your help - i met Sigurd on my hols!! Best wishes to all Orkney lovers everywhere! Fiona (York UK) >From: stephen davie <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> >Reply-To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com >To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Stephen: What is Wolfgang's book all about? Date: >Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:22:52 -0700 > >Thankyou for the info. Seems Wolfgang has put his passion for Orkney into >words. This is wonderful!.....Stephen _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

Dear Fijona: How about an autographed copy? On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 06:11 PM, Clint McInnes wrote: > Good on you...congratulations. I do illustrations for books so know a > bit about it too... I will pop in and buy one for the shelf here in > NZ... I will put the word out to the relations also. > > Cheers > > Clinton McInnes - a Clouston connection - NZ > > On 12/08/2004, at 11:17 AM, Fiona Pearson wrote: > >> This talk of passion for Orkney being put into words... >> >> I feel it is the time for me to chip in here and tell all - i've just >> had my book published!! >> >> Historical fiction entitled "Merrybegotten" by Fiona Williamson >> Pearson. Set on Fair Isle and Orkney in the 1800s, loosely based on >> ancestors, family saga. In stock in the Orcadian Bookshop and online >> too - it's the first in the list of Orkney/Orcadian fiction!!! VERY >> excited about my dream come true. It was published mid July, just >> before my week in Orkney - which was w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l! >> Cover photos kindly from Dave Wheeler on Fair Isle. >> You can also view it at: >> http://www.kennedyandboyd.co.uk/biblio/1904999042.htm >> >> Family hols will take me away from my much loved orcadia rootsweb >> site from Sunday for a fortnight. But i'll be back! And thanks >> Sigurd for all your help - i met Sigurd on my hols!! >> Best wishes to all Orkney lovers everywhere! >> Fiona (York UK) >> >> >>> From: stephen davie <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> >>> Reply-To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com >>> To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com >>> Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Stephen: What is Wolfgang's book all about? >>> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:22:52 -0700 >>> >>> Thankyou for the info. Seems Wolfgang has put his passion for Orkney >>> into words. This is wonderful!.....Stephen >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! >> http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger >> >> >> ==== 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 >

The skeleton was completely uncovered this morning. Full story at http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/minehoweburial.htm Also new today is and article on a new dig at the site of the Skaill Viking Hoard (http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/snusgar.htm) -- Sigurd Towrie Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk

A reminder please, and to benefit us poor souls with a very unreliable and slow dial-up connection, when replying to postings to the list, could members remember not to "quote" great tracts of previous messages. From the list guidelines: Try to keep quoting to a minimum. "Quoting" is repeating text of the message you are replying to. Some quoting is necessary to remind other readers what the thread is about but do try to use good judgement. Quoting the previous writer's signature block or surname list is totally unnecessary. Cheers. -- Sigurd Towrie Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk

Is anyone suddenly getting mail that we already got three days ago? I don't think it's "quoting" --it's the original letters but redated today. They may be the ones I thought never got to me and read on the web site, but I've never seen anything quite like this. Email by Surface Mail on the slow boat perhaps???? AOL's been doing a lot of new security stuff, maybe they just got held up somewhere....maybe they went through Customs in Atlanta---no that would take longer. I just wondered if it was happening to anyone else. Maybe I just need some sleep and it will all be all right again. Karen

