up helly ah
Our friend emma grew up in Shetland, a little series of islands lost somewhere between Scotland and Norway. The last Tuesday in January sees the island banish the dark with the Up Helly Ah festival. While we are a long way from Shetland, Glasgow has been pretty murky through most of January, so Emma decided to host out own equivalent. Apart from potato soup and bannocks (a delicious savoury scone) for dinner, and some tradiitonal scottish folk tunes, Chhay also whipped together our own viking longboat which in true Up Helly Ah tradition we ceremoniously burnt in the local wasteland (above), much to the consternation of local dog walkers.