RugyDavy

I have just cancelled my subscription after 6 month. The system continually reboots itself and can be a real pain especially when trying to record. I was issued a new box in January. Same issue occurred but less frequently. I called again, and by now I had bypassed all foreign call centres and was using their resolution team and being given a four digit code to get hrough each time. Next advice was to put the ethernet cable into Port 4 as they were aware of software issues. No good. I called again, and this time the admission was interesting. The system has inherant flaws and won't be updated until the next software pacth release, scheduled in April. I was offered the new Youview box, but this came without ESPN which is one of the reasons I had the system. I was told this was because BT were negotiating a sports deal and wanted ESPN off the new system so it could be bundled into a sports package to be released in the future. Lo and behold the news last week about he new deal. I put it to them that they were not, and could not provide the service they promised as advertsied and that we had explored every other option. They agreed and so the contract was teminated on this basis at not future costs. A returns box/bag should have bene sent by now, but it hasn't. The system was canceled for a week now and it still gives me channels and the option to record, but still reboots. The on demand features have all reverted to pay-as-you-go. I querried this as I wanted to make sure the D.D had been amended. As far as they are concerned I DO NOT receive TV from them and I am not paying anything for a TV provision. So, they can't even cancel their own system with botching it up. Do not let them fob you off. I have a suspiscion that they have issues with provisions to more remote spots, but they won't admit that. Above all, get the resolutuion team number as soon as humanly possible and double check all calls are logged against your account. Right, what do we think of sky....can't live on freeview any longer.

Why would it? They're not running a massive restaurant, so why would they need a massive kitchen? It's similar to the sort of food you get at Bonhoga, with a similar size kitchen and that manages perfectly well to serve a variety of meals at very busy lunchtimes. Using yours FPC purely as its the easiest, no personal attack meant. To clarify the point, and as Unlinked seems to have grasped, the venue was advertised as a wedding venue so, how could it adequately provide sit down catering for weddings without a reasonably functioning kitchen to provide a three or four course silver service meal? The current kitchen is fine for what it is being used for. We looked at it as a venue for a glitzy do but stepped away as they suggested we used external catering and cooking for what we had in mind, sinilar to a wedding meal.

Apologies if this has been discussed in the 148 previous pages. Haven't they made a marketing mistake by not including a proper working kitchen to cater for sit down meals e.g for weddings etc.? Having been in the trade I can say with certainty that outside catering has its place but loses something when you are looking for something with a bit more pzazz. I was dumbfounded to hear it can't do this sort of catering.

Avoid all RAdio Stations! Someone announced the winer this morning and I heard it.

Exchange is at Greenfield Crescent. There is only one BT exchange in Lerwick. There is almost certainly no widespread general fault at the exchange. However, your particular line might have a problem. Does the HH connect to the exchnage ? There will be a DSL LED indicator somehwere on it. Ian, HH is connected all fine. LED remains steady amber. I had another hour on the phone last night going through possibilites. Eventually an engineer has been booked to come out and check on Sat afternoon. They claim that everything is ok at my end and that it's looking like something between the exchange and my socket. I have my doubts but we shall see. A warning shot has been made regarding envoking my right to cancellation if there is no satisfactory resolution.

Installed the BT hub last Tuesday. Phone, telly and broadband all going well. Came in from work at teatime yesterday to find the broadband down. Still the same this morning. Being new to BT, can someone enlighten me on where the Lerwick exchange is, are all in lerwick on the same exchange and has anyone else lost broadband last yesterday? Customer Services were flummoxed by my quandary and blamed the exchange. Felt like a fob off.

I'm registered at the the H.C but have never had to go. My work means the best time for me to go is late on Friday afternoon. I have a specific issue that I need medical advice on and not triage by the receptionist despite how good a job they do. What's my chances of phoning up and booking an appointment for any Friday in the near future and gettting what I want without having to take a whole day off for something that doesn't stop me from gpoing to work? I hear horror tales of trying to do this and I don't know that I can take potential beaucracy without blowing a gasket. I suppose there is one way to find out.....

Salou next, after a wedding in Loch Lomond.

All very exotic.... This weekend - Blackpool! I know! ...Going for one of those "Red Letter" days where you get to do something out of the ordinary...Flying lesson for me and my mate. Making a weekend of it wi/ the lassies.. Salou in June Cuba in September Neither of which will be a patch on the "kiss me quick, stock-o-rock chip donkey riding " extravaganza of Blackpool this weekend!!!!

Just had some on a toasted ootsider, from the cupboard aqnd not the fridge, and its the "puppies privates". we've been using it a lot over the last year or so and I can't fault it.

Locally...(but not unique to Shetland) 1 Litre of Petrol ~ £1.46 1 Litre of beer ~ £5.60 (based on £3.20 per pint) Two products with an alcohol base. Two (essential) products which seem to be standardised in price amongst the local retailers. One product consists of water, hops, barely, yeast/sugar and some chemicals, bottled/kegged and shipped to busy outlets serving many other similar products. Pretty simple chemistry and timing. The other is drilled from the ground or seabed under harsh conditions, piped hundreds of miles, stabilised, separated, re-piped or tankered, fractionated, distilled, the product piped or tankered to outlets and dispensed by expensive service stations (who have a big say in some of the pence per litre) for retail. Complex extraction, production, safety issues and logistical distribution. Why is the more simple product 3 times more costly than the more complex? We have local issues being on an island, admittedly, and I realise there are tax implications, but these should balance out, more less, and certainly not warranting a 3 fold difference. Add to this that there seems to a "closed shop agreement" amongst purveyors of these products as there is very little difference in the price of each between outlets. I wonder if a little competition from the likes of Tesco and Weatherspoons might shake that up, points that I know are being discussed on other threads. So, lets head to Leasks and get bladdered

Who got murdered in Grantham? Pity it didn't happen about 60 years ago to certain young grocers daughter.

Agreed Para Hilarious

1. QI 2. Porridge 3. Being Human 4. Band of Brothers 5. Time Team In no particular order

Good choice, also in that area is the Koh-I-Noor Indian Buffet, great if you want to try a selection of dishes and very friendly staff. Spinners advice is good, and if you go onto Sauchiehall street from Bon Accord and turn left or right (across Charing Cross) there are many fine (proper) Indian restaurants. Look out for one call Kharma Sutra. Its not what you think.

I've been struggling with a book called "Saints and Sinners" by Paul Cuddihy. Its based in 1891 in the east end of Glasgow and centres around the troubles, woes, fights, bouts of drinking, mutilation, abuse, squaller and the general living conditions of first generation irish immigrants. You'll appreciate why I have been struggling, but at page 100 it seems to be gaining some pace. I'll stick with it...

Well, the smoke signals were blown off course, just as Justme predicted, but the alternative email address worked. The astrononmy society still exists according to Chris, although updates on their site seem infrequent which is probably why Snowflake understandable thought this was defunct. However its still alive and well further worming into the site helped me find a link to an application form to join. http://www.shetlandastrosoc.org.uk/node/1#attachments Before joining though I might want to know more of what the society have to offer in the way of meetings etc.

But you must have failed to notice that clicking on the little envelope actually brings up a real postal address.......means you have to send a real letter in a real envelope with a real stamp on it. Kind of quaint isn't it?. Ah, yes I did fail to notice that JustMe. A better option than the smoke signals that were my first thought

Cheers GT, I'll drop an email and see what he knows of a club. I'll post on here if I get anything positive for Snowflake and others. Message returned as permanently undeliverable to the address. Back to the drawing board. Next Fridays Times should have the stargazing sectio in it and there may be a clue there.

Cheers GT, I'll drop an email and see what he knows of a club. I'll post on here if I get anything positive for Snowflake and others.

The Mrs bought me a scope for my Christmas. Got it set up last week and although I am fumbling through it'd be good to get some tips from the likes of a local club. I have signed up to an excellent forum but having something and people local and live would be good. I thought I heard that there was a club and that it met at the Asta Golf Club (house). Anyone got anymore to offer on Snowflakes original message? Anyone got a contact for the guy who writes for the Times once a month?

Thanks again. The unlocking code arrived from T-Mobile and it was dead easy. Phone now properly unlocked using the proper code supplied by the contract provider. Still can't use the thing, so its on the market!

I'm kind of glad, and surprised, that my resurrection of this post has got folk thinking again. Many good points made. Kids in pubs...Nah, not for me, but i see the advanatge and so long as there is a clear 20.00 rule or even a seperate family only area then I could cope with that. The main issue that drove me was the idea of a reasonably decent venue to have a pint and some reasonable pub grub. Not looking for Heston Bloomental style here. My home town eventually allowed in a Bellhaven Pub (similar to Spoons, maybe better) and it has completely turned the attitude of the community...for the better. More folk coming to the town, more of a good vibe to the place. Livened things up, without being over the top. I'm sure something similar would work, and be good for Lerwick. And maybe, maybe, make the old guard of publicans sit up, take note and stop taking us for mugs at times. Anyone want to take on the challenge of writing to Spoons with a suggestion? I feel "unqualified" being an incoming sooth moother....

While in the one in Aberdeen airport the Mrs and I noted in the weatherspoons magazine that they are asking readers to nominate potential existing building such as old cinemas, banks and churches that would lend themselves to the weatherspoons model. Since then we have been thinking of possibilities and we reckon there are a couple of old churches in the toon that would fit the bill. What's the score with the old church building on St.Olaf St facing the park

I use this website for almost all my cocktail queries. The strawberry syrup recipe is spot on, and don't be scared to keep it in the freezer, made correctly the syrup barely frezes. http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/all-about-syrups.html