pogofish
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I have.
Its OK. Good crowd, friendly, well run & a real variety of bands playing. Atmosphere for the headliners each night in the sunken garden was excellent.
Only minor nags were that although polite & genuinely helpful, the security was just a wee bit intense. Glass bottles & tins plus amateur recording gear seemed to be the main concerns, not just "security" for its own sake
I've seen much worse tho at other places & appreciate that part of the reason was that Highland Council placed some very strict conditions on the licence & Environmental Health gave them the strictest inspection I've ever seen at any festival. Bogs were tolerable & maintained but away from the stages, the other stalls, food, activities etc were a bit limited & queues fairly built-up. All-in, typical of a festival in its early days. Campsite nightlife is good. Plenty of partying! 
Transport from Inverness was awful (& still worse in return) but better from Muir of Ord for some reason. A taxi would be the best bet & not dear if there was a few of you. Service buses go near the road-end but there is still a fair uphill walk to the site itself. Returning on the Sunday involves all the usual caveats about public transport in the Highlands on a Sunday! Parking is fine for 4 wheels, bloody awful for 2. Got a bit muddy on departure.
I've only heard the same rumours as Efests & if that is true, I might well be going back. Line-up would be the deciding factor for this one for me.
Gallery of pics here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/air/gallery/index.shtml?gallery=belladrumℑ=alabama1
The other big gallery they linked on their site seems to have gone for now.
I should add that if you have access to the Royal Bank of Scotland ticket-booking line, the discount on the ticket price is excellent.
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At the moment it can only be transmitted in extreme cases when someone has prolonged exposure to infected birds.
Indeed.
To paraphrase a sensible person - For now' date=' you have more chance of being hit by a train whilst playing the accordion than dying of bird flu.
If it gets worse, a few shots of this might see you right:
[img']http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b41/oryxian/birdflu.jpg
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There are some good threads featuring old photos of Aberdeen on the P&J forums.
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Not exctly unsung, in fact probably better forgotten - Opal Butterfly
Psychedelia by the bucketload - of the "I've heard that somewhere before" variety. Links to MP3's at the bottom of the page.
http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/opalbutterfly.htm
Scarier still is that Lemmy managed a short stint in that band!
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If his memory is such a mess, how can he remember taking that many?
I smell a rat!
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& what drugs are you taking!!!!!!!!!
Are you aware of Ralph Gaebler & his work on plant distress & gas release? Seems that when a plant suffers, it screams in chemicals!
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"If you could only hear the vegetables scream" ?
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A vapid, mediocre, mother-pus-bucket & born in Hexham, that quintessential Tory town.
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1. How is a helicopter supposed to spot one particular small boy' date=' even if he happened to be out on the street?
2. Didn't we all just know there would be a "Tracy" involved?[/quote']
1. Thermal imaging camera.
2. One of the other names involved rang a few alarm bells from a past professional life.
I guess there might be a story as yet untold here.
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Generally true but not entirely. Some of the winter past's displays were bright enough to see, even over the streetlights here. You did lose most of the colour but the "curtain" effect was surprisingly visible.
Still best to head out of town a few miles - The Peterhead road is good or out deeside a bit.
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I'm afraid it is just past. Although they can happen at any time' date=' Nov-Feb is the best.
Plenty of info & ongoing monitoring here & you can sign-up to email/text alerts as well.
Generally, the darker & more north you are, the better.
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I suck at living in Aberdeen' date=' I've never seen the arora here before. Is there a best place or time of year to see it best?[/quote']
I'm afraid it is just past. Although they can happen at any time, Nov-Feb is the best.
Plenty of info & ongoing monitoring here & you can sign-up to email/text alerts as well.
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Well at least we get the Arora's they are awesome.
Yup!
Although this year has not been that great, apart from a couple of days.
The year before was bloody excellent tho!
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Did you see the eclipse about 5-6 years ago' date=' it was freaky.[/quote']
Yup. Also the annular eclipse - @80% visible here last year as well as tripping-up to Spey-Bay in the dead of night to catch the edge of totality just after dawn for the North Atlantic eclipse in 2003 or 04. That was something!
Then there have been a couple of Lunar eclipses at various times as well - Last years one was a bit of a wash-out but the blood-moon (Earth's shadow) of a couple of years back was also an impressive sight.
They happen a lot more often than 2000 years but are often over parts of the world that are difficult to see. I don't think there will ba a really good one visible from Scotland for quite a few years now.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4849224.stm
If you have something very dark to look through, the solar eclipse is on just now - About 20% will be the best we will see here but worth looking nonetheless.
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That said' date=' his behaviour was grossly irresponsible and the least he could do would be to pay for all the helicopter fuel and the pilots' time. By my estimation he owes them around 10,000.[/quote']
Nah. The forces make it quite clear that if this sort of thing didn't happen, they would have to spend even more in setting-up training excercises & probably struggle to get the same quality of experience that real-life situations give them.
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I occasionally pop in for a coffee there - Normally at times when the last thing I want to use is a computer tho. OK place, got a big chunk of free chocolate cake last time I was in.
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I want a Goat - They are so cool!
They are not.
A some years back, former colleague's wife ended-up in a coma after her pet goat decided to playfully head-butt her when she bent over to do something in the garden. She eventually died & the goat later got barbequed!
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I thought that place was now closed? Looked awfly shut-up the last time looked in its direction when I passed & I recently heard of someone looking at it for renovation into something else.
Anyway, the last time I had just a coffee there, it was so stupidly expensive, I would excercise caution caution when ordering food.
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Yup. Alive & well - Just heard it on the radio.
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Yup, it made several passes & flew over Tollohill as well. I think I heard the first one before 7:30
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I was woken by the S&R helicopter going up & down the river bank at near roof height this morning. Saw police out by the bridge on the way to work as well.
Hope the lad turns-up OK, soon.
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Beware though' date=' it wouldn't be a huge surprise if her lease was ultra restrictive. Equally, it wouldn't be a huge surprise if the lease is full of holes.[/quote']
Indeed, but this in one thing they couldn't hold you to. I've been here with a well-known Aberdeen Pile-o-crap Leasing (
) company before who tried to argue that their standard lease gave them the right to send-in workmen & stage flat inspections etc with no notice whatsoever. My solicitor disabused them of that idea pretty quickly after two inspections where we were neither informed nor present & finally the morning my then girlfriend & I woke-up to find a joiner at the end of the bed & wanting to start work in our bedroom. They would need to prove a bit more annoyance than a hookey pet or a serious building matter to get away with that one. The legal term is "Quiet Enjoyment" & your right to that is implied in any lease.
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