The weather has been gross – a driving wind gusting F11 last night (F12 tonight – which is, I think around 73mph plus) with sporadic but violent horizontal rain.  Horrid for everyone.

Surprisingly, there were smiley faces all round this morning when I went out with the buckets.  My only aim was to make sure Bibble ate his anti-cancer pills.  Anything else was extra.  But I found a sheltered spot and put out the food and they all tucked in.  Haakon even enthusiastically piggy-paced up the hill, putting in a headshake and a little buck.

The container was as usual invaluable. The ponies were very thankful for it.  They got extra haynets and told to go out and make an effort, which they did.

So, this morning, as it was a Saturday, Mandy (my flute duet partner) and I decided to do something different and we headed off for town to the Shetland Wool Week 2025 Makers’ Market.

There were lots of “Lovely Things” and this year the theme is kits.  You can buy kits (instructions and wool) for everything that involves Shetland knitting. 

We wandered around and then rewarded ourselves with hot chocolate and cake at the Peerie Shop Café, which was delicious.  It was strange, Lerwick was almost in a fine weather bubble – absolutely no wind or rain until we drove back and climbed the hill out of Lerwick. Then the bad weather hit us full on.

Back home for some flute duets in the afternoon.  I think we massacred Haydn today and then I went back outside to feed anyone who was lurking about.  The ponies were waiting for me so more haynets and I told them there would be no more until morning.