Sofa scandal day 8

How long must this dreadful sofa be tolerated and how much longer will the authorities fail to act.? Already a plastic chair was attracted to the same area the other day. This menace is a threat to us all. When will we have any action from the fragments that are left of our once powerful(allegedly) area committee? Bring back the days of Nairn District Council, that's what I say. Meg Anderson and Chrissie Ellen would have stopped this developing porblem in its tracks.

The good old days are gone now and our city fathers are a mere shawdow of their formidable forerunners. Something will have to be done before a vigilante group is formed and innocent sofas suffer for the reckless actions of this evil piece of furniture. Are our representatives only interested in the furniture at Glen Urquart Road - how can anyone sit on their backside while this is going on.

Think globally, gurn locally - phone your councillor now!

Shameless sofa soaks up Saturday sunshine.

There it was, an absolute disgrace, just basking in the long-awaited sunshine. Resplendent after it’s escape into the wild, mocking the good citizens of Nairn as they passed. How much more can we take from this out-of-control sofa? There is no respect from furniture any more, why aren’t the police doing anything? They must act before it is too late and all our sofas stop listening to us and all take up these dreadful kind of inner-city habits. Too much pandering to wet liberal soft furnishing designers that’s what’s wrong with our country today.

Breaking news - Slugs on the move

We reach the weekend in a normal January fashion, no real benefit from the slightly lengthening hours with the grey clouds that cover the town again: no downer for the slugs, however, who are already on the move and eyeing up every tasty piece of new vegetation.
Speaking of food - A custard slice from Ashers will cheer things up if the sun stays away. Nothing much new to report really but your correspondent will return with any breaking news on the sofa situation.

Lost your sofa?

Anyone woke up to find their sofa is gone? There is a big bright red sofa sitting in the middle of the river just upstream of the A96 bridge (the only bridge a car can go across to be more precise), this is your last chance to get it back as the river is rising fast today and your sofa will soon be away to start a new career on the old bar.

A tiny bit of winter colour

A tiny bit of winter colour.

I saw a Winter Aconite in full bloom just below Broadhill. Beautiful in its solitude though it was, and probably finding its way down the brae from somebody’s garden by one means or other – is this delightful piece of colour just simply another herald of dangerous times ahead. Perhaps it is just the odd man out, these are normally very early flowers anyway and are the flowers that create the massive yellow carpet under the trees in the policies by the river at Firhall. No sign of them up there yet, however. Their name is misleading, they are not aconites at all but part of the Hellebore family.
A new report out today will try and warn us that we have very little time left to reverse global warming, if we can at all, and the effects will come far sooner than we think. We could well start paying the price very soon. But will we give up our addiction to cars or give an inch on our overwhelming desire to go to places like the golden mile in Inverness? It would probably take roadblocks by armed policemen.
So within a very short time we could be in the grip of irreversible global climate change that will accelerate at a remarkable rate. Seas rising, agriculture failing, droughts creating new deserts, forests dying, disease rampant and populations on the move seeking safety. All this could put even the most impressive pension plan under serious pressure as the world’s economy changes.
There is much debate about where the supermarket is to go in Nairn and who will build it but how long will the Earth be capable of producing the food to fill the shelves of all the supermarkets. What can we do? There doesn’t seem to be any real desire in society to do anything, Big Brother gets more attention than this subject. Shall we keep our heads in the sand and just hope that if it does happen, it comes after our time?

Gàidhlig classes

Want to brush up on your Gàidhlig or learn some? There are two classes each week now in Nairn. One for beginners on Thursday nights - 7.30pm in the old Links School building and Wedenesdays for post-beginners -same time, same place. There has been demand for some time for these classes and at last they have got underway.
Bidh Fàilte Bhlàth ort.

Latest: Classes will restart Weds 20th April and Thurs 21st

Weds suitable for Speaking our Language 2 and above and Thurs for SPOL 1

Supermarket rumours number 99

A friend with an ear to the ground tells me that with the proposed brand new community at the McDermott's site being a 'goer' that puts the Sandown Lands back in the frame for a supermarket as that would give this brand new community less distance to travel for their weekly needs. You heard it here first and it could be just as silly as anything else you hear.
I'll vote for a Co-op then or at least a little bit of Lidl.

Child-free colony grows

Brodie Castle reports daffodils and rhododendrons coming out far too soon as well, perhaps tonight’s hard frost and possible snow tomorrow will give them more sensible ideas.
The child-free colony at Firhall has spread out a little more, looks like a couple of houses are going up each week now. You meet the new residents all the time on your walks around the river. They tend to offer more reserved greetings than locals but hopefully they will adopt a bit of the local crac.
All has returned to normal tonight, it is cold, Nairn County Football Club lost again and the High Street came to life as everyone headed downtown for takeaways from an ever-increasing choice of ethnic cuisine. Overhead in the riverside darkness a Heron makes its unmistakeable screeching noise, simply because it is a Heron and Herons love that sort of thing.

Blue Skies?

Thank goodness blue skies are breaking through this morning although the weekend promises more nastiness from the weather. The days are without doubt lengthening but you don’t really notice it when skies are grey and the wind blows the rain in your face. It hinders people having their usual chat on the High Street as the rush around for their messages, trying to avoid the showers and the strong gusts of wind.

Local soccer player takes a break

Gary Ewing is to take a break from soccer to spend more time with his girlfriend in London. County fans will wish him all the best, he has been part of the backbone of the team in good times and bad and he will be missed. It's a shame there aren't more local loons in the team and that's one less now. Let's hope he returns to play for the Wee County in the future.

Full story on Ging's site

http://www.geocities.com/weecounty/news14