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Skyumpie - Jøst ta say I'm gotten dy PM an tried to reply bit hit winna ging. Most be some hiccup in da site atween dee an me. See you later.

Bairns I tink at Depooperit is laed oot a bleak but accurate picture dere. Da fact dat da rest o wis sit in admiration o dir (Depooperit an Ex-isle’s) linguistic an grammatical range of knowledge – and care fir dat knowledge - duisna mean at dere mony mair o dir laek hoidin some wye an jøst no happenin edder to be joinin in dis discussion or indeed spraedin da word aboot spikkin Shaetlan whar it is maist laekly at fokk wid spik it. Maybe we can cry into wir beer ower dis (I dunna drink beer…) da moarn’s nicht at Milne’s. On which point – I tocht I hed PM’d Skyumpie – as da idder lass – last night – na I’m been buddered no to hae a reply. But wir hale network is been actin up nad dere were tree o dem wirkin at it da streen on da idder twa computers – an noo I see da mesaage still in my Outbox although hit telt me it hed geen. So I will resend it ta Skyumpie – BT man comin da moarn, dey tell me – an pit bits o it on here fir aabody else as it’s gettin late noo – apologies - hit’s maistly in English. I am determined to win down on Tuesday - it would be aafil fine to be able to put faces to names - which brings me to the point of the faces. I think you must be xxx - I have looked up websites and printed out a couple of photos. However I don’t see a way to post you a photo of me - I don't have the facility to do any of the web-based stuff. I will take the train which is due in at 16.51. I have a peerie airrent to run in Jenner's and then Milne's is just round the corner so if train is on time I should be there well before 5.30. So I am looking for: you as per your photos, plus three chaps - one with long blond hair, Lola B who I gather is also male, as is Ex-isle(?). I am a couple of years younger than you (just looked it up!) blonde-ish hair a peerie bit longer as yours and will aim to wear cream jacket and black skirt I think. Oh yes – Shetland Silvercraft (gold) Sleipnir brooch and necklace – my trademark. Earrings too - maybe an improvement on saat piltocks! If you could please let me have your mobile number that would avoid the possibility of me being stuck in Edinburgh looking in vain for people whom I don’t know! Looking forward v much to meeting you all.

Weel, dere's me - da Dundee een - I'm bön laid up wi een o dis viruses - bit i cood win doon bi da train (dat needs wan o yun buttons - but whit een?) - Waverley 16.51 - laeve 20.11 / 20.31. I widna laek ta say fir definite as I'm still no muckle wirt - bit I wid laek ta shaa willin!

I hate to be pedantic, but 24th September is definitely a Monday - you have it as Saturday in ST article.

I just want to say hello because I can – sitting at a desk in a computer lab in a school in Seoul, South Korea, while the debaters are prepping for the next round of the World Schools Debating Championships. It’s warm and muggy and yesterday the rain was absolutely torrential. Scotland have won two out of two debates so far. We have not really seen anything yet except the hotel and classrooms but there is an all-day trip to the Demilitarised Zone on Saturday.

^^^ What a very sensible set of observations.

Well thank you Scrutineer - have just read your post, looked on LateRooms site and made a booking in what looks to be very posh country hotel whose normal room rate claims to be £110 incl breakfast but is £45 on the night I wish to be there! Last time we stayed in Travel Inn for £50 and had to pay extra for a quite disgusting cardboard breakfast, so the difference will easily pay for the extra 2 miles taxi fare to Sandhurst. This is not for a few weeks yet and lots might happen in meantime – I am off to S Korea next week to event which appears to be remarkably badly organised – but will let you know if I ever get there and what it is like!

Hit's comin a peerie start fir I'm done dat...

Just back from Fiddlers’ Bid gig in Tolbooth in Stirling – it was just brilliant – they get better and better! First time we ever heard them was at the Tall Ships in 99 – kids sitting on the roof of the Volvo in the Co-op car park to watch them on stage on the pier – Hamnataing playing over the PA system in the Street the morning that the ships were set to sail. They played Hamnataing tonight – it was superb – wonderfully restorative after a hard few weeks at work and worth driving back home through downpour and lightning. In fact, it was energising!

Njugle's right; although the punctuation could be a little more accurate, as follows: Smith, where Jones had had ‘had’, had had ‘had had’. ‘Had had’ had had the teacher’s approval.

Punctuate the following in order that it makes sense: Smith where Jones had had had had had had had had had had had the teacher’s approval. (Daily Mail Annual 1947 – donated to me by a much older friend!!)

How interesting! I too had sat down to Google Lusitania but had not got as far as this! So when he said - 'I have a wife and three children on an island' - that was Foula? But then what subsequently happened to the ownership of the island?

Just come back from Tesco’s and counted 13 sorts on the shelf – with Almond claiming to be going to be discontinued - £1.48 for the 100g bars and £2.48 (i.e. more expensive!) for the 150g bars which include the ones that I like, inevitably. Maybe you could get Typhoon_2099 to run a business in them when he comes home for the holidays…

I think I knew that - but why would that influence what I eat? I remember not buying S African fruit etc in order to contribute to the demise of apartheid, I have a notion one should not touch Nestlé because of anti-breastfeeding formula malpractice stuff in poor countries - and have been past Cadbury factory in B'ham where they had a dodgy infected leaky pipe - but I don’t like milk chocolate anyway. I choose what to eat on grounds of taste, not which multinational makes it! (All of which is a very long way from the title of this thread, Mr Mod – but you started it! )

^^^ ???

