On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:42:07 +0100, Will Hand wrote:

"MCC" wrote in message
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:17:01 +0100, Will Hand wrote:

I worked in Shetland many years ago and I can tell you that 21C in
Lerwick
is not that common.

Will

They'd be dropping like flies in that heat :-)

I too worked in Shetland between 1985 and 1991.
I can remember attending a function at Lerwick Observatory. Walking home
down the hill afterwards the spray was being blown off the Sandy Loch
reservoir and turning to ice before it got to me and my partner.
Vicious little bullets they were, but they helped with the sobering up
process :-)
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My very first shift I had to walk up that hill against a force 9 at 0530 in
the morning. Sheesh I only made it because some kind soul stopped to give me
a lift. Got to work and the wind was 45 knots gusting 60 knots, the night
shift said it was getting a bit windy, a bit windy ... ! What a place to
live.

Will

Wasn't too bad for me having been born and brought up in Orkney and spent
most of my working life at sea.
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MCC