Frances144

Nah, this one...... http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e302/Frances144/Picture2.jpg Apparently, it has gone in the bin as there are no funds to regulate who uses it, apart from the Tourist Board, who can use it, in a small corner at the bottom of their website. £123,000 up the Swannee.

Does anyone remember the logo that Shetland Islands Council paid £123,000 to Corporate Edge to design for us a few years back? ( ** Mod Edit ** - Title altered from original "Do you remember the logo?")

No chicks were gluffed or anything. I was never attacked and the parents seemed to trust me. I subsequently found another curlew nest in Walls, and had to hide in the car as the parents went ballistic while I tried to photo their young. Lee was the bloke who made Njuggle for C4 (Tales of the Creepy Crooked). There were 4 films put on 4MinuteWonder (4MW). Very good, very strange and very very funny. My man is the trowie and the bloke on the roof and those are my ponies! Lee made me laugh alot and was a tremendous inspiration. He has also been very supportive of my attempts (as have Channel 4 FourDocs). BTW, my DVD's are multi-region so will play on any DVD worldwide.

Go check it out and leave a review or at least rate it, please. Don't forget to turn up your volume - the music is beautiful. http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/film/film-detail.jsp?id=18222# There are links to the two other films I made here, too. My second DVD (Reflections of Shetland - Voar) is out now. On sale in all good shops. Enjoy! Frances www.thordale.co.uk - Shetland pony stud and carriage driving www.pencille.co.uk - films

Perhaps you could have written that to me in your pm rather than what you did! And why pm me? Why not write it in the forum?

I agree with you Twerto. But, for example, when I wrote in the title WARNING (about the telly licence police being about), someone wrote that I should not use the word WARNING in my title. It is the little things that are being picked about and innocent wording being misinterpreted. I do write on fora (ums?) ranging from all types but I have to say ShetLink is the only one where folk are so finicky, picky and spikey. How do I get off this roundabout then? Who do I pm?

Thanks Marjolein! I did, however, express my opinion about Northlink and received a really foul pm from someone accusing me of "having a vendetta against Northlink" and then telling me how magnificent they are. It was very spiteful. So, yes, I am still thinking about leaving this forum as I am beginning to be scared to voice any opinion. I don't like having my head bitten off for not agreeing with someone.

I write on a few forums (or fora?) about this and that and I have to say that this forum is very tetchy and people are very quick to have a go or bite. Maybe it is me, but I am beginning to not want to put my head about the parapet as it is bound to be bitten off immediately the minute I have any view about anything. I never thought I was particularly contraversial in my thoughts or writings but the amount of abuse and instant loathing I seem to attract on this forum is extraordinary. I am at the point where I think I will ask to have my name taken off the memberslist or just go for anonymity like alot do. Probably me though. I realise you have to take responsibility for what you write but this forum seems to be full of picky, spikey folk who attack your every word. Frances (aka Mystery person who may perhaps go into hiding very very soon)

I have seen more otters than bobbies walking down Commercial Street! (obviously no otters in Commercial Street, they were in the fields!)

Wealth does make a difference. I NEVER WROTE THAT? PLEASE DO NOT MISQUOTE ME! Thanks Frances

Just to let you know, that if you don't have a TV License, be very careful. The TV License people are in Shetland cold-calling!

I have lived in Shetland for 10 years now. I have YET to see a bobby on the beat. I have seen the odd police car but never, ever a policeman on Commercial Street. I drove through Lerwick a few Saturdays ago (to catch ferry) and the amount of youths and their girls loafing around, looking intimidating and fairly scarey was extraordinary. The whole atmosphere in Lerwick was completely different on a Saturday that any other day of the week. It was not nice at all.

I have just spent a few minutes trying to find the link to my website under Shetland Businesses - it used to be there and if you search, it is but not coming up on the page. I cannot find anyone to ask to help. I do not understand the way it is set up as i do not speak fluent HTML. It is a load of sharn, IMHO, and I am seriously pissed off. I want to ask someone what I am doing wrong, but there is no where to look and no one to ask. the organisers just assume everyone understands the concept and I, for one, do not get it at all. A waste of cyber space. SOrry, for the rant, but I am very cross.

I agree. Prisoner not being ready - what was he doing? Packing a clean pair of knickers or pissing around to make everyone's lives misery as usual. F

I got given an iPod video thingy for my birthday - it is fabulous!, absolutely brilliant. I love my Macs (1 iBook, 1 G3, 1 Bondi Blue, 1 shuffle, 1 3g iPod, 1 video iPod). Love 'em.

Freenetname - not bad but lie through their teeth when broadband is playing up.

I'm amazed. I thought they were all on flexi-time anyway - nobody is ever in and TFIF is very much in evidence as well as POETS day!

Got into the Chat thingy, even got a large window with names of folk there (one who buggered off!), but the line where you type your interesting and witty thoughts was obscured by the large window. Ho hum! Frances

I wish he had included more Shetland place names. I laughed so much at Skellister!!!! F

Aith (n) The single bristle that sticks out sideways on a cheap paintbrush. Fladderbister (n) That part of a raincoat which trails out of a car after you've closed the door on it. Grutness (n) The resolve with which the Queen sits through five days of Polynesian folk dancing. Skellister (n) A very old solicitor. From "The Meaning of Liff" and "The Deeper Meaning of Liff" by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd

The longer I watch this forum, the longer I wonder why the hell I bother.

The airplane "disaster" could be a diversion from this: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2006/2006-08-08-01.asp Anyone else aware of this oil spill? Seems a few people think this too. Call me a cynic........

Well, I am all over the place emotionally at the moment. My kids fly from New York to Gatwick tomorrow night to get in Sat morning and then up to Sumburgh. Half me completely agrees about this alleged "threat" theory and the other half is wondering whether I should tell my kids not to fly while everyone is running around like blue-arsed flies. I am listening to the news and getting more and more wound up. All I want is them home, safe and sound. The worst bit is that we all know that any suicide plane bomber will be happy to kill himself and others and so will have a go, no matter what security measures happen. Aaaaagh!

I disagree - I did feel intimadated especially when I was hit by the ball and then another visitor was hit as well. The girls weren't particularly sorry and they went on playing despite visitors trying to take photos of the room. And, yes, it did affect my enjoyment of my visit and I am sure it affected the other visitors as well. When I remember Scalloway castle, I am not sure if I will recommend it to my visitors if it also doubles as Scalloway's alternative leisure centre.

aaaagh! Now it all makes sense. Lots of gothic jewellery! Not really selling much I wanted. Maybe it will grow in time.