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I'm told that the Freeview has pretty much been on all day in Scalloway area.

Yun's really very funny, very funny indeed.

Are you suggesting that as a technique to try mhutch? Not sure of your point.

^It's an interesting point NM. I've added a poll, with a third option, for those who object to the whole idea.

Yuns the best thing I've seen in a long while.

Ahaa, but Scalloway has sea cadets and potential officers aplenty, all that is needed is to place them in the fishing fleet and........... oh. buggur.

^ Not so. It would be only a short time before Scalloway raised its militia and invaded Skerries, to claim the oil wealth and aquaculture prosperity, ensuring the future of education and services on the west coast.

I'm joost amazed dat day can write a diss on da neb o a duke. Mawst be a braa peerie pen and a braaly tame duke.

Croftygair, the latest ones that Hjaltland fit have insulated ducting, which prevent any condensation in the pipes. Have a look at Titon HRV systems.

Many of the new Hjaltland houses have systems of this type installed. That's not really the answer you are after, but Hjaltland would seem to be convinced that there is merit in the expense of fitting them. There does seem to be a lot of variation in cost, technology and effectiveness. The better systems do claim very cheap running costs, but how much benefit you gain from them I'm not entirely sure (and am also keen to find out, particularly when retro-fitted to an older house).

At least much as posting on an anonymous internet forum, generally more I'd imagine. Perhaps not the melodrama that take place in the council chamber, but more direct benefit to a local area. The significant difference between Shetlink and a community council being that community councils are known to be targeted by every government and non-government organisation, quango and the like as an outlet for their information. Knowledge is useful, speculation is a hobby.

Cutbacks Norway still sends one the same size, but the council chops a bit off to remind us that even Christmas must suffer from the arbitrary, on the hoof, cutback decisions they see as necessary. Perhaps they are selling the extra bit. Or maybe the more business minded among them have realised the benefits their own hearths could make from a nice big log.

Hmm, let's just go easy here please, I'm not sure our T&Cs specifically cover negative comments on businesses. Something I would say, though, is that while I more often go to Buildbase for building materials, I have never found the staff at LBCs downstairs desk, the boys in the wood store, or the office staff in the portacabin (pricing) to be anything less that gracious, attentive and obliging. Though I've never used the showrooms, to be honest, or not in recent years anyway.

Well I never. A happy accident then that in northern Europe a pom-pom moving around on your toorie shakes/brushes the snow off as well as the flies.

Flies? Off the top of your wool covered head? @ Twerto, yup, it's the conclusion I've come to, makes perfect sense and if I ever sign up for wikipedia it's the first post I will make.

Were pom-poms on toories invented to keep the snow off?

daveh, check the pipe from the extractor fan too, if possible. If it is uninsulated water will condense inside it and the gathering water can cause a u-bend effect that will stop it from extracting anything. Most fans are fairly ineffectual at the best of times though, many are under-rated, especially if DIY fitted. @beachcaster - get deesell some mud mats. (JB's Autostore). Tip them out every couple of days, job done. Du'll never look back. I ken I will never settle for anything less noo. Not dear either. I've even dropped a cup of takeaway coffee in mine and still had a dry carpet.

When was that then? I should of course say that we should avoid any personal attacks here. A terrible day for Scalloway, the end result of a faux-consultation that could only profess to offer the absence of disbenefits educationally, and tenuous financial savings from the loss of a truly excellent, and proven to be so, school department. The use of emotive nonsense that to save Scalloway would "cost every bairn in Shetland £200 of education", or all-but remove the operational budget, are moot at best in an outcome that also includes the much deflected-from hub model that will cost all the children of shetland £3,000,000 by their own contrived measuring standard. @lerwicklad. It is not fair to say there is anything wrong with the education provided at the AHS, and no-one should claim there is. It is just an entirely different school experience and one that, by the council's own standards, is not suitable, hence the need for a new building. Scalloway not only offers good educational standards and opportunities in a fantastic building, but cross-class interaction, continuity, community focused activities, tailored vocational links and a range of other things impossible in a larger, more distant school. That is what is to be lost. The Curriculum for Excellence incarnate. Being a veteran of the AHS, I can speak highly of it, but I can't hold hand on heart and say I was better off there, holistically, than I would have been in Scalloway Secondary. This is only the beginning though, the educational standard so proudly upheld in Shetland is set to fall, one motion at a time. I hope I am proved wrong in this. Scalloway has been cherry-picked because of its proximity to Lerwick. A soft target, and a grand gesture in the eyes of the world. Consolidation of primary schools is next and then they will outline the failings in the JH model at the remaining JHs and make further changes. Rural Shetland will be undermined, waiting lists for town dwelling will grow and the schooling that has attracted so many families to remain, and many to relocate to, rural Shetland will no longer offer the same attraction. Rural mainland Shetland is, of course, after all just a suburb of Lerwick, 40 mins drive tops, on a fine day. Education is about national standards not tailored solutions and Shetland is not unique, just another region of Scotland. I wonder what Dodie-Willy Blance, A I Tulloch and the rest would have made of all this.

as, if you type the word abortion into the search box (top right) then the thread titled "Abortion" appears as the second result. Easy peasy.

Try K-meleon? http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ I use a similar Mac equivalent (Camino) and don't have patience for anything else now. Lightweight, no snooping, various other great features on Camino, perhaps on K-meleon too. If so , highly recommend.

Yes, yes and yes. If you are off the ferry smartish you'll get one without waiting or booking, but best to book for ease of travel. The only number I seem to have saved in my mobile is for Dyce Cabs, can't remember why, but give it a go if you like. :01224713030

Think someone asked that on here already and the answer was yes. As regards film diversity, with two dedicated cinemas in the same building, it seems likely that a bit of variety will be available.

Shape-ups, heh heh heh.

What vegetables?

Snowy Owls are a miss since they stopped coming, boanny things, but Ospreys feeding in Sand Water for twartree days were braaly impressive. Think that was last year.