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One of those full-on days when there’s barely time to draw breath, let alone repair to Blogger. However, I am now breathing and repairing. I should say, by the way, to anyone disappointed with the lack of video and audio hereabouts of late, that I stupidly allowed myself to be huckled into using Beta Blogger,…

This burning issue of meat-stuffed pastry will be discussed, probably to destruction, on today’s Tom Morton Show, provoked by the battle between Devon and Cornwall over the origin of Devonian, sorry Cornish pasties. Both pasties and bridies were invented, it seems, so that workers (farm labourers and tin miners)could have handy, portable foodstuffs they could…

Penny, from the Vikingstar St Bernard kennel in Yell, arrived today with several of Lucy’s pups, fresh from the vet, where they had all been microchipped. Sort of like what happened to Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity, only without the Swiss bank account. Here’s Martha with Bubbles. No, we’re not keeping one. How many…

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The run-up to Christmas is set to be hectic, with trips to Glasgow next week, then Belfast and at least one more to Aberdeen before the festivities. Yesterday, with the boat booked for the 14 hour (via Orkney on a Thursday)voyage home, I cracked at the prospect of yet another ‘severe force nine’ gale, and…

Hats off to Beans coffee house in Union Street, aberdeen, where you get FREE wi-fi access, instead of having to pay an arm and a leg as in Starbucks! So I’m enjoying my latte and here’s a wee photie of one of my favourite Aberdeen streets, Albert Terrace, on a fine autumn night….

Only now, a good 48 hours after arriving in Castle Greyskull off the Hrossey (Northlink ferry from Lerwick) am I in a fit state to blog. I knew the voyage south would be a stormy one, but nothing prepares you for a Severe Gale Nine hammering in a flat-bottomed boat. Stuff (smoothie cartons, milk, water,…

Battening down the hatches once again for a gale 9, storm 10 northerly overnight, thanking the good Lord I’m not on the boat out of Aberdeen, which even as I type is smashing headlong into it. Susan’s heading south tomorrow night, full of trepidation, but the forecast is for easing winds down to six or…

Thursday was wild. Storm force 10, gusting higher, and from an unusual direction, north east…during the day the sea was all spume, no waves…blown flat. It’s a long time since I’ve seen waterfalls blown backwards, or waves breaking over the Mavis Grind. The power failed two minutes after the programme finished, and was off for…

Although to be honest I’m not sure if it’s even for sale. I’ve posted about the increasingly derelict, empty for two years, St Magnus Bay Hotel, which is in our township, before. It’s historically important, wooden, beautiful, listed, and was shipped to Shetland on a barge after being dismantled in Glasgow, where it was the…