Quiet?

Ok, so island life is supposed to be quiet, but I do sometimes regret having a self-imposed embargo on general ferry chit-chat, but then I’d just end but being guilty of being as big a moan as BFUG, or is that about BFUG? Still, better (and safer) to keep ferry related comments to the more exceptional items, after all 230 weather related disruptions in only 10 months (and they won’t have been evenly spread out) would be just a few too many posts to make, even just for fun.

I can only think of serious things to reflect on as we go through the twice yearly clock shifting madness – how come we have to wait until March is almost over, and the evenings are getting longer and lighter, before somebody says “Right folks, put your clocks forward, and you can have an extra hour of light in the evening”? Excuse me, but shouldn’t we have put the clocks forward for that ‘extra’ hour of daylight a few months ago, and had an ‘extra’ hour of daylight since then? We’re nuts, especially when Global Warming Merchants of Doom are telling us all to save energy. Come the dark nights, we actually put the clocks back an hour, so we’re all burning off electricity for an extra hour a night to light up the self-imposed darkness.

I also noticed there had been no feeds referring to Billy Twigger, so thought I’d better go check manually, but didn’t really want to. Well, the last post had been some Christmas wishes, and a note to the effect that there had a been a wee bout of pneumonia, which was over, and that he was suffering some pain, but otherwise (if that’s not too simplistic a word to use) things continue as expected. So, it can only be hoped that things are still on track.

That only leaves the fire-raising and housebreakings and vandalism, but, I don’t really want go there. Bute’s supposed to be a nice wee place after all.