#foula

[vintagecamping]

A backpacker watches the Shetland Puffins.

Foula, Scotland

1994

[sea-of-emocean]

Having a slow morning reminds me of the Shetland ponies with a whole island to graze 💛💚

[womblegrinch]

Norman Ackroyd (1938-2024) - The Gaada Stack

Etching on paper, from an edition of 90. Printed in 2012. 5.5 x 10 inches, 14 x 25.5 cm.

With Eames Fine Art, Bermonsey, London, Feb 2024.

Foula, from the Old Norse meaning 'bird island', is located in the Sheltand Islands, north of Scotland. The remote, inhabited isle lies 20 miles off the Shetland mainland.

[thebarroomortheboy]

Do you think I don’t care about Robbie? Do you think I’d forget he was your twin brother and my best friend? 

The Edge of the World (1937) | dir. Michael Powell 

[rie-k-photo]

Sundown _MG_8756 by Ronnierob https://www.flickr.com/photos/16633132@N04/53258278950

[cozy-hearts]

Foula, Shetland Islands: one of the UK's most remote permanently inhabited islands, with a population of just 30. (source)

[ancestorsalive]

From Stories of Scotland Podcast:

Photo: Two women carrying kishies of peat in Foula, Sheltand, 1902. Black & white photo by HB Curwen with colour added. 

“The women can be seen wearing makkin-belts. This is from the Shetland dialect of Scots and translates to knitting belt. It was a leather pad stuffed with straw or horse-hair, fastened at the waist, and used for holding one needle firm while knitting.”

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Foula, Shetland Islands, Scotland