are we wimps?
Posted: Saturday, 25 March 2006 |
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Well whose to say if you are wimps ?- the Flotta bairns battled through the snow to get to school which on some of the days was the only one open in Orkney and Shetland. Tunnels were driven through snow drifts from houses to emerge miles down the road at the school door. How they knew the direction to go in is something of a mystery such is the power of education. Their brains bulging with knowledge they then had to tunnel all the way home again as the snow had filled in their routes.
Bigheid from Flotta
Wimps, eh? Time to put up a blockade around Shetland to prevent further stock dilution!? What about hybrid vigor?!! Re: Shetland radio this morning, quite seriously, with regards to the geese problem (eating grass, neeps and carrots etc): has anyone tried to use border collies to chase them off and keep chasing them off. In Arkansas, where there are lots of commercial ponds of catfish, fish farmers have been successful using border collies to chase the fish eating birds off the levies which the birds use as launching base. Too bad you can't just shoot them up under "a goose in every crofter's (+friends and relatives) pot" program: Easter is coming up ...With a special hunting season you could easily clean out the 2,000 geese or so in Shetland before they get into the habit of breeding. In New Mexico, we have a national wildlife refuge, the Bosque del Apache, with tens of thousands of migrating geese, ducks, sandhill cranes and other fowl wintering every year ... but most of their grub is provided for by/in the refuge. Big tourist attraction.
mjc from NM,USA
No -one who survives a Shetland (Or any Scottish Isles) winter can be a wimp.
Herman from Orkney
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