Two recent low key news items

[Kenneth Eames]

I am amazed that the Scots do not prepare. Only people on the smaller islands stock up nowadays and this is because bad weather prevents the ferries sailing. From what I have read, in the past the Scots always kept a decent stock of necessities. This was probably due to the clearances and those left vowed to survive, With affluence most people here no longer think in the same way and as members have expressed it on this site, most people believe that the Government will feed and clothe them. Kenneth Eames.