Up Helly Aa

Anyone that has access to the BBC news channel, I believe they are showing segments of this years Up Helly Aa live tomorrow from 17.30 (31st January) onwards, until it finishes later tomorrow night.

Aurora borealis

The northern lights, showing in Walls, Shetland, UK, four days ago.

A beacon for progress!!!

As Alex Salmond said, a vote on independence will be Scotland’s biggest decision for over three hundred years and he plans to hold the referendum in 2014. He also stated that Scotland can be a “beacon for progressive opinion south of the border.”

Mr Salmond will be back in Scotland today and he will let us know what he has planned regarding his intentions for the referendum on independence in two years time.

As he has said, “This is the biggest decision for Scotland to make in three hundred years. As I'll be laying out tomorrow, I think we should do that in a careful and considered timetable.

I don't think we should rush at it. I think we should have time to explain the arguments, to debate the thing thoroughly and then come to a conclusion as a country."

Personally, I see a beacon, standing tall and glaring its light in Scotland, showing us the way to prosperity, employment and health, where any problems that occur are not those that are maliciously inflicted by the so-called “British” government.

We will be better as a nation alone!!! 

Please consider joining the Scottish National Party and help look after your country!!!

Another threatening letter

Capita, nee T.V Licencing have sent me yet another threatening letter. Discourteous at the very least, considering that, as I said a couple of months ago, I don't watch the telly and have no plans to either. Not in this lifetime anyway.

I have also provided that information to them, see T.V licence or no T.V licence but it doesn't stop them, they just carry on spewing out offensive garbage, on behalf of the BBC.

Time to forward it on to Zarin Patel, Chief Financial Officer of the BBC and let her deal with it. After all, I do believe that she had something to do with taking them on in the first place.

I wonder what chance there is of her doing anything useful about it. I'll keep you posted

The power cut that we suffered over Christmas

Here in Hillswick, in Northmavine at the north end of Mainland, Shetland, UK, the electricity went off at 14.45 on Christmas Day and came back on the next day, Boxing Day at 16.50. That is twenty-six hours and five minutes with no electricity.

I wonder how many Christmas dinners were destroyed here but more to the point, I wonder how many people complained about the power cut and therefore got the same cheque for £54.00, through the door today as I did.

I bet that I'm the only man that did it. I bet that I'm the only man that knows that if everyone complains the service will be improved and the power cuts will stop happening.

But I'll also bet that they haven't stopped talking about it yet. It's amazing how long you can spend talking about the results of doing bugger all.

SNP RSS feed

Just to let all the folk who want the best for the Scottish nation know that there is now an RSS feed for the SNP on the left-hand side, just under the weather forecast. Feel free to use it anytime, for as long as you like, after all, that's what it's there for!!!

SNP

I've just joined up with the SNP and am proud to say that. When the vote is taken, what do you want the result to be, do you want to see Scotland continuing to pay more in than it gets back.

Oh, and do me a favour please. Tell Tony Blair that we want the oil fields that he stole in '99 back.