12 Wednesday Jan 2022
Posted in About Me, Barb's Commentary
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Islanders questions ignored. Lifeline ferry service to mainland floundering.
https://arranferries.scot/news/task-force-response-to-questions-11-01-2022
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Oh my goodness. o_O An echo of past years, huh? Good luck. Hugs on the wing!
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Fingers-crossed!
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You’re gonna have to buy a bigger boat…
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Bwahaha! Best comment award goes to… YOU!
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Hi Barb. Your posts always take me back to the 1960s when I lived in Scotland with my dashing young scotsman and two very small children. Thanks for the memories.
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Scottish islands are still as beautiful as ever. Getting to them is the hard part…
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Oh my goodness. It sounds like they don’t give a rip if you get in or out of your island home. Would be a bit scary to me.
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Scary doesn’t begin. I’ve seen heartbreaking posts like one on 2 January from a woman pleading for help to get her brother (whose ferry from Arran had, of course, been cancelled) back to the mainland where their mother was dying. I’ve seen posts from people who had to miss critical medical appointments, from people who couldn’t get to work, from businesses who couldn’t stock their shelves. Covid and winter weather are being blamed, but they aren’t nearly the whole story.
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I think you are going to have to buy a boat! Not a bigger one! :) I can’t imagine what problems you are facing because of this. I mean it about the boat!
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Bummer … but if you have to be trapped somewhere, the island of Arran seems like a helluva a nice place to be.
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My heart goes out to you and your co-Arranians…. that’s just plain terrible. I guess I would have to join everybody else: Get a big(ger) boat – although I know of course that this wouldn’t help in the least. There we are: You live in paradise but paradise is getting hellish if you can only get in but no longer out (or vice versa). I often think of you and continue to hope that you guys WILL be heard and SAVED! Wishing you good nerves and finally good luck too, with all my might.
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