Vol.22 No. 5
6th February 1999

On Monday we moved down to Taft and now we have slept there for 4 days. Dad went away for a week with Jude, Calum and Duncan. I got some clothes and a saw that is at Grutness. We are getting a new cooker and carpets for Taft The house is great, it is bigger than the Chalet.
Lewis (10)

It was my birthday last week, I was 10 and I had a dressing up party. Alan and Clive didn't dress up. Jenny and Vivian came as B witched, Rachel was one of the people out of the Maid Marian, Tom was an Indian and Lewis, Calum, Duncan, Harry, Hannah, Erin both Daniels and John were not dressed up. For my birthday I got 2 CDs called the Ministry of Sound which is a double CD and Blocster - you should be dancing. I also got 2 pairs of pyjamas, a wolf T-shirt, bath stuff, art things, a jigsaw puzzle, 2 play station games and a few more things.
Charlotte (10)

On Thursday Emma, Martha and Harry came. Scott, Martha and I played police and robbers. Mum and Emma where talking. Then we went and played polly pockets. Then Martha, Harry and Emma went home.
Cara (7)

Last Monday we finished the 3-D puzzle of TITANIC. It is on a scale of 1/350, ours is 80 centimetres long. It has 4 funnels and 2 masts. The Titanic weighed 46,000 tons. On her first voyage she sank in the North Atlantic on 14th April 1912. 1513 people died.
Tom (7)

On the 3rd of June this year primary 4 to 7 are going on a school trip to Edinburgh.

We are going for 1 week. First we are going on the Good Shepherd on a Lerwick trip. Then we stay in Shetland for a few hours and then on the P and 0 ferry over night to Aberdeen. After that we get a coach to Edinburgh for 2 112 hours.

Here's our schedule!
Thursday 3rd - Say goodbye to Fair Isle!
Friday 4th - Deep sea world
Saturday 5th - Camera Obscura, Dynamic Earth and a museum.
Sunday 6th - We go for a day trip to Glasgow and go to the Kelvin grove Museum and Art Gallery, Transport Museum and M.D. Leisure Park.
Monday 7th - We go up to Aberdeen for the rest of the trip and we go Via Bannockburn, Old Town Jail and Wallace Monument.
Tuesday 8 th - Lighthouse Museum and Archeo Links.
Wednesday 9th - Storybook Glen and SHOPPING! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the evening over the week we are going to the cinema, ten - pin bowling, ice skating and swimming. Other schools in Shetland are going too. They are Fetlar, Skeld Sandness, Lunnasting and South Nesting.
Rachel (12) and Jenny (10)

Today we are having art with Margo. Me and Tom are making trees. We are making the Forth Bridge. Lewis and Magnus are making girders. Charlotte, Vivian and Calum are making the railway track.
Daniel (5)

At the end of the month I am going to Holland for a week. Dad and I are helping to move Steven, Marjolein and Marin's things to Holland. They are going to live there. I am going for a day trip soon to see the eye specialist. Dad is going with me. We will probably go to the shoe shop to get me new gym shoes and we might go to Harry's toy shop.
HANNAH (5)

I have been away for a week with Mum, Patrick and Calum. On the St. Clair we played in the ball pool. We jumped in and buried ourselves. We went to the bar and played cards. We stayed in Stirling at Granny and Grandad's. We went swimming two times.. We went down the flumes. We went shopping and bought some more things. We went to Stirling castle. We got stuck in Shetland. The boat didn't come so we did some more shopping and we stayed the night with Neil. Then we packed again and we came home on the plane.
Duncan (6)

This week the weather has been very bad. The wind has been blowing very hard. When 1 have been outside I was flying! But luckily mum was holding my hand or else I would have blown away. The boat has not gone all week. On Thursday the wind was a severe gale 9 up to a storm force 10. The average wind speed was 50 miles an hour. The maximum gust was 97 miles an hour which was the highest recorded speed at a lowland weather station in Britain on Thursday.
Vivian

Last Tuesday Phil started a sports night at the hall. On Monday it is the adults and on Tuesday it is for children. This Tuesday we are going to play hockey. Last Tuesday we played football. We are collecting Walkers crisp packets for free school books. Please give us any tokens you have.
Magnus

Duncan. mum, Patrick and I went to Granny and Grandpa's. We went on the Good Shepherd at 6-00 a.m and it left at 7-15 a.m. We arrived at Grutness at 9-15 a.m. We went around Shetland because mum and Patrick had some things to do. We put the van on the St. Clair at 4-45 p.m but they let us on and we went to our cabin. Then we went to the bar for a drink. At 6-00 p.m. the boat set off for Aberdeen. We played about then we went to bed. In the morning at 7 we had breakfast and drove to Kirriemuir. Granny and Grandad showed us around their new house. Five days later we went to Stirling because my great grand aunt Isabel had died and we went to-sort out her stuff. After a week we drove up to Aberdeen to get the boat. We put the van on and went to the cabin. Then we went to the bar and played about. In the morning we got in the van and we went to Grutness but the boat could not go. Neil offered to let us stay the night. We had some tea then we watched TV and went to bed. The next day Neil took us to Sumburgh and the people at Sumburgh said that the plane was going. We got on the plane and 23 minutes later we were in Fair Isle and we went home to Burkle.
Calum

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