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A Birsay Garden in Summer (1)
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August comes to an end as we look back over three months of garden glory at The Old Manse/ Annie's Place. Having planted out our bedding flowers and staked every herbaceous plant in the previous month, June arrived and we were ready for visitors: Annie's Place garden was to be part of the 2017 Orkney Garden Trail. Our small garden faces out to Canada across the broad Atlantic ocean, so we experiment
Maeshowe : visitors welcome again!
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Good news for all visitors to Orkney this summer; Historic Environment Scotland (HES) have been given permission to convert premises in nearby Stenness into a new visitor centre for Maeshowe, including improved car parking arrangements and on-site signage. This will be a relief for those visitors who come to view the UNESCO World Heritage monuments known as Heart of Neolithic Orkney: Maeshowe is one of the central attractions, along with Ring of Brodgar, Standing Stones of
New Year Sun Tonic
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A reminder of summer broke through the cold and windy Orkney midnight hour at Palace village in Birsay as we greeted the New Year, 2017.
From the depths of nowhere and through the darkness of the night came the chimes of "The Sun has got his Hat On" : mystery New Year Bells .....ringing out here, live on Orkney, to rival Big Ben on TV. Next day, all was revealed: our new neighbours,
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The Old Manse
Palace
Birsay, Orkney
KW17 2LX +44 (0)1856 721491
+44 (0)7503 522 089 info@anniesplaceorkney.co.uk
The Old Manse
Palace
Birsay, Orkney
KW17 2LX +44 (0)1856 721491
+44 (0)7503 522 089 info@anniesplaceorkney.co.uk
