GENERAL practitioner, malariologist, ethnologist, kayaker, pirate, musician, artist, writer, craftsman, local historian, house builder, scholar, community activist and storyteller extraordinaire… Mike McDonnell was all these things and more. Polymath is probably the right.
A DEMENTIA-friendly sea shanty group is starting in Shetland next month. The Shalder Shanty Crew will meet weekly in Scalloway - but you do not need to be a singer, or have a diagnosis of dementia, to join in. Behind the project is professional storyteller and self-proclaimed.