...

...

...

Scoop Wholefoods Toll Clock Shopping Centre Lerwick, Shetland ZE1 0DE
01595 695888 
Lidgates 110 Holland Park Ave London, Greater London W11 4UA New Season's Shetland lamb
020 7727 8243 
James Allan Butchers, Hyndland, Glasgow 0141 3348973...

What do you call an uninvited visitor to an organic Shetland croft? How about ‘Pete’? Or should that be ‘Peat’? That’s the thought that came to me on when I returned to Uradale Organics after almost exactly a year away....

Green, an old carpenter told me, is a colour that “stands” well on a boat. His concerns were for the painting of sea-going fishing boats. Green, although deemed unlucky by some fishermen, was seen as a strong colour, which was unlikely to fade and wear...

Yesterday I listened to a GoldenPlover calling from the moorland above the farm. I believe they are the bird that heralds Spring (Voar) for Icelanders. Their song cannot be said to have beauty in the way a Skylark (Laverock) does. It is a rather mournful whistle, which...

Today was Hannah’s birthday. At 22 and with a First Class degree in Drama she has the world and her life before her. Tomorrow she must travel back to England to pursue her career. The house will miss her as she has grown into a beautiful, talented young woman....