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Shopping: I can’t say it’s my favourite activity. It depends of course on what I am looking for.This afternoon’s task to hunt out a new carpet left me feeling overwhelmed by the number of choices of colours, patterns and plains. A helpful assistant however steered me through the options and I left with some samples. Buoyed by my success, I headed in for a favourite shoe shop to track down a pair of shoes in the sale. Much easier task. Gasping for a drink after that, I set off to find the nearest place for a coffee. It turned out to be next door and was called “A Book and a Bun” – a secondhand book shop with café attached. It’s a social enterprise; books are donated then sold along with coffee and cakes, all profits going towards local community groups such as literacy projects and befriending services. This ticks several boxes for me and there would be no easier place to spend half an hour. Unusually I had no book in my bag. Such a shame; I would need to buy one.And what a selection they had. The usual popular authors and celebrity biographies, but also loads of interesting categories. I picked up several books thinking that they looked particularly appealing. In the end, influenced by my nephew who had been raving about a recent school trip to Shetland, I spent £1 on “Shetland Diaries” by Simon King, the naturalist and broadcaster. A fitting accompaniment to my apple and mint tea.It’s certainly an interesting book, but rather different to what I expected. I had anticipated details of Shetland’s history and people, the landscape and the native animals. Native animals were well covered; the other categories not so much. I finished the book knowing considerably more than expected (or desired) about otters’ urinating habits. Otters aside, and there are plenty of otter encounters for any otter-aholic, he also painstakingly details encounters with killer whales, with guillemots and with puffins. It gave a tremendous insight into the work behind making a wildlife programme, of how much time is spent lugging equipment, how much waiting and luck was required before a few minutes of television gold could be captured. King spent a year on Shetland with his wife and 3yr old daughter and impresses as a man passionate about wildlife in general and Shetland in particular. He describes guillemot chicks jumping off the cliffs for the first time into the ocean, too young to fly; gannets streamlined like arrows diving for fish; the break-up of an otter family as the cubs reach maturity. There is a particularly endearing sequence as he initiates his young daughter into the delights of birdwatching from a hide as she works out how to use a camera for the first time.For me, however, the most memorable section was his description of the “simmer dim,” that portion of the year around the summer solstice when, on account of Shetland’s proximity to the Arctic Circle, the days are so long that the sky never gets properly dark. He writes:“The sky to the north was a deep, amber red, and its sister sea reflected the colour perfectly. The island of Yell rested with imposing grandeur as a dark, brooding mass to the north, its neighbouring smaller isles of Samphrey and Bigga peppering the ruby waters with their vivid silhouetted forms. There was not a breath of wind. The surface of the sea was so perfectly calm that each of the dark islands had transformed from low-lying slices of land to bulbous, ellipsoid masses, perfectly married to their reflections. There was sufficient light in the sky to read a book with ease…”What an evocative description. This book however is not going to be retained on the shelf; instead it’s going to be passed on to my nephew. This pleases me greatly, possibly the first time we have shared a book since I read “Peace at Last” to him when he was a toddler. Sharing books with the next generation – how very satisfying.
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