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The Shetland Bus

26th January 2021 Going Postal 0

Hopefully no Puffins are standing in horizontal driving rain, on a lonely Shetland road waiting for this Bus. If they are, I have some bad news for them, this particular Bus was the name given [more…]

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Postcard from the Past: Noss

22nd April 2020 Going Postal 0

Despite being in the Shetland Isles, Noss is one of the more accessible seabird colonies in the British Isles, at least for humans. There is a small roll-on roll-off car ferry from the centre of [more…]

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