"We loved Shetland, and we had a cottage here. Circumstance led us into jobs [in Shetland] and we thought, let’s go home and have a go," he explains.
Although the couple were delighted to be in Shetland, personal loss and the impact of Covid marred the tranquillity of the new life they’d planned.
Billy recalls: “We moved back to Shetland for a quieter life. But when we arrived here, we found we needed to extend our cottage and make it slightly bigger [..] and anybody who's ever done any kind of building work anywhere will know that it's pretty stressful.
Life was soon to become even more unsettled. “My dad was ill and then he died. And then Covid took my mum. So, it was actually a pretty full-on period of our life.”