The weather last night was very cold and icy underfoot with fresh snow having fallen a few hours before.
Visitor came and watched, many from America, Canada, Australia, Norway, Sweden, France and Spain to name a few
But this year I went to see the other side of Up Helly Aa, the displays in the shop windows around the town and they didn't disappoint. If you are coming to the next one spent a hour or two looking round.
It was good to see a large variation in the battle dress. Lots of shields, axes and helmets and a good number of small galley .
Its a time for celebration, the squads may have been out for 24 hours before the final event, a survivors breakfast served at a number of hotels. But virtually straight away work begins on the next Up Helly Aa in 2020.
On a different front, by October a new ferry company will be in place and who knows what they will offer. The plan is for more cabins, better freight service and generally more sea worth ships and hopefully the reduction in fares that they told us about a long time ago
For those that don't know, the new BBC 1 Shetland drama starts on the 12 February and I cannot wait, the last series was a lot better and was more Shetland based than the previous one. Pity they don't include more Shetland people.
We are still waiting for new neighbours, they moved out the week before Christmas but the council have not been in as yet. We are fortunate that we don't have people living on the streets and the council lists are much smaller than down south.
I have just started a new Facebook group- Shetland Clouds, come and join us as well as on Shetland Aurora Hunter
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