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I owe Johnson Transport 60p, or 20p, depending on how you view the Lerwick-Hillswick route. It’s 60p from Hillswick to Brae. But it’s £2.80 from Hillswick Lerwick, (35 miles)and £2.60 from Brae to Lerwick (25). I’m confused. But that’s not infrequent.  It’s all a misunderstanding. I thought Leask’s Buses, who only accept blue digital Shetland…

One of my thoughts as part-time communications advisor to Shetland Islands council is that all councillors and officials should, when travelling to the wilds of the Scottish mainland or beyond, have to wear at least one item of Shetland knitwear, preferably in a Fair Isle pattern as it’s easily identified. And this provides just one…

…I’m thinking, white wine, garlic, maybe an onion, cream added at the end of steaming if I can find some…

Gorgeous day down on the south Ayrshire coast, with Arran looming like something transplanted from the Alps. Ayr Harbour lost its fishing fleet to Troon years ago, but it still has ships coming to and fro, mostly dealing with minerals, salt, scrap iron and wood as far as I can see. Ayr beach has so…

New Year’s Day proper, daylight, up and about, and the detritus from Hogmanay/birthday celebrations isn’t too bad, thanks to Susan, James and Martha (and, to an extent, me) tackling things before a  belated bedtime. Except Quoyle the ancient labrador has been sick and peed everywhere. For sentimental reasons, he was indoors instead of in his…

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Just couldn’t resist taking the Malibu sit-on-top for a wee spin off Hillswick. around noon on Christmas Day

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Couldn’t get my fumbling fingers to work the old Samsung Pro815 properly, no tripod, so no rust red moon. Just loved the description from a meteorologist on Good Morning Scotland: “It’s every sunrise and sunset in the world, reflected off the moon.” In the other direction, though, this was dawn over Ura Firth leading to…

I hope Ronnie Johnston doesn’t mind, but this came in to the show this afternoon. Fantastic! Hi Tom, This is one of my pet hates. I have already a list of words that are overused in the media and have copied them below. I am sure there are many more. Perhaps the worst however is…