Vik

That's a real good start lol. The other issue is the limit a person has on the number of items they wanna sell or want etc. How does this work?>

My apologies clicking the X works but if you have been on Shetlink for a while this is an onerous task to keep going into something live to pick up your last listing then go to "see all adds by old fart or ?" and then click the X Can we not just phase them out & off the site after a month or so???

Thanks but it ain't so. If you mark an item as sold, it still sits there on "See all things by Shuggle or Big Dong" etc Whats the limit on listing stuff & why? I understand if Westside Pine or The Bargain Centre were to use Shetlink but why a limit for ordinary folk clearing out junk or the shad????????

There appears to be a restriction on the amount of items you can list on Shetlink but I canna find anything on the number or frequency etc. Also is it a good idea that all the things you have aver listed be they sold or not as the case may be & all your wanted's etc remain on the site for ever? I get calls & e-mails for stuff I listed years ago & its a nuisance. If you click on "all ads by shuggle or big dong etc" you will see everything ever listed back to the dark ages. Why? if its sold - so be it! if it hasna - stick it on again or put it on ebay which is easier sometimes. Ask a question & silence or mumbo jumbo! I am willing to make a Pay Pal donation but only if the question is answered or the reason makes sense! Over to you Shetlink. (***Mod Edit - Merged to one of the existing threads on the Classified section and renamed the thread to a more suitable subject***)

Davie has done his best but I really beleive the Mumfords have cocked up! Its the fans that have put them where they are and to snub so many in Shetland, Orkney & the Western Isles by doing such tiny gigs is daft. Folk on the mainland have so many opportunities to jump on a bus or train & if a gig sells out they can zip along to the next one & so on but up here its important to accomodate as many fans as possible. If they are keen to do small venues why not come for a few days & do a few? Its not just dissabled folk who might have had problems, its all the folk in Yell, Fetlar etc, folk working nights at the hospital and so on. Good on yer the lucky ones but its a lost opportunity to share their music with their fans, who buy their DC's.

Just the normal ripple effect when TESCO, ASDA etc come to a toon near you! Lots of choice, mostly crap especially electrical (no garantee it works, tools that canna take a screw out, chairs that fall doon when you sit on them but hey folks its cheap so has to better than local. This thing about choice is a lie. TESCO & ASDA cut the price in an area to close the opposition down and then put their prices up as they command the retail arena. Clives & several other locally avoided shops may well go under but at the end of the day if all there was was TESCO, choice would be reduced by more than any one person could imagine. I am proud to not shop at TESCO for all the reasons TESCO are bad for but realise its down to choice. However if folk in Shetland want choice they must also use the Co-op and all the small local shops in toon or in the rural places if they want a choice. TESCO are a retailing monster that kill farmers, factory's, local shops, choice and regional culture. Get your buy one free but be aware of what comes if you shop only at TESCO;.

It's great news da SIC wanna fin oot da views of Magnie, Bennie, Billy, Titty or Joe Public but what effort or point is there in this? Ders been mony instances whaar da SIC (the elected bit) ha been aware of tings, conflict, anger and aa da rest & ploughed on lik a train wioot a driver. Der arrogant attitude "we elected them so they can do whatever they like untill the next election) is a disease of democracy equal to terminal cancer. Issues dat cost the public purse, threaten or change tings sud be put to aa da folk afor da cooncil deliberate. Democracy is a very special thing and our elected members local or national should not take it for granted as they have been doin.

That's my current thinking and French beans are everywhere this year

Thanks everyone - still no wiser as they are grown in a block but there isn't anything with pollen on just 6 - 8 feet of healthy stalks & leaves. It does get hot but both ends open & sweetcorn last year under simmilar conditions was fine???

They are massive but no sign of any threads or anything other than big healthy leaves all the way up? Thanks anyway

Anyone know why pollytunnel grown sweetcorn is growing 7 - 8 feet tall but with no cobs forming? Thanks Vic

Bloody hell Bryan you must have an awesomely vivid imagination to see such awesomeness in a dark, gray, gloomy & subterranean hole!

How is that TESCO can do anything they want with the planning system and the rest of us wanting to build owt have to run round in never ending circles even when we only want to build what our planning application permits???? Perhaps that's where the SIC got all the spare dosh to give to DC

Oh if were only as simple as the supermarket stack it up & sell it cheap! Trouble is this eventually leads to less competition as they then start to sell you what they want you to buy. lots of villages in the UK have lost much and in some cases all their local high street shops for an out of town TESCO, ASDA etc. The logic of only shopping at the cheapest without some knowledge of how they do their business & the global ruin they cause - to bring you your cheap stuff is sad. However you may reflect on this one day when your company or employer tells you your job is finished as they can get your work done on the Internet in India cheaper. TESCO may bring a lot of satisfaction to a lot of selfish folk who canna see the end of their nose but eventually we will all suffer the loss of several or many small local outlets, then it will be too late to complain. If you are a fan of TESCO google TESCOPOLY and see what you are supporting, hide your head in the sand like an ostrich which has a pea size brain and watch Lerwick fade away to boarded up windows & more charity shops. Bye the way if you open your eyes TESCO sell a lot of stuff dearer than the Co-op & some local shops. They often get nicked doon sooth for opening packets of out of date ham & other stuff & sell it as fresh. Grow your own, buy local & support local producers or end up like thousands of small communities in the UK with only a TESCO to shop at.

