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Such an old tent that there were no instructions with it but we figured it out eventually. The eldest decided she was going to sleep in it that night but very much later that evening she came in saying it was too windy! Next day though as it was fine, warm and calm all three decided they would sleep in the tent which they did and the next night as well though the youngest decided a proper bed was much more comfortable. Number One Son (NOS) came back from his week s extreme camping with half of his clothes and no boots, black as a chimney sweep, but very brown (wind burnt). Photos (heavily edited) followed in the post sent by the senior in charge. A dab hand with a camera it seems, just like his dad, though I did wonder why the fascination of so many pictures taken of yawning little boys in PJs. NOS said  oh I took em for a larf, and because Samuel asked me to! . Our artist neighbour dropped in the other night with some fresh mackerel which he had caught on a friend s boat. Well he had caught over fifty so gave us five biggish ones. They were absolutely delicious fresh, cooked the following day in a mustard sauce. He also gave me a hare, which may have been practising  chicken with the rabbits only not very successfully! It was a beautiful creature and seemed fine until I skinned and paunched it . It was completely pulvervised inside due to having been hit at sixty miles an hour thus making it inedible because of the nature of what was in the gut etc etc etc& .you get the picture. A waste really because hare is real game meat and they are quite hard to catch. Not an animal I would shoot at first sight if I saw one anyway because they are quite beautiful creatures. They also do not breeCHNKWKS DøÿÿÿÿTEXTTEXT’2FDPPFDPP6FDPCFDPC8FDPCFDPC:STSHSTSH<STSHSTSH<2SYIDSYIDP<SGP SGP d<INK INK h<BTEPPLC l<BTECPLC „< FONTFONT¤<~STRSPLC "=:PRNTWNPR\=FFRAMFRAM¢AˆTITLTITL*BDOP DOP FB"le. Number One Son (NOS) came back fShetland Diary Almost the end of July and apart from working on the tug christening and a wedding at the town hall it has been quiet. I have been on children caring duties full time which puts a stop to work offers as everyone is away and you can t really ask people to look after three children for eight hours a day. It really has been a funny month weather-wise. Had some absolutely scorching days but the most strangest, and perhaps annoying, aspect was that because of the exceptionally hot weather down south the heat travelling up the country produced this most dense fog which basically descended on top of us& .for over a week! It was so bad that there were no flights in or out of Sumburgh for about four days. This of course meant that there were no mail planes or newspaper planes either though some of them were diverted to Scatster. I had to drive my wife to the airport for some of her very early 06.30 starts for fourteen hour shifts and lost count of how many rabbits were playing chicken on the main road between Robin s Brae and Scatness! It is quite unnerving driving along and having Kamikaze bunnies sprinting madly between the wheels. Unfortunately there were a number of heavy er bumps along the way which meant one less bunny in the Shetland rabbit population! Frustrating weather for the children as well because it was so dank and chilly they were confined to indoors. There was one day when we drove over to Lerwick and on the East side the fog cleared and we benefited from a brilliant hot sunny day but of course we had to drive back into the fog on the West side on the way home. As a local said  it is very odd because normally the fog usually stays on the East side! . Finally about the 23rd we had a very windy day and the fog has cleared now. The children pd as prolifically as rabbits do. Talking of gifts our neighbour, another one who fixed our megaflo, gave us a whole ling, which is called Olick in the Shetland dialect (I checked my diary just to make sure Elma!). Another culinary experience to look forward to. I had just dug up a patch of my potatoes so took some fresh pink Desirees down the road to say thank you. My courgettes are growing very well now in their little Heath Robinson bed contraption I made for them out of the eldest s old wardrobe and some heavy double glazed windows that I rescued from the skip. Marvellous things skips and the stuff people throw in them. I found three completely good cattle feed buckets which were very useful for catching the drained water from the megaflo, which went on the beetroots (also growing marvellously) and the potatoes. I am going to fill them with old grow bag material and put leeks in them for the winter months as leeks grow in pretty much any temperature. The shallots will have to be harvested before I go away so that they can dry out a bit before storing for winter. I will leave most of the spuds intact so they can grow a bit bigger before I harvest them. I may put a fresh crop in for winter anyway. Talking of harvesting one of the farmers has just mown his field and produced the most bizarre hay bales. Don t worry I am not going off on a fantastical tangent about Dr. Who and green pods again!. These bales however are triangular!!! and sort of half covered in blue plastic. Just another interesting sight on the local landscape. The next week I am going off down south for a little operation and will take some gifts. Shetland Smokehouse sadly was put into liquidation, though a bit of a mystery as to why, so its products were put up for sale by the liquidators. Naturally I had to go along and buy some products. I was lucky to join the rush and get some organic smoked salmon and mackerel . I am going to try and visit Blydoit, which is a fish shop in Scalloway and they do the most delicious smoked scallops. Try I say and get some as they are very popular. Taking them down and keeping everything chilled will be a challenge but polystryrene boxes and ice blocks manage to do the trick most of the time. I certainly am very reluctant to use Royal Mail s Special guaranteed next day delivery because they can t always deliver and when there is a problem they always procrastinate and say it is not on offer for Shetland post. However they never advertise this!! I will be visiting friends and maybe even visit a few hostelries? Who knows? Just a short trip and then back here to catch the Cunningsburgh Show, a real rural Agricultural and Produce show, which promises to be a day of fun provided the weather holds of course so are hoping to get lots of photo opportunities. 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