St Ninian's Isle tombolo, Shetland
Visit to St Ninian's Isle, which is a small tied island connected by the largest tombolo in the UK. It's found in south part of Shetland and is known locally as an ayre, old Norse word meaning gravel bank
Winter sea at St. Ninian's Isle
Following a severe gale the Atlantic Ocean breaks over the shell sand tombolo at St. Ninian's Isle, Bigton, Shetland. Only with rough winter weather does the sea meet across the beach.
St Ninians Isle, Shetland
A wonderful spring day 2008 on the beautiful tombolo beach on St Ninians's Isle, Shetland.
The Shetlanders - The award-winning farmers
There can’t be too many farms anywhere in the world with a view like the one from Bigton Farm, on the west coast of Shetland’s Mainland. The stone house looks out across a white-sand spit of sand to the beautiful, rolling St Ninian’s Isle, a place of puffins, poetry and 8th-Century buried treasure.
The 500-metre beach is Britain’s longest tombolo, or ayre in the Old Norse-derived local dialect. On a sunny late afternoon in May, with the sun shimmering on the blue sea, you could easily just sit and gaze at it, lost in a Wordsworthian reverie.
But for Kirsty Budge, the no-nonsense 25-year-old farmer here, there’s not much time to admire the view. “Everyone who comes is amazed by it,” she says. “But to us, it’s just what we look at from the kitchen window.”
More than that, though, Kirsty has a farm to run. Though she shares the job with her 21-year-old sister Aimee, Aimee is off in Aberdeen, in her final year studying agriculture—leaving Kirsty in charge of the 300-hectare farm, with its 265 ewes, 70 cows and 80 acres of barley crops. For most people this is more than a full-time job, but three days a week Kirsty also teaches children with autism at the Bell’s Brae Primary School in the capital, Lerwick.
Kirsty and Aimee weren’t meant to be running Bigton Farm so soon. But, in 2014, their 46-year-old father Bryden died in a tractor accident, leaving his three daughters both mourning and facing a life-changing decision regarding the farm, which had been in the family for more than 150 years. While Hannah, 23, decided to focus on a Master’s in geography and a career away from farming, Kirsty and Aimee decided that they would commit to running the family business, with help and advice from their mother Helen and grandfather Jim.
“We’re the seventh generation working on the farm, and it felt like it would be an insult not to keep the farm going,” says Kirsty, talking to us in the farm’s shed, lit by beams of sunlight, surrounded by vociferous sheep and with the odd interruption from Boris the irascible sheepdog, named after Boris Johnson (Boris the dog was born when Boris the politician was in the news for having an affair, which doesn’t really narrow it down). “So many people behind us have spent such a long time and worked so hard to make the farm what it is, especially dad.”
While the accident left the girls devastated, Kirsty says “there was no use in us lying around, moping. We had to get up and feed the animals, and keep things going, for them but also for dad. In a way, the farm helped us come to terms with losing him.”
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Bigton to Quendale via Spiggie - Driving in the Shetland Islands
Road: B9122
Recorded: June 2019
Budge Sisters
Sisters Kirsty and Aimee Budge of Bigton Farm discuss their latest Monitor Farm meeting, which was held on Saturday.
Storm force winds on the Ireland Beach, Shetland.
Look at the amount of spray being blown over the beach and beyond! The 12th of January brought storm force winds to Shetland. This beach is sheltered from the open sea by St. Ninian's Isle but it is still taking a hammering from the waves. At least the seagulls seem to be having fun.
Skeld and Dale of Walls loop, Shetland
A video of a lumpy (830m gain) 60km/37 mile bike ride from Bixter on the west side of Shetland and out around Skeld and Walls on a stunning autumn day.
Well worth the effort if you're ever in the area.
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Tingwall Shetland
DJI Phantom
2015 smuha squad practice at bigton hall 2 march 2015
2015 smuha squad practice at bigton hall 2 march 2015
Shetlands Scotland Lerwick. My Travels Neil Walker. Celebrity Infinity.
Shetlands Scotland Lerwick Old Scatness Scalloway. My Travels Neil Walker. Celebrity Infinity.
