GT

n'effin naff NEFF agents

Of course, this is so much better when it is elsewhere..

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii294/Geotours/f98c2128-04c9-4e78-a961-a01ff5decce5_zpse3152d48.jpg

Hi

 

Does anyone know of anywhere in Shetland that sells big rolls of bubble wrap? I'm moving house and need some for wrapping ornaments etc.

 

I've tried Hays and LBC, who both said they had none but were sure there was someone who did sell it. Any ideas?

 

Many thanks for any advice.

Post Office

Septic tanks shoulds be de-sludged every two years

see http://www.scottishwater.co.uk/you-and-your-home/septic-tank-emptying/your-questions-answered

Fuel to go up in budget

Fair Fuel Poll here

http://www.fairfueluk.com/index.html

I booked a flight today for june - no problem.

Really p'd off by Tesco - I had 50p each way on Quarterpounder at the 3.30 at Kempton and it was withdrawn!

SHERGAR FOUND

You can find him here:

Tesco Own Brand

Frozen Food Section

Aisle One

Tesco Supermarket

Lerwick

Shetland

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The bright spark that allowed the thistle on the national tourist signposts was the SIC because at the time it was the emblem of the Scottish Tourist Board (now Visit Scotland) which is a government department and like it or not we are part of Scotland as far as national and international tourism goes. Having said that I would love to see Shetland with its own distinctive emblem instead of the Scottish weed – but certainly not the poorly drawn snail used by Promote Shetland.

As far as VisitScotland is concerned I agree that as a national body they understand little or nothing about Shetland’s distinctiveness and that has been reflected by the clowns they send up to Shetland to speak to the tourist industry.

On the other hand I hear nothing but praise for the Visit Scotland staff at the Market Cross who are all Shetlanders and understand and know Shetland well and provide just about the best service possible to visitors to our islands. The problem there is that they are well understaffed and underpaid - especially since the SIC, driven by a fit of pique by the then leader of the Shetland Tourism Association against the chair of Visit Scotland, withdrew their share of local funding to set up Promote Shetland at a much greater cost.

I have to say -

But, another thing. How come the Christian god is just known as "God", when He gives His name in the Bible? How come He's not "TheGod Jehovah"?

 

Just asking!

You said it pal!

now see this

This article has details on the Exnaboe fossils

 

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/gcrdb/GCRsiteaccount944.pdf

All known fish fossil sites in Shetland, such as that one mentioned, are Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) because of their rareity and are protected by legislation so you are not allowed to hammer or otherwise break the fossils out of the bedrock. You can look but are not allowed to harm the site.

I also have a diesel car.

It is particularly painful paying for fuel these days.

The government (of which our MP is a member) will increase the tax on fuel 3p per litre on 1st January - here is your chance to do something about it - follow this link

http://action.fairfueluk.com/page/speakout/stop3prise

 

Some strong leadership at last!

Sure is, coming from LibDems - the IOM isn't part of the UK and is not a member of the EU

http://www.gov.im/isleofman/externalrelations.xml

Hi has anyone had a car from Willie Ross fae Scottish Car Auctions?. He always has adverts in the times and I wanted to know if he was trust worthy?

 

Thanks

 

Vaila

Yes - excellent service

You could sneak on in the fog - but then the north-boat can't sail because the harbour closes.

http://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/OpsNews.html

I haven't yet been able to find out what the mitigation they intend to employ is. I think I'll give up with it though. Light turbine or transformer oil is bad but, truthfully, there is only a small potential for a significant spill. Chances are the hill would swallow it up. It pales into insignificance alongside the carnage that construction will wreak. Kinda tears my heart out thinking about it.

Unlike soil, blanket bog (peat) cannot absorb oil because it is 98% water. Water falling on our peat covered hills flows down slope through the surface vegetation or through small underground tunnels (peat-pipes). This water accumulates in burns and is carried into the voes.

Oil and water cannot mix so almost all the oil sprayed on to the hillsides is carried by the water and accumulated into the lochs or voes – the reason you can’t find what the mitigation plans is, is because they don’t have one.

Most normal Shetlanders support the grind and understand it.

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The same number of Shetlanders support the grind as support the battering of seals to death with clubs or drowning seals in salmon farmer's traps.

The same number of Shetlanders support the grind as support the trapping and shooting of otters.

The same number of Shetlanders support the grind as support the snaring and killing of puffins and gannets.

That number is practically zero

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Headhunting and eating the brains of huumans was also sustainable - (even into the 20th century in Europe) but that dosen't make it right because like the grind it inflicts unnecessary cruelty.

Green Power: Wind power does not help to avert climate change

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-03-19/news/31210516_1_wind-turbines-wind-power-wind-farms

The biggest problem with the leisure centres is that they have become indispensible as the biggest user are the schools, so unless you want the bairns to have their PE in the local halls and go back to learning to swim in the sea we're kinda stuck with them. Schools service have to pay the SRT for the use of the leisure centres and they aren't funded by the SIC but by the Charitable Trust as far as I know.

The schools won't need to use the leisure centres because the SIC education dept. is hell-bent on closing most of the schools.

Arthur Anderson expat Shetlander and co-founder of the P&O shipping line guaranteed any Shetland seaman a job on one of his ships if he wanted one.

How did he do this? He did it by sacking non-Shetland seamen and taking on Shetlanders at lower wages and on poorer terms and conditions – thus Shetlanders got the name ‘North Sea Chinamen’ because they were prepared to work on ships under poorer conditions than the ‘white man’.

Happy snappin

There should be a button from switching from viewfinder to screen and back - it may be labeled EVF/LCD

the globe stake pies are quite good

do they get their stake fae Hays?

Personally I prefer the flavour from "Happy Animals" or Free Range Organic. I still find it rather disturbing to read how Co-op chicken is fed only on a "vegetarian diet" when ever I make the mistake of reading the label, it just reminds me of how they're raised in sealed barns and fed an unnatural diet. Before anyone starts spouting off about butchers, do you have any idea where and how the chickens sold there are raised? No? Neither do I. So I see no difference in buying smaller breasts in the supermarket to the rather unnaturally large ones I've found in the butchers. I still buy my lamb and beef at the butchers.

Cage Free here

http://www.onekind.org/take_action/campaigns/go_cage_free/