Few things sweeter than the smell of burning peat. The wife and I were out fetching sticks from across the field today - just our luck to get caught in a driving sleet shower!
Hello Juan, i'm glad that this post is of interest and perhaps the 3 old films which are shown via the links below will also be of interest, Jeff. Full record for 'IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING' (1129) - Moving Image Archive catalogue Full record for 'RUGGED ISLAND, the : A SHETLAND LYRIC' (0991) - Moving Image Archive catalogue Full record for 'SHETLAND PONY' (1130) - Moving Image Archive catalogue
Fantastic photos Jeff, it's extraordinary up there and have very fond memories of the islands back in the 70s, some diving and going to Ceilidhs. Also of breakfast provide by some fishermen one morning at 3 0'Clock on the beach on my way back to the ship I was working on after having been to a Ceilidh party. Deep fried Herring in rolled oats, delicious. Hadn't had it since a child.
Hello Lyn, I'm glad that the photos are of interest and that you have some fond memories of this old rock! Jeff.
I wouldn't necessarily call you a rock Jeff Just kidding, turning out to be a great thread about the Shetlands
Wonderful films Jeff. Loved the hour long one on crofting. I think you have to be born to it to survive at all.
Do you live up there Jeff, if yes how long have you been there? One thing I do remember is the number of houses still using or keeping oil lamps. It was pretty much the same where I live and the cottage I own never got electricity until the 1960s and one or two families still talk about using oil lamps in the seventies. I was given a very old Carl Holy Wizard, or Volksbrenner (made in Prussia) by a lady whose family had used it. She'd asked me to look at it for her, managed to repair it except for getting a new flame spreader. When I took it back she told me to keep it as her family had got her two battery ones for emergencies.
Hello Lyn, yes, i reside in Shetland and I was born here and my family tree on my Father's side goes back to Viking times. Most rural houses which still have Shetlanders in them also have oil lamps and Tilleys. Most of the parishes in Shetland had the power by the mid 1960's, but it was not very reliable so lamps were often in use. Some parts of the smaller isles did not get the power until the 1970's, Jeff.
I have posted an old black and white image of this view before, but here is a colour photograph of the view from the house which I was born in over 60 years ago, (Tempus Fugit!)
Jeff I always appreciate your Shetland photos. There is a particular "mood" about remote islands that is often reflected in good landscape photography. Cheers Tony
Hello Frederik, i have just noticed your question and the answer is that we rarely get much snow nowadays, but if you look through this topic then there are some snow photographs, Jeff.
Here we always get some snow, some years not much and other years alot, i guess the golfstream and it's route differs some from year to year. You often hear younger people say like: we never get any snow any more, it's not like when i was a kid.: but i'd say it's just like it always have been over time. Normally the real winters comes like two or three in a row, example about three years ago we had a snow dept record here in Orebro on the flatlands where i live, it was like 90 cm, and the deepest ever recorded here. and the year after that we had freezing temperatures from 26th of october to 3d of Mars not even once above 0 degrees celcius, but now when we've had one or two mild winters people have allready forgotten about that, and most blames it on the global warm up, funny really
