I’ve been writing for Shetland’s monthly magazine Shetland Life since 2003. Topics include:

The Last Lerwick Gala (July 2004); Working with e-Bay (February 2005); The Cat Protection League (March 2005); Nesting and Girlsta Up Helly A (April 2005); Selling off Shetland’s lochs (October 2005); The Threat of Bird Flu (December 2005); Interviews with Ann Cleeves (February 2006), Evelyn Hood (September 2006), Sakchai Makao (July 2006); A Shetland Tartan Army (February 2006); An amazing Collection of Brass! (September 2006); Raising money for a CAT scanner (November 2006); Hydrogen Houses (October 2007); Youth Crime in Shetland (April 2008); Tourism (July 2008); Shopping in Shetland (October 2008); Scouts (November 2008); Learning to Compute (March, 2009); A visit to the Shetland Catch Factory (April, 2009); Young people and Social Networking Sites (April, 2009); Auld Skule charity shop (May 2009)

The photograph above shows the Westside Players celebrating a particularly good year at the Shetland County Drama Festival.

Writing About Life in Shetland

Personal articles:

Aith, then and Now (January 2004); The Dancing Horses of Vienna (June 2004); Crofting in France (May 2005); Backstage in Calamity Jane (December 2005); A Holiday in Sifnos (May 2006); I love Christmas! (December 2011)

Shetland History :

Wartime Aith (August 2006); Arthur Anderson’s Norwood Grove (September 2006); Researching your Family Tree (February 2007); Shetland’s Christian Heritage (November 2010); Shetland Women at War (May 2010); The tragedy of the Whaling Ship Diana (July, August 2011), reprinted as the foreward to The Shetland Times Ltd’s re-publication of the story; The Ghost of Busta House (October 2011)

Out and About Around Shetland:

Shetland Textile Museum (May 2006); The Shetland Fishmarket (April 2010)

Animals and Nature:

Cod Farming (April 2005); The Bird Sanctuaries of Noss and Hermaness (June 2005); Michaelswood (April 2006); Shetland Festival of Nature (June 2008) Alpacas in Shetland (September 2010);