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

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 >

Anne, Does not the Kirkwall Hospital have a helicopter for emergency airlifts? T he quotes I heard on the video clip were about football teams getting to matches, not appendectomies. Sure, having a fast boat is a good idea, but let's hope it doesn't spur so many more that the lovely slower ferries are pinched out of business. Of course they won't be, since the small fast boats can't carry cars, cows, nor much else but people. As for the oil spill in the Gulf, it is a world problem, not a local one. And as for this link being only about genealogy, I never heard that and wouldn't be interested if it was so limited. Tuck On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Slater Anne wrote: > 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 >> > > ------------------------------- > 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

Many folk move here for a "slower" pace of life, and many tourists visit for that reason. However for those of us that live and work here - sometimes time is of the essence ;-) Sian On 17/06/2010 02:29, Tuck 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 > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.829 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2941 - Release Date: 06/16/10 07:35:00 > >

Sian: There is something unique about the sense of isolation one feels, being on an island. As one who actually lives on an outer island in Orkney, I wonder if you still feel that sense of being off on your own. For a tourist visiting one of the smaller islands, the ferry pulling away from the dock and abandoning them, is a subtle sort of message to say that, "Well, you're going to be here for awhile!" And "Don't even think about leaving until you see theferry back at the dock." Here, on the Manitoulin, people find being an islander to be somewhat unique. It is as if being on an island is rather like being a little micro country, seperated by adjoining territories by water. Some people refuse to leave for any reason. There is an insular sense of security in living on an island. The idea of living on one of the Orkney out islands, particularly in the winter, makes me think that there must be almost a spiritual attraction for those tucked away places, that you could only understand by living there. I have read now for years your postings about your life where you live, and I conclude that you wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Makes me want to ask what the list entails, that encompasses the values and ammenities and lifestyle that keep you there. People lived on those incredible islets long before there were engines, ferries, and tourists. When they wern't involved in far away conflicts, or local ones, life was good. I guess that fact is still unchanged. Cheers: Stepehn On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:45 AM, Sian Thomas wrote: > Many folk move here for a "slower" pace of life, and many tourists > visit > for that reason. However for those of us that live and work here - > sometimes time is of the essence ;-) > > Sian >