George.

Thanks MJ, good info to have!!!

I have now lived here in Shetland for just over twelve and a bit years, starting down at the south end in Scatness, where my mother had lived very happily for about twenty-five years and winding up here in Hillswick, in Northmavine, approximately seventy miles north of my starting point. Hillswick and Scatness are very different places. For a start, Scatness is very close to Sumburgh Airport so there are a much greater amount of buses going up and down to Lerwick which is a great benefit to the people living there. It’s not the same in Hillswick, where there is a bus down to Lerwick at 7.30am and 10.00am and one home at 5.10pm. There is also a shoppers bus, leaving Lerwick at 3.10 for Hillswick and the surrounding areas every second Tuesday and on a Sunday there is nothing, time to get a taxi – if you can. Very different to the south end where the buses operate seven days a week. I’m tempted to think that some of us here in Northmavine should benefit from the same service because we might need to get to the airport on a Sunday, or perhaps to Lerwick on our day off to go to the museum or the swimming pool for a little relaxation in the same way that the people in the south end can do, without any problem, seven days a week. It does surprise me that nothing has been done about this. Why not? Why has no-one shouted and cried about the non-existent Sunday service, or the fact that there is no 10.00am service on a Wednesday? Why is it impossible for us here in Northmavine to enjoy a couple of pints with our family and friends in Lerwick on a Friday or Saturday evening and then get a bus home? We don’t get the same service that the south end get, do we. I don’t know why but it isn’t fair, is it???

But the Chinese manufacture a lot of stuff for us and they do it at a good price so we never noticed anything nasty happening in Tibet. Not only that but the Dalai Lama now stays in his holiday home in India full-time, Tibet's too cold for him. What help would he get anyway?

No, not all churches are so forgiving, are they.

AVG offer 5GB back-up free. Must admit that I like AVG because they always offer what I want as a freebee.

You can get 3G in Hillswick, coffee £5.00 a cup, rich tea biscuits free

It's a great shame that it's not Johnny himself!!!

Closer ties with Scandanavia is a huge option!!! Greenman, if you can afford 99p in the £, is there any chance of a sub???

It would have been different if The Harbour Café had been open for a nice fry-up!!!

There is a lot of play put on "The West" here. What about the east, where there are large populations in places like China. I see no comment on that part of the world, when it is a worldwide problem.

It is a pity that it doesn't ban all the rabbit about the Olympics that we have to put up with

Bressay did indeed have a fire. It was inside Seaview and my grandfather, David Twatt built it.

No, we don't need them, we never have

It's her party but guess who's paying millions and millions of pounds to fund it? I'll give you a clue: Not her!!!

Yes, yes and it would make it a lot easier for Shetland to move on

So much is leached off Scotland by the UK that it's not worth being part of. We should have been out of it years ago.

If it is true that the Charitable trust are coming to a position where they will lose their position within Viking, we are in the turd again are we not. If that happens then we have no control of what and what not can be done within the company and no share of the money made. Please, for Shetlands benefit, don't lose it!!!

There is a vote of 78% for nudism, or naturism as I prefer to call it. 78% is a pretty good vote but you've all kept yer breeks on about it. I don't think that you have the b*lls to do anything more than shout about it

Free weather? We don't get an acceptable report that we've paid for and I've never heard of anyone getting a refund!!!

Sweet fa about Shetland? They don't know it exists. Yesterday they referred to Newcastle as "North U.K." They regularly disregard Scotland too.

Oh no, not now. It's a booming metropolis. Marks & Spencers are trying to find somewhere to put up a store and Safeways are trying to make a come-back too. I'm going to make a fortune with a rowing boat!!!

I think that they got it entirely wrong at the Beeb. Surely the archipeligo runs up to Unst but unsure of the Fair Isle. If we take out the Fair Isle then the length is still wrong. Wikipedia should include The Sovereign State of Forvik because His Excellency the Steward, Stuart Hill, resides there when he wishes to.