I spoke to May Fraser this morning ... Thomas Fraser's daughter who is heard crying on the Lullaby Yodel track. The crying is so well balanced on the track it sounds as if it was dubbed afterwards. I asked her this and she said no, just 'something I got right'. It was recorded when they were staying with a friend and he had nowhere else to record. She told me that they are still finding new recordings of his and hope another CD will be out next year! May works in the Peerie Shop and is a singer herself. She was delighted to hear that the Johnston / Durham / Armstrong family were keen fans.
Right now, we have a big hole in the track where Archie is putting in a cattle grid. Once that is done (in a couple of days) and I get a fence up there will be no more getting out of the car to open the gate in a cold, wet wind, and no more tiptoing around sheep shit. We'll be very happy and so will Cass the Post! I'm hoping some 'visitors' will soon help put up the fence!
Yesterday I collected a bagful of rowan berries from a neighbour's garden ... the owner's uncle had uprooted the tree when it was a sapling from a holm in a loch, so it is a native. I have given the Amenity Trust most of the berries but kept some for myself to try and germinate for the Bousta Forest.
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PS Archie is not putting a cattle grid on the Lullaby track!
We'll be putting in an order for the next Thomas Fraser CD over here! Always reminds us of you and Mum whenever we listen to it and your time with us here last March. Great news about the cattle grid. Only five days before we leave and only 7 days before we see you both again. xxxx
I'm not sure how I came across your site, a link to a link to a link etc, but I'm glad I did.
The photos you have of Shetland are stunning. Seems like we are both lucky to live in such beautiful countries. Both places beginning with an S, and ending in "and" (tenuous link admittedly..) but both of them wonderful places to live.
Regards
Catherine -Switzerland
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