Storyteller Fran
@storytellerfran.bsky.social
✨✨Lover of folklore, church history, stories, weird saints, cats, magic. Orkney dweller. ✨✨
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A Special Theme Curator Tour with Fran Flett Hollinrake will take place in the cathedral on Sat 7 Feb at 1000: 'The Legacy of War from the Middle Ages to Modern Times'. The tour lasts one hour, costs £15 per person and there is no need to book.
February 2, 2026 at 2:15 PM
A Special Theme Curator Tour with Fran Flett Hollinrake will take place in the cathedral on Sat 7 Feb at 1000: 'The Legacy of War from the Middle Ages to Modern Times'. The tour lasts one hour, costs £15 per person and there is no need to book.
So, @nessbattery.bsky.social. You gave me Reggae Shark; I give you…whatever this is.
It is an offensive stereotype to suggest the Dutch spend their days stoned out of their minds.
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
So, @nessbattery.bsky.social. You gave me Reggae Shark; I give you…whatever this is.
Awww, nice one @dannyrobins.bsky.social! A Mastermind champion! You cut it a bit fine but many congratulations 🙌😅
February 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Awww, nice one @dannyrobins.bsky.social! A Mastermind champion! You cut it a bit fine but many congratulations 🙌😅
We made it to February! Blessings of Imbolc/Candlemas/St Brigid to everyone 🙌🌞
February 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM
We made it to February! Blessings of Imbolc/Candlemas/St Brigid to everyone 🙌🌞
A very happy Burns night, wherever you are. Slàinte mhath! Please excuse the lack of neeps - red cabbage will have to do. I don’t think RB would mind.
January 25, 2026 at 7:28 PM
A very happy Burns night, wherever you are. Slàinte mhath! Please excuse the lack of neeps - red cabbage will have to do. I don’t think RB would mind.
Frank likes a bit of Winterwatch
January 22, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Frank likes a bit of Winterwatch
More aurora from Orkney!
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 PM
More aurora from Orkney!
Got some very red aurora happening in Orkney right now
January 19, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Got some very red aurora happening in Orkney right now
Great edition of one of my favourite podcasts - featuring the amazing @judithjesch.bsky.social talking about her new translation of the Orkney saga. @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social gets a few mentions! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
The Sagas of the Earls of Orkney
Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 13/01/2026 · 1h 2m
podcasts.apple.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Great edition of one of my favourite podcasts - featuring the amazing @judithjesch.bsky.social talking about her new translation of the Orkney saga. @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social gets a few mentions! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
Back-to-back Viking goodness. I loved @judithjesch.bsky.social’s new reworking of the Orkneyinga Saga - a great Introduction, excellent references, and very readable! Then @catjarman.bsky.social’s amazing River Kings - what a ride, what a journey! That little carnelian bead has my heart. 🥰
January 11, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Back-to-back Viking goodness. I loved @judithjesch.bsky.social’s new reworking of the Orkneyinga Saga - a great Introduction, excellent references, and very readable! Then @catjarman.bsky.social’s amazing River Kings - what a ride, what a journey! That little carnelian bead has my heart. 🥰
My cat is an absence of light
January 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
My cat is an absence of light
January 8, 2026 at 12:01 PM
A lovely piece from @peteralanross.bsky.social about the cemeteries of Paris. As a teenager in the mid 1980s I made the pilgrimage to Pere Lachaise for Jim and Oscar ❤️❤️
"Paris, the City of Light, is also the City of Death."
If you like graveyards, foxes, cats and The Doors then perhaps you will enjoy this feature on historic cemeteries of the French capital – a longer version of the article I wrote for Smithsonian Magazine.
smallfinds.substack.com/p/the-parisi...
If you like graveyards, foxes, cats and The Doors then perhaps you will enjoy this feature on historic cemeteries of the French capital – a longer version of the article I wrote for Smithsonian Magazine.
smallfinds.substack.com/p/the-parisi...
The Parisian Way of Death
Stories from the historic cemeteries of Paris
smallfinds.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:49 AM
A lovely piece from @peteralanross.bsky.social about the cemeteries of Paris. As a teenager in the mid 1980s I made the pilgrimage to Pere Lachaise for Jim and Oscar ❤️❤️
It’s hard to know what is new snow and what is drifting, but I’m going with 4/10 KW16 #uksnow This is the view from our window looking west!
January 4, 2026 at 1:39 PM
It’s hard to know what is new snow and what is drifting, but I’m going with 4/10 KW16 #uksnow This is the view from our window looking west!
Well, @peteralanross.bsky.social you have done it again. I loved Upon a White Horse as much as I loved Tomb With a View and Steeple Chasing. The mixture of memory, archaeology, folklore, poetry and art is beautiful and very moving. Thank you! 🥰🥲
January 4, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Well, @peteralanross.bsky.social you have done it again. I loved Upon a White Horse as much as I loved Tomb With a View and Steeple Chasing. The mixture of memory, archaeology, folklore, poetry and art is beautiful and very moving. Thank you! 🥰🥲
A snowy story in Orkney’s West Mainland this morning ❄️🌨️☃️
January 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM
A snowy story in Orkney’s West Mainland this morning ❄️🌨️☃️
#uksnow KW16 8/10 quite blizzard-like in Orkney’s West Mainland, very strong winds and a lot of drifting. Here’s @nessbattery.bsky.social off on a mission of mercy! ❄️😳
January 2, 2026 at 4:05 PM
#uksnow KW16 8/10 quite blizzard-like in Orkney’s West Mainland, very strong winds and a lot of drifting. Here’s @nessbattery.bsky.social off on a mission of mercy! ❄️😳
Yay! Currently 4/10 in KW16 #uksnow
Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on uksnowmap.com ❄️
January 2, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Yay! Currently 4/10 in KW16 #uksnow
Remembering the lovely Twitter #uksnow thing when you posted your postcode and a mark out of ten for how hard it was snowing, and someone made a map so you could see snowfall all over the UK in real time. Is there a Bluesky equivalent? KW16 6/10
January 2, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Remembering the lovely Twitter #uksnow thing when you posted your postcode and a mark out of ten for how hard it was snowing, and someone made a map so you could see snowfall all over the UK in real time. Is there a Bluesky equivalent? KW16 6/10
Woody Guthrie’s ‘New Year Rulin’s’ of 1942 take some beating. Happy 2026 to you all when it comes. 🎉
December 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Woody Guthrie’s ‘New Year Rulin’s’ of 1942 take some beating. Happy 2026 to you all when it comes. 🎉
How shit at business do you have to be, to be personally worth 37,000 times the amount an average UK worker will earn in a LIFETIME, and still be incapable of withstanding a tiny tax increase?
December 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Christmas wish come true! Thank you to @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social for writing it, and thank you to @nessbattery.bsky.social for buying it for me ❤️✨
December 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Christmas wish come true! Thank you to @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social for writing it, and thank you to @nessbattery.bsky.social for buying it for me ❤️✨