Shetland
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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…
