January

We could be, at the very least, accused of being ignorant when we ask 'what all the fuss is about?' when it comes to the snow, but to be honest up here in the far north we haven't really had any. We got 3 weeks of cold weather, heavy snow weather warnings but other than perhaps two nights where the wind really got up, the snow and the blocked roads never really came to anything that couldn't be handled.

All that could change tho, we have northerly gales from all directions NNW NW N NE NNE forecast from about Wednesday onwards, so the snow will be coming and I don't think the fact we are surrounded by sea will have much affect this time around.

Right now we are into the second on Shetland's Up Helly Aa's. Scalloway had theres at the begging of the month and today its Lerwick, with tomorrow being Hop Night, and the weather is miserable. So rather than head out and take photographs of the Jarl Squad I have stationed myself in the warm, ebaying a variety of yet more random objects, planning an HLF application, an arts application and a project vision statement.. that all sounds very involved when I add in editing the Ranger Newsletter, SCRAmble.

Hrmm best get on with it all then