Susannah Hickling

When you see a photo of our planet like this, just kind of floating in the unending black void of space, it makes you realise just how inconsequential we all are really! In the great scheme of things I mean. Here today and gone tomorrow, but our beautiful planet will still spin.

I’ve just received a Christmas card posted in the next-but-one county and franked 19/12/25. I mean, where’s it been for the past three months?

@BarryHavenhand Keep ragin’, as Dylan Thomas didn’t quite say!

@susannahmh Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light Or something like that.....

Speed awareness course, is there anything more tedious, dull, and repetitive? 15 minutes of information dragged out over 3 hours.

Bet you thought we'd forgotten to check how light it was at 5pm this week? Yeah you did! Well it's Thursday night and it's 5pm so it's time for EPISODE ELEVEN of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' The clocks change on Saturday and right now it's THIS LIGHT 💡

@BarryHavenhand You didn’t learn your lesson then? Or perhaps you needed a refresher?!😂

@susannahmh This is only my second, and the last one was at least 15 years ago!

@BarryHavenhand What can I say? That’s what happens when you drive a hairdresser’s car…

@susannahmh You sound rather sanctimonious on this topic!

Jesus was here.

@BarryHavenhand I love them!

Why don't we eat more artichokes? Had artichokes in tempura batter with my lamb chops in Italy, lovely, but they don't appear on British menus.

Sign outside a wine shop on Oxford.

« Ma patrie, c’est la langue française. » Cette patrie d’Albert Camus est désormais la quatrième plus importante au monde avec près de 400 millions de locuteurs. En cette Journée internationale de la Francophonie, continuons à la faire vivre, à la défendre et à l’aimer. La francophonie porte en elle l’héritage des siècles, le goût des nuances, la promesse du dialogue et l’idéal universaliste que nos écrivains n’ont cessé de porter, de Pascal à Hugo, de Senghor à Césaire. Notre langue progresse, elle rassemble et traverse les frontières comme un fleuve qui emporte des imaginaires et des cultures, des combats et des espérances : le monde. La langue française est un trésor. Alors lisons, partageons, enseignons et faisons rayonner la Cité internationale de la langue française à Villers-Cotterêts, cœur battant de cette francophonie dont nous pouvons être très fiers. Vive la langue française !

What could possibly go wrong?

One of my favourite yearly traditions is spending £150 on garden supplies so i don't have to spend £2 on tomatoes at the supermarket. 😂

Asked if he wanted to be remembered as a Churchill or de Gaulle, President Zelenskyy said all he hoped was "my people remember me positively and that my children can live in a free Ukraine".

"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement." ~ Albert Camus Le Moulin de la Galette (1886) 🎨 Vincent Van Gogh

Tony Blair has criticised the British government for not joining in the war in the Middle East, in the surest sign yet Keir Starmer might be doing the right thing

Incredible scenes here. Somehow it's March and somehow it's 5pm and SOMEHOW we're already on EPISODE NINE of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' It's cloudy but we are striding headlong into glorious longer days And it is THIS LIGHT! 💡

Nothing has been investigated MORE as a possible link to autism than vaccines And the data is clear Vaccines are NOT the cause of autism.