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I have lived in Shetland all my life and have almost always gone to our torch and galley burning festival/celebration/ traditional / cultural ceremony, and have sometime in the past gone to a 'Hall' - you go at nine o clock dressed in your gud claes, and wait to be entertained by the visiting squads of men (always men, never women) its always good fun. You stagger home at nine the following morning. By tradition its held on the last Tuesday of January - all the shops usually stay closed next day - so you can sleep all day. Schools are shut, and Lerwick is dead to the world.
This year I decided to join in again - and I really enjoyed it.

Why is it different? Well for a start no one takes their partner with them. The women tend to be in the Hall ( there are about 12 halls open for guizers) and the men visit the hall. they arrive in a bus or truck and come in to entertain the folk in the hall. They might do a funny sketch, a political skit or a dance. Then the band plays a dance of their choice and we have a dance. And then another squad comes in. Did I mention you can have supper - soup, bannocks, tea etc ALL through the night? and if you know the host and hostess of the hall ( the enthusiastic people who organise the event) you will be invited for a dram too. what could possibly go wrong? if you get fed up the next squad are waiting at the door. Fresh men. in every sense. and as I mentioned no one has their partner so everyone dances wi everyone else, its fine. My mum warned me before I went to my first Up Helly Aa - no not about men or loose morals - nothing of the sort - she said:
'NEVER refuse a guizer a dance. and if he askes you for supper - YOU GO' apparently its an unwritten rule.