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Caroline Breyley
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Retired Primary Headteacher living on a Shetland island. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Not quite the game I was expecting. #Scotland #AsOne
Radio Scotland tv screen announcing upcoming autumn test at Murrayfield between Scotland and Denmark.
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Found these in local museum collection. First and last of one pupil’s 44 cards from 1903. School and school house long been a private residence. #Shetland #Education
Picture of small green card which says: Ulsta public School, YELL, SHETLAND. Name... T Anderson NEVER ABSENT, NEVER LATE. Week ending Jan 2 903 M. A. ESSON, Teacher. E. J. Arnold & Son Ltd., School Outfitters, Leeds 2nd red card says: Ulsta Public School, YELL, SHETLAND. -63个— Name, T Anderson NEVER ABSENT, NEVER LATE. Week endins 25- Dec 1903 M. A. ESSON, Teacher. E. J. Arnold & Son Ltd., School Outfitters, Leeds.
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Sea rocket, Monreith Beach, Dumfries and Galloway
#wildflowerhour
Tiny purple flowers on plant growing on pebble beach.
September 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Walking near beaver lodge this morning; didn’t see beavers but evidence of their work overnight across the path. #Knapdale #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Small silver birch tree gnawed through at ground level and felled. Silver birch tree freshly gnawed and felled. Freshly gnawed silver birch tree fallen across path.
September 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Loch Fyne end of Crinan Canal at #Ardrishaig #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Boats tied up in canal basin next to entry into sea loch. Swing bridge in distance. Looking up the canal from lock gate 2. Loch gate 3 in distance.
September 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Fairy forest in Haddo Country Park #Aberdeenshire #Scotland
Winding path through trees with model toadstools, butterflies and fairy homes on either side. Brightly coloured flowers and butterfly on sticks amongst trees and logs.
September 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Walled Scottish Harvest garden at @n-t-s.bsky.social Fyvie Castle. #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
White, pink, orange, deep red dahlias in long bed with beautifully manicured high hedge behind. 4 Tall runner bean wigwams with flowers behind and original garden buildings in distance. New modern layout of beds with veg and flowers. Fruit trees in distance.
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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The view from @n-t-s.bsky.social Castle Fraser is beautiful and so is this lovely weather vane.
Small round lookout building with domed roof on top of Castle Fraser Tower. Beautiful gold cockerel weathervane.
September 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Views from @n-t-s.bsky.social Castle Fraser tower roof
View from high of castle courtyard with building around and arch entrance. View from high of policy with individual mature deciduous trees. Wood in distance. View from top of tower looking towards hills, mature trees. Beef cattle in field but too tiny to see! Turret tops in foreground. Tree lined avenue in distance.
September 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Lovely day for a visit to@n-t-s Castle Fraser. #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Photo taken under tree, leaves at top; large baronial house with turret towers in distance. Blue sky.
September 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Lovely weather for Yell Show today. So many achievements on show across every class and such a great day for people to catch up with folk. Hard work but so much enjoyment. This gave me a smile; glad the judge appreciated the interpretation. #Yell #Shetland
2nd prize winner in Children's Miniature Garden class. Plastic basket containing areas divided by lolly stick fences. An area for cows, for hay bales and a horse box, for ducks and hens and for a sheep.
September 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Pictures from Belmont, Unst ferry terminal. #Unst #Shetland
Curve of bay, rocks at waters edge on right. Blue sky above and navy sea on right. Old pier in foreground. 3 Houses on horizon. Line of sheep walking along shore. Sea in foreground. Belmont House in background. Georgian house that was built by the Laird`s son. Now A grade listed.
September 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Had a meeting in Unst yesterday so had to go to Ethel's.
Great shop and amazing view from the car-park. #Shetland #Unst
A car parked under shop sign which says H Henderson General Merchant. Trusted vendor of sand shoes, sardines and cycle tubes since 1948. Blue sky, long grass in fields, dotted around white bungalows and very blue sea in distance. Blue sky, long grass in field moving in breeze. White bungalow in distance with very blue Voe behind
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Was looking at box of photos in our local community museum and found this. Issued by #Shetland Health Board. Couldn’t find its date.
Leaflet with 6 cartoon style drawings showing symptoms of measles . Captions in Shetland dialect.
July 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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A reminder of how far north we are as Faroese cargo ship sails past on way home from Denmark. #Shetland
Turquoise green Faroese RoRo cargo ship from Smyril Line sailing through Sound with local ferry terminal in foreground. Information about Faroese RoRo cargo boat Glyvursnes with map showing current position behind.
July 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Clan book bench at Victoria Pier #Lerwick #Shetland www.clancancersupport.org/the-book-ben...
2 seater bench covered with picture of puffins sitting on and flying into thrift covered cliff top. Background is wall mosaic of images of Shetland culture.
July 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Lovely to see this in #Shetland library today.
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Bench for 2 decorated with Julia Donaldsons name and some of her characters.
June 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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#Uyeasound #Unst #Shetland
June 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Enjoyed some sightseeing after CAB outreach in Unst. #Uyeasound #Shetland
Waves breaking on curved pebble beach. Renovated crofthouse at end of curve with roofless croft house next to it. Camomile flowers growing at shoreline
June 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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What a shame that when you attend a marine consultation mainly staffed by women, including a very impressive marine planner, that this is photo on the booklet you are handed.
Front cover of marine consultation document for Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks with large photo of 3 men in hard hats.
June 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Lovely day before simmer dim tomorrow. Gentle breeze and no heatwave. #Shetland
Looking down over Sound. Ferry crossing water. Sheep in foreground on other side of road. Looking down across sound. Moorland in foreground. Small island mid pictured. Blue sky with pretty linear white clouds.
June 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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A quick visit to
The Gadderie at #Shetland Museum; lovely outside as well as in.
Looking up to north mouth of sound. Mareel Arts Centre on right. Looking up Sound to north mouth. Freight ferry in middle distance. Looking across Hays Dock part of Lerwick original harbour. Hays Dock on the right with small boats on the right. Shetland Museum on the dockside. Builders merchants buildings in background.
June 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Under my washing line #WildFlowerHour I think the star shapes are a moss but don’t know which.
Tiny yellow flowers hugging the ground - tormentil Tiny blue flowers close to ground, sepals like wings - heath milkwort Tiny bright green star shapes, very close together. Tiny star shaped very pale blue flowers - spring squill.
June 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Don’t have to go far to meet #orchidchallenge this Northern Marsh orchid is in my #Shetland “lawn” #wildflowerhour
Purple orchid in short grass.
June 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Stopped at the original cake fridge today, owner keeps
goats, lovely to watch some of them. #Shetland
14 pygmy goats grazing in field that stretches down to voe shore.
May 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM