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have a look around murristone

I know 3 people who have had theirs done, (and they know more) they are amazing workers, some didnt take to the father, bit pushy for shetland folk, (he will learn) but the 2 sons are realy good, but in all they are very respectfull. The boys that actualy do the work are briliant, they realy work hard and get masive drives done in a couple of days. Prices although high are well worth the value. We thought they were just making up anything/prices but when you speak to other customers they all seem to be the same kind of level. We would all recomend them 100% In a hot day give the workers a drink/cup of tea, they deserve it! i do hope the owners appreceate their workers, they deserve all the money they can make. I hear they are coming back next summer so if you cant get them this year, get them for a quote for next. Its worth taking out a bank loan for this kind of quality. I don't know anyone here that can do this kind of work???

August not a bit late?

Even reading the added comments on the shetland times webpage report. gives you a flavor of what other people are thinking too

Its all a mater of opinion, Im not going to argue the toss. Just my opinion is just as valade as anyone else. I'm glad you enjoy the place, lots do. I and/or my family go to almost every film and have done since Islesburgh started the films here years ago. I will however retract 'press releases' and change to 'reports' if that makes it sound better. Appoligies for using the wrong 'word'. I type too fast.

I think the managment (and trustees) have a brally thick skin so they will carry on on their dream land ideas, all in the name of art. Sucsess for them is if a thing went well, not how many people actualy turned up to see or do anything. You often see press releses on what a great sucsess a show/s has been, only to hear hardly anyone was there. its all smoke and mirrors. They get their wages regardless and nothing cost personally so why change? How any of them still have the confedence withough getting a vote of no confedence from the council and the shetland resedence up there is amazing. All hats come off to the front line staff, most are on basic salleries, who actualy deal with the general public day in day out with this carry on goin on upstairs. So well done to them

Except that would be illegal. Shetland Arts is a trust. A trust is a charity. Charities cannot dispose of charitable assets unless it's to another charitable body. Which the SIC is not. so how did they transfer 3 islesburgh buildings to the council and all the care centres from a trust to the council? all building were built or refurbished from outside grants etc

I'm sure the other capital investors would have had something to say about that. well with the option of the arts trust going bust (by the sounds of it thats what nearly happend) and it going to the liqudators giving the building to the council might have been the beter option, since it would carry on as it was intended. the council should have not given a grant it should have just invested in it, then it would be mostly theirs in the first place. listening to the radio tonight the rent paid to shetland arts is the same rent they pay to the council. so its just a paper pushing option, and they get £1m for the pleasure. You have to give it to them its an amazing deal, and they keep their jobs, persuming i heard it right?

I think Shetland Arts Trust needs to be congratulated, not only have they been bailed oot, renting their building oot and geting it back to carry on as they are, without any of the trustees or top managment lossing their jobs for their what could be deamed miss-managment, which got them into the compleat mess they are in. I'd think in the private sector they would have there backside kicked oot the door for misconduct anywhere else. We have heard what the council have plotted what to do from now, but will we hear what mess they were in to need this to happen? I think this should be made public on how bad it has been before they get more public money. Perhaps if the trustees had to cough up some personall money for their mistakes I'd feel a bit better, its their dream, they maybe should pay something towards it?? Personaly i think they should have sold the building for £1 then rented it back from the council. Then it would always be safe whoever runs it. Wonder what the new monthly rent to the council is? bet its less than the rent for a council hoose. They would have been beter borrowing 2million from the council and payed it back in time. But well done to them they have goten their cake and eating it, and got extra, all ,from us the taxpayer. Till the next time??

last day is monday i think

I was there today at lunchtime, its quite good. its like the one that was here at the tall ships. so not only do we loss harrison square for parking we now loss the entire parking under the fort too. SIBC might say anything recarding name places etc, by know we should know the quality of newscasting. i always though that was Commercial Street too. he could have said com, street under the fort.

Google Elgin and Cults Acadameys, they are nice new secondery schools. What they did there was build a compleat new school in the grounds then knocked the school down, then put the pitches back where the school were. You need to keep building work away from the children, unlike what we were going to do here at the knab

wonder if they could put a road down through the knap golf course, where the path is actualy now? if they could they could make it one way. their is no reason why the new front door of the new school couldnt be around the back of the school. advoyding the area where to front door is at the moment.

The class sizes would be the same but they would have 4 primary 1s and so on which is exactly the same as lerwick has at the moment. one difrence would be perhaps the entire school would not meet at one point, however if it was in the highschool they would easy fit in the big pe hall no bother. you would only proberly see the school together on special ocations. other times they could devide the school up into 3 like sound school is now, infents, middel and seniour classes. each area has its own concerts etc. so being in a bigger school would make no difrence. only one posible problem i could see if lunchtime, if it was in the old highschool building they would need to build a new lunch hall that they all fit in. in bells brae at playtime the difrent years have diffrent playgrounds and are not allowed to mix. they kept that in the new school then you would not know you were in a 600 school as you would never see them As they will be going into a biger high school after p7 whats the difence?

I think the problem was that whilst building the school in stages when they children are still on site too, with noise and disdruption it was too great. For them its better build somewhere else then just move into the new building. When it is empty they can make the old high school into a new primary school without anyone else there. much beter and no trafic other than the builders. where building planed befour they would be tones of busses and parents on the school run and that would have been a nightmare. If they do each site in turn then is shoudnt cause too much trouble to the rest of us. mind we are speeking over a 5- 10 year timeline. Some bits of the old high school like the old origonail bits and the pe department are fine, seems a shame to knock them down when they could be used as part of a new development primary school. both lk primarys would die for a hall like that. The old english dep could be the nursery departments, the asn dpt could stay as is, but for primary asn. the home eco, department could be junior clases, p 1 and 2. then they just need a block for the upper primary clases. i think it would all work in good especialy since they would have a closed site to get on with the job. before anyone goes on about building trafic, what ever hapens there, where they buldoze the lot and build houses its still going to have trucks removing the old and puting in the new builds. the opption of leaving it open space wont be there in the long run.

id suggest they build the new AHS at clickimin as planned, the old site could be refurbished and made into a new bells brae school/sound school one school for lerwick. because the old ahs was empty they can erfurbish to the standard necessery for a building of its stature. the joining bits could be built new. I inderstand that the ABC blocks are done so they could knock them down and build new bits there. but the PE department is fine and may be able to stay. then redevelope the two old school sites. sound school could be a great retirment home where bellsbrae could be offices if we still need them. or knock the lot down and build housing or other comunity developments. What i would do at the new school is to have the libuary situated in a part of the school where the general public can get accses to it. What im saying is not to have a school libuary as such, but have the public libuary at the school where it is access to all. Thus shairing the costs. The school would pay the staff during the school days, where the libuary staff are paid outwith the school day by the libuary services. Thus the libuary could open longer hours. Also thinking outside the box is you could put islesburgh in there too? Although im not sure how that would work. The thing is you have to think in the long term as we know with the AHS it can take a long time to get things done. Id put the new hospitail on the main road where the power station is just now. remember we have to think long term.....

after reading the artical in the times, its other cafe/bar with a funny name and hopfully with better service. but joking apart the idea of new bright clean space, where you can go for a drink without being packed sholder to shoulder, blasted by loud music, norman prices with quick service so you spend time at your seat and not waiting to get served should/would be welcomed So if the new owner goes aroung the bars in shetland and takes all the good bits from them, (god knows what that would be) then i think it could be rather good. Almost all the bars are exactlly the same here, unchanged for decades, clearly they would not survived south, I think the lounge did apply to change, with an extention, but good old planning put a stop to that. lot of them could do with a good clean, paint up and new flooring would be a start. although id rather have a wetherspoons or simler.

an idea would be to move it to the new deep water piers in aberdeen, (if they get planing permition) yes it will be a further walk but at least its still aberdeen. then they gould get bigger and better ferries, id love at least one boat to be like the narrona.

I dont belive my eyes, under the fort!? so why have we lost harrison square for parking, if when something is on they dont actualy use it? you couldna make it up!

I think your maybe right, they have shed a tone of people at the edges of the council, but even with less staf to manage the white hoose is still full of people managing people that are not there anymore, ie salleries and personel? how many jobs have gone from there? middle managers are craping the barrels to find savings and cuts that we the customers will feel by the loss of services, however if the guys above them relised it might be the top managers that need to go. On subject if the viking was made into a coffee shop and waiting room then it might be a good going business, its on an excelent locating for passing trade that might welcome a cup of tea while waiting for a bus.

They were nout wrong we it before they started messing about. They could have left Harrison Square alown too. Then just blocked it off now and again when the market was on. I thought we were meant to be saving money? altough the nice new tar beside the TSB is an improvment from the patchwork quilt design that was there from the failed flag stones that were a disaster from the day they put them down.

Given that it is a proposed cafe/bar and the reply from Environmental Health states they would need to apply for a licence to sell alcohol, they might have to segregate the cafe area from the bar area perhaps? Me thinks they might have different ideas as opposed to letting teenagers hang out there in the evenings; after all, pints of lager tend to cost more than milkshakes and bottles of coke. oh i missed the bit about a licence, then no to the kids. so its like mareels cafe bar then, a pub in the back door?

Note that this is normal for all cinemas, not just Mareel. It's always a trade off between how early you get the latest films, and flexibility with how and when they are shown. Compared to similar cinema's south, the variety avaliable here is excellent. So it seems, they would be better getting all films 1 week late than being landed with a film for 2 weeks, blocking the main screen. As long as they are up front with the policy and tell folk, we would be ok with that. That would give them more choice, and a better service to us. Then a gold/silver card might be worth getting.

i think its a good idea, if folk want to give it a bash then let them, who would have thought a chipshop would have worked in Brae, but its worked. so if someone thinks that can make a go of a business then they should be let to get on with it. its a shame tescos didnt build a cafe as i always go to them if im ever south. lots of folk go out that area for walks etc and im sure it will be an excelent spot for a sunday walk and a half way cup of tea etc for old and young. They could even open in the evening and fill it with kids/teenagers now that the youthclubs are starting to close down next???

Have to agree, though I just checked schedule and wish I'd gone to see Lore. Didn't notice it among wall to wall Gatsby. Think Mareel are obliged to do all these showings if they want a 'big' film on date of release, but I'd rather wait a few weeks than have this overkill. I quite liked the film, but agree 2 weeks is far to much time, films should come for one week only then get out and let something else in. The block booking isnt any good for a 1 main screen cinema. (they said this would not happen when at the planing stages, but now proved wrong) They can be up to 12 films on the go in a big cinema south and we just aint geting the number of films like they get. Its good what we have but its a shame its just a half job and although we do get the main films we miss tones at the same time. I agree with you about the programming lots of film times are a way and reason why you cant go, than a reason you can, its either only on late, early for you to get there or just on through the week or just at weekends. with the level of films coming id never consider a gold card, when only 2 films might come into the main screen a month. Iv'e not seen anything in the music line id like to pay to watch yet - Im suprised its so much the same type of stuff all the time. Nothing very mainstream or current, although that is a personal view/taste. I think enough has been said about the cafe.