A bus full of Vikings just turned around outside our house. Yes, it's our Up Helly Aa! Going for breakfast in town, having a wander, then back home later to celebrate the ancient* tradition of burning a boat with a bunch of drunken locals. 🔥

I'm not being facetious, it's a great day. All the best to Jarl George and his Squad!

#Shetland #UpHellyAa

* it's not.

https://myshetland.co.uk/holding-the-fort/

Floss is doing a wonderful job.

#myshetland #ShetlandIslands #shetland #shetlandponies #spring #springvibes #patterdaleterrier

https://myshetland.co.uk/doing-nothing/

My current skill is lying in bed doing absolutely nothing.

#chronicpain #myshetland #ShetlandIslands #shetland #whitecat #painrelief #backpainrelief

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the MV Hjaltland arrives in Lerwick

#shetland #lerwick #dockside #mooring

Flinching in my hands
this soiled and studded but good heart,
which stippling my cupped palms, breathes –

—Jen Hadfield, “Hedgehog, Hamnavoe”
published in NIGH-NO-PLACE (Bloodaxe Books, 2007)

Today, 3 March, is World Wildlife Day.

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/hedgehog-hamnavoe/

#Scottish #literature #WorldWildlifeDay #poem #poetry #hedgehogs #Shetland

https://myshetland.co.uk/bedrest-for-me/

Resting all day.

#myshetland #ShetlandIslands #shetland #patterdaleterrier #bedrest #chronicpain #shetlandpony #icelandichorse #runaway #notsorry