Storyteller Fran
@storytellerfran.bsky.social
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✨✨Lover of folklore, church history, stories, weird saints, cats, magic. Orkney dweller. ✨✨
Great piece of work here 👏🏻
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27 days ago
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Having people for dinner, you say? I’ll just sit here.
#caturday
27 days ago
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Doing some reading on artwork featuring the four Evangelists. Found this one of Mark with his lion breaking the fourth wall 🦁 😆
about 1 month ago
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I’m researching saints for a book I’m writing. Found this gem 🙏😇
about 1 month ago
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pickwick
about 1 month ago
In Scotland we've had wildlife on some of our money since 2016 and the country doesn't seem to have fallen
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Yeah just finished the Christmas cake
about 1 month ago
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Damien Owens
about 1 month ago
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
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Superstar 🥰
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2 months ago
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Lorraine Evans
2 months ago
Pleased to announce that my good friend Fran Flett Hollinrake will be speaking at this years Symbols of Mortality Conference. Fran will be sharing the story of HMS Royal Oak, sunk by a German U-boat in 1939, and the memorial to those who were lost.
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St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney
2 months ago
After weeks of rain we have some sunshine and a sprinkling of snow 💒❄️☀️
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St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney
2 months ago
A Special Theme Curator Tour with Fran Flett Hollinrake will take place in the cathedral on Sat 7 Feb at 1000: 'The Legacy of War from the Middle Ages to Modern Times'. The tour lasts one hour, costs £15 per person and there is no need to book.
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So,
@nessbattery.bsky.social
. You gave me Reggae Shark; I give you…whatever this is.
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2 months ago
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Awww, nice one
@dannyrobins.bsky.social
! A Mastermind champion! You cut it a bit fine but many congratulations 🙌😅
2 months ago
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We made it to February! Blessings of Imbolc/Candlemas/St Brigid to everyone 🙌🌞
3 months ago
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A very happy Burns night, wherever you are. Slàinte mhath! Please excuse the lack of neeps - red cabbage will have to do. I don’t think RB would mind.
3 months ago
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Frank likes a bit of Winterwatch
3 months ago
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More aurora from Orkney!
3 months ago
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Got some very red aurora happening in Orkney right now
3 months ago
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Great edition of one of my favourite podcasts - featuring the amazing
@judithjesch.bsky.social
talking about her new translation of the Orkney saga.
@stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social
gets a few mentions!
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The Sagas of the Earls of Orkney
Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 13/01/2026 · 1h 2m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gone-medieval/id1564113746?i=1000742009161
3 months ago
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Back-to-back Viking goodness. I loved
@judithjesch.bsky.social
’s new reworking of the Orkneyinga Saga - a great Introduction, excellent references, and very readable! Then
@catjarman.bsky.social
’s amazing River Kings - what a ride, what a journey! That little carnelian bead has my heart. 🥰
3 months ago
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My cat is an absence of light
3 months ago
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Here we go again!
#orkney
#uksnow
KW16 5/10
3 months ago
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To quote my cousin Paula (who’s a north east quine), it’s fair dingin’ it doon.
#orkney
#uksnow
KW16 7/10
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3 months ago
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It’s very bonny in Orkney if you don’t have to go anywhere…
#uksnow
2/10 KW16
3 months ago
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More snow pictures from Orkney. Not currently snowing but more forecast….
#uksnow
KW16 0/10
3 months ago
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A lovely piece from
@peteralanross.bsky.social
about the cemeteries of Paris. As a teenager in the mid 1980s I made the pilgrimage to Pere Lachaise for Jim and Oscar ❤️❤️
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3 months ago
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It’s hard to know what is new snow and what is drifting, but I’m going with 4/10 KW16
#uksnow
This is the view from our window looking west!
3 months ago
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Well,
@peteralanross.bsky.social
you have done it again. I loved Upon a White Horse as much as I loved Tomb With a View and Steeple Chasing. The mixture of memory, archaeology, folklore, poetry and art is beautiful and very moving. Thank you! 🥰🥲
3 months ago
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A snowy story in Orkney’s West Mainland this morning ❄️🌨️☃️
3 months ago
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#uksnow
KW16 8/10 quite blizzard-like in Orkney’s West Mainland, very strong winds and a lot of drifting. Here’s
@nessbattery.bsky.social
off on a mission of mercy! ❄️😳
4 months ago
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Yay! Currently 4/10 in KW16
#uksnow
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4 months ago
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Remembering the lovely Twitter
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thing when you posted your postcode and a mark out of ten for how hard it was snowing, and someone made a map so you could see snowfall all over the UK in real time. Is there a Bluesky equivalent? KW16 6/10
4 months ago
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Woody Guthrie’s ‘New Year Rulin’s’ of 1942 take some beating. Happy 2026 to you all when it comes. 🎉
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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Christmas wish come true! Thank you to
@bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social
for writing it, and thank you to
@nessbattery.bsky.social
for buying it for me ❤️✨
4 months ago
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2.15pm at the Point of Buckquoy on the shortest day.
#sunset
#orkney
#solstice
4 months ago
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I’m ready for the 80s Day Clubbing event at Rapture later - check out my Old Lady outfit!
4 months ago
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Frank has made a little cave under the Christmas twigs 🤩🎄
4 months ago
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A very happy St Lucy’s Feast to you all! May your day be filled with light and saffron buns 😇🙏🕯️
4 months ago
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🥳🎄🌟 It’s JAAAAAM-MAS!! 🌟🎄🥳
4 months ago
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Just finished watching this fantastic three-part series. Interesting and emotional. One fellow at the end says that looking at our colonial past isn’t about ‘pride’ or ‘blame’. There is nuance here.
@davidolusoga.bsky.social
is just brilliant.
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4 months ago
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🥳😁
5 months ago
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🏴It’s St Andrew’s Day today and I’ve discovered that it was once traditional to ring ‘Tandry’ (S-tAndry) bells, and to bake a Tandry cake! I found a recipe, so here it is 😋
5 months ago
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Loving everybody’s work here 🍟
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5 months ago
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It’s Stir Up Sunday tomorrow but I’m busy then so today’s the day! Not sure if Jill Archer will be tutting at my disregard for tradition, or approving of my foresight and organisational skills. 🤔
5 months ago
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I had a lovely spooky time last night at Skaill House, sharing ghostly tales! Thanks to Julie for taking care of everyone and making the house look so atmospheric! 👻☠️🕯️🍁🍂
6 months ago
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There’s a bright aurora tonight - worth getting out of bed for!
#orkney
#northernlights
6 months ago
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Glen Campbell is on BBC4 singing Wichita Lineman and it’s just damn fine 🥰
6 months ago
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A lovely birthday gift from
@nessbattery.bsky.social
- a book written by the wonderful
@peteralanross.bsky.social
. That’s my weekend sorted ❤️
7 months ago
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St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney
7 months ago
Tomorrow (Monday 29 Sept) sees the last 🪦 historic graveyard tour🪦 of the season. It starts at 2pm inside, next to the custodian’s office - costs £10pp and lasts an hour.
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