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Sandemaniac
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Calling Piglet!
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Piglet
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Crikey! We went to the Ness when we were home in 2013, but they'd closed up for the season when we were over last month. It's a huge site, and they reckon it may extend for miles, under neighbouring fields.
Mmmm ... auroch steaks ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Sandemaniac
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Well spank me with a prize leek and call me Hamish!
I've tried several times over the years to find out what happened to a distant cousin who was supposed to have vanished on Ben Nevis, with no joy.
Having started again, I asked for advice yesterday and this morning the answer was in my inbox!
Poor beggar got lost in the hills above what is now Loch Cluanie, off the A87, in January 1960, and wasn't found until September 1962. I can't even begin to imagine what his mother must have been through, because the very day he went missing his father dropped dead of a heart attack. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Surfing Madness
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Looking for some advice. How easy is it to get to Aberdeen airport? I'm happy to drive, get the bus or train. Just looking at options at the moment.
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North East Quine
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Where are you trying to get to Aberdeen airport from? If you're travelling from Aberdeen railway station it's fairly easy, as there are regular buses.
If you're driving up from Dundee, you go up the A90 to Aberdeen, round Anderson Drive and then head out of Aberdeen on the A96. The airport is well signposted from the A96. It's quite straightforward, but factor in traffic delays on Anderson Drive.
I think there's a shuttle bus from Dyce railway station to the airport, but I've never used it.
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North East Quine
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Aberdeen railway station and Aberdeen main bus station are next to each other ( connected by a short mall of cafes and shops) so it's easy to reach Aberdeen by train, then switch over to a bus or vice versa.
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Piglet
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... connected by a short mall of cafes and shops ...
Goodness - it's a long time since I've been in Aberdeen! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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As the old saying goes, if you are trying to got to Aberdeen Airport I wouldn't start from where you were thinking of starting from.
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North East Quine
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... connected by a short mall of cafes and shops ...
Goodness - it's a long time since I've been in Aberdeen!
It's totally different; a whole shopping mall has been squeezed in next to the railway station, with the bus station relocated slightly. It's Aberdeen's shiniest, most up-market mall, entirely soulless, and it's pulled more shops away from Union Street, which is becoming steadily sorrier-looking.
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North East Quine
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To clarify:
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a short mall of cafes and shops
Union Square mall itself is huge, but the connecting section between railway and bus station is at the narrowest bit of the mall.
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Piglet
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... it's pulled more shops away from Union Street, which is becoming steadily sorrier-looking.
That's sad. When I lived in Aberdeen (early 1980s) Union Street was a really nice place to go shopping, especially for a peasant from the sticks like me.
It seems to be the fate of some city-centre "high streets"; many of the shops in downtown St. John's are just tourist-traps selling chunky hats and fluffy puffins.
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North East Quine
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Union Street should be Aberdeen's main shopping street - it's unique to Aberdeen and visually stunning. However, it's increasingly being taken over by building societies and other non-shops, plus charity shops and, currently, three different pound shops. Aberdeen Council's answer to this is to propose a fifth glass-and-metal box shopping mall, this time on Upperkirkgate / Broad street (shudder).
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Sandemaniac
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Aberdeen City Council should visit Colchester. It has a High Street with no shops, because they're all in the shopping centres. It's very odd, and not a little miserable.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Aberdeen City Council should visit Colchester. It has a High Street with no shops, because they're all in the shopping centres. It's very odd, and not a little miserable.
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That sounds a lot like Newport. Brand new bus station but so little town left now thanks to out of town shopping. About one-third of shops are unoccupied, even by charities or poundshops.
A new shopping centre is being built (mostly on the site of the old bus station) but the best that can be hoped for is that some stores move back to the town centre.
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Piglet
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... Colchester ... has a High Street with no shops ...
Oh I don't know - I went shopping there when we were home visiting D's mum in September. There's still Williams & Griffin (traditional Jenners-type department store), and Debenhams, Marks & Sparks and H&M all have entrances on the high street (although their postal addresses are in Culver Square, which is a sort of open courtyard with shops on all sides).
It's not quite Princes Street (or even Union Street as I remember it), but it's a lot better than anything we've got in Newfoundland.
eta: Now I think about it, if you want a decent high street, you could do a lot worse than Belfast - when we lived there Royal Avenue/Donegall Place was a really not bad place to shop, with most of the usual high street suspects (some of them in a covered shopping centre called Castle Court located about half-way up the street) and a very good Tesco Metro.
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I have fond memories of shopping in downtown Belfast.
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cattyish
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I prefer shopping in my own wee village where the garage sells everything from tractors to insoles via gardening, camping, cycling, decorating and household. And we have a shop. I can cycle to the newest, poshest deli around from here too.