Very Interesting Wolfgang. Do any of the shops in Kirkwall stock your book? We are in the middle of a project, ( my cousin and I) which kicks off in Orkney and smells a little of pride/ego or some similar sin, but thereafter is a focus on the role of young Orcadians of our ilk, in this country starting in the early 1700's.. It is a heck of a lot of work to compile the details accurately. Some days I feel like calling it quits, but at this stage that would be like turning for home after crossing two thirds of the Atlantic. You are to be congratulated for thinking of, initiating and completing your two books. I have some idea of the work involved. Thanks again and Bravo! Stephen On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 07:33 AM, Wolfgang Schlick wrote: > Hello Karen, > > hello Stephen! > > > > Actually there were/are two books: > > > > Orkney & Shetland - Landscape and Culture of the North (now out of > stock, > but you might have a good chance to find a copy, if you comb through > the > second hand bookshops in Heidelberg . :-) ) > > This one shows more detailed background information about nature and > history > and culture of both Orkney and Shetland (with a lot of photographs by > Charles Tait, Gunnie Moberg and others); it provides some basic tourist > information only. > > > > and > > > > Orkney & Shetland - (A Travellers Pocket Guide) > > That's the one quotet by Karen more or less focussing on the "musts" > for a > normal German speaking Tourist (now nearly out of stock). > > > > The review is ok - it says too much about history, archaeology and > culture, > a bit more about nature would have been nice, and some of the pics are > too > small. That's correct. I was sitting over my last corrections when the > Heart > of Neolithic Orkney was designated as World Heritage Site - so we > kicked off > some general information, threw some stuff over board like one section > about > "Diving the German Fleet in Scapa"), reduced pics in number and size > to win > more space for actual information and added a lot of details > concerning HNO > to various chapters . the whole stuff was then printed just 2 month > before > the high season started in 2000 . :-) > > > > To get an impression - look at: > > > > http://northernisles.schottlandportal.de > > > > and click on Orkney . but the site is due to be redesigned . and will > probably reopened as part of the new site www.schottlandportal.de I > have > under construction tigether with some German / German-Scottish / > Scottish-German and Scottish friends ... :-) > > > > Wolfgang > > > ==== 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-L@rootsweb.com writes: >Translation programs do have a way to go. > >Karen Indeed they do. I think the instructions for our new tumble drier were passed through BabelFish several times before emerging in their present form. -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney http://www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont http://www.caytonwitheastfield.btinternet.co.uk "If thine enemy offend thee, give unto his child a drum"

Thankyou for the info. Seems Wolfgang has put his passion for Orkney into words. This is wonderful!.....Stephen On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 08:51 AM, Bruce Fletcher wrote: > ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com writes: >> Mit 240 Seiten nur über die Orkney- und Shetland-Inseln bietet dieser >> Reiseführer mehr als die meisten größeren seiner Art, die die Inseln >> nur >> "nebenbei" >> (im Rahmen von Schottland) abhandeln. >> Der Author weist detaillierte Kenntnisse über die Inseln und ihre >> Bewohner >> auf, die sich v.a. im "Kleingedruckten" zeigen, in dem die wichtigsten >> ortsspezifischen Reisehinweise gegeben werden. Schwerpunkte setzt ei >> in >> seinen >> Beschreibungen auf die Kulturhistorie; mir persönlich sind die >> Abschnitte >> über Natur >> und Landschaft, Klima und Ökologie etwas zu spärlich ausgefallen. >> Auch die relativ wenigen, z.T. recht klein geratenen Fotos mindern >> etwas >> den >> sehr positiven Eindruck des Buches. Aber es ist ja auch kein Bildband, >> sondern >> ein Reiseführer. > > According to BabelFish this translates to > "With 240 sides only over the Orkney and Shetland islands this travel > guide offers more than most larger its kind, which only "nebenbei" the > islands; (in the context of Scotland) discuss. The Author exhibits > detailed knowledge of the islands and their inhabitants, which > "Kleingedruckten" themselves v.a. in; show, in which the most important > localspecific travel references are given. Egg in its descriptions sets > emphasis on culture history; personally the sections over nature and > landscape, climate and ecology somewhat too meagerly failed me. Also > those > relatively few, partly photos quite small turned out reduce something > the > very positive impression of the book. But it is also no book of > pictures, > but a travel guide." > > Bruce Fletcher > Stronsay, Orkney > http://www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont > http://www.caytonwitheastfield.btinternet.co.uk > "If thine enemy offend thee, give unto his child a drum" > > > ==== 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-L@rootsweb.com writes: > Mit 240 Seiten nur über die Orkney- und Shetland-Inseln bietet dieser >Reiseführer mehr als die meisten größeren seiner Art, die die Inseln nur >"nebenbei" >(im Rahmen von Schottland) abhandeln. >Der Author weist detaillierte Kenntnisse über die Inseln und ihre >Bewohner >auf, die sich v.a. im "Kleingedruckten" zeigen, in dem die wichtigsten >ortsspezifischen Reisehinweise gegeben werden. Schwerpunkte setzt ei in >seinen >Beschreibungen auf die Kulturhistorie; mir persönlich sind die Abschnitte >über Natur >und Landschaft, Klima und Ökologie etwas zu spärlich ausgefallen. >Auch die relativ wenigen, z.T. recht klein geratenen Fotos mindern etwas >den >sehr positiven Eindruck des Buches. Aber es ist ja auch kein Bildband, >sondern >ein Reiseführer. According to BabelFish this translates to "With 240 sides only over the Orkney and Shetland islands this travel guide offers more than most larger its kind, which only "nebenbei" the islands; (in the context of Scotland) discuss. The Author exhibits detailed knowledge of the islands and their inhabitants, which "Kleingedruckten" themselves v.a. in; show, in which the most important localspecific travel references are given. Egg in its descriptions sets emphasis on culture history; personally the sections over nature and landscape, climate and ecology somewhat too meagerly failed me. Also those relatively few, partly photos quite small turned out reduce something the very positive impression of the book. But it is also no book of pictures, but a travel guide." Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney http://www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont http://www.caytonwitheastfield.btinternet.co.uk "If thine enemy offend thee, give unto his child a drum"

