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But to the tune of 'Who's That Girl' by Madonna. 🐦‍⬛
A bird book called What's That Bird?

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It's getting close to spooky book time of year. 🎃🦇 What will you be reading this #Halloween and what is your favourite spooky book of all time? 🎃
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It's a bright, pleasant day in #Orkney and #BookyMcBookface is away on the ferry to the beautiful island of Shapinsay! 📚 If you're lucky enough to be in Shapinsay today then go and say hello! 👋
Shapinsay taken from the ferry. Balfour Castle is visible on the horizon.

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'What day is it?' asked Pooh. 'It’s our BIRTHDAY.' squeaked Piglet. 'My favourite day.' said Pooh. Happy 100th BIRTHDAY to Pooh and the gang! 🎂🎉 Pooh and his friends first appeared on the 14th October 1926 in #WinnieThePooh by A.A. Milne. #WinnieThePooh100 #onthisday
Tigger, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore all reading about themselves on the sofa at Orkney Library & Archive

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This month our #LEGO display cases have been crammed with creatively cosy models for our COSY SPACES #OrkneyLibraryLego theme! 🪴☕️📚🔥 All made by library visitors using our Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a model! ❤️ Our next theme is MONSTER MASH! 👻💀🎃👽
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t's Monday, it's October, and the nights are drawing in so it's time for the new season of SEWING CIRCLE - our library hand sewing group that meets every 2nd Monday across the darker months! 🧵🪡 Everyone is welcome to come along! Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/sewing-…
A poster for the Sewing Circle group at Orkney Library

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Missed out an 'I' there. Not sure where it went - I wasn't trying to be all Charles Dickens or anything. 'Tis Monday and we've gone all Victorian, come and sew. Etc.
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All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey. I've been for a walk, our balls are cold today. They'd be dry and warm if they were in L.A. #SaturdayMorning dreaming on an #Orkney autumn day. 🍂
Wet balls and fallen leaves out the front of Orkney Library and Archive

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It's #HeritageCareersWeek which aims to showcase the wide variety of careers available in the heritage sector. ❤️ We've made a video showing some of the many, varied jobs carried out by Library and Archive Assistants in a day at Orkney Library & Archive. #HeritageCareersWeek
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Orkney Library staff doing their bit for the #WeeRead today. ❤️ Join us by reading something (anything!) today and enjoy the incredible benefits that reading gives you. 📚 Find out more and pledge to read now at: weeread.scot
Orkney Library staff reading for the Wee Read campaign

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Today it's the #WeeRead - a campaign to get people all across Scotland READING TOGETHER on 7th October! Join us by reading something today - reading for just 6 minutes can reduce stress and improve mental health! Find out more and pledge to read at: weeread.scot
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It's Monday, it's October, and the nights are drawing in so it's time for the new season of YAP & YARN - our library knitting and crochet group that meets every 2nd Monday across the darker months! 🧶 Everyone is welcome to come along! Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/yap-yar…
A poster for the Yap & Yarn knitting group at Orkney Library & Archive

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On a dark dark hill there was a dark dark town. In the dark dark town there was a dark dark library. And in the dark dark library... there was a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton! Stromness Library is ready for #Halloween with Steph's fabulous #Funnybones art!
A window decorated with characters from Funnybones

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A window decorated with characters from Funnybones

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'So that's the book finished. All you need now is a title.' 'I was thinking about calling it DIE.' 'Just DIE? Nothing else?' 'No. Why?' 'Hey don't get me wrong, it's a good title. I'm just not sure that it's clear enough that it means a MURDER story.' 'So what do you suggest?'
A large print paperback titled Die - As in Murder

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a short poem name like when we meet a bovine and we say 'hi coo' #NationalPoetryDay #Haiku
A black and white archive photograph of a cow standing beside a track leading down to a mill. The cow is looking at the camera.

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Only a week to go until the #WeeRead - a campaign to get 50,000 people across Scotland ALL READING TOGETHER on Wednesday 7th October! Reading for just 6 minutes a day has been shown to reduce stress and improve mental health so pledge to read now at: weeread.scot/
A display of books and marketing materials for the Wee Read on Wednesday 7th October

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Happy 479th Birthday to Miguel Cervantes who was born #onthisday in 1547 🎂 In his most famous work Don Quixote, the title character charges at windmills, mistaking them for monstrous giants with swords so we're all going up Burgar Hill in #Orkney to tilt at the wind turbines. 🎉
An illustration of Miguel Cervantes

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The cover of the Penguin edition of Don Quixote

ALT The cover of the Penguin edition of Don Quixote

A painting of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza at a windmill

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A wind turbine on Burgar Hill in Orkney

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Scottish followers - Don't forget that 7th October is the #WeeRead - a campaign to get 50,000 people across Scotland pledging to READ! 📚 So far more than 31,000 have pledged so why not join them? Find out more AND pledge to read at: WeeRead.scot
Books and marketing materials for the Wee Read campaign

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September 2026 marks 360 years since the Great Fire of London which took place in September 1666. It also reminds us of that time we found a letter in the Archive dated 1661, sent from #Orkney to an address in Pudding Lane, London - the very place the fire began. 🔥
A scan of the letter addressed to Pudding Lane in London

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Though the letter was sent five years before the Great Fire of London, it was sent very close to where the fire later started. Peter Winchester captained several ships at the time and the letter was sent to him from Thomas Buchanan who lived on the island of Shapinsay, #Orkney.
A scan of the archive letter

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A few years ago our Palaeography Group transcribed the letter - you can find out more about it and read the transcription on our Archive Blog at: orkneyarchive.blogspot.com/2…
A painting of the Great Fire of London

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