[Rosemary]

"Adam gets up close to rare native Shetland cattle"

Not often I get excited about "Countryfile" but I am today 

[jaykay]

Ooh, will get organised, as I have a warp to wind, and watch it (like you I don't love the programme but am interested in the Shetlands)

[lachlanandmarcus]

I missed the Shetland cattle bit, boo, will have to catch up on I player, I was too busy walking those inexhaustible new sheepdogs :-)))

[mojocafa]

I thought tonight's programme was superb. As for the seaweed woman, cracking accent!!!

[Lesley Silvester]

i player here I come.

[jaykay]

I just loved all the accents, the animals, the landscape - great place 

[Anke]

"Adam gets up close to rare native Shetland cattle"

Not often I get excited about "Countryfile" but I am today 

Excited because of Adam (Henson?) or the cattle.... 
 
 

[shygirl]

"Adam gets up close to rare native Shetland cattle"

Not often I get excited about "Countryfile" but I am today 

Excited because of Adam (Henson?) or the cattle.... 

 

[colliewobbles]

We just watched it - was a very good episode, actually about farming.  I think there has been too much time spent on things like mountain biking lately which is not what we tune in for.

[Simon O]

I said to Cheryl Rosemary will be liking this one - I was right!

[Fleecewife]

I liked seeing where Socks the dancing Shetland stallion comes from - and of course what he can really do 
 
I was in Shetland in 2000 and saw Mary Isbister's croft - I fell for the Shetland  and tried to get some so we could start our own little flock, but I was unlucky.  With about a thousand now it sounds as if the numbers are climbing rapidly - excellent.
 
Mary baked us spelt bread and I fell in love with that too  .
 
Seeing 'Ellie' with her hair flapping around in the wind on the boat made me wonder how on earth she's going to untangle it - I have long hair and long ago learned to put practicality before pride in the tresses department, especially where salt winds are involved    and plait it.  Spoil sport I know.

[SallyintNorth]

Loved the cattle 

Loved the ducks 

Didn't think much of the Shetland fleeces on show - the one Adam was skirting was almost felted, wasn't it?  And the locks held up to compare with the Cotswold must've been britch wool?  Surely they could've found some more spectacular fleece to show off on telly?

But, I suppose most folks wouldn't know the difference, and it was good to see the full range of Shetland livestock.

I had similar thoughts about Ellie's hair, FW.  My long hair is never loose when I am out and about , unless it's flat calm and I'm not working.  Do you think vanity comes into it?    Perhaps she and Neil Oliver have access to special conditioners / untanglers

[Fleecewife]

 
 
It may be her vanity or the producer's, but her hair, lovely though it is, is always to the fore and often in the way.  Remember Julia Bradbury who had gone to look at hives of bees with her hair loose - got all tangled up with a bee and stung next to her eye.
 
Long hair and machinery don't mix either, unless you want your head sucked down a pto shaft 
 
I suppose I notice because my own hair is long.  I also notice really long fringes, which just get in your eyes and are annoying (and stand on end when you ride a bicycle) - I used to have mine like that so I know 

[Rosemary]

Well, it was brief but nice publicity anyway  I've had the pleasure of meeting Mary (and Tommy) Isbister and Ronnie Eunson, and they are lovely folk, as were all the crofters we met last year. Loved Shetland (wouldn't want to live there) and would love to go back with Dan sometime soon 

[HelenVF]

It isn't very often I enjoy Countryfile (although do keep watching it), but last night was fantastic!  Really enjoyed it and what it should be like every week! 

I am liking the shetland ducks.......project coming on......

Helen