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16 October 2014

Annie Beag


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Tunnel of Love?

Can’t wait for this Thursday’s Gazette for more details about plans for an underwater link between the Western Isles and the mainland. Seemingly the idea has come from the Outer Hebrides Economic Forum. With this sort of creative thinking I can only think that Calum and Donald must be involved. (And it’s not even April) It seems only a matter of time till we have a Tunnel of Love for the fank and Eoro-star trains from the mainland to Eoropie. All of Ness’s finest retail outlets will have to stock up on notebooks, pens, thermos flasks and tartan shopping bags for the train spotters. (‘Look children, a train!’) Wonder if we can expect to see Ewan McGregor at South Dell Sidings in a hardcore anorak?
Posted on Annie Beag at 22:38

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Donald has applied for outline planning permission and is looking for any old cas croms ( potato diggers) He feels that if the Lewis side is dug manually it will provide 'chobs for the boys' for many years to come. We are going to use the collected spoil to build an artificial ski slope at Skigersta which the village has been crying out for. We are forming a new rail company to bid for the Trans Minch rail contract - Caledonian MacTrain has a definite ring to it!!

calumannabel from The Signal Box North Galson Upper


Will they have sheep day return tickets?

Oor Woollie from the moors


We could pop down when the OIC have built our tunnel under the Firth (The Tunnel of Mirth - everyone splits their sides when some mug comes up with this 'new idea'...again) with our tushkars and give you a hand. Errrrr.....did one of you rather carelessly lose a ferry? It's just we have a small black tub called Hebridean Isles in Stromness Harbour and it's definitely not one of ours. It's a wee kinda sub-standard thing - Caramac or something. Not what we're used to at all....

Flying Cat from among the cobwebs


What is a hardcore anorak? I knew they made outerwear from recycled plastic bottles but not from road foundation material. I think there is an Ian Allan living in South Dell already but whether it's the same one of trainspotting fame I'll have to ask his brother Donald Allan. Doe he open his front door with an Allan Key Donald asks?

calumannabel from Dell sous Minch.


Will Donald's construction team involve 5 unemployed tarmac layers - 'Boys from the Blog Stuff'?

Annie B from the usual


Some moggie grumbled that probably Ewan McGregor will be sliding up in a hardcore mac (not anorak: where do you think the Fank is being held? In the US?!).

mjc from NM,USA


After the Castle Grounds Express we now get the Harris Tunnel. Erm, isn't Eurotunnel practically bust?

Arnish Lighthouse from Stornoway


Is this a hardcore Mac I'm blogging from?

Flying Cat from alert but not alarmed


Well, one mention of a tunnel and our ferries go AWOL looking for new routes. Fancy not knowing what a hardcore anorak is, Calum. You'll find one in the JD Williams catalogue near the tar mac section.

Annie B from the usual


I think Shorn Bean is more likely to turn up at the Fank than Ian MacGregor.

calumannabel from Mac's Multisceen Cinema North Dell


No, FC, it's a hard-wired Mac you are blogging from. Any new Vista in your neighborhood?

mjc from NM,USA


There are lots of practical busts at the WRI. You can have the AWOL ferry back right now if you really want it. After yesterday's crossing the carpets will need cleaning......

Flying Cat from confused but bearing up


Donald likes practical busts he also likes unfeasibly large ones but his psychiatrist is addressing this problem.

calumannabel from Northern Front


How does a psychiatrist address an unfeasably large bust? I'd really like to know. This information may come in handy....

Flying Cat from confused but bearing up


In pretty much the same way as you address a haggis - same shape (roughly) same consistency in some cases too.

calumannabel from Lewis


I am not sure I am to believe what I am reading. And I am pretty convinced all the mushrooms I collected were the normal comestible type, if not necessarily kosher.

mjc from NM,USA


Same consistancy????? The few remaining wimmin in the West must either have hardcore X Your Heart foundation garments, or implants. Another use for CB's finest puds...

Flying Cat from an admiring glance


It's the peat implants that give the consistency. Cosmetic surgery at the Lewis Hospital is a bit different to anywhere else.

Dr Finlay from The Surgery Brue


No wonder the wimmin are leaving in droves. They're fleeing Lewis for higher quality plastic surgery on the mainland. And then.......inexplicably, not returning. It's a real puzzle...

Flying Cat from a gurney


The problem with peat implants, I have it from a reliable source at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is that the peat tends to dry up. The consequences can be imagined. Not as bad as kapok implants, but still not ideal. There were suggestions on Arnish's blog (but I may have misread) that Hebridean seaweed might be considered (anything to help the local industry in Lewis, or was it Harris?), but the jury is still out on this one. # However, really, who needs implants? 'tis just the fantasy of old geezers who have passed their salad days in dreams rather than actively.

mjc from NM,USA


A tunnel is feasible: http://www.silversprite.com/?p=238

Digital Sands from Berneray




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