Sorry to bore you Brian perhaps you should start a new topic or have an early night. Toodle pip

Interesting all this cus a few SIC worker pals of mine all tell me that you don't have to be drunk to be dismissed as even smelling of it at work will get you a P45, this aparently even covers going in on a day off hoochin of drink. If this is correct and the muckle neep didn't get his marching orders for being in breach of a fairly widely accepted breach of contract, this makes our beloved SIC negligent in their employer role - or some SIC employees get a finger wagging for smelling of drink whilst others get the boot? How does this work. Seems to me our elected numpty's and or the official upholders of the rules are also negligent and should themselves be taken to task. Following on from this, if the muckle neep gets a 6 figure handshake shouldn't the elected members cough up as they were / are in breach of doing the correct thing by not sacking him in the first place.

is there anyone out there versed in employment law that can answer why the SIC can't just sack the neep rather than give him a pile of our money????

Mass demonstration at the last council elections brought about what we have now. I thought when I voted last time we would get some improvement but look at the mess. Funny thing is I have done my local & national voting duties for the last 40 years and I feel it always gets slightly worse. In a local context though we seem to have floundered heavily in the seas of poor governance particularly the last 2 sessions

Anyone fancy a mass demonstration at the next full councill meeting to tell em the Shetland public is not happy to be tarnished by their ability to run things decently?

Before David Clark washed up on these shores like the piece of flotsome he has turned out to be, I was of the opinion that we had the worse SIC on record. The past bunch of elected members dumped a really potentially good new Cheif Exec (Nick Riter) for what still appears to be nothing, this lot however have really shown us their crass ineptitude by allowing David Clark to rumble on, dragging Shetland onto the front page of one of the worlds most depraved & nausiating newspapers. If only half of what we hear & read about in our own local media is correct then that should have been enough to invoke his suspended pending a proper investigation & not by any of the present elected individuals with 1 or 2 exceptions who appear not to know what a vested interest is or what is proper & acceptable behaviour. As things stand at the moment he should be sacked imediatly and the elected members investigated for permitting this man to damage Shetland in such an unacceptable manner.

The present debate on climate change & global warming is so packed with flawed science, discredited experts, corporate & global vested interests and riddled with bull...t from both sides that it’s no wonder folk either don't believe it, don't know what to do or don't care. The real issue here is that climate change is part of the earth's natural cycle and has occurred since the dawn of time & will continue to happen until the earth or life on it ceases to exist. Whilst it is perfectly reasonable to accept human activity is contributing a small element to the normal & natural climate changes being experienced, the global climate change panic & hot air being created by the politicians & world media does nothing to alter the greedy, unsustainable and destructive actions & behaviour of the human race. Ever since the industrial revolution the human race has been gearing up to the destruction of the planet and mirroring the stupidity of the natives of Easter Island who signed their own death warrants long before the idiots chopped down the last tree. The people behind drilling for oil, cutting the forests down, polluting the seas, digging huge holes in the ground, poisoning the air & going to war to protect their interests do so for greed & power. Adopting all the so called carbon reduction initiatives will not make one jot of difference in the long term as long as the system of governance allows, encourages and rewards greed & power, the human race is doomed. We do not need global climate change to focus on our unsustainable presence on this planet, we actually need to seriously rethink how we live & manage the remaining finite resources that the earth offers. I see no real appetite for this especially now in the dying throws of xmas which is the most perfect example of the most wasteful consumer orientated buying frenzy event on the planet. It matters not if you are a Christian or not, Christmas is a depraved orgy of waste. This festival of gross excess, year on year has become the biggest con trick that the "buy more of everything even when you don't need it brigade" have ever achieved. Thank goodness that there are some folk around that see winter solstice 21st December as a time to reflect, give thanks for the love, kindness & friendship shown to us & hope that things might be better in the new year for all the starving, homeless & frightened people of the planet. I also give thanks that I saw the light and do not have to take part in this festival of buying things people don’t want, over indulging in tons of food - a lot of which gets dumped and sending cards just because someone sent you one.

Never for one minute refered to the workforce who were & are doing a great job. I was refering to senior management. Cheers

Interesting exchange going on here. I always thought it best if related to someone in the limelight of any public debate to keep quiet, anyway I worked there for a while & can only add that the management style there then was a tad dictatorial bordering on bullying but I guess I am biased because I didn't particularly like the management style and hear it ain't much diferent now.

On the basis that smaller turbines turn in the wind far more often than the big ones - yep. Been comparing mine with the big 5 on a daily basis for over a year & its a fairly significant difference particularly in the higher wind speeds. The larger machines cannot feather out anywhere near as much in higher wind speeds & shut down whilst the smaller turbines continue to work - that's more efficient in my books. Interestingly I was told the other day that 3 small 750 watt wind turbines are more efficient in producing usable electricity than one 2.5 KW turbine. 3 of these turbines would certainly be a lot cheaper to buy, install & maintain than a 2.5 KW so you have to take the unit price, installation, maintenance & service costs into the equation.

Small turbines can start producing useable electricity before the much larger machines is evidenced by the fact that they start spinning well before the larger ones. That they still continue to produce good levels of electricity well after the larger ones have to shut down due to the stress levels on the larger machines is more fact than theory so I appologise for using the term theory. A graph for the performance of all the Proven turbines is available on their web site but you cannot find any info on the Vestas site or elsewhere. The computer models for performance predictions of small turbines is so inaccurate as a result of local variations that the predictions of large scale turbines is pure guesswork at best. As this isn't about windpower at all but how a few people can make a lot of money, this debate is as much a waste of time as the planning process.