Fair Isle
Farewell from Fair Isle
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 28 January 2008
Malachy Tallack's last blog from Britain's remotest place reflects on a very different way of living
Shetland's proud musical tradition
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 21 January 2008
The tunes and players of the islands are today recognised around the world, writes Malachy Tallack
Turning 100
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 14 January 2008
The creation of Stewart’s spinning wheels is an incredibly involved process, with each of its many parts individually constructed from wood, metal or leather
New Year in disguise
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 07 January 2008
Strange guizers see in 2008 on Fair Isle
Seeing the light
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 17 December 2007
Fair Isle's two lighthouses have been central to the commmunity for the last 116 years
Preparing for winter
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 10 December 2007
Malachy Tallack muses on the beauty and brutality of a Fair Isle winter
Guilty pleasures
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 03 December 2007
The trials and tribulations of knitting a gansey
To knit or not to knit?
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 19 November 2007
Malachy Tallack wrestles with his desire to knit, a practice synonymous with his Fair Isle home.
The story of Fair Isle's Heinkel
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 12 November 2007
The contribution made by Shetland Islanders during the wars plus the story of the plane that crashed on Fair Isle
Down the food route
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 06 November 2007
In his latest blog entry, Malachy Tallack charts the course of food from the field to the freezer
Going home
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 29 October 2007
After spending several weeks on the road supporting Runrig Malachy starts the long journey home from London - until the weather intervenes...
At the obs
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 01 October 2007
Fair Isle's rich bird life tempts many visitors to this remote place. Many of them stay at the island's Observatory which began life in the 1940s...
Death by water
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 24 September 2007
Now, as in the past, the sea functions as both giver and taker of life
The Trust and us
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 17 September 2007
The National Trust for Scotland saved Fair Isle in the 1950s but things have moved on in the intervening years prompting Malachy to ponder the alternative of community ownership
To the market
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- Posted by Malachy Tallack
- 10 September 2007
Fair Isle's lambs are on their way to market and prices are down again - bad news at the end of five months of work
