” Carefully Storing the Winters Fuel Supply “
The Peat Stack, a crofting essential. Here on the Shetland Isles, Peat is still a major element in the fuel supply. Dug carefully in a long established Crofting tradition, peat is dried and then carefully stacked and stored for the winter months… I did say Crofting tradition, but evidence suggests that the use of Peat, on these Island goes back to the very earliest inhabitants… heating, cooking and building.
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10th October
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Looks very agrarian despite the modern covering. What a long tradition of peat, for pete’s sake. 😉
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The aroma from peat fires, evocative…a scene setter. 😄
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A response to the scent is part of our genome, most likely.
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I guess so… 🙂
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Have you visited the Shetlands often, David? They look beautiful xx
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Yep, not as often as I would like. Coastline, Landscape all littered with history back to the earliest times plus the people and a Scandinavian influence. And contrary to the TV Series ‘Shetland’ I haven’t witnessed any murders 🙂 It is a fabulous group of unique islands.
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Ah, the smell of a peat fire!
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Yep, an evocative aroma. Now on mainland UK we dont even get the smell of wood smoke…a lot of redundant log burnering stoves. 😅
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indeed
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Interesting fact I didn’t know.
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