MuckleJoannie

Have you looked at Peter Guy's books on walking in Shetland? Hard to get hold of now but the library may be able to help.
 
https://www.goodreads.com/series/217923-walking-the-coastline-of-shetland

In my opinion his finest moment.
 

In my opinion his finest moment.
 

I never got CB radio. Just a bunch of folk with silly user names speaking rubbish.
 
 
 
Oh wait...

I found a couple of old copies of the Shetland Times from 1942 and 1955 recently. Here is the front page of the 6th June 1942 edition. I have decided to use the "easyzoom" website to host these large images as it allows zooming and panning etc.
 
Further excerpts to follow when the new scanner arrives (the current one died a death after doing this page)!
 
https://www.easyzoom.com/imageaccess/e4c4f2fde0fd4d5aac192441830298f2
 
 

I listened to the UKIP candidate on Radio Shetland tonight. He might get a few more votes if somebody told him not to refer to this place as the Shetlands.

I listened to the UKIP candidate on Radio Shetland tonight. He might get a few more votes if somebody told him not to refer to this place as the Shetlands.

We're aa Jock Tamson's bairns, though I haven't located him on my family tree yet.

They were in the ground floor of Charlotte House but had to move out when their lease was up.

Ancestory has a lot of other information apart from family trees that can flesh out family history. I had a look on it a while ago when they had a free access weekend  and found documentation about my grandad and his brother getting their skippers tickets.
 
I have a subscription to Find My Past which I mainly use to look at old newspapers. They have digitised copies of the Shetland Times up to 1911. You can enter an individual's name or a place name and it will come up with any relevant articles.

Ancestory has a lot of other information apart from family trees that can flesh out family history. I had a look on it a while ago when they had a free access weekend  and found documentation about my grandad and his brother getting their skippers tickets.
 
I have a subscription to Find My Past which I mainly use to look at old newspapers. They have digitised copies of the Shetland Times up to 1911. You can enter an individual's name or a place name and it will come up with any relevant articles.

Total pay rent to the SIC. The SIC bought up a huge amount of land around Sullom Voe in the 1970s when it was first mooted that it could be used for the oil industry.

The SIC is seriously considering fixed links according to this article.
 
http://www.shetnews.co.uk/news/8000-%C2%A37-5m-ferry-costs-strengthen-tunnels-case
 

Try this one then click Full accounts made up to 31 March 2016,
 
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC324266/filing-history

Probably where the fish are so the boats are there too.

An underspend can mean that they have spent wisely rather than well.

SSE had a fairly detailed plan for this a few years ago.
 
http://www.shetnews.co.uk/news/7393-lerwick-power-station-plans-submitted

The government were meant to be providing a 4g service to the whole of the UK for the emergency services but it seems to be behind schedule and over budget.
 
https://broadbanddeals.co.uk/news/jobs-lost-as-the-governments-beleaguered-esn-4g-project-comes-under-fire/

What do Shetland's Community Councils do?
 

DITT do garden sheds
 
https://www.ditt-shetland.co.uk/services/minor-works

I've just discovered that Google Street view is available for Faroe.

The problem with Shetland is not always accommodation. There is a limited amount of ferries and planes for people to travel up here.

Speaking as a resident of the Shetland mainland it would make it much easier for people from outwith the isles to attend late night events on the isles, or to visit at the festive season if no ferries were running.

Speaking as a resident of the Shetland mainland it would make it much easier for people from outwith the isles to attend late night events on the isles, or to visit at the festive season if no ferries were running.

17 of Ken Dodd's  funniest one-liners
 
1. "My dad knew I was going to be a comedian. When I was a baby, he said, 'Is this a joke?'"
2. "I love my girlfriend, my girlfriend loves me. She loves my hair, she loves my eyes, she loves my teeth. She loves my teeth because I'm the only person that can peel an orange through a tennis racket."
3. "I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for 18 months. I don't like to interrupt her."
4. "My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night, saying: 'Well, that taught me a lesson.'"
5. "The man who invented cats' eyes got the idea when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights. If the cat had been going the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener."
6. On his famous tax fraud trial: "I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside."
7. On his marathon live shows: "You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox."
8. "Do I believe in safe sex? Of course I do. I have a handrail around the bed."
9. "I'm a sex symbol - I am a sex symbol for women who don't care."
10. "I do all the exercises every morning in front of the television - up, down, up, down, up, down. Then the other eyelid."
11. "I did 25 minutes running on the spot this morning - I had my braces caught in the banister."
12. At the Royal Variety Performance: "This audience tonight represents the creme de la creme. That's French for evaporated milk."
13. On approaching his 80th birthday: "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."
14. "Did any of us in our wildest dreams ever think we'd live long enough to see the end of the DFS sale?"
15. "I wanted to take the dog to obedience class but it wouldn't go."
16. "Did you hear about the shrimp that went to the prawn's cocktail party? He pulled a mussel."
17. "So it turns out that if you bang two halves of a horse together, it doesn't make the sound of a coconut."