HeyJaredPostcards from Shetland
Two decades ago, I moved to Shetland—a choice that shaped every part of my life. Here, between sea and sky, I built a home, raised a family, and grew a small creative business. I write about island life, creative work, and what keeps me inspired.
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Heading Somewhere (opens the original)
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Two years have passed since our Shetland guidebook first saw the light of day, since we waited for the pallets to arrive from Aberdeen, delivered by our local shipping company, and stood there, frantically hoping for a fair day of weather so we could offload them one by one and get them safely stored. It felt like a dream. So much so, in fact, that we never really stopped to celebrate what was a huge achievement, years of work and effort distilled into stacks of books arriving by sea.Isn’t that
Ten Years of Shetland Wool Adventures (opens the original)
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As I write this, the hills have turned purple with heather — always a bittersweet sight, beautiful in itself, but a sure sign that summer is slowly coming to an end. The air has turned cooler and the nights are starting to get longer again: that first quiet hint of autumn after the long light of midsummer. The tour season is behind us now, and I find myself in a reflective mood. Not just about this year, but about all of it. Because in September, Shetland Wool Adventures turns ten years old.But
No Breakfast to Make (opens the original)
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Today is my first completely tour-free day. The last tour of the season finished yesterday, and it feels incredible — though I don’t think it has fully sunk in yet. This morning there is no breakfast to make, no packed lunches to prepare. No rush to be on time, no running through all those little details and things not to forget. After a summer this full on, this exhausting, my mind is still catching up with the fact that it’s over.What I feel most of all is gratitude. Gratitude for how the whol
The Magic of Doing It Now (opens the original)
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After eight wonderfully busy days of hosting another of my knitting tours, today I am home.There’s something deeply satisfying about returning to the rhythm of ordinary life.This morning I’ve been washing woollen blankets, picking raspberries from the polytunnel, cutting rhubarb from the garden ready for jam, and pottering from one small job to the next.At one point, while shaking out some of our sheepskins, I noticed a large tear in one of them.For a moment I almost did what I usually do. I cou
Finding Inner Peace and Feeling Deep Gratitude (opens the original)
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It’s been a whirlwind of a month since I returned from the Czech Republic — tour number five, and the second to last one of the season. And somewhere in the middle of catching my breath, summer in Shetland truly started.It hasn’t been brilliantly sunny. But there have been moments of utter bliss: cool temperatures, the lightest breeze, next to nothing moving, and the sun making its quiet appearance just when you needed it most. And sea swims that I have returned to and have found my love for aga
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