Unless you're on Stronsay and need to have your appendix out NOW.... There's a time and place for everything, and I'll bet that the fare for the high-speed passenger-only ferry will keep people from using it frivolously. Anne Slater On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Tuck <tuck12@comcast.net> wrote: > I'd rather thought that the essence of Orkney was not about speed. > > > Tuck > On Jun 16, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Bruce Fletcher wrote: > > > You have to put up with an advert at the start of the clip! > > <http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-070610-n1-ferry> > > -- > > Bruce Fletcher > > Stronsay, Orkney > > <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com > > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > > the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I thought it was Just-Orkney oriented. If people really only want to do genealogy on this list serve, please let me know. When I hear from enough people I'll decide whether to stay on or not Anne Slater. s. e. PA On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Jim Jackson <popsjackson@charter.net>wrote: > Folks, > > This is a genealogically oriented mailing list and there is nothing > genealogical about this current discussion. The discussion is ended. As > administrator I will do whatever necessary to ensure that fact. > > Let's get back to genealogy, shall we? > > Thanks, > > Jim "Pops" Jackson > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Folks, This is a genealogically oriented mailing list and there is nothing genealogical about this current discussion. The discussion is ended. As administrator I will do whatever necessary to ensure that fact. Let's get back to genealogy, shall we? Thanks, Jim "Pops" Jackson

You have to put up with an advert at the start of the clip! <http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-070610-n1-ferry> -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk>

I was under the impression that this was an Orkney oriented list. I thought there were other genealogy-limited lists for those who feel the need for that constraint. - Rob Sutherland On 2010-06-16, at 7:00 PM, Slater Anne wrote: > I thought it was Just-Orkney oriented. > If people really only want to do genealogy on this list serve, please let me > know. When I hear from enough people I'll decide whether to stay on or not > Anne Slater. s. e. PA > > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Jim Jackson <popsjackson@charter.net>wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> This is a genealogically oriented mailing list and there is nothing >> genealogical about this current discussion. The discussion is ended. As >> administrator I will do whatever necessary to ensure that fact. >> >> Let's get back to genealogy, shall we? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jim "Pops" Jackson >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ******************************************** Robert James Sutherland, PhD Alberta Heritage Medical Scientist Director, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience Professor, Dept of Neuroscience Univ of Lethbridge 4401 University Drive Lethbridge AB Canada T1K 3M4 Tel/Tél: 403-394-3987 Admin assistant: 403-394-3900 Fax/Télécopieur: 403-329-2775 E-mail/Courriel: robert.sutherland@uleth.ca ********************************************

