Christmas Tree Party - The Pantomime - Boxing Day & useless "Crap" I got for Christmas.

True to form, it is impossible to get a clear photo of true mythical figures or beasts.



Boxing Day the weather was so crap we played a lot of cards... here we are playing Canasta?
Later in the evening we went over to Elena's and I was given this as a present?

Great... just what I needed more useless Crap!
LOL! Crap in a tin, in Romania Carp is Crap?



With a bit better weather on 27th we braved an outing with more gales forecast for Wednesday.
Auntie Joyce, Karen (Liz's Mom), Tommy, Henry & Liz

Seals on Beach, Jivvy Geo -  15 Seals, 6 of them pups

Liz wearing her new Fair Isle Knit Kep.



no Gannets on Kirk Stack.





The Christmas Tree Party in the Hall



Pantomime - Robin Hood and the Tall Ships

A complete farce of the story of Robin Hood bartering the Sheriff of Nottingham's horse for a better hat while moving to Fair Isle during the Tall Ships event and then falling in love and becoming a crofter? 

Sheriff of Nottingham, 3 Merry Men, Fair Isle Crofter/Knitter, Robin Hood, Florrie & Jimmy as themselfs.

Fair Islander "Lise Sinclair?" & "Robin Hood" in new Kep.

It all made prefect sense... more like a documentary in it's historical value.

Sheep Hill Dance! Woo Hoo!

Joyce, Dave & Liz
and many more smiling faces
shown all night.

 

Wear what ever comes out of the bag game!

Neil is in the Hood!
Thanks for the music for all the games & dances.

Santa came with presents for all the good kids!

  

Pass the Parcel game with Santa.

The Choir sings! and so does James?

Winners of the stand on the bit of newspaper game.

We all hold hands an sing... Auld Lang Syne

White Christmas Fair Isle Style! & random holiday photos

The choir sings Christmas Eve at the chapel
Visiting for the holiday Karen (Mother-in-Law) & Auntie Joyce make their voices heard.

Candles in the Chapel window

Elena plays the Chapel organ wearing a Funky Fair Isle hat she hand knit herself.

lights on the tree. . .

The  Fair Isle Christmas Chorus 2011

Tom lighting the way...

Christmas Eve Party at the Auld Haa
participants in the Yankee auction gift exchange



Anyone want to trade? woot! woot!



our Tree...

Henry and a few of his favorite gifts!
Darth Maul plush toy, Lego Storm Trooper Clock & New hand knit Fair Isle Kep.
Thanks Santa! Special K! and Mom & Dad! 



This is my "AMAZING" gift from Liz & Henry
A water colour/painting by Brian Small of my Citril Finch
 Special thank to Brian who was a guest at our B&B last Autumn

Find a Citril Finch painting under the Christmas tree is almost as good as finding one in Britain!

 

A White Christmas was had out to sea as it was not blue!
The gales continued all day and into the night Christmas mass at Church was even cancelled due to bad weather. but with winds from the south east it seemed quite warm for December.

Salty spray in the air and on the windows... that is as close to a white Christmas as we could get this year.

Cheers & Merry Christmas!
Tommy, Liz & Henry

Christmas Seals & Froggy Christmas Eve

Seal Pup - South Haven Beach, Sheep Rock in the background.

The Seal Pup looks happy enough here but beware of those puppy teeth!

The Family Christmas Unit 2011
Auntie Joyce, Karen (My Mother-in-Law), Liz, Henry, Tommy (Me) 

Fair Isle's Solstice Sunset - Dec. 22nd 2011

Getting ready... Nice Day in December

Sunrise 9:00am on the golf course

A peaceful sunrise.

Pink December morning light on the South Lighthouse - Fair Isle

The light & colours changes so fast at that time of the morning

We had had several wicked storms! the wind and salt has burned all the Sea Ivory Lichen a rusty red.

Robin & Tailless Dunnock (ringed) in the garden.
The Dunnock is so funny it looks like a tiny Water Rail

This Blackbird was eating this unwanted present that someone left in my Garden...
Illustrating quite well that many migrant birds have a hard time finding a decent meal this time of year.

I found this Viking figure on the South Harbour beach at the bottom of the cliff where it is said the 50 Spanish Armada crew are buried. OMG! it's Ivory! I thought... only to pick it up and to realize it was old plastic. oh well... it's still sort of a cool thing to find. I would guess it was made in the 1970's and lost by a local boy? Let me know I you have any claims for lost toys?

Plenty of coal for my stocking being unloaded from the Good Shepherd

& the Christmas Trees have arrived!



What's that on the Horizon?

The Russian Navy passing bye...
 Battleship and Aircraft Carrier in this photo
 but also a supply/research ship? and what looked like a Submarine on the surface trailing behind them. 



A bit of a green flash to get into the holiday spirit!

The above Photos have all been taken in the past few days... Cheers!

Snow Day - Fair Isle

South Lighthouse in Snow

Photos taken on Dec. 2nd - The snow was mostly gone the next day. 

South Lighthouse & Muckle Yui Geo
(saw a Black Redstart here today)

Purple Sandpiper

Snow Snow Bunting







Snowy Sheep at Leogh

Whooper Swan foot prints as compaired to my boot print...

View from my South Lighthouse Studio

An order of Christmas Hats I made in the studio that are shipping out soon.



Annie's Hat! Historic Fair Isle Knitwear

A nice bit of Hand Knit Fair Isle History in the making...

Annie (Wilson) Thomson's Hand Knit Fair Isle Fisherman's Kep

Annie's kep has a bid of £500.00 with 1 day left to go in the Fair Isle Museum's fundraiser!

The first 6 keps raised £1000.00

at present with Annie's kep giving so much respect a total of £1500.00 has been raised with still time to bid.  

Check out the bidding and all the knitting

http://fair-isle.blogspot.com/2011/10/traditional-hand-knit-fair-isle.html

Thank you everyone!

added after auction closed
Final bidding for Annie's hat reached £755.00