Hello Karen, hello Stephen! Actually there were/are two books: Orkney & Shetland - Landscape and Culture of the North (now out of stock, but you might have a good chance to find a copy, if you comb through the second hand bookshops in Heidelberg . :-) ) This one shows more detailed background information about nature and history and culture of both Orkney and Shetland (with a lot of photographs by Charles Tait, Gunnie Moberg and others); it provides some basic tourist information only. and Orkney & Shetland - (A Travellers Pocket Guide) That's the one quotet by Karen more or less focussing on the "musts" for a normal German speaking Tourist (now nearly out of stock). The review is ok - it says too much about history, archaeology and culture, a bit more about nature would have been nice, and some of the pics are too small. That's correct. I was sitting over my last corrections when the Heart of Neolithic Orkney was designated as World Heritage Site - so we kicked off some general information, threw some stuff over board like one section about "Diving the German Fleet in Scapa"), reduced pics in number and size to win more space for actual information and added a lot of details concerning HNO to various chapters . the whole stuff was then printed just 2 month before the high season started in 2000 . :-) To get an impression - look at: http://northernisles.schottlandportal.de and click on Orkney . but the site is due to be redesigned . and will probably reopened as part of the new site www.schottlandportal.de I have under construction tigether with some German / German-Scottish / Scottish-German and Scottish friends ... :-) Wolfgang

Translation programs do have a way to go. Karen

Thanks Wolfgang. I look for the other book while I'm over your direction. I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures, and maybe, someday, I'll understand the text. Tschüs Karen K

Is this ritual practice between the archaeologists ?.... strange breed! Clinton On 11/08/2004, at 9:06 AM, <steven@kw15.co.uk> wrote: > I bet you a pound that there is 'evidence of ritual practice'. > > It must be great being an archaeologist, never having to say 'I don't > know > what this means'...:-) > > Cheers > Steven > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Ireland" <r.reland@tiscali.co.uk> > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:09 PM > Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Skeleton discovered at Minehowe > > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Sigurd Towrie" <sigurd@orkneyjar.com> >> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 9:37 PM >> Subject: [<orcadia>] Skeleton discovered at Minehowe >> >> >>> Some stop press news. >>> >>> Archaeologists returned to Minehowe >>> (http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/minehowe) for a fourth season last > week. >>> Returning to the site of an Iron Age metalworking structure >>> (http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/minehowe2003.htm) outside the > ditch >>> surrounding the underground chamber itself, they have begun to >>> unearth > the >>> remains of a complete skeleton. >>> >>> The burial took place well after the building was constructed and >>> saw a >>> grave being dug in the floor of the "workshop" and the body interred. >> After >>> the grave was covered over the work continued in the structure as > normal. >>> >>> It's early days yet. Only the pelvis, lower backbone, legs and >>> segments > of >>> the arms were visible today, so the sex and age of the deceased is >>> not > yet >>> known. However, given the scarcity of Iron Age burials in Scotland, >>> let >> >>> alone Orkney, the archeologists are very exciting. >> >> Hmm now that's interesting, whats so exiting about them then. >> >> >> >> >> ==== 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 > >

Katherine Smith **************************** Account Executive - British Gas Trading Ltd Tel: 01865 406385 Fax: 01865 406912 Email: katherine.smith2@centrica.co.uk <mailto:katherine.smith2@centrica.co.uk> Internet: www.britishgasbusiness.co.uk <http://www.britishgasbusiness.co.uk/> -----Original Message----- From: Clint McInnes [mailto:augustus@paradise.net.nz] Sent: 10 August 2004 22:12 To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Skeleton discovered at Minehowe Is this ritual practice between the archaeologists ?.... strange breed! Clinton On 11/08/2004, at 9:06 AM, <steven@kw15.co.uk> wrote: > I bet you a pound that there is 'evidence of ritual practice'. > > It must be great being an archaeologist, never having to say 'I don't > know > what this means'...:-) > > Cheers > Steven > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Ireland" <r.reland@tiscali.co.uk> > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:09 PM > Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Skeleton discovered at Minehowe > > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Sigurd Towrie" <sigurd@orkneyjar.com> >> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 9:37 PM >> Subject: [<orcadia>] Skeleton discovered at Minehowe >> >> >>> Some stop press news. >>> >>> Archaeologists returned to Minehowe >>> (http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/minehowe) for a fourth season last > week. >>> Returning to the site of an Iron Age metalworking structure >>> (http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/minehowe2003.htm) outside the > ditch >>> surrounding the underground chamber itself, they have begun to >>> unearth > the >>> remains of a complete skeleton. >>> >>> The burial took place well after the building was constructed and >>> saw a >>> grave being dug in the floor of the "workshop" and the body interred. >> After >>> the grave was covered over the work continued in the structure as > normal. >>> >>> It's early days yet. Only the pelvis, lower backbone, legs and >>> segments > of >>> the arms were visible today, so the sex and age of the deceased is >>> not > yet >>> known. However, given the scarcity of Iron Age burials in Scotland, >>> let >> >>> alone Orkney, the archeologists are very exciting. >> >> Hmm now that's interesting, whats so exiting about them then. >> >> >> >> >> ==== 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ The information contained in or attached to this email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are not authorised to and must not disclose, copy, distribute, or retain this message or any part of it. It may contain information which is confidential and/or covered by legal professional or other privilege (or other rules or laws with similar effect in jurisdictions outside England and Wales). The views expressed in this email are not necessarily the views of Centrica plc, and the company, its directors, officers or employees make no representation or accept any liability for its accuracy or completeness unless expressly stated to the contrary.

Thanks Karen. Perhaps this book will deserve an english translation.. On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 04:42 AM, KJEMEM@aol.com wrote: > Orkney & Shetland, by Wolfgang Schlick. > Publisher: Dumont Reiseverlag; (May 1, 2000) > ISBN: 3770148428 > > Since I haven't got my copy yet, I hesitate to say what it's about. > I'm sure > Wolfgang could better do that, and I'd hate to give the wrong > impression > because of some assumption I'd made without facts, but, having made > that > disclaimer, I think it's a guide to the Northern Isles in German. > > I only found copies available on Amazon Germany (www.Amazon.de) where I > experience the fund of trying to order in another language, and hoped > I hadn't just > bought the whole company. I found used copies from two sellers who > then > tried to correspond with me in German. Like everything to do with > Orkney, it > turned in to an adventure. > > Their is a review, which I also hesitate to quote, since I'm not > entirely > such what it says, but since there are four stars at the top, I assume > it's > complimentary, so for anyone who can understand, I include the > comments here. > Guess I should not be so lazy, and try and translate it. Wolfgang, > please speak up > and correct anything I (or the reviewer) have gotten wrong. > > Mit 240 Seiten nur über die Orkney- und Shetland-Inseln bietet dieser > Reiseführer mehr als die meisten größeren seiner Art, die die Inseln > nur "nebenbei" > (im Rahmen von Schottland) abhandeln. > Der Author weist detaillierte Kenntnisse über die Inseln und ihre > Bewohner > auf, die sich v.a. im "Kleingedruckten" zeigen, in dem die wichtigsten > ortsspezifischen Reisehinweise gegeben werden. Schwerpunkte setzt ei > in seinen > Beschreibungen auf die Kulturhistorie; mir persönlich sind die > Abschnitte über Natur > und Landschaft, Klima und Ökologie etwas zu spärlich ausgefallen. > Auch die relativ wenigen, z.T. recht klein geratenen Fotos mindern > etwas den > sehr positiven Eindruck des Buches. Aber es ist ja auch kein Bildband, > sondern > ein Reiseführer. > > Karen > > > > > ==== 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 >

