@fkamiah17 @CloudyMrs @ForfarFairLady Wetsuits maybe, depending on the time of year, but you will find a lot of fine swimming both on the coats and in the lochs further inland. The advantage of no wetsuit is that you can walk in further without too much baggage for your swim. Having said that an SUP is a fine toy for the waters.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 22:26:57 JST Wen -
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 05:23:35 JST Wen Tommy Robinson Inc ‘made £1.6m’ without paying tax — then folded
The far-right leader and his associates have created a web of secretive companies that have made profits before filing for insolvency, according to filings
It is remarkable that these have never ben chased up. Deliberately???
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 17:23:06 JST Wen Morning run
Out early before the traffic (mainly farm) and the threat of incoming rain. 12k fasting, mainly road with 2k of woods diversion. Very quiet, we only passed one other runner (on the same circuit but running counter clockwise).
At the moment there is a patchwork of fields, some harvested some with the barley still standing.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 06:04:09 JST Wen US military to dismantle ill-fated Gaza aid pier, declaring ‘mission complete’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/17/military-dismantle-gaza-aid-pier
Mission complete 😂 Which mission? - whitewashing pathetic attempts to ignore Israeli murders - which still continue and seem to be blessed by most Western Governments?
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 16:01:03 JST Wen @philippbirken @Ruth_Mottram The only country in Europe bare Belarus to use FPTP.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 13:35:58 JST Wen @CloudyMrs I do agree. However what I would prefer are more potentially modest (in terms of capacity) services which are distributed in a way that means people do not need to travel excessively. But pretending (as some authorities do) that it is about environmental concerns is simply not correct. Better to have services that are as local as possible (not easy) living in the Highlands and travel with children, while coping with school, work and other things is difficult much of the year.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 03:55:50 JST Wen @CloudyMrs Having said that, and it is awful, this has burger all to do with a reduction in emissions. Think about it 🤔
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 08:10:15 JST Wen The Humbie Hookers
Visiting Humbie for the first time for a month or so, I passed the crochet display - on a home built postbox. They might want to rethink the sign though 🤨 or is it just me? 😂
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 19:34:09 JST Wen @artemesia @CloudyMrs Or do a complete Island hop - start in Arran and then work your way up to Orkney by bike and ferry.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 19:22:31 JST Wen Just avoid the west coast 500 during the holidays 🫣
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 19:09:47 JST Wen @CloudyMrs Not really a problem - logging lorries were more of a nuisance, although easy to spot/hear. I think the West Coast 500 is appaling during the summer though.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 18:36:32 JST Wen @CloudyMrs A couple of years ago and while my partner was unavailable, I cycled up the West Coast from Glasgow and made my way to Durness - a 'ferry' across to the peninsula and then over to Cape Wrath. The last 15-20k is rough but doable on a tourer with good wheels and tyres (I rode a gravel bike). I the came back to Durness and caught a train back from Thurso - a lovely and very quiet ride.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 18:47:51 JST Wen @theferret It is a well researched and presented article. Exaggeration does not help, although I can't help feeling that the SNP/Greens have not made enough of explaining the just transition policy.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 15:23:46 JST Wen @CloudyMrs @chattan @tf We use trains, both to and from the HIghlands, mainly over the winter (when we habitually live there) and the Borders during the summer (its a snow/midgie thing as well as work). I could not agree more.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 16:04:28 JST Wen GE2024, Monday 30th May
Wake up to be given a classy example of how #Labour are determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory - the purge of their MPs on the left is not going down well - with any of the public.
Meanwhile the hapless Mark Harper is been left left gormless by #VictoriaDerbyshire on #Tonight when their commitment to the young is pointed out - and that is before Brexit is raised.
Comedy gold - not really
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 16:02:56 JST Wen @CloudyMrs @russellt Does that make me hopefully old fashioned? 🤨🤔😝
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 15:58:21 JST Wen @CloudyMrs @russellt The difference being I am polite enough in restaurants (to other diners) not to make loud fun of them. In the silent carriages all bets are off towards the twats.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 15:45:02 JST Wen @CloudyMrs @russellt It happens on trains as well. It takes a remarkable time for them to realise that the people at the same table are ‘discussing’ the banality (or other comments) of the conversation before they glare and get out of the carriage. And these are QUIET carriages.
My friends and I do not regret our actions…
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 00:41:19 JST Wen @CloudyMrs @AnthonyFStevens @Theriac @soren
I suspect you misunderstand what the Labour part means by ‘qualified’. It is all about obedience to London.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 00:26:01 JST Wen A simplistic headline for a simplistic wanabee minister
Wes Streeting: Cultural rot means NHS puts itself before the public
NO. If you means some managers in a ‘reformed system’, instigated by the Tories and pushed hard by Labour maybe. What will increased privatisation do?