Exhibition at airport The latest exhibition in the Bonhoga Gallery touring programme has now been installed at Sumburgh Airport, where it can be seen until June.

All parents and carers with babies and toddlers are welcome to go along to the free Bookstart Rhymetime session at Dunrossness Primary School on Thursday.

Boddam SWRI can expect a fascinating evening on Monday, when Tim Noble will be showing two DVDs.

Tim now divides his time between his house in Spiggie and his home in Orkney, where he is a research fellow at Heriot-Watt University. He arrived in Shetland in 1974, as project manager for the first runway improvement at Sumburgh Airport.

Bigton artist Paul Bloomer lives in a croft house which he restored himself and turned into the family home that he shares with his wife and two daughters.

Folk who have enjoyed watching the series of Simon King’s Shetland Diaries on BBC2 might be interested to hear about the experiences of Helen Moncrieff, RSPB warden for South Shetland, who helped Simon and his crew while they were making the programmes.

Survey results

Several months ago Shetland Amenity Trust’s carbon reduction officer and the Energy Saving Scotland advice centre undertook a home energy saving initiative in South Mainland. A total of 150 householders have now received personalised home energy reports, outlining energy and cost-saving measures that they can take.

“We raised the £4 million required for the new building in just a year, which was phenomenal given the financial state of the world,” says Hollie Shaw, the administrator of Fair Isle Lodge and Bird Observatory.

South Mainland team on TV quiz Back in March of last year the production company that makes the TV quiz show Eggheads put up posters and sent emails trying to recruit a team from Shetland.

Dancing for a good cause Back in December, Bigton dance teacher Matthew Lawrence’s pupils from Sandwick and Lerwick put on a show to raise money towards the cost of a defibrillator.

Folk who have noticed the two very pink pigs who recently arrived in Sandwick might be interested to hear about their origins.