Hello Karen: Oil is not off topic in Orkney. Neither is the Gulf Stream, the North Atlantic Drift, or the subject of off shore drilling, which paves the roads in Orkney, and puts playground equipment in school yards there. BP is an international corporation with 35% American ownership and presently operating in waters under American laws and management and control. Indeed, President Obama seems to think the issue is in large part American, as to the disenfranchised fishermen, horrified holiday folks, and resort and property owners. The fact is that the problem now is NOT an exclusive American horror story. The Mexicans, have a serious stake in the well being of the Gulf of MEXICO. The Cuban economy stands to be gutted to the tune of billions, when this oil reaches la habana and the beaches across to Holguin. To the point, I have seen driftwood on Stronsay, where Bruce lives, which wood was plucked from the sea there, and which wood was obviously once rooted in south america. The reality of the Gulf Stream and the associated North Atlantic Drift, would indicate that there now is a probability that this spill won't avoid making it's way to the North, between Orkney and Iceland. This of course is not just my opinion, but rather that of internationally recognized scientists and oceanographers alike. The reason is because at a couple million gallons a day, to continue until late fall after hurricane season, there will be just too much of this oil afloat to avoid such an event from becoming reality. Contrary to what you read in the news, this is not about the United States. Yes, the ability to respond to a crisis in the Gulf, in American waters legally, and under American regulations, has been sub standard. The President is being harassed each day as if it was his personal responsibility. His approach has been unlike that of his predecessor. But the USA is not the world custodian of the high seas. I don't think it becomes anyone to get their shorts in a knot because what has happened is this time rooted in American waters and under American regulations. What the world needs to do, is act. Obama has identified the shortfall of adequate safeguards and responsibilities of the previous administration, and if BP doesn't pay out an annual dividend, I don't think the world will fret much. Orkney is pristine, unlike anything in the USA or other overdeveloped countries. The sand on the beaches of places like Stronsay and Rousay, are as clean and crisp as exist in the world. The oil industry in the North Sea, has avoided the types of horrors which are seen on the news every night nowadays. I am just wondering how prepared the Brits are in a situation where a blowout occurred in the North Sea. Seems to me that the standards over there, are perhaps more realistic and practically motivated. I spoke to a lady yesterday in Arkansas who has discovered spots on the plants in her vegetable garden. She is 82 and has never seen this. Someone in North or South Carolina found the same. It was felt that there was a connection between residue from rainfall which originated from moist air off of the Gulf. Karen, keep an eye on your petunias! So, we in Canada share the same concerns as people in Orkney and Mexico and Cuba do about a billion or two gallons of oil floating around in the Gulf and the Gulf Stream, in the advent of hurricane season. I should think you might harbor the same concerns. Had any Gulf Shrimp lately? It isn' t selling well here. But I can but great Orkney salmon, just down the road from here. I hope that will always be the case. Cheers from Canada.... Stephen On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:27 PM, KJEMEM@aol.com wrote: > Stephen, would you please get your facts straight and use them > correctly > before you start bashing. > It's BP's oil, BP's leak, BP's negligence, & BP's denial of the > quantities > and effects people here have been pointing out from the beginning. > Not to > mention the UK being offended that we make demands and accusations > against > a company, which, although international, has British in it's name. > > It's off topic and enough said, but I couldn't leave it where you > did. > > Karen > > > > > In a message dated 6/16/2010 3:09:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > stephen.davie@sympatico.ca writes: > > Interesting Bruce. Certainly seems to make sense to use the smaller > faster boats, especially when there are no vehicles or freight items > involved. > > I have been watching the news recently, about the devastating oil > blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. The Yanks seemed very slow on the > uptake to stop the leak. > Today they have finally conceded that the actual daily gush, is about > 60,000 barrels or 2.4 million gallons per day. It is approaching 60 > days, or more than a quarter of a billion gallons. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Stephen, would you please get your facts straight and use them correctly before you start bashing. It's BP's oil, BP's leak, BP's negligence, & BP's denial of the quantities and effects people here have been pointing out from the beginning. Not to mention the UK being offended that we make demands and accusations against a company, which, although international, has British in it's name. It's off topic and enough said, but I couldn't leave it where you did. Karen In a message dated 6/16/2010 3:09:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, stephen.davie@sympatico.ca writes: Interesting Bruce. Certainly seems to make sense to use the smaller faster boats, especially when there are no vehicles or freight items involved. I have been watching the news recently, about the devastating oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. The Yanks seemed very slow on the uptake to stop the leak. Today they have finally conceded that the actual daily gush, is about 60,000 barrels or 2.4 million gallons per day. It is approaching 60 days, or more than a quarter of a billion gallons.

