Shetland Scenes

Seascape, blue shows through a cloudy sky with sun backlighting the clouds to the left.

Not Shetland but Orkney, from Scapa Pier looking towards Hoy and Lyness, once the home of the Royal Navy Admiralty fleet.

Council slushed £750k of government climate funding into general coffers Money from government nature and coastal adaption funds has been spent on council “vehicles, ICT [and] maintenance”, officials confirmed.

While other Scottish councils spent their share of nature/coastal adaptation funds on... nature/the coast, Shetland slushed the money into its general coffers for stuff like IT and vehicle maintenance.

"Completely unacceptable" said
@scotwildlife.bsky.social's @ruchirlives.bsky.social.

BBC Radio 4 - Mark Steel's in Town, Series 14, 5. Lerwick (Shetland part 1) Mark discovers how life in Lerwick is shaped by sea, storms and Shetland spirit.

Oh yes, Mark Steel's in toon da night - be sure to tune in and hear what he makes of the good folk of Lerwick!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Aye, and Hop-tu-naa, which my friend from the Isle of Man calls it.

Hallowe'en skekling in Shetland and other guising traditions | Shetland.org Blogger Catherine Munro gets ready for Halloween by learning more about an old Shetland tradition, and making a skekler hat.

American (presumably US) you say? Not really. www.shetland.org/blog/hallowe...

Shaetlan receives full recognition as a language SHAETLAN has finally been recognised as a language in its own right. The recognition comes after the local language was given its own ISO code by SIL Global,...

Shaetlan has finally been recognised as a language in its own right.
The recognition comes after the local language was given its own ISO code by SIL Global, the organisation that handles the international Ethnologue database has been tasked with the handling of international language ISO codes.

Your site is down, ironically!

Shetland has exactly the same amount of annual daylight hours as say Arne in Dorset, so we are not losing more in actual terms.

As did Bill Connor, author of the Cassandra column in the Daily Mirror, after resuming writing after WW2.

A view over grassy cliffs and coastline in Shetland with a large industrial building near the sea. Text overlay reads: "Shetland spaceport under fire from local community".

🔴 NEW: Disgruntled islanders have criticised Scotland’s first spaceport in the far north of Shetland for a “culture of secrecy and bad stewardship”, according to a new report.

Our latest: theferret.scot/shetl...

‘Every community in Shetland should be able to do what we have done’ A visit to North Yell gives an insight into the transformational power of owning a small wind farm

It's Tuesday lunchtime in Cullivoe and the local hall slowly fills with elderly couples, parents with young children, men in work gear and the odd visitor to the community.
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Summer is not quite over yet:

A beautiful day-flying hummingbird hawk-moth in a Shetland garden earlier this week.

Perfect sales pitch as an example of the need for more autonomy.

It's been a scorcher, even my car's A/C tried to turn on one day.

A blue water bay can be seen in the distance, framed by a hillside to the left, and green peatlands under an almost cloudless sky.

Baltasound, Unst from the top of Valla Field. If you ignore the 30+ mph wind, it's a great day.

Certainly the US has provided insight on how a written constitution with apparent checks and balances can be worthless in the wrong hands. I lean more to the Irish way of having a more ceremonial elected head of state as a preference.

Whilst I do see your point, part of me thinks that someone who doesn't want the job but was born into the role, is trained their entire life for it, might be a better choice than Dave the Estate Agent, who became an MP because they're a terrible narcissist, and fancies themselves as head of state.

Juliet Mills is not dead, and they've been married since 1980, if he was in it for the money he's certainly playing the long game eh?

Shetland has its ferry service woes on occasions but the Calmac ferry at Wemys Bay is chaos, no traffic management, no signs, no staff.

Energy transition should include shift in ownership from ‘corporations to communities’, councillor says A COUNCILLOR believes there should be a block on further development of “corporate-owned” wind farms in Shetland - with the focus instead on community-led...

A councillor believes there should be a block on further development of “corporate-owned” wind farms in Shetland –
Green councillor Alex Armitage said that “when communities have control of development, projects can meet the needs of local people far more effectively”.

MSP detects lack of urgency in fixing mobile fault SHETLAND MSP Beatrice Wishart says there is a lack of urgency to fix a technical issue leaving many people in the north of Shetland without mobile signal for...

Shetland MSP Beatrice Wishart says there is a lack of urgency to fix a technical issue leaving many people in the north of Shetland without mobile signal for six consecutive days.
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RNLI fundraisers ‘feel like we’ve achieved something’ after completing 40 mile walk TWO FISHERMEN are broken, sunburnt and sore after walking 40 miles on Tuesday – but say it was worth it to help raise much-needed funds for the RNLI....

Two fishermen are broken, sunburnt and sore after walking 40 miles on Tuesday – but say it was worth it to help raise much-needed funds for the RNLI.
Campbell Hunter and Ross Jamieson set off from Scalloway just after 6am, walking all the way down to Sandwick and then back up to Hamnavoe in Burra.

New decommissioning partnership at Dales Voe ONE of Europe’s largest demolition and dismantling companies has entered into a new partnership based at the Dales Voe site in Lerwick - with the firm...

One of Europe’s largest demolition and dismantling companies has entered into a new partnership based at the Dales Voe site in Lerwick – with the firm “actively pursuing” new decommissioning projects.

It took just three weeks for this new printing arrangement to be disrupted by fog.

Terrible idea that fails to benefit the inhabitants, and destroys prime peat land.

Out of the ashes – the resurrection and return of Fair Isle Bird Observatory AT THE edge of the cliffs, no-one says a word. Before us are literally dozens of puffins, fawning at our feet on the grass – the only noise their own...

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At the edge of the cliffs, no-one says a word. Before us are literally dozens of puffins, fawning at our feet on the grass – the only noise their own mutterings and the sound of the waves below.
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Cryptic crossword, 12 down, 9 letters.

Seditious British mutineers chasing money, collude with an enemy country whilst at war?

Technically, the wealthy British kicked the British out of America in order to make more profit. Some thing's never change. Also, the King of Canada is Canadian when in Canada, so representing Canada alone.

Yes, it's a sovereign country, the sovereign is the King of Canada when in Canada. Also the King of England has not existed since 1707.