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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!!

Mountain bike track across the back o' clickimin?

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!

I met a Scallowa man (don't know his name) in an underground aquarium in Shanghai. We just nodded and said hi-aye.

 

I hate the whole 'Union Street Syndrome' in which fellow Shetlanders feel the need to stop and talk to me in Aberdeen, even if I haven't spoken to them in Shetland. Luckily, Aberdeen seems to be the only place where that's a problem

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 BRITISH VERSION:

 

 

The Daily Mail version, you mean

The sent in an email version

viewpoint/mood/footwear at the time of reading.

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

Unfortunately this appears to be what happens with phpBB when you log out and then back in

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.

The real problem is the cost of the actual cable and the laying of cable which is in excess of a hundred million pounds and that is just to transport electricity to the northern tip of Scotland. You then have to add on the cost of providing a cable that takes the electricity to the central belt where it is actually needed!

Hello GK.

The beauty in all this would surely be that the SE and or EU would be paying for it - especially if it'll keep Scotlands economic power house, the central belt, in lightbulbs!

The government at present is considering the future of our energy consumption - and its looking ever nearer that we are going to have a half-dozen (at least) nuclear power stations planted around the UK.

What with a power connector to the mainland from Shetland - would Shetland not be in a powerful position to have one of the stations situated here?

Not everyones cup of tea - not entirely sure if its mine! But imagine if one were - it'd be a whole new age industry on Shetlands doorstep and a massive employer for the next half century!

Have there been any figures bandied as to what size (load) of cable is being laid?