March 2008

…as played on today’s show!

Good news! We’ve been told that the Scottish government is to consider changes to crofting law which could put an end to uncontrolled wandering of the lanolin-soaked disease carriers. Also, thanks to Jimmy C for pointing out that the upper limit for the Small Claims Court in Scotland is now £3000. Which might just about…

In Shetland they’re disease-ridden, enormously destructive, almost valueless, stupidly romanticised subsidy objects, and if it wasn’t for the ramifications I’d have been out this morning already with the .20 gauge terminating the ones that have destroyed our trees, bulbs and grass. Despite the cattle grid installed at enormous expense. We found out this week that…

Fair play to BT, or British Telecom…one on-line reporting of a fault at The Radiocroft, and within an hour or so an engineer – Ross – was in the exchange re-setting the ISDN card…another lightning strike suspected; everything is now fixed and The Radiocroft is back online, with broadband due for installation tomorrow. We’re going…

I feel sorry for the local BT engineers, who respond like lightning to…well. Lightning strikes that fry the Hillswick telephone exchange. But over the past five weeks, my ISDN (Integrated Systems Digital Network) line has melted down no less than four times, all but once sending my daily radio show into a disastrous tailspin and…