Put your circuits in the sea

[sovay]

After years of not even being able to pirate it, spatch and I have finally just finished the first series of BBC Ghosts (2019–23), during which he pointed out to me the half of the cast that had been on Taskmaster. I recognized a guest-starring Sophie Thompson.

This article on the megaliths of Orkney got Dave Goulder stuck in my head, especially once one of the archaeologists interviewed compared the Ring of Brodgar to sandstone pages. "They may not have been intended to last millennia, but, now that they have, they are stone doors through which the living try to touch the dead."

I wish a cult image of fish-tailed Artemis had existed at Phigalia, hunting pack of seals and all.

Any year now some part of my health could just fix itself a little, as a treat.

Comments

[lauradi7dw]

We went to Orkney in about 1994, I think, so at the time of the TV series "Oliver's Travels" (Sinead Cusack, Alan Bates, Bill Paterson) in 1995, the memories were fresh.
this is the final episode, so it's full of spoilers, but at 40:40 and onward they are walking around the ring of Brodgar
https://youtu.be/GcX8lkJJwD4?si=BKY4odbp8Y4pEgz9

Here's a loose approximation in my back yard in 2007
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/65472.html

[sovay]

We went to Orkney in about 1994, I think, so at the time of the TV series "Oliver's Travels" (Sinead Cusack, Alan Bates, Bill Paterson) in 1995, the memories were fresh.

I think that's wonderful. I have not been to Orkney and would really like to.

this is the final episode, so it's full of spoilers, but at 40:40 and onward they are walking around the ring of Brodgar

With that cast, I might just try to watch it. (I just saw Bill Paterson in Defence of the Realm (1985)).

Here's a loose approximation in my back yard in 2007

Awesome.