^Jings, that cheers me up

https://myshetland.co.uk/trundling-at-speed/ Help!

You can borrow my tin hat if you want...  It's a bit thicker than most, and covers bits that others cannot reach.. 

https://www.rarebreeds.co.nz/endcattlepro.html This an interesting story with a possible Shetland connection, there is a story that when a Shetland family emigrated to New Zealand in the 1800's, they also took with them their small flock of Shetland kye. Has anyone heard of, or maybe be related to this family that knows the story?

LK is essentially a stagnant puddle of surface run off, mostly off peat, it can be made 'clean' with the addition of chemicals and artificial filteration, but its never going to make it exactly the same as naturally filtered and purified water from a good spring, which is often exposed to lower temps, various minerals, reduced oxygen etc for much longer periods.

The truth is our country shops and wholesalers are struggling to compete with supermarket prices and I would bet that any "add ons " in the country shops are probably well justified with extra delivery charges. Why would any shop owner in the face of strong competition charge more than they have to and chase away there customers. Just take an assistants wages ,say £300 they would probably have to take in about £1500 to cover that plus all the other overheads ,electic ,heating ,phones ,insur

Post from an article i read recently. The question of how quickly Autonomous vehicles will establish market dominance is difficult, and a range of opinions have been offered. A number of car companies have predicted the fully autonomous vehicles will be on the market within the next 5-10 years - this includes Audi in 2017 (Torr, 2014), Ford in 2020 (Su, 2015), Nissan in 2020 (Nissan, 2013) and Tesla in 2023 (Kaufman, 2014). Google is probably most most advanced, and they plan to have a driv

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Rearo are still going strong. I had cause to phone them a few months back to see if they would accept back a gas cylinder I had got from them 25 years ago. They said the only way to get rid of old gas cylinder was to return them to their depot as the SIC won't accept them at the dump.

The actual report (http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/document/600029328) is very critical of the application: ++++++++ The application follows limited pre-application discussions from May 2020. Outline information about the proposals was received as part of a consultation in May. HES provided advice in a letter (dated 29 May 2020) which set out relevant policy background and processes, what information would be needed to assess the relevant applications and a preliminary view on t