So we are still here in the Fairest of Isles, and although the sun is shining there is still a strong gale!
The highlight of my trip so far was having an hour or so of tunes with Lise`s grandad, Stewart Thomson yesterday morning.
In a room full of his spinning wheels, that he crafts with such skill, we sat and played some great old Shetland tunes.
He told me of his life as a lighthouse man and played the tunes he has known all his days with such a style and life about them that I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
It is Sunday morning and we have been down to the chapel for a moving Remembrance Sunday service.The Fair Isle folk were in great voice, as always, and the hymns were sung with such spirit and musicality it was really quite breathtaking.
Last night was full of music. Lise and Ian were the" hosts with the most" again and provided a splendid meal for the many hungry mouths. Meatballs, veggie casserole and tatties straight out of the yard was followed by banoffee pie and many, many hours of tunes, songs and good cheer!!
Conrad on mandola and moothies, me and Gareth playing a few fiddle tunes, Neil Thomson singing and playing guitar sharing Shetland songs and some of his own, including an anthemic rendition of his own song "Tears of Joy" completed with superb backing vocals and candle waving!!
Lise once more sang her beautiful self penned songs and she was joined by David on the re tuned piano.....a labour of love on Mr Milligan`s part.
I got up close and personal with Oxys, the family bull who has been mooing outside my bedroom window every morning. Check this out....
Just spent a lovely afternoon at Neil and Pat Thomson`s house, watching some more rocket launches and dining like kings once more.
Life is good!
The weather looks good for the plane tomorrow so it looks like the tour is about to restart- back to the real world for us .......
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