Colourful days in Shetland

We have now gone past the shortest day when Shetland gets only 5 hours daylight. The weather has been good recently and even today its very still

Clumlie

Sumburgh Head from Clumlie

Early morning over Mousa

Scalloway in the winter sun

St Ninian's Isle

St Ninian's isle

Looking south west to Fair Isle

Looking north to Bressay and Noss

Jarlshof

From Jarlshof to Sumburgh Hotel

Looking South to Sumburgh Head as the sun goes down

Merry Christmas to all our readers

Storm Deirdre

We are going through another windy period in Shetland and this weekend Storm Deirdre hit. Winds reached 73 mph yesterday, that's Hurricane force

 With the rain and dull conditions we didn't go out yesterday but made up for this on Sunday morning when the storm was just leaving us. A couple of hours later the wind dropped completely.

 It was nearly a year ago that we had a big storm and the slates from next doors room came off and hit our car causing £100's worth of damage.

 This year the slates from the other side of us had already come off and so far the council has not come down to under take any repairs. With all this rain it makes you wonder what damage it has done inside.

 The people living in this house at the time reported this but moved away the next day.

All the photos here had been taken down at Sandsayre, Sandwick and the sea was raging

 I was the only one out but apart from the wind it was a lot warmer and it didn't rain.

 As far as I know the only real damage occurred in Lerwick where a big hole appeared in the sea wall near to Jimmy Perez's house down at the Loadberries. All vehicles and people are banned from the area

 Having previously lived 70 miles from the sea I take every opportunity to get out to see any big seas, and we have plenty around Shetland, it just depends on which direction the wind blows on where we go

 We seem to be having better weather than the rest of Scotland as they have had lots of snow and freezing temperatures

 I will be running a one session Seascape photography course in Lerwick next April, so contact me if you need and further information

In the meantime , thanks for looking at my blog and I will be posting just after Christmas. Why not take a look at my other Shetland Blogs

shetlandsky.blogspot.co.uk
shetlandsfp.blogspot.co.uk
ww2preserved.blogspot.co.uk

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

Shetland exposed

We have been going through a quiet period of weather with some fine sunny still days and nights, however that all changed today with wind speeds picking up to Force 6-7

I like going out in winter, the cloud formations are always great to see and they are always changing, some very dramatic

Not many people out last weekend but they missed out with these sunrays taken looking west from West Voe at Sumburgh

Its been a sad day for us when we  had to put our cat Furbie to sleep, we had him nearly 18 years and he was much loved and will be missed greatly. He never enjoyed travelling so when we moved to Shetland we were pleased to find no other cats or dogs in the pens on the Ferry car deck

The Scalloway Vets were excellent throughout and we would highly recommend them.

Sun shinning on Cunningsburgh, a day later we had our first snow and found pavements covered here. It always seems to be worse for snow and ice than Sandwick just up the hill

Looking across to Mousa early morning

The Royal Mail is very busy as expected at this time of year but people are always surprised how quick we get mail at anytime of year, much quicker than when we were down in Sheffield. Amazon is very well used, is there anything they don't sell?

Quarff

Looking South to Sumburgh from Clumlie area

Scalloway in the winter sun

Just a few places left on the Get to know your own Camera course and Digital 2 photography course which I run at Islesburgh, Lerwick message me for further details