Cloudy
morning, with rain setting in at 1pm. The English Channel is suffering
force 10 storms, with the barometer down to 965 mbar. Up here, 600
miles away it's 985 mbar. At the eastern end of the Channel, pressure
is ALSO 985 mbar, but that's a distance of only 200 miles. Result:
strong winds. The paper reports on last night's meeting regarding
health service reform and says it was heated at times. It also refers
to the showing of Rocket Post. The timberboat I mentioned a few days
ago, the Celtic Spirit, was on its way from Estonia to Northern
Ireland when her cargo shifted and she developed a 10° list. This was
reported to the Coastguard, who ordered her to put into Stornoway to
restow her cargo. This was still in progress last night, but this
morning I found that the ship had left. Have commenced another weblog,
this time on the Island Blogging site of BBC Scotland. I'm writing the Arnish Lighthouse Blog under
the Western Isles, specifically Lewis. I am using the name "Arnish
Lighthouse" because this lighthouse stands at the entrance to Stornoway
Harbour and oversees everything that comes and goes into port. It also
looks out over town and island. The Polish workers at the Arnish Yard
are to be laid off this week, because the contract for the construction
of wave generators for Portugal has been completed. No further
contracts are on the book, but this one kept 110 people in a job since
August. Forgot to mention that the Christmas lights were officially lit
last night in a festive celebration. Stalls were set out in Francis
Street. Heard that once more, the Scottish Executive doesn't know. It
cannot tell us how many people are on methadone in Scotland, and how
successful that is in weaning drug addicts off heroin. It's not the
first time that I've heard "dunno" from them on a health-related issue.
Cloud breaks in the evening.
Friday, 2 December 2005
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