Interesting Bruce. Certainly seems to make sense to use the smaller faster boats, especially when there are no vehicles or freight items involved. I have been watching the news recently, about the devastating oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. The Yanks seemed very slow on the uptake to stop the leak. Today they have finally conceded that the actual daily gush, is about 60,000 barrels or 2.4 million gallons per day. It is approaching 60 days, or more than a quarter of a billion gallons. The Orkney interest herein is that the Gulf Stream is pointed your way, and the toxic dispersants they seem to use without much knowledge or indeed consent, may well produce a situation where the residues from this spill could make it to Orkney. Hard to imagine, but when you stop to consider that this could go on for another six months or so before the interceptor wells are in place, and the hurricane season in the Gulf is over, that we are talking billions of gallons of oil here. I saw south american driftwood in Orkney, so this American oil is a distinct possibility. Too, people elsewhere in the world, including Canada's east coast, where wells are drilled at sea, are doing the "what if" evaluation. In light of Orkney's exposure to deep wells adjacent on a sometimes ferocious sea, one might ask how well prepared Orkney is for the same type of oil bath that the Gulf is experiencing from a NOrth Sea blowout. The Cubans have identified slicks off their coast in the Gulf Stream, so the first of it has already rounded the bend to turn north in the Gulf Stream. I don't know what the stream's flow rate is, but the numbers are available to produce some projections. One thing for sure, this scenario is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better, and the environmental damage will be evident into the next century. It is time the bigger economies in the world stopped using the oceans as if they were their exclusive dumps. I can't in my wildest nightmares, envision what a billion gallons of oil will look like on the blue Gulf and Cuban waters. We have already seen what it has done to the beaches. There are submerged globs of this toxic grease, which have been measured at over 30 kms in length. Will it make it to Orkney? Well, if that is where the Gulf Stream goes, for sure that is where this oil will in part be headed. I imagine scientists are tugging their beards over this one. So, what are people in Orkney saying? Thanks for the ferry clip. Lots of those zodiac boats here. The coast guard and police love them. Yachties all have the smaller versions for tenders. cheers... Steve On Jun 16, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Bruce Fletcher wrote: > You have to put up with an advert at the start of the clip! > <http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-070610-n1-ferry> > -- > Bruce Fletcher > Stronsay, Orkney > <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

BBC to be carrying some St Magnus Festival concerts starting with Radio Scotland on Sunday: Sunday, 17:05 on BBC Radio Scotland, Classics Unwrapped. St Magnus coverage of the BBC Scottish Symhphony Orchestra will be broadcast on Radio 3 from June 28th as part of Afternoon on 3. >From July 27th Radio 3 will broadcast 4 lunchtime concerts from St Magnus Festival. Find out more about these, as well as films and photos from Orkney from the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts page. See More _BBC - BBC Radio Scotland Programmes - Classics Unwrapped, 20/06/2010_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ssr9q) _www.bbc.co.uk_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk) Wish I were there. Karen

Hi all, I am trying to find my father in law's obituary on the Orcadian newspaper website but am having a lot of trouble. If any of you can help I would appreciate it. His name was John William Arthur Cutt from Gerbo North Ronaldsay. He passed away on Monday 10 May and his funeral is today 13 May. I know that my husband said it got in the paper this week but I can't find it. Thanks Ginger Cutt

Flights to/from Kirkwall tomorrow (Tuesday) seem to be taking place except for those to/from Shetland. <http://www.hial.co.uk/Kirkwall-flights.html> -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk>

Hi all, At the moment I'm staying in Iceland. The erruption doesn't cause a lot of trouble, except the closest area to the volcano. Yesterday the ashfall was so massive within that area, that at 15:00 it looked like at moonless night, a bit apocaliptic, see the TV report: http://dagskra.ruv.is/sjonvarpid/4497965/2010/04/17/0/ <http://dagskra.ruv.is/sjonvarpid/4497965/2010/04/17/0/>Other parts of Iceland practically don't suffer at all, becase the wind brings all the ash away down to Europe. Almost all internal flights are operated. I've heard that ash was seen in Faroe Islands, don't know about Shetland. Hope the erruption will be over soon. All the best, Andrei

Bruce.... Thanks for the note. I hope all is well with Maureen. The flight sounds like not much more than a takeoff and a landing. Keep Well....Stephen On Apr 18, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Bruce Fletcher ((Stronsay, Orkney)) wrote: > On 18/04/2010 15:53, stephen davie wrote: >> HI.... >> >> Bruce...why would ya fly to kirkwall from Stronsay? >> Just wonderin' here in the Canadian midnorth. >> Stephen > > We fly to Kirkwall from Stronsay (and then take a taxi to Balfour > hospital) because Maureen cannot travel on the ferry for medical > reasons; time is another factor - the flight takes 10 minutes whereas > the ferry takes over 90 minutes. > -- > Bruce Fletcher > Stronsay, Orkney > <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk> > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Radio Orkney reports on Facebook that "Based on the latest atmospheric information available, Loganair has now taken the decision to cancel all flights for tomorrow (Monday, April 19). No flight operations will take place and the situation will be kept under review on a daily basis. A decision about flights scheduled for Tuesday, April 20 will be taken tomorrow afternoon." -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk>

