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Anybody use Open Office from openoffice.org? Or are you all slaves to Microsofts MS Office ?

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Yeah - theres a nice Chinese restaraunt along Slateford Road in Edinburgh called I-Ching. They serve these small crabs (what I think is like the small green crabs in Shetland?) in this light batter. They're about maybe five inches wide small crabs .. and they're very soft and tender .. and you munch away on them quite the thing! They are totally whole ... shell, legs, eyes, claws, the whole she-bang...! Never had crab like that before ... but do you know, I like it

Yes - this is a problem! The forum board is set to GMT - though some people (those that registered early on) need to go into their profiles and choose GMT too before their posts will display the correct time. Hope this helps. trout

Any one of the Brig O' Fitches! Not that I can mind what was on at any of them - but whit a great fun rumbling around the park and hill!!

Yes I like the sounds of this ! Quite partial to a scoot around Glentress at Peebles - their three tier experience trails are excellent depending on how challenging you want to go. Yes - the hill could quite easily be transformed for an absolute pittance i.e. widen some sheeps gaits! - and would be an excellent attraction too in the summer?

Yes I agree with your point Njugle - I'm probably just considering people that I know that are all around the same age group.

Platonic relationships ay? Hmm ...? People think that they are possible .. but I reckon that theres always one of the two in the relationship that "would if they could"! if you get my drift?

Sitting in an Internet Cafe in Chiang Mai, Thailand, MSN'ing my girlfriends big brother to get the email address of a mutual friend we knew was somewhere in South East Asia around that same time? Note SE Asia - not Thailand! Plugging away at the keyboard I got one of those moments on the periphery of your vision when you know someone is looking at you. I continued to plug away at the keyboard, still with this feeling that someone was staring at me, thinking "Whit ir day glowerin at?" - when all of a sudden...... ... "Boyyee .. is yun de??", I turn around .. and there she was ... the very person I was trying to get in contact with !! Plus we'd only gone to that particular cafe that night as the one we normally went to had network connection problems! Chance in a million! So we all spent the rest of the evening getting very very drunk!

Yes, when living in Aberdeen I found this strange phenomena quite perplexing. People that wouldn't even give you the time of day in Shetland would almost get run over making a bee-line across Union Street "tae hae a yarn"!

The Daily Mail version, you mean The sent in an email version

This is my "Hmm" point. You can make many connections about why such and such a bit "ooohh is just like me" if you are so inclined!

Aries. Not sure - I don't believe any of the guff in the newspapers columns ... but there is a half-truth or two in birth charts and the like here and there, yes. Hmm

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Trouts on ebay? ahh .. touts! phew. I had two days off work last year - and sat for nearly two hours on the phone and laptop until I got two weekend passes. Chuffed as mince that I did that after whats gone on with tickets this weekend ... and whos playing this year !! The Who!! Excellent *said like Monty Burns*

Importantly you need fresh fresh squid. Clean it up and cut the body into half-finger thick tubes. Dip in your batter (flour, milk and a little salty butter) Then put in an exceptionally hot oil (deep fat fryer as good as anything) and leave it there until looks fryed and no more than 1 minute! Often rubberyness is a cause of cooking too long - hence the flash fry minute job only. You can do the above for the tentacles - though they are by their very nature quite rubbery anyway.

Speaking of flash frying things - squid! Mmm. Now thats something else when fried in super charged oil for a minute and no more. MmmM. You know - I'm grateful our ancestors just salted everything and didn't bury it for months on end like the Icelanders do! Ever tried that congealed rotting shark flesh they call a delicacy? Lord !! 8O

CLASSIC VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. THE END. THE BRITISH VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. So far, so good, eh? The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like him, are cold and starving. The BBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the ant in his comfortable warm home in Hampstead with a table laden with food. The British are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty. The Liberal Party, the Respect Party, the Transvestites With Starving Babies Party, the Single Lesbian One Eyed Mothers Party and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate in front of the ant's house. The BBC, interrupting a Rastafarian cultural festival special from Grimsby with breaking news, broadcasts them singing "We Shall Overcome." Ken Livingstone laments in an interview with Panorama that the ant has got rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share". In response, the Labour Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant's taxes are reassessed, and he is also fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as helpers. Without enough money to pay the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by Camden Council. The ant moves to France, and starts a successful AgriBiz company [funded by the EU] (although within weeks, his business is threatened with Compulsory purchase by the state unless he marries a French ant). The BBC later shows the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last of the ant's food, though Spring is still months away, while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to maintain it. Inadequate government funding is blamed, Diane Abbot is appointed to head a commission of enquiry that will cost £10,000,000. The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the Guardian blames it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity. The abandoned house is taken over by a Gang of immigrant spiders, praised by the government for enriching Britain's multicultural diversity, who promptly set up a marijuana growing Operations and terrorize the community. THE END

Something that bugs me is people that think fresh fish is frozen block fillets - !! THAT IS NOT FRESH FISH!!

I have always considered greenday as absolute shi*e! I've nearly been off the road before lunging at the radio to change station when they've come on!! Though Coldplay have sold themselves out .. I at least don't go off the road when they come on!

Not when the large corporations are having to either jump ship or bandy together for financial support down south. Check out Virgin to UGC to French owned Cineworld in the last five years!

I like all fish really thinking about it! Though will turn up my nose at boiled Ollicks - not entirely partial to Ollicks - but they're the most fun fish to catch! Will eat prawns, crayfish, crab, mussels etc. Never tried spoots, so can't comment on them - Tuna, Haddock, Smoked Mackeral is the three main fish fed upon - with sat Pilticks now through the winter. Will eat smoked salmon - "the raw" smoked kind - not the cooked. I can't stand salmon to be honest. Everytime I look at or smell it I'm associated with the divers pulling up the dead ones out the bottom of the cages. That is one powerfully awful association - and I can't break it - so am resounded never to eat salmon! Yep - you're most likely eating haddock in your fish supper - if its more "glassy" flesh you're chompin on whiting / cod.

To be honest, I don't actually mind them Though agree that their latest stuff seems to all be a bit samey.

The simplest would be to stop drinking! Not trying to be feaceatious ... but this is the best way to get rid of it! Go swimming also! I stopped drinking after the new year for 5 weeks and went swimming three times a week. Lost 1 stone and a 1/2 in that time.

Theres not much surfing in Shetland - nor is there many sharks interested in man! Duffer79 - try down of Sumburgh Head. Lots of Porbeagle down around them thar parts.