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Another eventful week. Last Saturday was a proper spring day - sun shining, blue skies, sparkling seas. It was also the day of the Bigton Yoal Rowing Regatta. A yoal, for the uninitiated, is a small Shetland boat based on Nordic designs. It is intended to be rowed by 6 people. Rowing races with yoals are extremely popular throughout Shetland - with many localities having their own boat and teams, including men's, women's and youth's. In the beer tent, where else, Consort & I had a blether with Ruthodanort who was coxing the Unst women's team.

All day Wednesday I was involved with the Second Tammies Shetland Schools Film Festival. Schools from across Shetland - both primary and secondary produced films which were then shown to an audience in a cinema-like environment. The morning showing was practically a full house. There was also a smaller public event in the evening. Long may this continue. However, despite his boasts, Muness's entry never materialised...

Finally, today has seen our follow-up to the Day of Action when Charles & Camilla visited. It started off with a showing of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth and carried on with further work on our school garden.

Our special guest today has recently appeared on TV. If you saw the edition of Coast dealing with Orkney & Shetland you'll have seen the hydrogen car from Unst. Ross took the car down to our school and some of the kids got a chance to go for a spin in it around our playing field.

The PURE energy project in Unst uses aero generators to produce hydrogen which are then stored in cells. This hydrogen is used to power the car whcih is amazingly quiet and whose exhaust gives off, not carbon monoxide, but - water.