About Jane Glue

The Stone Wave On this great beach a wild Atlantic storm Sculptures in stone its huge and wavelike form. Robert Rendall       Jane recently did an interview with Joanna McDonald, a blogger who moved to Orkney just as lockdown commenced. Go here to look at the 'In Celebration of Coasts' Collection. For the original, click here. ********** 2020 is Visit Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters which this week, the Orkney International Science Festival is celebrating as its theme. Over the next few weeks I will be exploring the Orkney coastline through the eyes of people who have...

  It has been a weird summer for all of us this year, no matter where you live! In lots of ways, here in Orkney we are very lucky. It is a wonderful place to be in lockdown, the wind still blows, a summer breeze at this time of year, our grass is lush and the wildflowers are more wonderful this year than ever. Our local council gardeners haven't been able to cut the roadside verges during lockdown which seems to have encouraged all the wildflowers. The black Aberdeen Angus cows fill the fields and the cliffsides at Marwick head...

I’ve always known about John Rae, there is a memorial in St Magnus Cathedral which shows the explorer lying down, his gun by his side, and I knew about Clestrain and that John Rae had lived there. But it was only after my mother, who after reading Ken McGoogan’s book on John Rae, Fatal Passage , had insisted on my sister and I taking her out to see the house of Clestrain that I became more interested in John Rae’s story............