We’re delighted to announce the winners of the Reading Champion Awards 2026! 🏆️📚️
The winners each receive a prize of £250 worth of books from Browns Books, as well as the chance to showcase their work.
Read more 👉 www.scottishbooktrust.com/learning-and...
#ScottishBookTrust #brownsbooks
Green crab surrounding green, pink and yellow seaweed
Colours of the ocean #Shetland
01.03.2026 12:10 — 👍 295 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 1Lovely!
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Silhouette of pony in distance with sea and hills behind
At 60 degrees north Spring can take it's time reaching #Shetland. We will have to wait for the hills to fill with flowers and the evening light to return. For now I will enjoy the stark beauty of our winter landscapes and welcome the new warmth in the sun.
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On the shore at Hoswick, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Kelp has been ripped from the sea bed and thrown onto the pebble beach. It's a bright day with white skies and a silver sea
Less than 200 metres from our studio.
The beach at Hoswick changes all the time.
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#Shetland #60North #Lunchbreak #Scotland #ScottishIslands #IslandLife
Blue sea with snow on the sand
Lace woven sea #Shetland
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Seaglass pendents in green and blue and a wooden button Pendant
Have made more pendants with #Shetland seaglass and have been experimenting with other beach finds like pottery and buttons! Available now on Etsy and will be adding some earings later today. Link in comments
08.02.2026 11:20 — 👍 142 🔁 31 💬 8 📌 0lovely handwriting, too!
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Jeanette Sloan wears the Nielanell navy and off-white contemporary sweater with blue jeans
Our Rani jumper for #NationalSweaterDay.
Relaxed, soft, easy to wear.
This sweater is knitted in extra-fine merino and has a complex, engineered 'pattern' – designed by Niela as a disrupted version of Fair Isle motif.
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#Shetland
A lovely painting and the motifs in the jumper are so familiar to Shetlanders!
In Shetland, you still see very similar jumpers in the shops and being worn around the islands.
Join us for the next Islands Matter free online seminar....OCEAN: Cross-Pollination of Ideas for Resilient Futures.
➕ 1.30pm - 2.30pm UK Time
➕ Friday 20/02/26
➕ Free online
➕ Register through website
tinyurl.com/24hu2tfp
Today on Unst managed 5 sp of geese, Tundra Bean, Whitefront, Pinkfoot, Barnacle and the ever present Greylag. To be continued..
#birdingshetland
Italian Alps? Spanish sun? French culture? One English school is foregoing all of that to take its students to Shetland on their school trip this summer
It is the fourth year that Belmont Community School, from County Durham, will make their annual pilgrimage to the north of Scotland
shet.news/8maoj
Do read this, the ideas behind Shetland artist Susan Pearson's work are really interesting - as is her use of materials, which include clay collected in Shetland.
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In Pictures:
The day after: some highlights of Tuesday’s Lerwick #UpHellyAa celebrations
More photos and video clips in the link here: shet.news/i5zio
Eek!
27.01.2026 21:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The beautiful galley goes up in flames following the torchlit procession #uphellyaa
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This evening!
Coverage starts soon - at 7pm GMT.
#Shetland #UpHellyAa
A selection of photos from this morning as guizer jarl Lynden Nicolson and his squad of 65 Vikings took to the streets of Lerwick to kick off the town's famous #UpHellyAa festival.
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Delighred this is out in the world today! 🌱The fruits of a long collaboration with wonderful colleagues on women's poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400-1800 #scottishliterature www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
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Big yellow road sign saying ‘Attention, UP HELLY AA, Roads closed 4pm-9pm, No parking from 2pm.’
This is your annual reminder to shift your car off the Up Helly Aa route by 2pm lest it be towed away for ceremonial burning. 🙂🔥
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The streets of Lerwick have filled with people from across the world to celebrate Up Helly Aa, writes Chloe Irvine.
Guizer jarl Lynden Nicolson led his squad down King Harald Street this morning after leaving Islesburgh at 8.15am.
shet.news/7v6nb
Annually, on the last Tuesday in January- if you’re late for work and use the excuse “a bunch of Vikings & a longship were holding up traffic” it is perfectly acceptable. 😉
🔥 Wishing Guizer Jarl Lynden Nicolson, his squad and all a brilliant Up Helly Aa 2026! 🔥
#uphellyaa #vikings #lerwick
🥰 hope you are cosy where you are, Joanne!
27.01.2026 12:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whether its wet, cold, windy or snowy watching #UpHellyAa in person or online is one way to celebrate #Shetland style! It's today!
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We’ve totted up our ‘most borrowed’ lists for 2025 and guess what, local favourite Jen Hadfield out-loaned @richardosman1.bsky.social for top book! Great loans for Malachy Tallack and Marianne Brown too. We love Richard too of course! Read more on our website:
www.shetland.gov.uk/libraries/ne...
Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) © Jon Dunn
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #swans.
I'm fortunate to have Whooper Swan present year-round beside my #Shetland island home. Their bugling calls and creaking wings are a regular sound overhead as they move between lochs.
#eastcoastkin #naturephotography #birds
Lerwick's Up Helly Aa takes place this Tuesday, 27 January.
If you're not in Shetland, did you know that you can watch the procession and galley burning from the comfort of your sofa?
Find Promote Shetland's Up Helly Aa livestream at the link below (coverage starts at 7pm GMT).
www.uphellyaa.com
To celebrate the new year A THREAD of successful female Scottish writers. Here's too us. Let's start here 👇 Hugely popular Mary Brunton's second novel, Self Discipline inspired Jane Austen's Emma. She sold TONS of books. I 💕 her /1
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No. 2 in our Top 10 highlights of wildlife seen in 2025: an incredible nursery pod of at least 120 Bottlenose Dolphins in Vidlin Voe in early November. Only the fourth-ever documented record for Shetland inshore waters. A magical day!
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
