Country Life

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• A coorse day
  Rhoda Bulter describes a day of wild weather late on in the year
• Auld Maunsie's Crö
  Probably still the most famous poem in the Shetland dialect. Basil Anderson's vivid picture of a way of life, a place and its people, makes perceptive comment on life anywhere, at any time.
• Daa looks i da door
  Emily Milne's 'Daa looks i da door' has a quiet poignancy.
• Ebb Draemin
  Rhoda Bulter fondly recalls the people, place and way of life she knew while growing up.
• Fae da Grund
  Vagaland's poem harks back to a time when people believed in trows.
• Fladdabister
  The sights, sounds and smells of the working year in a crofting township, lovingly described by Rhoda Bulter.
• Fragrance
  Rhoda Bulter remembers some scents and smells of a country childhood.
• Gjaan for da airrents
  A humorous reflection on shopping 'then and now', by Rhoda Bulter.
• Kwarna Farna?
  Kwarna Farna? - Vagaland (T.A. Robertson). 'Where are you going?' (Norn): a look at depopulation.
• Moarnin ida Kames
  Winter commuting, Shetland-style