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While the barge is an eyesore and yes it is fairly large my personal opinion is that most people are forgetting many things. one being the money that the men in those places are spending in local shops! you just have to look at the money that goes over bars to see that it is benefiting shetlands economy. the reason they are here has allowed many people employment that otherwise would have been unemployed. and if they really want to put fairy lights on the barge then so what? the lads are away from home and a lot will be missing children and wives over the christmas period.... 
so just a thought but spare a moment to think about them while your tucking into your christmas dinner and opening presents with family. 
 
oh and stop your whinin! people complain that local shops are being closed because there is no money coming in and chain stores are taking their trade. well now all local shops and bars have the privilege of making the most of the gas plant men.
Also i have sat and listened to people goin on about how dead the town is on a weekend but now that their are people going out then the complaint is that its too busy?!! i mean WHAT? make your minds up. or is it just that you need summat to whine about or your day is not complete?

"Lerwick" owes its very existence, and "success"? to "shipping" in any and all of its various forms. The minute "Lerwick" starts to get too fussy about what "shipping" it will handle and where in the Muddy Bay it is "acceptable" for it to be seen, is the day "Lerwick" starts killing off the goose that lays the golden egg.

I'm of the opinion the LPA have a God given right to do what the fuk they want! To hell with anybody or any institution in their path.
 
Let's roll back to 1877 when an Act of UK Parliament was passed to give the "Lerwick Harbour Trust" the ability to 'act' as an independent statutory body and be governed through it's own legislation.
 
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Let's not forget the barges are there for a reason. They house workers for the furtherance and development of Sullom Voe.
 
Berths and income obtained within LPA's environ enable them to further develop "Lerwick" and all the secondary and tertiary businesses that can flourish because of them. Sitting trüteling about any short term change or even simple aesthetics of what is effectively an industrial site misses the entire point of life on Shetland, no?
 
Let's be honest --- Shetland isn't this dream nonsense Up Helly Aa Viking 'n lovely spring lambs jumping through heather nonsense dreamed up. These things have their place but, seriously [...] further Friday night ranting deleted [...]
 

This Bristow Sikorsky S92 at Sumburgh today comes to be the 200th  S92  delivered to Bristow earlier this month so is bran spanking new, air freighted from the US. Bristow S92 G-GALC  :-
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7359/9784725223_67a054e5e2_c.jpgS92 G-GALC IMG_9073 by Ronnierob, on Flickr

Would you believe the reg is in honor of the latest royal... George Alexander Louis Cambridge!