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Graham Brown

@grahambrownorkney.bsky.social
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Orkney since 2010. Secretary, Quoyloo Old School; member, Harray & Sandwick Community Council; Radio Caroline supporter; Ex-BBC staff. Partner: Kathie Touin, musician - www.kathietouin.com

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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seen on Domino's walk by Quoyloo Old School (community centre) a short time ago: an RAF Airbus transport plane, apparently at 175ft! #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
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Caitlin Moran: social media went from utopia to hellhole in a decade – if you want to feel hopeful again, get offline
Fourteen years ago, Twitter was the fastest, funniest game on the web. Now I’ve been driven out by so-called ‘online activists’. The only answer is to unplug and try this instead
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kathie Touin was just played on Steve Conway's A To Z Of Great Tracks on 8Radio.com! Snowchaser from Facing The Falling Sky ... kathietouin.bandcamp.com/album/facing...
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Facing The Falling Sky, by Kathie Touin
15 track album
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Farm work below our house in yesterday afternoon's sunshine. #Orkney
Stone wall in the foreground. Beyond is a field with bails, a tractor and trailer, and a man walking towards a second machine. Blue sky above with white clouds on the horizon.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Owl and self-seeded flower on our deck. #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rainbow seen from our #Orkney garden a short while ago - couldn't get far enough back to fit it all in!
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Cathedral with trees on a beautiful day. @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social #Orkney
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The British Broadcasting Century podcast @bbcentury.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
NEW PODCAST KLAXON AHOY O'CLOCK! Ep 126: The BBC Goes Transatlantic... and International Shortwave Radio 6 Nov-2 Dec 1923: The BBC + the USA had a conversation, across an ocean, across a week. Hear about this & Archive on 4's The Sound of Soft Power Enjoy! bbcentury.podbean.com/e/126-the-bb...
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#126 The BBC Goes Transatlantic… and Shortwave Radio | The British Broadcasting Century with Paul Kerensa
26 November-2 December 1923, and the BBC and the USA had a little conversation. Well, a big conversation, across an ocean, across a week, heard by listeners east and west of the Atlantic. Our moment-b...
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Good morning! #Orkney #rainbow
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Shadow in the grass cuttings. #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After the cathedral flower festival we went to the Pickaquoy to experience a trio of brilliant kabuki musicians from Japan. #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Some of the beautiful displays created by Kirkwall Flower Arrangement Club for the 2026 Flower Festival @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social - the theme is Myths & Legends. #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A spectacular flower on Kathie's cactus in our lounge. #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A day out at the West Mainland Show, or Dounby Show - always a fun day and a chance to catch up with folk. #Orkney
"Dounby Show 2026" sign.Sheep and handlers in the judging ring.Musicians entertaining the crowd.A horse in the show jumping field.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Today visited the #Orkney Classic Motor Show - always great fun and lots to see ...
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's the book sale at Quoyloo Old School this weekend! #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Two years ago today we said goodbye to Roscoe. @kathietouin.bsky.social and I have been tidying his grave. Domino kept guard. #Orkney
Glass jar of flowers standing on a stone grave.Border Collie laying down in long grass.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Today I took the ferry from Stromness, #Orkney to Scrabster, #Caithness for a day trip in glorious sunshine.
Departing from Stromness aboard the MV Hamnavoe.The former Holburn Head Lighthouse outside Scrabster harbour.Cruise ship Amera docked at Scrabster.The Old Man of Hoy sea stack seen from the MV Hamnavoe.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A glorious sunny warm day in #Orkney - went with @kathietouin.bsky.social to Kierfiold House where the garden was open for charity.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The swallows from our garage have fledged - there are 10 or 12 flying about outside, can't all be from that nest surely. #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
View from our lawn at 8.20 this morning. #Orkney
Mist obscuring the view, a farm track and flowers in the foreground.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Brilliant! #England
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Sunset over the Brough of Birsay, #Orkney ...
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The cactus which was a gift from my late mother years ago has flowered regularly since moving to #Orkney in 2010 - and here it goes again ...
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Good morning from a cool, damp and misty #Orkney - no heatwave here.
Flowers on ornamental grasses.Flowers on a daisy bush.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Our seats in the beautiful St Magnus Cathedral for a lunchtime cello and piano recital by Gudmundsdottir and Preat - which was fantastic (part of the St Magnus International Festival). And it will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 soon. #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
(Only two days late). All my love @kathietouin.bsky.social on our 23rd wedding anniversary - and thank you. Domino and Roscoe say thank you as well.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Good morning. Should have had a penalty. #Scotland #Orkney
A Scottish football flag hanging in a window, in front is a planter full of flowers.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Spot Domino. #Orkney
A Border Collie sat in long grass in an enclosure with trees and bushes. Fields and hills beyond, below blue sky with white clouds.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Flowers on our daisy bush. #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Great news! Six weeks after his hip replacement op Domino has the go-ahead from the vet surgeon to be out of his crate and starting to exercise. And he has a new dinosaur toy which @kathietouin.bsky.social bought for him. #Orkney
Border Collie with dinosaur toy.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The flowers are out on the ornamental grasses at the edge of our garden. #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Isn't nature wonderful? A pile of stones left over from building the Polycrub now has flowers. #Orkney
Flowers growing on a pile of stones.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Satisfaction - and a view. #Orkney
A wheelbarrow piled high with grass cuttings.A view across fields with hills in the background and distant low clouds in a blue sky.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Trees, bushes, flowers and grasses in our overgrown enclosure - but it's busy with birds and voles. #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A group of us gathered last night to remember the 737 men who died when HMS Hampshire sank just off the #Orkney coast 110 years ago on 5 June 1916 ...
Group of people and two dogs stood in front of a stone tower.Part of the HMS Hampshire commemorative wall.Kitchener Memorial.Sun setting over the area where HMS Hampshire was lost
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Tonight a group will gather to commemorate the 737 men who died when HMS Hampshire sank just off the coast of #Orkney in 1916 ...
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I think our farmer neighbour might be diversifying into new food markets: this morning a tractor came past the barn below our house towing a trailer with 10 or 12 adults standing on it. I wasn't quick enough to get a photo, sorry.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Some of Mrs Brown's flowers on our front deck - @kathietouin.bsky.social - #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A mystery plant appears in our driveway, something Alpine? #Orkney
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A trip down memory lane. I recently bought a tube of Euthymol toothpaste which I remember as a child. It is still sold as "The UK's Original Toothpaste" but the small print says "Made in Korea". Kathie thinks the toothpaste smells funny anyway.
Toothpaste box.Toothpaste box detail.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Afternoon around Anstruther harbour ...
Lifeboat station with lifeboat on the right.Harbour walls and light.Yachts in the harbour.Historic fishing vessel Reaper.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Highly recommended: a visit to the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther ...
Sign for the museum in the shape of a lifebelt.A painting of a woman with a basket of fish.Life-size model of a fisherman in his loft working on sails and nets.Fishing boats in the museum.
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The morning sun shining on the beach at Anstruther ...
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Anstruther Harbour in the evening ...
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A day at the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway where a 1902 former industrial steam locomotive (blue) was hauling the trains. The maroon loco, former Caledonian Railway, built 1907, was undergoing tests ...
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A short walk from our accommodation in Cellardyke to the beach and views of the Firth of Forth ...
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The beach at St Andrews ...
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This morning a restful, restorative visit to St Andrews Botanic Garden ...
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Graham Brown @grahambrownorkney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This afternoon we visited Scotland's Secret Bunker, various Cold War uses including being the seat of government for Scotland in the event of a nuclear war ...
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