The blog formerly known as "Angus Nicolson - an incredulous eye on the isles" this was the blog of an ordinary, boring, former Councillor in the Western Isles of Scotland.
Angus is taking a sabbatical to be with his young family
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Freedom of Information
I found out who was trying to find out who had put in the request to HIE about Storas Uibhist, if you follow me.
Boringly, it was a journalist who was trying to find out who else had the story. I'm disappointed, as I had hoped for some good gossip.
I was momentarily excited as a journalist rang me up about it. Then they discovered I couldn't even pronounce it, and lost interest.
That's what happens when you run a community website and blog a lot - you get journalists always ring you up thinking (mistakingly) that you must know lots of things about the islands, whereas I know virtually nothing.
I was momentarily excited as a journalist rang me up about it. Then they discovered I couldn't even pronounce it, and lost interest.
ReplyDeleteThat's what happens when you run a community website and blog a lot - you get journalists always ring you up thinking (mistakingly) that you must know lots of things about the islands, whereas I know virtually nothing.
"Then they discovered I couldn't even pronounce it, and lost interest."
ReplyDeleteIt's Stòras, not Storas...this is key to correct pronunciation :-)