September 2024

Back home and unwell, pondering the future, and talking all things peaty with Drew Ratter in the new Passing Place podcast The new Passing Place podcast (or, if you will peatcast) with Drew Ratter is here, for those interested in the brown (black and blue) stuff, carbon credits, preserved bodies and crofting. The Spotify link…

The giant Viking wind farm has begun operating in Shetland. Not everyone is happy. And where is the money going? When I first moved to Shetland in 1986, there was one big experimental wind generator at Voe, towering above our house. I never saw its blades turn from the day I moved until its demolition.…