what's changed with sewers ?
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bright_Spark
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OMG how awsome is that. 
Alan22
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OMG how awsome is that.
That's what I thought, when I got out the car in the most austere car park in the world, in July, with 3 coats on, and noticed people looking visibly curious that someone thought they could survive being out of the car, what you can't see in the picture, or strangely the landscape is wind, this is what a tornado looks like on Orkney, the signs are strangely subtle till you open a car door facing the wrong way and it rips off the hinges and lands in the sea, then everything goes back to a strange high wind stillness, everything that can blow away has blown away long long ago.
They say the neolithic standing stones on Orkney, which are pretty much everywhere, are an early community attempt at a wind break, if you make a circle of giant stones there is at least one that you can stand behind in any given wind direction, and when you stand anywhere on Orkney it does become immediately apparent that wind is entirely the first and most important thing you need to solve before you can do anything, there is no fire without sanctuary from the wind, therefore no heat or cooked food, no making or sleep, no chat or social life, archeologists of course read all sorts of spirituality and human hierarchy into it to make themselves seem knowledgeable and scientific, all nonsense, all you need to do is stand in the middle of a ring of stones to see the magical benefit of being able to keep a fire lit for a whole ten mins.
bright_Spark
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get some photos up as I have never been to Orkney
Alan22
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I only took a couple, some years ago I decided to go places without a phone, internet access or a camera, it had struck me that 'going away' was not going anywhere because when you are invested in a place called the internet and all your communications are there you don't really go anywhere, I don't need pictures to remind me where I been, I was doing out of habit to show other people and lets be honest, they forget them within 15 seconds so why am I going to the trouble?
This is a picture of the local bus...
bright_Spark
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Because nowadays we have digital photography and less film cameras a lot of memories or images just get deleted. In the days of film you tended to keep them in a tin or an album. I as many others are interested in seeing these images.
Alan22
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Nah I can't stand people showing me pictures on their phone, they go 'oh wait till you see this' then spend 5 minutes trawling through pictures by which time I am pretending not to have died inside, adults should be able to describe things, pictures are for holding the attention of kids.
bright_Spark
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I agree to an extent Alan. But look at me as an example. People want selfies with me constantly and they will not only cherish that selfie but are also incredibly proud of it, enough to want to show it off and enough for the viewer to wait to see it. I suppose that is an extreme example but one that holds water.