Orkney & Shetland, by Wolfgang Schlick. Publisher: Dumont Reiseverlag; (May 1, 2000) ISBN: 3770148428 Since I haven't got my copy yet, I hesitate to say what it's about. I'm sure Wolfgang could better do that, and I'd hate to give the wrong impression because of some assumption I'd made without facts, but, having made that disclaimer, I think it's a guide to the Northern Isles in German. I only found copies available on Amazon Germany (www.Amazon.de) where I experience the fund of trying to order in another language, and hoped I hadn't just bought the whole company. I found used copies from two sellers who then tried to correspond with me in German. Like everything to do with Orkney, it turned in to an adventure. Their is a review, which I also hesitate to quote, since I'm not entirely such what it says, but since there are four stars at the top, I assume it's complimentary, so for anyone who can understand, I include the comments here. Guess I should not be so lazy, and try and translate it. Wolfgang, please speak up and correct anything I (or the reviewer) have gotten wrong. Mit 240 Seiten nur über die Orkney- und Shetland-Inseln bietet dieser Reiseführer mehr als die meisten größeren seiner Art, die die Inseln nur "nebenbei" (im Rahmen von Schottland) abhandeln. Der Author weist detaillierte Kenntnisse über die Inseln und ihre Bewohner auf, die sich v.a. im "Kleingedruckten" zeigen, in dem die wichtigsten ortsspezifischen Reisehinweise gegeben werden. Schwerpunkte setzt ei in seinen Beschreibungen auf die Kulturhistorie; mir persönlich sind die Abschnitte über Natur und Landschaft, Klima und Ökologie etwas zu spärlich ausgefallen. Auch die relativ wenigen, z.T. recht klein geratenen Fotos mindern etwas den sehr positiven Eindruck des Buches. Aber es ist ja auch kein Bildband, sondern ein Reiseführer. Karen

Soooo.... What is Wolfgang's book all about? On Tuesday, August 10, 2004, at 02:05 PM, KJEMEM@aol.com wrote: > I thought everyone had been awfully quiet. I'd only seen 2 of 3 > messages > this month, and they didn't make a lot of sense. I finally checked > the Orkneyjar > website, and found I'd missed out on quite a bit. What I had read > makes much > better reading in context of the rest of the discussion, and a lively > one > it's been. Can't wait to get there and see the exciting > archeologists. Anyone > who gets this message and doesn't remember there being much discussion > this > month, might want to check. > > I too cannot wait to get back to Orkney. I'm working on plans to go > back to > the St. Magnus Festival next June, I hated missing this year's. > Anyone else > going around then? But for right now, I'm trying to get ready to go > to Germany > where I will pick up a copy of Wolfgang's Orkney book from my friend in > Heidelberg where I had it shipped as they wanted the price of a plane > ticket to > mail it here! She will also have to tell me what it says, as my > attempts to > learn Deutsch in the past year have been pretty futile---I got hung up > on too many > ways to say "the," and trying to determine which river was what > gender. > > I think I'll go see what I missed out on in July. > > Karen > still in Memphis and almost as young as Wolfgang & Stephen > > > ==== 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 >