On 18/04/2010 17:59, Tuck wrote: > Åll, > > What about flights from Orkland to Shetney? > > > Tuck ALL flights to AND from Kirkwall have been cancelled since Thursday. -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk>

On 18/04/2010 17:44, Tuck wrote: > Bruce, > > From what I've read planes can fly at low altitude, under the cloud, > and certainly from Stronsay to Kirkwall they wouldn't get much above > 30,000 feet. So you might be in luck. > > > Tuck I wouldn't like to be in one of the Islanders at 30,000 feet without oxygen! Its service ceiling is 13,200 feet but on the Stronsay/Kirkwall run it rarely exceeds 1,500 feet. -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk>

From the Radio Orkney Facebook page : " Statement from Loganair - "Based on the latest atmospheric information available, Loganair has now taken the decision to cancel all flights for tomorrow (Monday, April 19). No flight operations will take place and the situation will be kept under review on a daily basis. A decision about flights scheduled for Tuesday, April 20 will be taken tomorrow afternoon. Tuck wrote: > Bruce, > > From what I've read planes can fly at low altitude, under the cloud, > and certainly from Stronsay to Kirkwall they wouldn't get much above > 30,000 feet. So you might be in luck. > > > Tuck > > Isn't 30,000 feet about the distance from Stronsay to Kirkwall? > > > > On Apr 18, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkney) wrote: > > >> On 18/04/2010 16:59, Brass Joy wrote: >> >>> We wish Maureen well. This volcano is really causing havoc. >>> >>> >> Thankyou for your concern. At the moment the only problem affecting us >> directly is the absence of newspapers. >> The BBC is reporting that flight restrictions have been extended until >> at least 7am on Monday but some airlines are questioning the extent of >> the danger. >> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8627545.stm> >> and >> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8628034.stm> >> -- >> Bruce Fletcher >> Stronsay, Orkney >> <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk> >> _______________________________________ >> Orcadia Group Photo Album >> http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message >> > > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.801 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2818 - Release Date: 04/18/10 07:31:00 > >

Up to now even the inter-isles flights have been cancelled. BBC Radio 4 News did announce today that there may be some flights operating from "Shetland and Orkland"(??!!!) but don't think any have actually gone today. Good ol' BBC - can pronounce the Icelandic names perfectly (apparently according to someone in Iceland) but are now calling us "Orkland"...... Tuck wrote: > Bruce, > > From what I've read planes can fly at low altitude, under the cloud, > and certainly from Stronsay to Kirkwall they wouldn't get much above > 30,000 feet. So you might be in luck. > > > Tuck > > Isn't 30,000 feet about the distance from Stronsay to Kirkwall? > > > > On Apr 18, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkney) wrote: > > >> On 18/04/2010 16:59, Brass Joy wrote: >> >>> We wish Maureen well. This volcano is really causing havoc. >>> >>> >> Thankyou for your concern. At the moment the only problem affecting us >> directly is the absence of newspapers. >> The BBC is reporting that flight restrictions have been extended until >> at least 7am on Monday but some airlines are questioning the extent of >> the danger. >> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8627545.stm> >> and >> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8628034.stm> >> -- >> Bruce Fletcher >> Stronsay, Orkney >> <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk> >> _______________________________________ >> Orcadia Group Photo Album >> http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message >> > > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.801 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2818 - Release Date: 04/18/10 07:31:00 > >

On 18/04/2010 16:59, Brass Joy wrote: > We wish Maureen well. This volcano is really causing havoc. > Thankyou for your concern. At the moment the only problem affecting us directly is the absence of newspapers. The BBC is reporting that flight restrictions have been extended until at least 7am on Monday but some airlines are questioning the extent of the danger. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8627545.stm> and <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8628034.stm> -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk>

On 18/04/2010 15:53, stephen davie wrote: > HI.... > > Bruce...why would ya fly to kirkwall from Stronsay? > Just wonderin' here in the Canadian midnorth. > Stephen We fly to Kirkwall from Stronsay (and then take a taxi to Balfour hospital) because Maureen cannot travel on the ferry for medical reasons; time is another factor - the flight takes 10 minutes whereas the ferry takes over 90 minutes. -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk>