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I remember reading in The Shetland Times that the Ports and Harbours had saved over a million £'s in one financial year thank to "Maintenance slippage", a fancy term for not doing the work they had planned to do. I'm sure it would be clear to most people that "maintenance slippage" is never a saving, only the delay of a cost which will only increase. 

With a beard like that he should be allowed to watch Trainspotting regardless of his age. 

With a beard like that he should be allowed to watch Trainspotting regardless of his age. 

With a beard like that he should be allowed to watch Trainspotting regardless of his age. 

I remember reading in The Shetland Times that the Ports and Harbours had saved over a million £'s in one financial year thank to "Maintenance slippage", a fancy term for not doing the work they had planned to do. I'm sure it would be clear to most people that "maintenance slippage" is never a saving, only the delay of a cost which will only increase. 

I remember reading in The Shetland Times that the Ports and Harbours had saved over a million £'s in one financial year thank to "Maintenance slippage", a fancy term for not doing the work they had planned to do. I'm sure it would be clear to most people that "maintenance slippage" is never a saving, only the delay of a cost which will only increase. 

Exactly, good luck to them,  that's capitalism baby,  nobody is making anybody spend their hard earned money in Fjara. If people want to spend £3.50 on a pot of tea for one and sit in nice surroundings then good on them. If the next wants to sit on the wall outside with a flask then that's up to them. The jury will be out if it is still going in a few years time, and I hope they are. 
 
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Exactly, good luck to them,  that's capitalism baby,  nobody is making anybody spend their hard earned money in Fjara. If people want to spend £3.50 on a pot of tea for one and sit in nice surroundings then good on them. If the next wants to sit on the wall outside with a flask then that's up to them. The jury will be out if it is still going in a few years time, and I hope they are. 
 
yolo

I have a stratford ecoboiler 16 HE Inset and it is brilliant. Top quality stove so far. Big box can get long peats and logs in it. It is very tight so if you close all the dampers it is not only still hot in the morning but even if you leave it til after work. Being inset it is better insulated than a free standing one so this might be part of the case. It has 3 draft adjustments and heats up very quicky once lit. 
 
I couldn't be happier. PM if you want to know anything else. I think you are better of with a bigger stove ticking over than a peerier one pinging hot. 

I just watched the first episode of new run of Shetland on sky+ and was actually quite impressed, enjoyable viewing on the whole.
 
One slight point stood out for me as glaringly inaccurate. The young woman referred to as "Tosh" on the programme - (Alison O'DonnellI believe) - at one moment in the show made her apologies for being late as she had been to the dentist.
 
Now I find it impossible to comprehend that a person who would have been on the isles for as short a term as she has likely to have been posted here as a fictional Police Officer would have made it onto the NHS register. Clearly she would still be languishing on the waiting list, probably on the bottom half (they like to refer to the list in fractions so as not to confuse mere morals). 
 
I suppose she could have had an emergency appointment at Montfield, but she didn't look sufficiently numb/toothless/terrified for this to have been the case.
 
Perhaps someone can inform me otherwise, maybe the Police have a "dental plan" and can afford to go private, which I would have thought unlikely without insurance because don't we always here it is a poorly paid public service job?
 
Perhaps she has been pregnant, which gets you off the waiting list apparantly. If so, congratulations Tosh.
 
Maybe at sometime this year, year 6, my wife might make it off the waiting list..............

I just watched the first episode of new run of Shetland on sky+ and was actually quite impressed, enjoyable viewing on the whole.
 
One slight point stood out for me as glaringly inaccurate. The young woman referred to as "Tosh" on the programme - (Alison O'DonnellI believe) - at one moment in the show made her apologies for being late as she had been to the dentist.
 
Now I find it impossible to comprehend that a person who would have been on the isles for as short a term as she has likely to have been posted here as a fictional Police Officer would have made it onto the NHS register. Clearly she would still be languishing on the waiting list, probably on the bottom half (they like to refer to the list in fractions so as not to confuse mere morals). 
 
I suppose she could have had an emergency appointment at Montfield, but she didn't look sufficiently numb/toothless/terrified for this to have been the case.
 
Perhaps someone can inform me otherwise, maybe the Police have a "dental plan" and can afford to go private, which I would have thought unlikely without insurance because don't we always here it is a poorly paid public service job?
 
Perhaps she has been pregnant, which gets you off the waiting list apparantly. If so, congratulations Tosh.
 
Maybe at sometime this year, year 6, my wife might make it off the waiting list..............