“Our post-Second World War, baby-boom generation came into a world changed beyond all recognition. The war had taken my father’s generation away from their crofts and factories and sent them all around the world to defend democracy. They came back very different people… By the late 1960s, I had changed, as had my Shetland homeland. Oil was being discovered, bringing with it great economic progress and corresponding social reorganisation. The differences between Shetland and Scotland gradually blurred and became similarities. We had become very Scottish indeed.”