Cooking Guga

The day started with a few showers but it cleared up, with sunny spells.

I've been working in the museum office today and plenty to get on with.  The photo orders seem to be coming in thick and fast just now.  There's also been a book launch in the museum pier store this morning and a good turn out of folk for it.
After work, I popped along my sister Laura and have to run niece Elise to Burra later on.  Then it's the feet up for a few hours before having to work in the pub again tonight.

Donald Murray was having a book launch in the pier store today, for his new book Herring Tales.  He's originally from the western isles, and he got local chef Marian Armitage to cook his local delicacy, Guga.  Not sure if it was the book or the meat that stirred the interest.  Guga is meat from a Gannet or locally we call them a Solan.  What a stench from the cooking meat, really oily and stuck to my clothes and up my nose.  Two boils to cook the meat, with a very oily brew.  I couldn't bare the thought of eating it but you can see folk enjoying it with a Shetland tattie and washed down with a glass of milk.  Museum worker Trevor Jamieson and curator Dr Ian Tait enjoying the meat at the back left, Roberto Getto and Donald Murray back right and Bruce Cheyne discussing the feast with Marian Armitage.  Taken in the museum pier store, Hay's Dock, Lerwick.