Pretty interesting story, and a fascinating picture in this BBC feature on one of the more remote Shetland Islands.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2016...e-of-the-world
I see an F and an A-model there, Cafe members, I wonder?
Pretty interesting story, and a fascinating picture in this BBC feature on one of the more remote Shetland Islands.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2016...e-of-the-world
I see an F and an A-model there, Cafe members, I wonder?
Gibson F5 'Harvey' Fern, Gibson F5 'Derrington' Fern
Distressed Silverangel F 'Esmerelda' aka 'Maxx'
Northfield Big Mon #127
Ellis F5 Special #288
'39 & '45 D-18's, 1950 D-28.
An Artist model Flatiron F5 maybe ? R/
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As an islander, some things mentioned are close to home on our island as well.
Gotta love the island life!
... not all those who wander are lost ...
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I spent some time on Foula when I was researching my Shetland Islands travel book. It is a fantastic place.
One of Shetland's best-known folk groups, Hom Bru, sing a song about Foula. Davie Henry on vocals and mandolin is a Foula native.
Here's what i get - see pic. However,since it's launch,the BBC 'as an entity' has been funded by the licence fee. So, we have a broadcasting Co.(BBC) funded by licence holders telling me (in the UK) that this prog. ISN'T funded by the licence fee,so i can't view it. I think that there's something wrong there !. The WHOLE of the BBC wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for the licence fee !.
"Since its launch,the BBC has been funded by licence fees ...". I'm a tad PO'd !!!
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
There are a lot of mandolins in Shetland!
https://www.facebook.com/shetlandmandolinband/
David A. Gordon
Should you choose to visit the place (or anywhere in Shetland) it may come in handy to learn the language first...
I recommend the site of Roseanne Watt for getting an artistic feeling of all things Shetland.
Last edited by Bertram Henze; Nov-22-2016 at 6:30am.
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What a fascinating culture you have! Here, our best beers are in cans (well, supposedly the best). Go to a nice restaurant in Burlington, vermnst, and they serve you Heady Topper in the can, because it clearly says on the can that you need to drink it out of the can. Craft beer snobs, what can I say.
The website says there's no pubs on the small island. Without kegs and taps, I guess you make do with what you can carry on a small plane.
P.S. for our British license fee payers, here is the webpage as PDF.
(I guess the BBC must have had a TV broadcast of that and expect their licensees to actually turn on the TV for their money...)
Last edited by Bertram Henze; Nov-23-2016 at 1:44am.
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If beer was meant to come in cans, the can would have been invented first!
Thanks for the PDF link - incidentally, the "castle", partially visible in the photo on page 9/11, was built in the 1930s.
Looks like Eilean Donan (13th century)?
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Worse than that it's Tartan! The only craft involved in that is the accountant's.- according to Mark Gunter's photo, they're drinking canned beer!
- Jeremy
Wot no catchphrase?
Right, let's agree that, when attending a session there, it's better to bring your own drink
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Merry Christmas!
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Bertram - sorry, missed your post re. Eilien Donan. It may have been founded centuries ago but what you see today was built, as the wiki article says, in the 20th Century. We pass the place every year and it's usually crawling with tourists on the way to/from tye Isle of Skye which, itself, isn't the same since they built the bridge.
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