Cattyish, living in the posh sticks.
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daisymay
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How dark is now? I remember when going to school (in Blairgowrie) it was very dark. It did get different, not dark then, when we played at lunchtime at school outside.
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Piglet
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Having grown up in Orkney I was used to going to (and coming from) school in the dark. It was more than compensated for by the long days in the summer.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
... connected by a short mall of cafes and shops ...
Goodness - it's a long time since I've been in Aberdeen!
It's totally different; a whole shopping mall has been squeezed in next to the railway station, with the bus station relocated slightly. It's Aberdeen's shiniest, most up-market mall, entirely soulless, and it's pulled more shops away from Union Street, which is becoming steadily sorrier-looking.
I was shocked, shocked I tell you when I got off the train in Aberdeen in April. I was waiting to be picked up and I was expecting the usual mingingness you used to get hanging around there but lo a shiny new shopping centre. On the way back I popped into Nandos before I got my train and was told they'd run out of chips. How?
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Alan Cresswell
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It's a bit like one occasion when we stopped at KFC to be told they had no chicken.
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Piglet
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I really don't know how they can find an adequate excuse for that. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
I remember a local restaurant (which was normally very good) losing hundreds of points on the D. and Piglet Scale because they ran out of potatoes.
There's a late-opening deli/mini-market a couple of blocks along the street from them, and at least one 24/7 supermarket within 10 minutes' drive - couldn't they have gone and got some?
IIRC D. was on the point of offering to go and get some ...
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Sioni Sais
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It's a bit like one occasion when we stopped at KFC to be told they had no chicken.
Why should the absence of chicken stop them? I have had some very odd shaped pieces of chicken at KFC and the like.
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North East Quine
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Today has been the epitome of dreich. There wasn't enough light during the day for our garden solar lights to as much as flicker on come dusk.
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Piglet
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Now that really is dreich, NEQ. We're having moderately silly weather at the moment: today it didn't get above 2°C and we had what a friend calls "fat rain"* most of the afternoon.
Tomorrow we're forecast to get ordinary rain (lots) and a temperature of 14°C.
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* soft, white rain/snow mix that doesn't lie; anything to avoid using the word "snow".
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daisymay
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What is it today ? We've been shown about lots of white ones. I also remember being a child when we played with the white ones on the ground.
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daisymay
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This evening I went to the Scottish Kirk in London and it is really excellent and nice people.
Today we had bread and wine ! We do not have it every week.
And we have tea and coffee after it finishes praying and singing. It was nice and also something sweet to eat.
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Piglet
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Was that St. Columba's, Pont Street, Daisymay? Andrea Price, one of the clergy there, and her husband are friends of ours from Orkney.
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daisymay
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It is Crown Court Church, at Russel Street, Covent Garden. The man in charge is Reverend Philip Majcher. he's very good.
They have a Coral singing at Trafalgar Square on Saturday 20. I might get along on 5pm to see and hear it.
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Sandemaniac
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Yoohoooo! Piglet!
It's a Sunday this year... If it's clear, I might try and catch the sunrise here, just to mark the days beginning to lengthen. The Kirkwall time is 9.05 am - perfect, can watch it on the webcam before ringing for service!
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Sandemaniac
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I'm an eejit, it's the sunset at Maes Howe!
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Alan Cresswell
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The winter days are short up there. So, not much difference in time between sunrise and sunset.
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Sandemaniac
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Six hours and 11 minutes. Can you tell I looked it up?
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Piglet
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Yoohoooo! Piglet!
Thanks for posting that, Sandemaniac - 9 o'clock in the morning in Kirkwall is 5:30 here, so I'll probably still be tucked up in bed, but I suspect that pictures will probably appear on the "Orkney Past and Present" group on Facebook (if you're on FB, you should join it - people post some absolute stunners of photographs).
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daisymay
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Today I went to Trafalgar Square as the www.crowncourtchurch.org.uk as Scottish one, was doing the singing this evening.
I had the papers to sing also and they were always about God and one was "Unto us Born a Son."
It was a really lovely time to be there with them. We had 15 songs and bits of speaking by them. There were hundreds of people to be listening and being feeling of God.
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Piglet
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I love Unto us is born a son, Daisymay - in fact I'd go as far as to say it's my favourite Christmas carol.
Glad you enjoyed it.
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daisymay
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I enjoyed that one and the others too.
We sang "Away in a manger: and it had "I love thee, Lord Jesus!" "Be near me Lord Jesus, and love me I pray."
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Welease Woderwick
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Happy New Year!
In keeping with Ship tradition old regional threads die on the last of the year and then new threads appear when anyone so minded starts the next.
I'll miss this thread but I'm sure a sooper-dooper new thread will soon takes its place.
Go to it, Shipmates.
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