Beach on Yell, Shetland Islands
Beach on Yell, Shetland Islands
Walking across the pebble beach.
Photographs I took along with the sounds of me walking across the beach to St Ninian's cave, Galloway, Scotland, June 2009.
Rock Choir - True Colours - Abbey Road Studios - May 2014
Pet Sematary remake to world premiere at 2019 SXSW Film Festival
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Jason Clarke’s upcoming movie adaptation of the horror novel Pet Sematary will resurrect the Stephen King classic for the first time at the 2019 South by Southwest Film Festival. SXSW announced Wednesday the film — the second cinematic take on King’s 1983 book following Marc Lambert’s 1989 page-to-screen version — will hold its world premiere screening as the 2019 edition’s closing night selection. Directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Clark) who relocates his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two children from Boston to rural Maine, where he discovers a mysterious an ominous cemetary for animals tucked away deep in the forest near his new home. After tragedy unexpectedly strikes shortly after the relocation, Louis looks to his neighbor Jud (John Lithgow) for guidance, which sets off a chain of horrific events tied to the titular burial ground. The Austin-based festival also announced new additions to its Midnighters, Festival Favorites, Shorts, Episodic Pilots, and Virtual Cinema Projects programs, including 129 overall feature films and 100 total world premieres. Films joining the festival in these programs include Helen Hunt’s I See You, Eddie Izzard’s Boyz in the Wood, and Lupita Nyong’o’s zombie flick Little Monsters also starring Josh Gad. Previously announced films heading to SXSW include the Jordan Peele-directed thriller Us (also featuring Nyong’o); Matthew McConaughey’s The Beach Bum (directed by Harmony Korine), Olivia Wilde’s feature directorial debut Booksmart starring Lisa Kudrow and Jason Sudeikis; Thom Zimney’s The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash; the Tatiana Maslany-starring Pink Wall directed by Tom Cullen, and Long Shot, Jonathan Levine’s Seth Rogen/Charlize Theron comedy about a romance between a diplomat and a hard-partying journalist. SXSW’s 2019 edition runs March 8-17, while Pet Sematary hits theaters on April 5. See the full list of SXSW Film Festival additions in the Midnighters, Festival Favorites, Shorts, Episodic Pilots, and Virtual Cinema Projects programs below. FEATURES MIDNIGHTERS 7 Reasons to Run Away (From Society) (Spain) Directors: Esteve Soler, Gerard Quinto, David Torras, Screenwriter: Esteve Soler 7 Reasons to Run Away takes a critical look at today’s society and puts the values it transmits into question. Cast: Sergi Lopez, Emma Suarez, Lola Dueñas, Alex Brendemuhl, Alain Hernandez, Francesc Orella (World Premiere) Body At Brighton Rock Director/Screenwriter: Roxanne Benjamin An inexperienced park employee discovers a body on a remote mountain trail and must stay with it overnight in the wilderness, facing her darkest fears in the process. Cast: Karina Fontes, Casey Adams, Emily Althaus, Brodie Reed, Martin Spanjers, John Getz, Miranda Bailey, Susan Burke, Matt Peters (World Premiere) Boyz in the Wood (United Kingdom, U.S.) Director/Screenwriter: Ninian Doff When four city-bred schoolboys embark on a traditional
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Brian Aldiss | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:09 1 Life and career
00:01:18 1.1 Early life, education, and military service
00:02:24 1.2 Writing and publishing
00:07:36 1.3 Art
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00:09:05 1.5 Death
00:09:21 2 Awards and honours
00:11:09 3 Works
00:11:26 3.1 Novels
00:20:39 3.2 Short stories
00:54:33 3.3 Poems
01:04:17 3.4 Plays
01:04:57 3.5 Not categorized fiction
01:05:10 3.6 Non-fiction
01:06:32 3.7 Anthologies edited
01:06:41 4 Adaptations
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Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (; 18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) was an English writer and anthology-editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s.
Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss was a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society. He was (with Harry Harrison) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Aldiss was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000 and inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004. He received two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and one John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He wrote the short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969), the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). Aldiss was associated with the British New Wave of science fiction.