Thanks to those who asked to peek by e-mail at Jane Glue's painting of the old farmhouse at Grimbister. She did a wonderful job. It is now the home of Grimbister cheese.( I am ordering some of the cheese so we will see how it travels. It has a shelf life of about 30 days, like raw beers.) Jane has a studio in Kirkwall and a great website. Now then Sig, I have watched the cookie chat finally crumble on the site, and I can see both sides, liberal and conservative, democrat and republican. I looked up your website and reviewed the instructions, and I can truly appreciate the frustrations you go through to preserve quality. Someone who doesn't like a message will always shoot the messenger, and that would be you I am sure. I further don't understand why we aren't paying some little amount to belong to this " discussing society". Perhaps you underestimate how we (many from afar) all feel about your great site, in short, it's value. The surviving tree in Orkney is the willow. It bends to the wind when winds are fierce, then bounces back to normal as the wind subsides. A willow never snaps. Don't get too whacked out of shape over cookies. Cookies are a highly personalized, emotional, and very timely Christmas issue, and an expression of pureness of heart from all those wonderful moms and wives out there. Sometimes it pays to be a willow, even if you are an oak by nature. As a Borwick descendant as well, I just know that family had both the oak strength and the willow flexibility, and the wisdom to apply them as needed or they never would have survived, here or over there. Your strength is in your roots, Laddie! For my part, I'll stay on topic, when I can figure out what those might be, save and except I should like your blessing to pass along an "Orkney Oriented" Christmas wish, before Xmas, to those faceless friends I have encountered on your wonderful site while "discussing." I would have done this on a one to one but my heartless service provider wiped out my mail files while "fixing" my hookup. Thus said, would there be anything wrong with some Christmas love and cheer cross-pollinating on your site? The "chatting" can be done one to one without irritating others. I figured that out too late it seems. So we could have the best of both worlds! We all get too soon old and too late smart. Submitted "gingerly" and with the greatest of respect; Stephen (I accept stale cookies in the mail!)

Stephen -- can I remind you of your words nearly a year ago, when Sigurd encouraged us, over and over, to please stick to ORKNEY topics. Which you can't seem to do. Here was [in part] your reply to Sigurd's plea, sent to the List: "on 12/9/03 6:30 AM, stephen davie wrote -- [...] Now then Sig, [...] I looked up your website and reviewed the instructions, and I can truly appreciate the frustrations you go through to preserve quality. Someone who doesn't like a message will always shoot the messenger, and that would be you I am sure... [...] The "chatting" can be done one to one without irritating others. I figured that out too late it seems... [...] We all get too soon old and too late smart." I myself have no desire to hear of your clueless, rude, misinformed and misplaced political rantings on this ORCADIA-List. Keep your Bush and Blair bashing to your own miserable self. If you don't wish to inform yourself of, or face, the realities and consequences of the terrorism all of this world faces, and do something constructive about it, keep your political comments to yourself, or share them with others of your ilk. Don't tell the Orcadia-List. My apologies to the rest of you for my directness. Lisa

I think it is around eight p.m. Bets are on Kerry. I don't share your views on censorship, and we probably wouldn't make a great canoe paddling team, but I respect your viewpoint, if somewhat vitriolic. I was responding to someone who had a view on orkney beer, or whatever, and she thought it was off topic. I think it was Orkney beer. I never had a sheepdip, or a ramsrump or whatever. Yours Aye: Stephen On Thursday, September 30, 2004, at 10:35 AM, Lisa Conrad wrote: > Stephen -- can I remind you of your words nearly a year ago, when > Sigurd > encouraged us, over and over, to please stick to ORKNEY topics. Which > you > can't seem to do. > > Here was [in part] your reply to Sigurd's plea, sent to the List: > > "on 12/9/03 6:30 AM, stephen davie wrote -- [...] Now then Sig, [...] > I > looked up your website and reviewed the instructions, and I can truly > appreciate the frustrations you go through to preserve quality. > Someone who > doesn't like a message will always shoot the messenger, and that would > be > you I am sure... [...] The "chatting" can be done one to one without > irritating others. I figured that out too late it seems... [...] We > all get > too soon old and too late smart." > > > > > I myself have no desire to hear of your clueless, rude, misinformed and > misplaced political rantings on this ORCADIA-List. > Keep your Bush and Blair bashing to your own miserable self. > If you don't wish to inform yourself of, or face, the realities and > consequences of the terrorism all of this world faces, and do something > constructive about it, keep your political comments to yourself, or > share > them with others of your ilk. > Don't tell the Orcadia-List. > > > My apologies to the rest of you for my directness. > > > Lisa > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >