Isle of Skye

Donnie's Tablet Shed

A purple honesty-box shed at the end of the road in Geary, filled every day with homemade Scottish tablet.

Welcome

The single-track road through Waternish runs out at Geary, past crofts and open hillside with the sea loch below, and right at the end of it, by a turning circle, stands a small purple shed by a fence.

Open the door and the shelves are stacked with bags and bars of homemade Scottish tablet, tied with tartan ribbon, ready to take away.

Tablet is the old Scottish sweet of sugar and butter, often with milk, boiled until it sets firm and crisp enough to cut into squares, harder and grainier than fudge. Donnie makes it by the batch, plain and flavoured, and the shed runs on trust: take what you want and leave the money in the box. The drive out is part of the pleasure, with wide views over the water, and it makes a sweet end to a day on the peninsula after Trumpan and the Stein Inn.

Before you go

The shed is at the gate of Creagach Cottage, at the very end of the road through Geary on Waternish, beside the turning circle.

Address: Creagach Cottage, 34 Geary, IV55 8GQ.
Also here: The Geary croft boxes along the road sell homemade cakes, preserves and chilli jam.
The big shed: A larger shed of Scottish food and crafts opens on pop-up days, or by arrangement.

Opening hours

Their website

Monday: Open all day and night
Tuesday: Open all day and night
Wednesday: Open all day and night
Thursday: Open all day and night
Friday: Open all day and night
Saturday: Open all day and night
Sunday: Open all day and night

Did you know

Packets of homemade Scottish tablet tied with tartan ribbon fill the shelves of Donnie's Tablet Shed.

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Filled every day.

The shed is restocked every day with freshly made tablet, in bags and in bars.

Did you know

Llamas next door.

The neighbouring croft is an animal refuge, and while you choose your tablet you may be watched by hens, geese, llamas and Highland cows.

A purple wooden honesty box stocked with sweets stands open beside potted flowers and a fence.

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Three sea eagles.

Three white-tailed sea eagles live round about, and dolphins are often seen in the loch below.

Stacked bags of homemade Scottish tablet from Donnie's Tablet Shed carry a 'Great Taste' award sticker.

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Tablet by post from the edge of the world.

It can feel like the edge of the world out here, but the shed posts its tablet worldwide from Skye.

Bags of homemade Scottish tablet tied with tartan bows are labelled 'Donnie's Tablet Shed' on a shelf.

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Tablet in 1736.

Tablet is an old Scottish sweet: in 1736 Mrs McLintock's recipe book gave a recipe for orange tablets, boiled sugar poured onto buttered paper and cut into little pieces.

Ben Lerwill

From our guide to Skye

This bright pink roadside ‘shed’ – it’s barely three foot high – on the Waternish Peninsula is stocked with homemade tablet (which is, for the uninitiated, a kind of sugary confection somewhere between hard candy and fudge) and an honesty box. As local as shopping gets.

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