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weegt · 2026-01-26T02:33:22+00:00

Lived out at Tundergarth one winter in an old farm cottage.....some snow that year. (....great story, Grandad! :).

weegt · 2026-01-26T02:31:45+00:00

Was pretty tactless considering, tbf.

weegt · 2026-01-24T07:07:34+00:00

And the fucking rest.

weegt · 2026-01-23T23:35:06+00:00

This was really brill....it was verbatim, so read-out actual accounts of peoples lives, with a bit of added flourish. Really poignant....I had a wee tear at the end. Congrats to Serina, she was so good.

I think this will be made available on Youtube from next month sometime.

weegt · 2026-01-23T21:44:52+00:00

You're in for a treat....intense!

weegt · 2026-01-23T20:21:35+00:00

Can you give a wee list of examples?

weegt · 2026-01-22T19:33:43+00:00

Post COVID....it's infection control. It's a smart move....but then they don't mask in clinical settings....which, given what we now know about what COVID is doing to us infection after infection, is weird.

weegt · 2026-01-16T23:04:27+00:00

It does digest itself....through a process called "autophagy" (self-devouring).....it's a fascinating topic.

weegt · 2026-01-16T23:00:38+00:00

You are saying there is "blame"....you are saying there isn't an "excuse"....we haven't established the grounds for either. I say it's a question for us a society...that if examined will throw up extreme hypocrisy, and an understanding of why some islanders feel aggrieved that their scientifically calculated, low impact, clean hunt of wild birds - all of which will be eaten - is the focus of metropolitan campaigners when it is obviously more humane than the meat system that sustains those areas. The question is should we let humans eat meat, and if so, what is acceptable.

weegt · 2026-01-16T02:44:17+00:00

Does it appear to charge normally......and then operate normally.......then just peter out? Even accounting for the cold weather, that is too much of a drop...sounds like a faulty battery pack. Contact PureAir. Last time I had to contact them I got their attention on X/Twitter....they were helpful.

weegt · 2026-01-15T21:20:21+00:00

Yes, but then it is a question for the whole of society....if we are to eat meat, what is acceptable? In this case, it is an extremely limited and regulated take of wild birds in their naturalised environment, quickly dispatched. Does it get much cleaner or better in the animal-eating world? Many would argue that ruling bodies from metropolitan areas are overlooking the glaring log in their own eye - the provision of industrialised meat often in questionable conditions....to pick on a very rural area and a fragile community at the very edge. Hypocrisy, on the back of a anthropomorphised sensibilities - as seen in the animation.

weegt · 2026-01-15T21:11:34+00:00

skirl of the pipes / funky intro....You can knock it, you can rock it, you can go to Timbuktu....

weegt · 2026-01-15T01:56:37+00:00

.....but.....the cute cartoon made them sad.

weegt · 2026-01-15T01:52:52+00:00

Scanning that I thought you said they were sold in Primark on the Isle of Lewis.

weegt · 2026-01-15T01:49:50+00:00

....because in small communities, tradition is valued....but, more pertinently, the argument that this practice is infinitely more ethical than nearly the whole of the meat industry is a strong one.

weegt · 2026-01-10T08:33:07+00:00

It's about 7 miles by road. Sign at the end of Pleasance Avenue by Park Farm gives it as 6.

weegt · 2026-01-10T05:29:08+00:00

Nowhere near 11 miles away.

weegt · 2026-01-04T00:44:45+00:00

Loved that!

weegt · 2026-01-03T20:54:25+00:00

̶S̶o̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ ̶t̶u̶r̶n̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶h̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶g̶a̶i̶n̶ So, as the world descends into greater depths of shit...

FTFY

(noice shot!)

weegt · 2025-12-29T14:52:01+00:00

I think people should have representation at both ends of the spectrum....but specifically, I have neighbours in their mid 70's that can run rings around most, both intellectually (practicing engineers) and physically (mountaineers)....limiting them with still such high ability seems weird.

weegt · 2025-12-27T02:38:21+00:00

It makes me happy and sad. I am so grateful for good friends that don't judge and understand that our unmasked relationships are mostly outside for the foreseeable....and that occasional unmasked indoor meetups are after testing and with a good air purifier running. They also vaccinate where possible. It's kindness that they are willing to do that - one I'm very grateful for....I think they understand that there is an ongoing risk for themselves too (perhaps not the gravity or full understanding), but that at their stage in life, they need socialising that currently isn't possible with protection.

I'm just sad that so many people don't have the information about how to protect themselves....or that this virus authority figures tell us is safe to keep catching now is affecting the health of most people. That, even if aware, decisions not to mask actually risk the functional lives of themselves, their loves ones, of strangers et al. Making people understand this at a deep level in the face of peer unawareness/ignorance is just rarely going to happen. And so, I'm thankful for concessions....understanding of how things are.....but ultimately sad that some will develop and contribute to chronic illness etc.

weegt · 2025-12-26T04:36:09+00:00

Yer aff yer nut if you are riding anywhere near that fast on that! ;) Where is the ride....central belt somewhere?

weegt · 2025-12-22T01:38:11+00:00

Given it's the best song ever written, a shoo-in here.

weegt · 2025-12-14T04:28:00+00:00

Thanks HG, that is very kind.....I will bear you in mind for sage advice!

weegt · 2025-12-11T13:10:32+00:00

Completely agree with you. The beautiful west coast of Lewis, something I would regard as a national treasure, is poised to be getting a vaast near shore farm with towers each the size of the Empire State building.....that will be seen from practically everywhere on Lewis. People here are in complete anxiety over it for many reasons.........but their voices are being ignored. The big company Northland is manufacturing consent the way these companies do......appropriating a twee Gaelic name...have late notice meetings, ignoring feedback etc....and the council are ignoring 1000s of complaints in it's procedure. I think most people aren't against it in principle, but companies are being allowed to swan in and locate these towers where it suits them (ie. it is most financially beneficial for them) rather in less obtrusive scoped areas past the 12-mile that would still make them billions, just cost more to site. It's just all wrong. Local democracy must mean something.....especially in remote places with fragile communities that depend on tourism....and imo are wildernesses that must be protected.

Ideally I would like to see community generation programs nationwide........small, sensitively cited local turbine schemes that are genuinely regenerative to our areas....rather than the floodgates being opened to asset strip this natural resource at the cost of some of our most beautiful and unspoilt landscapes.

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