Sex, frogs and beginner’s bonsai
Rosa Steppanova is aghast at the antics of amorous amphibians, and has some tips on how to turn your potted plants into miniature marvels. Some of my friends have strange ideas. One, who shall remain...
View ArticleFrom London to Lerwick: The final voyage of U-776
By John Peterson The long sleek hull emerged from the early morning fog, the blunt bow cutting through the water as the diesel engines propelled the U-boat steadily north towards Lerwick. A few men...
View ArticleInside CLAN as a patient: Marsali Taylor’s own story
Nobody ever expects to become a cancer patient, in spite of statistics. The shock of knowing you’ve got a tumour isn’t helped by being told that your treatment means a stay in Aberdeen, away from your...
View ArticleShetland Life: Editorial
A season of change April will be a cruel month for the expectations of some Council candidates, as, to the general relief of those of us who think democracy is important – and, let’s face it, have a...
View ArticleOff the record
Clive Munro By the time you read this we may well have endured another of those cold, dismal Junes which give Shetland summers a bad name. But I’m writing this at the start of the month while that...
View Article‘I called…and enquired whether I could assist in any way…’
The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic has rekindled memories of two Shetlanders who were involved in the tragedy, writes Jim Tait Scalloway man Walter Gray, who with his wife later...
View ArticleShetland Life: Editorial – Leaving The Fifth Dimension
Girvan is a seaside town in Carrick, South Ayrshire. It has 8000 inhabitants and is the biggest community between Ayr and Stranraer, straddling the main A77 road to the main Irish ferry port and thus...
View ArticleIs Papa Stour at the end of its tether?
Forty years after the first ‘hippies’ came to the island, and with only eight full-time residents, Andy Holt asks if there’s still hope for the future. He believes there is. Papa Stour is in...
View ArticleShetland Life Editorial: Ursine activity spotted Nort!
The bears are back! I remember when that headline popped up in The Shetland Times, back in early 1988 I think. The CUI (Corrosion Under Insulation) project was kicking off in earnest and hundreds of...
View ArticleShetland: a model for the future
As tidal, wave and offshore wind power generation become ever more serious options for Shetland’s seas, we could lose control over their development. But, says Kate Johnson, of Heriot Watt University’s...
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