Up Helly Aa

[unlinkedstudent]

[Gibber]

He's a different type of flamer.

[MuckleJoannie]

Another BBC report on Up Helly Aa

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16826966
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[EM]

[piggywiggie]

The smoke was so stingy. We had to leave early!
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Scotch Egg on Sausage Legs!!

''you look like my foot.''
"thanks for that,you just compared me to a foot"
''not just any foot, my foot, I love my foot''

[Incongruous Eel]

[Longdog]

[stilldellin]

We did get the " return of the sun " this morning, but only just. :-

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" whit's du lippenin min, dis is Shaetland "

[unlinkedstudent]

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[Longdog]

Pretty impressive over Weisdale Voe today too!


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[unlinkedstudent]

^ also !
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[stilldellin]

[quote="Longdog"]Pretty impressive over Weisdale Voe today too!

Yep, nice one Longdog, only problem is you've spret my screen !
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[Keedle]

Stilldellin fantastic photo. We had similar here today but I was driving at the time.

[Ghostrider]

Good pictures....but 'Doon sprains, up wind'. Hopefully not though.
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[piggywiggie]

Lovely pictures similar views walking to parents in Lerwick this morning! Didn't take pictures though as my phone camera is about as good as a baby's drawing!
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Scotch Egg on Sausage Legs!!

''you look like my foot.''
"thanks for that,you just compared me to a foot"
''not just any foot, my foot, I love my foot''

[stilldellin]

[EM]

It is pyromania season again!



Mass meeting tonight 30th October, 19:30 at the Garrison Theatre.

[Clickimin Clippie]

I hear that to help the economy the Up Helly Aa committee is considering a summer festival called Up Jimmy Aa. They will celebrate the life of an alleged rapist who was a hero in his life time. They will spend the year decorating a Savile caravan that they will take round the schools then set fire to with large cigars. Only the Jimmy squad, led by the Guizer Jimmy can dress up as the alleged rapist himself. The rest can dress as women though. Aparently there is not much support, because unlike the Vikings they worship, Jimmy didn't pillage too.

[Horns 'O' Da Geo]

^^ Are we to infer from your bizarre post that you somehow don't approve of Shetland's annual beardy, boozey fire-spree?

[Marooned in Maywick]

Congratulations to Robert Geddes.
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[mogling]

The Haggis Adventures Up Helly Aa Viking Festival 5 day holiday advertised on AIS today, sounds quite nice, £499:

http://www.haggisadventures.com/

"Viking parade and longboat burning
All-night party with the locals
St Andrews, home of golf {Erm, going to be some disappointed golfers on the Haggis bus}
Full tour of the Shetland islands
Traditional Music"




"The next morning (or at the end of the night, depending on how much fun you have!) we will join the ‘guizers’ again as they sing away their hangovers."

Is this really just a warning that there will probably be guizers still drittling around in your hotel when you go down for breakfast, so hang on to your toast!

[getaba1110]

A couple of questions...
Is Up Helly Aa important?
Is our Islands financial state important?
Many will put one or the other to the back of mind till it’s all over, which one should we focus on and which one is in the back of your mind?

[EM]

[getaba1110]

[Scorrie]