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Curious Isles – A Life on Orkney
A few months back, we opened an email from Amy Liptrot. She told us a bit about her life, now lived just beyond the edge of the mainland. She’d left London to return home to Orkney, where she’s trying...
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Curious Isles – A Life on Orkney
A few months back, we opened an email from Amy Liptrot. She told us a bit about her life, now lived just beyond the edge of the mainland. She’d left London to return home to Orkney, where she’s trying...
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Curious Isles – A Life on Orkney
by Amy Liptrot. Around the north of Scotland lie uninhabited islands, abandoned in the mid-20th century when depopulation reached such strength that the last people could no longer cling on. Now on...
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Curious Isles – A Life on Orkney
by Amy Liptrot 2am on Friday night and I’m alone down a farm track on a farflung island, dancing in my headlights, because I heard a medium-sized brown bird. For the last few weeks, I’ve been a night...
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Curious Isles – A Life on Orkney
by Amy Liptrot Older Orcadians tend to refer to women, regardless of marital status, as ‘wives’ so, arriving at a farms to speak to farmers about the endangered birds on their land, I am announced...
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