Shetland 2016 Day 5

After an unusually late start David and I got dropped off in Walls to do some separate relative visiting. David went to see his cousins, Loretta showed him her award for carding and spinning yarn from sheep's wool and David has a vast collection of old family photos and his research.

 I called into the care home to catch up with Mattie, my mother's first cousin.

She is so like my Mam that I spent quite a bit of the visit in tears. She is so lovely and bright, she was telling me about her work in Southampton during the war, about her brothers and where she had lived and what she is planning for my Christmas present!

The other residents were also chatty and I got talking with them about the current proliferation of Lucky Minnie's Oo (Oo is the Shetland for wool. We know it as Bog Cotton) The older folk here are saying it is an omen for a severe winter!

For a change we took the bus from Walls into Lerwick and had a browse round the Archive and shops then had a pint waiting for Jamie to catch the ferry. We finished the day with a meal at the Ghurka Kitchen and popped in to see Wilma and Jimmy before heading home.

Waiting for the bus at Walls