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Tag Archives: Shetland
Sally Kindberg and islands
Islands are like magnets to me. Some I’ve visited because I was commissioned to write about them, or run workshops on them, others simply because I was curious. Sometimes my notes stay in one of my drawing books, biding their … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Handwriting, Travel writing, Travels
Tagged Holy Island, Hven. Lundy, islands, Sark, Shetland, Ven
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Sally Kindberg’s travel features, and getting nostalgic
Whilst trying to clear some space in my tiny flat I decided to sort through photos taken during my travel writing days – writing features for the Independent, London’s Evening Standard and others. I’ve never felt so restless as I … Continue reading
Cartoon Correspondence exhibition travels south
In March my Shetland postcard correspondent the polymath Stephen Gordon (aka Shetland Times Cartoonist Smirk) arrived from the North wearing his kilt and bonnet, with a huge amount of luggage and complaining about his frozen knees. Admittedly London was … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Events
Tagged Bonhoga Gallery, Cartoon Correspondence, drawings, exhibition, Kentish Town, labels, London, Mario's Cafe, Peter Haxton, postcards, Roland Denning, Sally Kindberg, Shetland
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Back from the Far North
Back from the Far North now and missing my little attic room with its two windows facing east (North Sea) and west (towards the Atlantic). En route to Lerwick’s brilliant new (ish) museum last week was so pleased to see … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Travels
Tagged Dimriv, Lerwick, Lerwick Museum, Pete Stack and the Rayburns, Shetland, Shetland cartoonist, Smirk, Viking
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UK’s most northerly book festival
Day One Two taxis, a train and three planes later – it should have only been two, but there was a ‘technical problem’ – and I eventually arrived in Lerwick, the capital of Shetland, 170 km north of mainland Scotland. … Continue reading
Edinburgh Festival – last day in Scotland
Yesterday to a talk by Ian Thompson on his book “Jules Verne in Scotland”. Verne loved Scotland, claiming one of his ancestors was a Scottish archer, and several of his novels are set here. The book’s publisher is Luath, named … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Travels
Tagged Alaida Foppa de Solorzano, Amnesty, Between Weathers, Bloomsbury Publsihing, comic strips, Edinburgh Book Festival, Johanna Skibsrud, Jules Verne, Luath, Michael arditti, Ron McMillan, Sally Kindberg, Scotland, Shetland, The Comic Strip Book of Dinosaurs, Val McDermid, Wordplay, workshop
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