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Luath

Joined: 03 Dec 2009
Posts: 761

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 12 3:09 pm Post subject: Shetland wool week
https://www.shetlandwoolbrokers.co.uk/Shetland-Wool-Week

cassy

Joined: 04 Feb 2008
Posts: 1047
Location: South West Scotland

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 12 3:55 pm Post subject:
That looks cracking! Hope it bring in lots of visitors. Are you a fibre-y person yourself?

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 12 4:12 pm Post subject:
Sigh. If it wasn't so far away and so expensive to get there I'd love to go.

Luath

Joined: 03 Dec 2009
Posts: 761

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 12 6:21 pm Post subject:

cassy wrote:

That looks cracking! Hope it bring in lots of visitors.

Are you a fibre-y person yourself?

Me? Fibre-y? Veritably made of the stuff lol Yes I am, very much so - knitting, spining, weaving, dyeing, felting, quilting, patchwork, lucet, embroidery, sewing, dressmaking, you name it.............

Am saving up furiously and hoping to go; I have a friend up there which would help things, but would go anyway even if she couldn't put me up. I may never return is the 'danger'. Am aiming to end up on Shetland in the not too distant, permanently.

Luath

Joined: 03 Dec 2009
Posts: 761

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 12 6:22 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

Sigh. If it wasn't so far away and so expensive to get there I'd love to go.

Will have a think.............

Never say never.

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 20809
Location: sunny wales

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 12 6:24 pm Post subject:
maybe we need a Downsizer road trip, whats the cheapest way to get to Shetland, and how many of us can we organize to bring costs down further?

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9881
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 12 8:05 pm Post subject:
I'd love to go to Shetland We bought some Shetland ewes this year, and have been having a lovely time playing with the wool. Started a whole interest in the knitting styles etc

Luath

Joined: 03 Dec 2009
Posts: 761

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 12 7:03 am Post subject:
Shetland wool is one of the very best, one of my favoruites. Will have the sheep too one day I hope

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 12 7:27 am Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

maybe we need a Downsizer road trip, whats the cheapest way to get to Shetland, and how many of us can we organize to bring costs down further?

This is scary. I was thinking just the same yesterday.

Do you think there might be just one DS brain: a sort of hive mind thingy?

crofter

Joined: 11 Feb 2007
Posts: 2252

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 12 9:49 am Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

whats the cheapest way to get to Shetland,

Probably by ferry, 14 hour journey from Aberdeen. October possibly not the best month to travel if you are susceptible to seasickness...

Luath

Joined: 03 Dec 2009
Posts: 761

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 12 12:02 pm Post subject:
Need to get to Aberdeen from Dorset............. and other places Would love the 14 hour ferry, though, brilliant

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9881
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 12 12:03 pm Post subject:
yeh the getting to Aberdeen bit from here is a long haul

crofter

Joined: 11 Feb 2007
Posts: 2252

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 12 12:52 pm Post subject:

colour it green wrote:

yeh the getting to Aberdeen bit from here is a long haul

You can fly Exeter - Aberdeen for 155 pounds return. Possibly cheaper than driving, unless you fill the car.

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 20809
Location: sunny wales

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 12 1:02 pm Post subject:
We could probably fill a minibus or peoplecarrier between us starting somewhere like Exeter- then stopping at sensible intervals between there and Aberdeen to collect people and visit unsuspecting Downsizers over a couple of days Then hop on the ferry for wool week, and zigzag back down the country calling in at other downsizers or places of interest. Call it a 2 week round trip probably.

Luath

Joined: 03 Dec 2009
Posts: 761

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 12 1:20 pm Post subject:
No flying here.

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