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OK so how do you find that then? I typed the name into Fb and all it came up with was a 'Grand National' page featuring racing ponies ...

OK - history groups. See below. Reasons are quite abound, check it out. Preference? Am absolutely none the wiser. Check what out where? I just wondered - as a fairly-keen-on-techie-stuff-despite-my-age person, why I would add another site to everything that Fb and Twitter can do. Stilldellin explained clearly why he (he? - assumption) doesn't want the hassle of another tab to open - I thought that you, as a fan of Flickr and PB, might explain to me, as someone who doesn't see the point of them, in what way they are advantageous. Doesn't matter - I find Fb's ability to share with me photos from all over the world quite awesome. Did you and your friends waste any time giving Google+ and its circles a go and then just give up like the rest of us as everything was still on Facebook anyway? Sorry Mods - this thread has moved entirely away from the subject of unusual clouds to the means by which one might best share photos thereof ...

Who are 'we' in this instance? And what would be the reason to put photos on any of these sites? Fair. A lot of my life happens on Facebook as it has become the most efficient means of organising (debating) tournaments and associated events, plus I have recently had two people approach me for a business reference via Fb message, etc. I am therefore on it every day and it is such a pleasure to have George's photos just pop up among all the work and comment stuff without having to go specially to Photobucket or any other photo-specific site. Your occasional pictures are one of the few things that still keep me looking at Shetlink despite all the ghastliness perpetrated by those who seem intent on destroying it as a community resource! Best wishes F.

As I suggested to stilldellin afore - all you guys who are good with the camera should join the Facebook page. I hugely enjoy being on George Graham’s ‘Shetland on Camera’ – there are superb photos to enjoy daily, everyone is very nice to one another – fine change fae Shetlink then! – and there's been a peerie bit of reddin up kin going on as well. I think you have to be invited to join by a group member and George is - wisely - not on Shetlink but you could PM me your Facebook name and I could add you - there are 740 of us in the group. Or - more straightforwardly and perhaps courteously - just look on Facebook for George Graham in Mossbank and ask him directly - it's his group.

Training as a linguist kicking in. That intrigues me. I can't imagine why it would occur to anyone to put the stress on the second syllable. Where are you from originally? Our lot always had just a hint of a Scots 'kh' on the 'ch' ...

This is so disappointing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-18569875

Giggled at the bit where it said 'must have four wheels...' Seriously, why ever would you take your test in a vehicle other that the one in which you'd been learning - and if that was your long-suffering parent's car in which you had spent night after night practising parking and reversing round corners and whatever else - that's the car whose dimensions and turning circle you know! Suppose I am quite soppy about the fact that the two 17-year-olds I have in mind, successively undertaking the above processes in my old S40, now both choose to drive their own V40s ...

^ ^ Wow! Are you part of George Graham's 'Shetland on Camera' group on Facebook?

Nationwide policy? http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Angus/article/23248/i-started-laughing-and-kept-on-laughing-olympic-torch-protester-gets-a-police-visit.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18386590 Seems they did - just didn't get it up live at the time.

Well I was working too. I had to put together a speech I will be giving in the Parliament on Thursday. But I managed without too much difficulty to split my screen, type on one half and watch the live stream – once it got started – on the other. I felt privileged to see the sun shining on the familiar roads in Lerwick and so many folks out cheering on the torch bearers, many of them personally by name as you would expect in the Shetland community. The only disappointment – about which I tweeted – was that, following on from its failure constructively to report on the flotilla in London last weekend, the BBC seemed unable to engage with the yoal trip. You would have thought a cameraman could have managed to walk down to the lochside and show us the crowds and the torch on its boat journey. Glad everyone had a good time and Shetland was so well represented!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17522051

Sorry to disappoint. Have been really busy at work and will be away for much of next three weeks. Liked the blackboard with choice of 'you're / your s***' and the description of SP's meanderings as 'having been translated via Google to Russian and back again'. Off to Cambridge Union on Tuesday followed by formal debate at Oxford Union on Thursday with my former pupil as President. Will report back if anyone commits grammatical or other solecism. :)

It did seem at one point as though said (ex-)hubby had entitled himself Eventide and was engaging in YouTube rock wars with the couple on the sofa; but entertainment quickly turned to tedium and was moderated out of existence when things got unreasonably nasty. Or maybe that was just me imagining things as a private relationship was recorded in public. It would be advantageous to all were GR and US to buy a dishwasher though. And I want to know what happened to the delicate dogs, every step of whose original northward journey was documented...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16443089

Ooops ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-16411914

^ At least it makes sense that with that plane being relatively small it would find difficulty in coping with the wind. Friend in Glasgow yesterday, watching as his garden shed blew away, noted a 747 being 'tossed about like a paper plane' and aborting its approach to land.

For example, we have just been advised by our South African hosts that if one wishes to purchase a local SIM card this can be done only at the airport on landing and on production of an outbound return ticket. Then I spent ½ hour on the phone to Three asking how much it would cost me to connect the iPad - £3 per page of Facebook, was the reply. Think I will confine myself to using the iPad as a Kindle, and not bother phoning anyone ...

As usual, Peat, you have indulged in your favourite pastime of wilful misrepresentation. I should hope that all of us would naturally smile and thank anyone in a customer service environment, when appropriate, as an automatic extension of good manners and consideration. Just as we should hope that those whom we serve would acknowledge us when acting in our own professional / occupational capacity. That doesn’t mean talking down to people who are not in a position to answer back. Of course this works both ways. An earlier poster assured us that they had no instructions to engage in chit-chat. Good. I was not one bit impressed by a grey-haired checkout operator, several years my senior, in Sainsbury’s yesterday, assuming that everyone has just had a happy family Christmas and enquiring cheerfully how I was getting over it. Since my sons and I had made the best of the first Christmas since my husband died I did not have the answer she was expecting.

Given that supermarket name badges generally bear the first name only, and that you have not been introduced and therefore the operator knows you only by the (sur)name on your credit card, does it occur to you that that might make you a patronising twerp? Wishing to remain in employment, the operator has no choice but to smile sweetly back while inwardly seething...

I sent the alcohol manager chappie in our local Sainsbury’s off to check a price the other day when I was trying to buy a Christmas bottle of Grouse for the head janny. ‘Yes’, said he, coming back with a bemused look, ‘that’s what it says on the (centrally programmed) computer – 1 litre £16, 70cl £16.49’. Caveat emptor.

Why don't you two get a dishwasher like normal people? You could buy each other half each for Christmas...

You could cut it up and make it into a soft toy as a souvenir - then post a picture on Shetlink and offer to provide a similar service for others. This might possibly take the form of ... oh, I don't know ... how about a bear? :)

Good God!. NO! Certainly my generation (I'm just a bit older than Ghostrider I think) would speak about 'Going to Scotland' on holiday. Among the really obvious differences; none of the Scottish stereotypes of kilts, bagpipes and tartan is relevant to Shetland.

Maybe there just aren't enough budgie breeders in Shetland to merit setting up a forum for sales...