Isabel and Martin Johnson are excellent Shetland hosts. During my last visit to Lerwick, we had breakfast in the garden; by 11 am, the thermometer was registering an astonishing 34C, almost unheard of in the month of May. But what made this breakfast outside in the garden with a view over to the island of Bressay, was the bannocks. Isabel’s recipe, from her home town of Vidlin in the north east of the mainland, is usually made by
