Anyone live or have lived on the Outer Hebrides?

[struth]

Nearest pub for 15 miles (Am Fuaran) is 4 miles away, nearest shop (Polbain stores) 7 miles. You couldn't do a big shop there, but they do have a good selection of fishing lures. And if you walk you can find some good spots for wild mushrooms.

Probably not a good place to be suddenly seriously ill. With 15 miles of single track before the proper road starts, ambulance waiting times will be even worse than it is for the rest of us. But I suppose the locals all look out for each other. "Hey Donny, have you seen old Murdo recently?" "Not for a couple of weeks, I should go round and check he's ok".

"bury him" if its been 2 weeks lol

[kirstysdad]

Aye.
Best not rush into anything out there then...

[Lawrence001]

Nearest pub for 15 miles (Am Fuaran) is 4 miles away, nearest shop (Polbain stores) 7 miles. You couldn't do a big shop there, but they do have a good selection of fishing lures. And if you walk you can find some good spots for wild mushrooms.

Probably not a good place to be suddenly seriously ill. With 15 miles of single track before the proper road starts, ambulance waiting times will be even worse than it is for the rest of us. But I suppose the locals all look out for each other. "Hey Donny, have you seen old Murdo recently?" "Not for a couple of weeks, I should go round and check he's ok".

Do Ocado do a helicopter drop there? There's always Amazon drones.

[Pigmy Pony]

Do Ocado do a helicopter drop there? There's always Amazon drones.

Well the advert doesn't say "There's an Ochado just fae you Jimmy", so maybe not. Oh dear that wasn't racist was it?

[struth]

I shouldn't think so, unless your very fragile of course, of which there are a few i suppose

[Pigmy Pony]

I shouldn't think so, unless your very fragile of course, of which there are a few i suppose

I imagine Hebrideans would be a tough bunch, who would rather go looking for dead sheep than shop with Ocado.

[Macca]

There is a Tesco on Lewis which is a bit disappointing. I was thinking all there would be was a local shop for local people.

Not sure about going to live someplace where they think 'The Wicker Man' is a documentary although I suppose it's only dangerous for virgins.

[kirstysdad]

There is a Tesco on Lewis which is a bit disappointing. I was thinking all there would be was a local shop for local people.

Not sure about going to live someplace where they think 'The Wicker Man' is a documentary although I suppose it's only dangerous for virgins.

Oof!
Don't forget that Royston Vasey is in Cumbria, and that Staffordshire is not exactly "genetically diverse". I love folk from Stafford as being friendly folk (but then a lot of folk from outside of the area came to work in Stafford during the industrial revolution meaning that locals didn't have to breed with cousins or siblings.

[kirstysdad]

I shouldn't think so, unless your very fragile of course, of which there are a few I suppose

I had to count this up... 35 years ago I was a newly qualified nurse in Glasgow and would volunteer to work on the air ambulance to the islands- Orkney, Shetland, Inner and Outer Hebrides. The folk who couldn't hack it in the remotest of places were mostly mainlanders from cities who had a "good life" idealised ideal of island life. Many had sold up in a property boom, perhaps from the SE and more affluent parts of the country. Incidentally, on the Isle of Arran, lots of folk from the Lancashire coast sold up and bought up... Brodick? Little Morecambe at one point.
The local population of all of the Scottish islands were no more bonkers than anyone else on the UK mainland, in fact were generally more resolutely stoical about their plight and had "hee haw" (bugger all) services to rely on.

[kirstysdad]

I imagine Hebrideans would be a tough bunch, who would rather go looking for dead sheep than shop with Ocado.

Absolutely...