Clear blue skies & sunshine
Posted: Monday, 16 January 2006 |
Havno blogged for a peedie start, & have been trying to figure oot how to compress my photos to put up on the site. (I'm not very technical). It's worth having a go tho, cos the skies over the holidays were really bonny.
Poseidon in Unst
Posted: Tuesday, 17 January 2006 |
I promised a picture of Poseidon in Unst ages ago, and now that I've figured oot how to compress pictures I thowt it wis time I blogged it. This was taken during filming for our school play Odysseus in December. Our jannie Fraser wis the brave man in the green ootfit & holding the giant fork. As you can see it was a beautiful day, but according to Fraser, this was not indicitave of the water temperature!
Swan voyages!
Posted: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 |
Well, it is inevitable that this blog is here. Herman fae Orkney will have been expecting it for long.
This is the Swan blog.
To explain, the Swan is a Shetland herring boat, a Fifie, built in Lerwick over 100 years ago, now restored and used as a sail training vessel. I have been many trips on the Swan, and have helped to organise two previous Swan trips to Norway for young people. My first was with the Scalloway youth club in Shetland, the second with the St Andrews youth club (a parish in Orkney, not to be confused with the Fife St Andrews).
This summer we're doing a trip for nine young people from Unst.
We have now raised enough funds to pay for the voyage, both by applying for some grants, and also by sheer hard slog. The bairns themselves have done a lot of work for this; mostly bag packing at the checkout in the Co-Op in Lerwick, then there was a barbeque at the Uyeasoond regatta, the chip suppers, the bottle stalls…….. the list goes on. It’s good to see them working for this.
The photos in this blog are from my previous trip with the St Andrew youth club in Orkney, and they were taken mostly by Andrew Halcrow, the skipper at the time, and one or two by myself. There are many more on the Swan website!
It’s hard to say why sail training is so special, but it is. Anyone that has been voyage crew on the Swan, or any of the thousands of other sail training vessels around will say the same. You come back a different person.
This is the Swan blog.
To explain, the Swan is a Shetland herring boat, a Fifie, built in Lerwick over 100 years ago, now restored and used as a sail training vessel. I have been many trips on the Swan, and have helped to organise two previous Swan trips to Norway for young people. My first was with the Scalloway youth club in Shetland, the second with the St Andrews youth club (a parish in Orkney, not to be confused with the Fife St Andrews).
This summer we're doing a trip for nine young people from Unst.
We have now raised enough funds to pay for the voyage, both by applying for some grants, and also by sheer hard slog. The bairns themselves have done a lot of work for this; mostly bag packing at the checkout in the Co-Op in Lerwick, then there was a barbeque at the Uyeasoond regatta, the chip suppers, the bottle stalls…….. the list goes on. It’s good to see them working for this.
The photos in this blog are from my previous trip with the St Andrew youth club in Orkney, and they were taken mostly by Andrew Halcrow, the skipper at the time, and one or two by myself. There are many more on the Swan website!
It’s hard to say why sail training is so special, but it is. Anyone that has been voyage crew on the Swan, or any of the thousands of other sail training vessels around will say the same. You come back a different person.
Blogs fae a thirty-something mum of 4 born in Fife, brought up in Orkney, and living in Unst.
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