Lerwick

Uh, she says she wants to move beyond traditional expectations of what people will get from their MSP, and I suppose she is right that doing this would indeed move beyond traditional expectations.

Uh, you know, uh, a job advertisement for a full-time artist to join her team in Lerwick calls for applications from Shetland-based creators of any discipline, including but not limited to visual art, textiles, and music.

So there we have it, Bernard, the Muckle Flugga tapestry coming soon.

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Um, and what happened was as the vessel was wa- being washed onto the rocks, there was 15 crew, I think it was, on board.

Now, the Lerwick would be the local, would be the main capital's, uh, town in the Shetlands, and I've trained up in the Shetlands myself, uh, for per- periods there with the helicopters or, uh, going back a bit.

But I have actually tr- flew up in the Shetlands and operated up there, so I'm familiar with the area.

But the vessel was washed onto the rocks.

We're kind of surrounded by water, so I have been in swimming lessons since I was two.

I joined my swimming club, Lerwick, from the age of six, and I started competing that age of eight.

So it was really good.

Um, I've been competing all my life, been swimming all my life, which has been a great shout and, um, made many friends along the way.

I was looking at that, uh, '68 invasion and some of the stats.

The, the most northern record was from Lerwick, uh, and that, that was a bird that obviously pitched up in a place that's not known for its, uh, extensive conifer forests or, uh, hazelnut, uh, you know, sort of plantations.

Uh, so apparently it, it decided that it needed to eat, uh, so it started staking out a, a bird feeder and picking off the local house sparrows.

[laughs] I think, um, Dennis Coutts wrote about that in his Life of Shetland listening article-

Clearly, we know roughly the area it was lost in.

So Cheerful, we know HMS Cheerful was lost off Shetland, just south of Lerwick.

There's a very good report on her loss.

There was other vessels in the area.

So tell me a bit more about HMS Cheerful, which does sound as if it's the most inappropriately named warship there could be.

What's the story there?

She was escorted in a convoy into Lerwick, and sadly, she struck a mine.

She was just outside the Minesweep channel.

I'm CStein on Ravelry.

I'm coming to you from the lovely town of Lerwick on the Shetland Islands in Scotland, where I'm fortunate to be for Shetland Wool Adventures.

If you ever get the chance to visit, you should.

Maybe for Shetland Wool Week, which is September 27th to October 3rd this year.

Lerwick is a beautiful, walkable and safe city with lots of cute shops and incredible Fair Isle knitting everywhere you turn.

I'm currently sitting by the water, looking at the North Sea and watching the seagulls dive for their dinner.

It's so peaceful.

She owns a flat in Edinburgh with a market value of between £150,001 and £200,000, with a gross rental income of between £10,001 and £15,000 per annum.

Ms Goodlad owns 50% of Har Sauna Limited in Lerwick, from which she expects to receive an income of up to £20,000 a year.

She has shares in the same business with an estimated value of up to £100,000.

"I do not expect to spend any time overseeing the business, as I resigned from the role of director in February 2026.