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I understand not everyone is the same but I personally cant sleep in the pods or the reclining chairs, I need to be able to lie flat. Due to the popularity of the couches and the floor in the forward bar as sleeping areas I'm sure I'm not the only one who prefers a level surface to sleep on. In the unfortunate event that I find myself without a cabin I prefer to sleep on one of these areas, I usually bring a sleeping bag if I don't have a cabin. The sleeping pods would be much better if they could actually fold down completely flat and level. What I think would be best was if they just replaced them with those Japanese style sleeping pods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel Or if they just filled the forward bar with bunk beds. Often the people who find themselves having to sleep in these pods or recliners are not doing it because they chose to but because all the cabins were full but they still have to make the trip. Everyone should be entitled to somewhere level to lie down, any cushioning would be a bonus.

Just to confirm that a freesat box is a good alternative if you already have sky as it works with the same dish, you can simply plug the box into the same leads as your sky box was plugged into. I dumped Sky a few years ago and never looked back. I think our box was about £200 for a recording version with loads of space on it . We don't even watch freesat anymore. Netflix, Amazon prime and BBC iPlayer have replaced it. The best part is that I haven't seen an advert for ages.

Did anyone figure out how to scrap a car in Shetland. I too have a car that's not on the list of vehicles picked up by the amenity trust. I went to the Autogreen website as directed, entered my details and they gave me the number to phone for 60 North. Unfortunately it was the number for the previous owner of 60 north and he couldn't help me.

As someone who failed to look after his teeth when he was younger I have pretty good experience with a few of the Lerwick dentists. The NHS dentists at Montfeild were all excellent but it's impossible to get an appointment there now. I ended up at the Lerwick dental practice where even after about 5 appointments and all the time off work that entailed they failed to fix my toothache. I went to Dental Shetland to try and get an appointment there, he took me in right away and fixed the two teeth that were giving me trouble. I had to go back a few times to get root canal and a crown. They don't do NHS so it is more expensive but I'd say for someone with more serious troubles they are very good with highly experienced dentists. If your teeth are in good shape and you just need the odd filling and check up then try to get on the NHS at the Lerwick Dental Practice as it is much cheaper. it's no fault of their dentists I just find the NHS does not allocate enough time for the dentists to carry out more serious stuff. No idea about dental plans though sorry.

I'd like to get my porch roof redone with fibreglass. Are there any builders up here who would be able to carry out this type of work.

I am happy that they are getting a skate park to go and skate on. My concern is that it has taken so many years for it to come to fruition. Good job skating isnt some fad that nobody wants to do anymore by the time they get the park built. I'm thinking i will have to go campaign for some kind of park for when my peerie bairn grows up, now what will be the sport of choice then. I may go petition the council for a hoverboard park. maybe get it built soon after they are invented.

I ordered a nice new TV from amazon on sunday (sorry local retailers, I did look in your shops and I dont mind paying a little extra to buy something locally but I cant afford to throw away £100) I was delighted to see that it was to be delivered by citylink, That WDA parcels guy is always fast. I didnt expect it to be this fast, the TV left the midlands on monday morning and arrived on my doorstep today (Wednesday) at 12 noon, and this was free delivery. I thanked the WDA guy for his speedy delivery and was told the reason he is so fast is that he delivers all over every day. I will make my decision on which internet shop to buy a certain item from not only by cost but by who is delivering it. I would say that here in shetland you cant beat the Royal mail and WDA parcels. Anywhere else and you know the item will get to Aberdeen or Lerwick fairly quick but after that who knows how long it will lie in the toon before someone bothers to come out and deliver it. I had a new laptop I'd ordered a few years ago reach the depot in Aberdeen of a company I wont name and it simply dissapeared. If I hadn't bought it with my credit card and been able to just get the money back I dont know what I would have done as when I phoned the company I ordered it from the said that thier records showed that I had recieved it. Anyway. Rant over. I just came on to say City Link is great because that WDA guy is great. I'm off to play wi my new TV.

I've just had these RDI people in to insulate my loft under the loft insulation scheme and I thought I'd post here to let people know what like they are. I'm sure there are loads of households in Shetland waiting to get their lofts insulated for free and all I can say is dont worry these guys were very friendly and they did a gret job in the loft. I was a bit concerned about the quality of work I would receive and heard that they fitted the insulation in such a way as that it would be difficult to get all o wir bruck back in again, that is they lay the insulation at 90 degrees to the joists over the top of the joists and existing insulation. I was lucky that i had very little insulation in my loft, only about 3 inches thick so they managed to get the new insulation in between the joists and leave the top of the joists free for me to put the flooring back down and safely put all af my precious things back in. We have a couple of smaller lost spaces forbye the main one and they fired in the insulation two layers thick in some of these spaces. All in all I was delighted with the service, well above what I expected. It also gave me a chance to sort out the bruck in wir loft and go wi a good run to the dump. (***Mod Edit - Moved to Consumer Advice & Resources***)

Big glass of malt whisky before bed.

