Sound of the flight of the bumblebee
Humming is good for you. There is something wonderfully calming and reassuring about it. It can help you get to sleep when insomnia strikes, soothes…
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Ancient woodlands lie buried, but trees return
Shetland seems bare and bleak to many visitors. Glaciated sloping hills, exposed cliffs and miles of moorland contrast with familiar comfortable landscapes of tree lined…
READ FULL STORYA convincing nest out of funny leaves
Readers may remember the “stick with legs” which neighbours’ children brought round a short while ago. The curiosity turned out to be a Caddis fly…
READ FULL STORYGathering pebbles may be great fun, but never turn your back to the sea
The route across Muckle Roe to the Hams is a great favourite among Shetland’s best walks. I have been lucky enough to take the track…
READ FULL STORYLearning about stick insects, masters of their niche in damp places
Sticks are sticks and legs are legs, but you don’t expect to find one growing out of the other. That is exactly what my visitors…
READ FULL STORYHow do we find rosy solutions when there is a tangle of competing claims?
Suppose you love wild Shetland flowers. Suppose you love garden flowers too; you love gardening and think that community gardens and the new allotments initiative…
READ FULL STORY‘He flew straight towards me, perched on a low stone wall and yelled at me …’
Why won’t the Chaffinches come to my bird table? I’m aware that they are around; in fact they’ve been visiting my neighbour Pat’s bird table…
READ FULL STORYGreenhouse window’s frosty patterns shimmer and glitter in all their glory
Central heating and double glazing are such accepted features of the warmer, better insulated houses of today that frost ferns are an endangered feature of…
READ FULL STORYBeaches strain with pulverised seaweed
While the rest of Britain is gently vanishing under a blanket of snow, Shetland gleams in the brilliance of winter sunshine and recent gales have…
READ FULL STORYIt is all in the timing: a valuable lesson in ensuring birds get fair share of food
I have often wondered how to share the bird food I put out more fairly between the various species which frequent the bird table. It…
READ FULL STORYA great time of year for beachcombing
Fresh gales have whistled and hissed their fury over Shetland again this week. Every blast that lashed the cowering landscape, every thundering wave that crashed…
READ FULL STORYHundreds enjoy a New Year’s Day walk
NEW Year’s Day was glorious and hordes of people made the best of the calm, still sunshine to enjoy a walk out of doors. The…
READ FULL STORYCelestial new year and calendar New Year make for a double celebration
HAPPY New Year! The light is on its way back. On the 21st of December, the sun, seen from our kitchen window, set right over…
READ FULL STORYBoneshaking gales set the cat howling
THE GALES this week have been real bone shakers. There were gusts on Friday night which shook the house so violently that it woke us…
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