Shetland
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And so we head for the poll with HMG, Hannah Mary Goodlad basically saying ‘vote for me, I’m not really SNP, and anyway, it’s only for five years,’ and Emma Macdonald, channelling Big Al Carmichael, claiming that the Liberal Democrats are the only barrier to evil Indy-dependence and rampant Swinneyism. HME – the Hypnotic Mammary…
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Phew! Teeth have been gnashed, tushkers brandished and fiddle necks splintered this week as the Holyrood campaign in Shetland reached a Rayburn chimney-fire of heat. There has been nothing nasty like it in the isles since those pesky pirates buried a fellow crew member up to the neck on the shores of North Roe and…
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Making plans for Nigel Nigel Farage coming to Shetland (by private aeroplane, no less) for less than three hours was the political equivalent of a stray dog lifting its leg to mark its territory. He was dressed up as a gamekeeper and accompanied by Reform constituency candidate Vic Currie, who looks more AI generated in…
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The fury of culturally-fleeced Shetland knitters. And two songs, loosely woven around the subject. Channel Four’s horrible attempt to turn knitting into a televisual bloodsport, Game of Wool, is subtitled ‘Britain’s best Knitter’. I can unequivocally say that there are technically better and more creative knitters than anyone on the show, including the judges, within…
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Hmm…activities or substances that would be frowned upon, if not ruled completely lawless in Glasgow… …whence I have just travelled, if not travailed, arriving in the isles just as Storm Amy cancels all ferries and sends the supermarkets into bare-shelf meltdown. Not a sun-dried tomato to be had. Never mind. I have scoured Tesco for…
