LOOK OUT FOR KOCKILOORIES!

Five of the Nature Prescription calendar’s best recommendations. Get out whatever the weather, and feel the exhilaration of wind and rain on your face. Talk to a pony. Start bagging Shetland’s 19 Marilyns [hills with a relative height of at least 150m]. Follow the course of a burn. ● Read Rhoda Bulter’s ode to Shetland Fladdabister and track down some of the sights and sounds it mentions. [ CW’s favourite: An laek peerie bairns sayin dir graces, Da kockiloories lift dir faces. Translation: And like poor wee children saying graces, the little

daisies lift their faces].