Free Clothes Pegs on the Uig Ferry
Posted: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
The gossip from the bakers this morning is that a Norwegian firm is going to be bringing heaps of dirty nets from the fish farms all over Scotland to the old Stolt factory on Scalpay for laundering.
If my late hubby's boilersuits were anything to go by, we won't have a tourist coming near our bed and breakfasts for the smell. He used to have to strip at the back door as the odour would have floored a sturdy-legged heifer.
Can we assume that even more heavy trucks than normal will be winding their way through our narrow streets, past all our food shops with their rancid dripping loads?
Maybe they are going to manage to restrict it to the island of the poor Scalpachs. They say that if you imagine the worst bait barrel from Grimsay, then multiply it by 1000, then that is what to expect.
Never mind, every MacLeod has a silver lining: They will no doubt be applying for a grant to provide heating for all our homes, powered by the methane from the festering heaps. I'm sure that they will be offering a dozen or so very highly paid executive posts to the locals for a six day week (Certainly there should be no concession given on the Sabbath) and we can expect all the Harris rodents to march behind the pied piper over the Scalpay bridge to take up residence there. Maybe they could also pay to convert the crossing to a draw-bridge!
Lets hear all about it at the next Community Council meeting!
If my late hubby's boilersuits were anything to go by, we won't have a tourist coming near our bed and breakfasts for the smell. He used to have to strip at the back door as the odour would have floored a sturdy-legged heifer.
Can we assume that even more heavy trucks than normal will be winding their way through our narrow streets, past all our food shops with their rancid dripping loads?
Maybe they are going to manage to restrict it to the island of the poor Scalpachs. They say that if you imagine the worst bait barrel from Grimsay, then multiply it by 1000, then that is what to expect.
Never mind, every MacLeod has a silver lining: They will no doubt be applying for a grant to provide heating for all our homes, powered by the methane from the festering heaps. I'm sure that they will be offering a dozen or so very highly paid executive posts to the locals for a six day week (Certainly there should be no concession given on the Sabbath) and we can expect all the Harris rodents to march behind the pied piper over the Scalpay bridge to take up residence there. Maybe they could also pay to convert the crossing to a draw-bridge!
Lets hear all about it at the next Community Council meeting!
Posted on Direach Manky at 15:21
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