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The @metoffice.gov.uk really does not like Shetland, I've only found out about 70 mph gales tomorrow from a neighbour, no weather warning for us, but yes for Orkney. A friend in Cambridgeshire has a warning for just 39 mph.

A new home has become available on Fair Isle – with a family of four from North Yorkshire also recently moving to the island. Earlier this year the island’s owners the National Trust for Scotland advertised the rare availability of a five-bedroom house and croft on Fair Isle. shet.news/5m6db

Apparently we're posting pictures of boats that we like today, I like mine, so here's my Coaster 33!

A rare occurrence of low wind here in Cullivoe today.

‘It really hammers people’: Scottish islanders hit by highest diesel prices in UK

We felt the need for yet another editorial: shet.news/p8ihz

A magical morning at Sumburgh Head, Shetland watching at least six Minke Whales. Shortly after we found a 'superpod' of over 100 White-beaked Dolphins! Here's one of the Minkes... #MarineLife #MarineMammals #UKWildlife

Mushroom season has started. #shetland

Today is #NationalPlaylistDay for @playlistforlife.bsky.social and our staff are sharing their favourite songs

Dolly Parton and Tim Curry have passed away, I must have hit that age when this starts to happen a lot. Slightly alarming.

Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago

The BBC has a map of the tunnels that Shetland Islands Council now formally supports building (from five years ago - this process has been going on for a while!). (Yes, I mostly posted this as an excuse to put the rest of the UK in a box)

UK's first vertical rocket launch site is back in the news, thanks to letters instructing locals to apply for continued access to their homes this summer and @theferret.scot's @robedwards5.bsky.social revealing fresh details from developer's license application...

Lerwick’s streets were a sea of rainbow colours as hundreds of people gathered in the town for the annual Pride parade on Saturday morning. Watch the video here: shet.news/ro64o

Ridiculous that Tesco does not have any IT backup solutions. Even Argos stores in the 80s had a lights out plan to keep operational.

I can't decide if my meal on the Northlink Hjartland (not as good as the Hrossey) is good or terrible value at £27, the "Southern Fried Chicken Burger in a brioche bun" leaves a lot to be desired slapped in a bread roll.

If I'm not careful I'm going to spend the afternoon saying there is no place called "The Shetlands" and ignoring the political shift!

Hilarious to see Shetland trending!

BREAKING: Hannah Mary Goodlad (Scottish National Party) has been elected the next MSP for Shetland with 47% of the vote. She is the first ever SNP constituency parliamentarian to be elected in Shetland, ending 76 years of continuous Liberal/Liberal Democrat victories at Holyrood and Westminster.

Wouldn't read too much into this, but it's interesting/noteworthy that, for the first time, pro-independence candidates received a majority of constituency votes in Shetland - 56.4% between them.

Shetland (Scottish Parliament constituency), final result: Hannah Mary Goodlad (SNP): 47.5% (+6.6) Emma Macdonald (Liberal Democrats): 34.3% (-14.3) Alex Armitage (Green): 8.3% (+8.3) Vic Currie (Reform UK): 6.3% (+6.3) John Erskine (Labour): 1.5% (-2.1) ... +/- vs. 2021 election

Oh my days! The SNP have won Shetland

Three days ago everyone was thinking spring had finally arrived here, not so fast says mother nature! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shetland's' island communities deserve support from the Scottish Government to build the tunnels which could make such a difference to their economy. www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/news/mp-call...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was met with protests from Green representatives when he arrived in Lerwick, including the party’s constituency candidate @alexjarmitage.bsky.social

Jarl Lynden Nicolson and his squad of 65 Vikings leaving the Market Cross ahead of the civid reception in the Lerwick Town Hall. Story on the jarl and his involvement in the festival here: shet.news/v4bu8

WHEN GUIZER jarl Sidney Nicolson and his squad step out into the snowy scene this morning (Friday), there will be no doubt they are leading the Scalloway Fire Festival. Full story here: shet.news/0iujl

Westing, Unst

Would be helpful if the "free" internet on the boat was better than the current dial up speed experience. Like most things with the lifeline service, dated and oversubscribed.

The Mirrie Dancers are out tonight in Unst.

Not Shetland but Orkney, from Scapa Pier looking towards Hoy and Lyness, once the home of the Royal Navy Admiralty fleet.

While other Scottish councils spent their share of nature/coastal adaptation funds on... nature/the coast, Shetland slushed the money into its general coffers for stuff like IT and vehicle maintenance. "Completely unacceptable" said @scotwildlife.bsky.social's @ruchirlives.bsky.social.

Oh yes, Mark Steel's in toon da night - be sure to tune in and hear what he makes of the good folk of Lerwick! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Shaetlan has finally been recognised as a language in its own right. The recognition comes after the local language was given its own ISO code by SIL Global, the organisation that handles the international Ethnologue database has been tasked with the handling of international language ISO codes.

🔴 NEW: Disgruntled islanders have criticised Scotland’s first spaceport in the far north of Shetland for a “culture of secrecy and bad stewardship”, according to a new report. Our latest: theferret.scot/shetl...

It's Tuesday lunchtime in Cullivoe and the local hall slowly fills with elderly couples, parents with young children, men in work gear and the odd visitor to the community. #Powershift @scottishbeacon.bsky.social @bellacaledonia.bsky.social shet.news/8yudn

Summer is not quite over yet: A beautiful day-flying hummingbird hawk-moth in a Shetland garden earlier this week.

It's been a scorcher, even my car's A/C tried to turn on one day.

Baltasound, Unst from the top of Valla Field. If you ignore the 30+ mph wind, it's a great day.

Shetland has its ferry service woes on occasions but the Calmac ferry at Wemys Bay is chaos, no traffic management, no signs, no staff.

A councillor believes there should be a block on further development of “corporate-owned” wind farms in Shetland – Green councillor Alex Armitage said that “when communities have control of development, projects can meet the needs of local people far more effectively”.

Shetland MSP Beatrice Wishart says there is a lack of urgency to fix a technical issue leaving many people in the north of Shetland without mobile signal for six consecutive days. @beatricewishartmsp.bsky.social @vodafonegroup.bsky.social

Two fishermen are broken, sunburnt and sore after walking 40 miles on Tuesday – but say it was worth it to help raise much-needed funds for the RNLI. Campbell Hunter and Ross Jamieson set off from Scalloway just after 6am, walking all the way down to Sandwick and then back up to Hamnavoe in Burra.

One of Europe’s largest demolition and dismantling companies has entered into a new partnership based at the Dales Voe site in Lerwick – with the firm “actively pursuing” new decommissioning projects.

It took just three weeks for this new printing arrangement to be disrupted by fog.

Terrible idea that fails to benefit the inhabitants, and destroys prime peat land.

Feature: At the edge of the cliffs, no-one says a word. Before us are literally dozens of puffins, fawning at our feet on the grass – the only noise their own mutterings and the sound of the waves below. @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social

Trig point, St Ninians Isle, Shetland.

It's always nice to see LK243 "Swan".