Saturday was a busy day

After feeding the "babies" and the ponies we decided to leave and wound up stopping at the Bonhoga Gallery and Cafe.  The water mill building is beautifully converted and the water that drove it is no longer dammed up.  We had cheese, tea and scones and just enjoyed the scenery.  We left and decided to do a very quick tour of Lerwick, the capital.  We briefly stopped at the museum and archives but being as it was the weekend a lot of what Denise wanted to see was not available.  .We toured the harbour, Commercial Street and Market .  The traffic being chaotic, we decided to leave as Denise and I needed provisions.  The chalet is in the middle of the beyond so food was essential for breakfaat.  We wound up in Scalloway to do our shopping.  The shop had food on the first floor and dry good on the second.  We got the essentials, toured the site of the fisheries college and laboratory (where Betsy's dughter Helena works) and finally off to Troulligarth (this is the name of the Leask croft).  We had dinner and called it a day.  Very excited about seeing all the new things but also exhausted.  One needs to appreciate the temperature differential here as the day's high as around 12/13 and our home for the week was cold!  Another coin in the electric meter and cranked up the heat.

Sunday we arrived at Betsy's around noon and had tea and sweets.  We left and after fuelling up in Bixter, we headed for Brae and later the Braewick Cafe and caravan park.  Incredible view of layered cliffs that show the ages as well as stacks in the ocean itself.  We are up quite high overlooking but the photos do not do the view justice.

Cousin Betsy our Guide Extraordinaire

Denise's cousin, Betsy Leask had stated in an e-mail  in early June, that she was quite prepared to chauffeur us around.  Well, I had no idea that she would be driving us literally everywhere as you will see in later posts.  After guiding us to the chalet, she left us to unpack and get some rest.  We followed her suggestion but first we had to put a coin in the electric box to ensure we had some heat overnight.  The temp. was about 9-10 C so heat was required.

Now, one must realize that it does not get dark at night only what is referred as "simmer dim" thus the bright daylight comes very early and our bodies were still on Ontario.time.  You have probably surmised that our bodies are still primarily on Ontario time so we were up early.  Betsy came over mid morning Saturday and had us follow her to their "croft".  We had a cuppa, talked about what we wanted to see.  In the middle of this discussion, Betsy says she has to feed the lambs.  We watched the orphan lambs being fed from a bottle.  These "babies" were having to be bottle fed either because their mother would not suckle them or the mother died.  There are no other words other than cute for them.

Betsy is in the foreground

There I am helping feed the "Babies"

Following the baby feeding the neighbour's Shetland ponies decided to make their presence felt demanding biscuits.  So we were happy to oblige!