Yeh we had him harl our house just at the end of last year. Very fine guy and did a great job even though the weather wasnt perfect.

Just the other week, had one of the front wheel bearings on our Mazda 6 changed. Total cost £120 which was very reasonable as the new bearing was £76 and they had a bit of a job getting the old one out. Not all garages are equal.

Thanks Ghostrider, that historic map on the NLS site is amazing. I love looking at the history of all these old croft houses, especially the ones around where I grew up.

I'm fairly sure that when crofters in the old days ploughed their fields they would gather up any stones turned up with the plow and make a pile with them. This was just to make the bit of land they used to plant their kale or tatties or whatever in a bit better for growing things. Of course these piles are found on more fertile bits of land and not in the hill and are generally made up of smaller stones. Most probably grown over with grass too.

I agree that this was the wrong toilet to close. It is in an easy to reach location and a much busyer part of town than the one at the Knab. I understand that each departmant of the council has to come up with ways to make savings but surely they must look at the bigger picture. I cant imagine it would be saving a great deal of money just locking the doors, they still have the upkeep of the building only they dont have to pay someone to pop in for few minuites each day to clean the place. I, like Baron Farkoff and I'm sure many others work out and about all over Shetland and It is important to have toilet facilities available as the only alternative is to find a wall or something to go behind. Not so easy if you need to coil some rope.

Completely agree, would far rather have nice Nuclear plant than wind farm. One 1000 megawatt nuclear staion = 277 3.6 Megawatt wind turbines ( thats if the winds blowing at optimum speed 24 hours a day every day ) 1000 turbines would be needed to match it and even then when the wind stops blowing.....

I use Microsoft secutity essentials, its free and does not slow the computer down. On the odd occasion that a virus does appear I find that mallwarebytes will almost always get rid of it. Usually the paid for software is a real resource hog on a computer, especially if your PC is a bit old and slow anyway. I had norton when I first got my computer and it made the computer take ages to start up, also getting rid of it was almost impossible, had to reinstall windows. It is true that no single program will catch all viruses. I find the best way to get rid of a virus is to do my best not to get one in the first place. Dont click on dodgy looking links and dont open email attachments from anyone you dont completely know or trust, especially not ones from russian girls who want to get to know you better;) With respect to Email, facebook etc password hacking it is very annoying as I had my Hotmail account hacked recently, my own fault as my password was quite simple. It seems the most secure password is a combination of upper and lower case characters and also some numbers. If you use a word try to use something obscure that wont be found in the dictionary. This will make it much harder for the programs hackers use to guess your password.

I agree that clives is fairly competitivley priced, especially the cd's and usually reccomend him to freinds who think he is more expensive. I dont buy many cd's or dvd's and sometimes buy from the likes of amazon. If I really cant wait the few days it takes to deliver something from online and sometimes it takes over a week even with paing extra for first class I'll go to Clives. He has a good selection for the size of his shop and as has been already said, can be just as cheap as the bigger stores. Unlike another shop in town that also sells computer games I find that he always has the latest titles in stock and not shelves off games a few years old still on sale for well over their release price. I know you cant beat online shops for convinience, especially if you dont go into Lerwick very often but sometimes its nice to just go in and browse. You might find something you wouldnt have thought of buying.

This is one of my favorate covers. Not sure if it is better than the original, I just like it as its different.

Just wondering if anyoneone here has the Post Offices broadband and phone package and if it is any use. I'm looking to change from BT and want to know which ISP's are good for gaming. Currently its a choice between talktalk, plusnet and the Post Office.

Sorry I was in a bit of a hurry when I posted this last night. I did look at that thread but the first couple o pages were from 2007. I've read it all now and there is some good info there. You can delete this thread if you want. Cheers. (***Mod Edit - Now Merged***)

I've been with BT for a few years now for both the phone and broadband. I cant really fault them with their service but I do think it is far too expensive. When you add up the line rental, broadband and all the rest it comes to over £70 a month. I see that the Post Office are offering a phone and broadband package for only £25 a month and that includes line rental. I was wondering if anyone here has the Post Office package and if it was any use. I read a few poor reviews on the net but would like to see what the service is like here in Shetland. If anyone can recommend any other provider that would be great too. I would like a package with unlimited downloads and a fast connection, I'm getting about 6Mb with BT which I'm happy with. I need something thats always going to work too, I use the internet a lot for gaming and my wife uses the connection to work from home. So yeh, basicaly fast, reliable and cheap. Thanks in advance for any advice.

I have been using Windows 7 for a few months now. Have it dual booting with vista but since I installed Win 7 I have never gone back to vista. I find it a massive improvemnt over vista, i dont think it has ever crashed and this computer is sometimes on for many days at a time. I have had no issues with any drivers and all my software games etc seem to work fine, basically if it worked on vista it will work on Windows 7. I have heard that it does have some issues with creative soundcards but I'm sure they will be ironed out when the retail version arrives. The version I got was free to download and will continue to work untill next summer before I will have to pay for a copy which I will be doing as this seems to be microsofts best OS for while.