^^^ Maybe Lerwick does need a Tesco after all! - just checked the website http://www.greenandblacks.com/uk/categories.php?pageid=27&cid=6 and there are actually 16 different sorts! I only like the dark ones and the mint is too sweet for me but I could munch on the ginger one till the proverbial kye come haem.

(** mod edit - removed quote of whole previous post - keepin' things tidy etc **) Aaah - but which one to choose? Dark cherry so you can carry on sucking the fruity bits - ginger so you can jump at the tingle - plain so you can't eat too much of it...?

^^^ tinned kidney beans are heavy! Depends if you are going for the eating out or the walking.

When my son was doing all his DofE stuff incl a 100k (practice) Gold hike which took in several Munros just for the hell of it he would always get me to send off for proper Army ration packs. They were quite expensive at £10 a day but the great advantage was that they were very lightweight and compact for all the stuff you got in them and he assured me that the meals could be contemplated with some degree of anticipation at the end of a day. Can't check with him as he is currently in Belize doing jungle warfare training! – fortunately it’s only a Gap Year Commission and he will start at uni in Sept - however younger son is pretty certain that this is the right place and that this was the best one because you had a choice of menus. http://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/ishop/877/shopscr409.html

^^^ Probaly not that pricey if out of print as suggested by Amazon. I was raking around on an antiquarian website some few months ago and amazed to see copies of some of the books which I have simply bought in the Times shop over the years - such as Northwards by Sea I think - being offered for over £100 just for rarity value. Quite scary. Glad this thread has drawn my attention to A Shetland Anthology which looks lovely even though I already have a number of its contents in other volumes. Might just get the Times to send me one! BTW photocopy offer still stands although appreciate much less pleasure to be gained from couple of scruffy sheets of paper than from actual volume.

I appreciate that as a student shopping is not your first priority, but… in addition to the four Tesco stores which you mention (also new little Tesco Express in the Ferry) there are two huge Asdas – the old one in Kirkton and the newer one at Milton of Craigie - there is a vast Sainsbury’s 3 mins from me at Claypotts, a number of little Somerfields about the place and 2 Lidls which do all sorts of good cheap no-frills student stuff. With a car, a family to feed and all that choice I stick to Tesco’s Riverside which to me offers best value and range (which I miss if I'm shopping in Lerwick). But it doesn’t seem to stop all the others opening new stores – M & S Simply Food in the Ferry! – and continuing to do business. [/i]

I have a copy of Nordern Lichts - John J Graham and Tammy Alec - published by T & J Manson 1964. Auld Maunsie's Crö is the first piece in it. I don't want to sell the book but am happy to photocopy the four pages and post them - if I recall you are somewhere furth of Shetland anyway?

David, Trout - thank you both so much for your trouble. Have been out all day (so eBay thing had finished and details were gone - but at least I have the name of it) and away tomorrow too - thereafter will have a go at what you recommend. Many thanks for taking time to help me and will let you know how I get on.

Thanks very much for trying to help David. I have had a quick look at the site you recommend but don't see either phone listed so when I have a moment later on will try registering and ask for help there. Meanwhile any other flashes of genius from Shetlinkers welcome - although I suspect that if departed SuperNerd son couldn't do it, and David has tried for himself and couldn’t do it, I'm just going to end up having to type in copies of the texts and their dates sent to new phone, and that may have to do.

Any of you clever techie people out there able to help me please? Have recently acquired a new phone on the usual principle that lorry-driving husband, who has contract so he can tell me how late he is going to be, every now and again gets a ’free’ handset and the other 3 of us take turns having the new one. It is my turn this time as I am taking the Scottish schools’ debating team to South Korea in July (link to ‘Where are you off to next?’!) and so need a quad band if I am to stay in touch with home. What was on offer was a Nokia e50 ‘business’ phone with e-mail and goodness knows what else and a fancy coloured screen that I can see only with my specs on in a good light. The one nice thing is that whereas on all my previous Nokias I have had Hamnataing carefully transcribed for me by my techie son, this thing will take a ring tone directly from the CD, so now I have the great pleasure of Da Bid themselves playing for me. (Chris – if you’re reading this and want to continue that conversation we had about royalties in the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen years ago please pm me!) To get back to my request. On the previous Nokia 6310i I still have a number of text messages for sentiment, going right back to one my elder son sent from a school trip to France to my very first mobile, a Philips which was bought on the pier head in Lerwick at the time of the Tall Ships in ‘99! They have all transferred from sim to sim incl recent one from same son when he was at Sandhurst saying he’d just been thrown out of a bar by Prince William. Because they are on the phone, it now seems that I can’t get them from there to the e50. Husband is due to get 6310i as his old one is falling apart – I really really do not want to lose all these texts and their dates – 21st century equivalent of important family letters which I can carry about with me. I have been told that it ought to be possible to transfer them from the phone to the sim thence to the new phone thence get them from sim on to e50 itself – but techie son is now in Belize on jungle warfare training (‘s ok, he comes out and goes to university before the regiment go back to Iraq) and husband would like the use of the phone. Sorry this is so long – you can tell it’s the holidays! All assistance most gratefully received.