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Interesting question and answer session on the subject of Osama Bin Laden, Al Quaeda and the Taliban laid on by the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/03/osama-bin-laden-al-qaida

Try organising an event for 16+s with a bar in your local area. That tends to bring them out.

I found a small slab oot by Burrastow the other week. Thought it might be ambergris. Ignoring the absence of smell and flattish shape, I carried it all the way home before accepting my disappointment. It's still sitting on top of the bread bin, awaiting disposal.

Depends who is paying the money.

The posts should appear in the section on the home page Depooperit.

Either the Trondra Hall or Scalloway Mothers and toddlers have one, if I recall correctly.

Now that you say that it rings a bell with what I heard on Radio Shetland tonight, but I think that was an advert for the college open evening tomorrow (Wednesday) rather than anything else.

Though a splendid piece of work, that is what was wrong we dat Shetland Dictionary. I doot it's time tae split diss thread.

Right. I'm familiar with 'tystie' - Black Guillemot, and get 'sea-craa' as Razorbill, although I'm not familar with it. So what sort of Guillemot was 'baukie' in your area? A specific variety, or any sort of Guillemot that didn't have another name? Common Guillemot http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/g/guillemot/index.aspx As far as I'm aware there are only two types of guillemot, tystie and baukie, while there are several other auks, each with their own specific local names.

Baukies, we a slight "ch" soond on da k. No sure how tae properly write it phonetically! Edit - and dirs a rumour o a tirrick back da day! Edit 2 - And tysties are definitely black guillemots.

Drawing fae a fairly strong Ness connection, Baukies were specifically Guillemots, Sea-Craa's were Razorbills. I'm heard dat aa me life.

Logically, if you were travelling at exactly the speed of light there'd be a build up of energy around the filaments of the bulbs, probably fusing the bulb.

Would you care to elaborate on any of those statements Parahandy? You may have a valid point to make, but the way you are making it doesn't coma across well, especially the first sentence which I'd ask you, as a moderator, to consider changing.

Very true. Devolved responsibility. Consultants, in a local government context, are often used as a powerful and useful tool to achieve a pre-determined end. I know of one consultant who was asked to provide an outcome for a local authority and did so, upon which the same authority returned the report and asked them to expand and embellish upon their professional findings. Upon doing so and releasing the results, the media went to town on the report and the authority stepped away from it entirely. The consultant served as a tool to not only provide the basic result the authority wanted, but also to make the authority look like the 'voice of reason' in the outcome. You couldn't make it up. The new authority "consultant" is of course the "public consultation", where input from the public is used to plan around any potential difficulties in achieving a pre-determined goal, and appease the public in doing so. False democracy at it's sleaziest. Call me cynical. Mrs Laurenson may well be an expert in her field, but I'd rather hear specifically what it is that they have engaged her to achieve. Maybe they have and I've just missed it.

This was always meant to be one of the key principles Shetlink would uphold. It is a great thing that it has endured. And a great thing for someone to still see that and comment on it.

When I first went to school, children were beaten with straps or canes for errant behaviour. Times, and standards, have changed. The point I was making was, of course, that Scalloway's communal areas were bright modern functional parts of the main building, not an afterthought.

As a measure of the level of care and forethought that is going into this cost cutting era, the Scalloway secondary bairns were recently shown around their new home at the AHS, and while the staff could not have been more friendly and helpful, there was more than a little despondency when the bairns were shown the "new social areas", which were, realistically, portacabins with benches.

Doh!

Damn straight, I even had time to edit mine.

It sits there until they recipient reads it. (or is it vice versa, I forget!) One is read, the other in unread.

Don't think anyone was TTP-ing Malcolm. Sorry if you thought that. It is right to be aware about them and warn others. It's just not as common here as in the Highlands, for instance. I, for one, was just passing on personal experience.

I've never seen a burrowing tick in Shetland and that's in a lifetime of playing, walking, lying and sometimes even sleeping in the hills. If they've not got me yet, I don't think they're a problem here.

Only place I've seen natural stones (as opposed to OS Trig points) used as route markers is between Ruhr Water and Lang Clodie( North of Ronas Hill). Most of the rest of them are fishing meads or suchlike. Some may have been onshore meads, but in such a small landmass, there is little to know, other than where the top of the hill is. Others might have more info though?

Well, the periodical lunches (on expenses) at the museum restaurant may help.

Damn scam spam. Perhaps we should give it the old "wham bam".