YOUR VIEWS: I had a cup dream - and it came true!
I hid a Dream the ither nicht
An’ they say thit Dreams cam’ true
Thit Kingussie hid beaten Skye
Michty! - Fit a tae do!
‘Twiz fer the MacTavish Cup
In the Final thit they played
At the Bught Park, Inverness
A tough game – it hiz tae be said
Wi’ the Grand Slam in Twinty Twinty Two
The standard hid been set
Nae pressure on new manager “Corky”
Wiz he up fer it? - You bet!!
Tho’ he wizna the only newbie
There wiz a new Captain o’ the team
Kingussie through an’ through
James Falconer wiz livin’ the dream
Noo, abiddy is oot tae beat ye
Fin you are tap o’ the pile
Fower trophies won last ‘eer
Hidna lost a Final fer a file
They went at it haimmer an’ tongs
In the affa bilin’ heat
Wizna very easy – the graiss wiz lang
Neether team wintit tae be beat
Kings began tae press an’ press
A goal they wid surely get
Seen, Reid an’ Blue fans were cheerin’
James hid the ba’ in the back o’ the Skye net
Ach, the cheerin’ wiz gey shortlived
The goal wiz chalkit aff
Appairently it wiz fer affside
‘Gussie diehards didna laff
Ah – bit the Captain widna be denied
Ruaridh’s corner cam’ ower fae the richt
An’ James, weel, he let fly
Man, fit a bonny sicht!
It wiz tough – an’ it wiz hard
Bit the michty Kings widna be beat
The hale team stuck tae its guns
An’ didna wilt in the bilin’ heat
The ref, he blew his peeper – “Time Up”!
Sparkin’ scenes o’ jubilation
The MacTavish Cup wiz comin’ back hame
Tae the same Dell Destination
Bob Mcgregor wiz Man o’ the Match
A great goalie fer a’ tae see
Tae wind up a great day for the Winners
KINGUSSIE – MACTAVISH CUP WINNERS – TWINTY TWINTY THREE!!
Charlie Simpson
(address supplied)
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Can you help SWI trophy hunt?
Calling all ex-members, or relatives of ex members, of the Inverness-shire and Islands Federation of the Scottish Women’s Institutes.
We are on the hunt for trophies missing since the last arts and crafts competition held pre-Covid, in 2018 at Nethy Bridge.
We have tracked down about 11, but are still missing the following:
Art - Ritchie Salver
Photography - The Smithton Trophy
Floral Art - Macgregor Rosebowl
Over 75 - Skye Quaich
Co-op 2nd place - Ronaldson Salver
New member - Centenary Cup
Chairman’s Choice – picture
Any help in tracking these trophies down would be much appreciated, as we have this year become affiliated with Ross-shire & Sutherland Federation, and are taking part in their arts and crafts competition in September.
It would be really nice to have all these trophies available by then.
If you have any of these trophies, or know who won them at the last competition, please contact Phyllis Hannah, Ross-shire Federation SWI Show
Secretary on rossshirefedswishows@gmail.com.
Sheila J Kerr
President
Kiltarlity Institute
SWI.
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Man-made CO2 is only minimal
Whether or not Roy Turnbull (Strathy, June 15) taught arithmetic as a schoolteacher he could calculate, simply, the amount of man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) removable from the atmosphere by decarbonisation of all the nations of the planet.
However, about 70 per cent of the world’s emissions of man-made CO2 come from countries whose whose fixed policies debar significant decarbonisation. They gain enormously from lower costs.
Unfortunately for those who want the whole world to achieve Net Zero, only about 3.8 per cent of the total atmospheric CO2 is man-made.
Natural plus man-made CO2 occupies only about 0.04 per cent of the air. Therefore, the amount of man-made CO2 potentially removable by decarbonisation is a vanishingly small proportion of the atmosphere.
Decarbonisation is the only means believers in climatic deterioration from rising levels of anthropogenic CO2 could use to influence the world’s climate.
Nations attempting to use decarbonisation to avert climatic dangers are inevitably doomed to failure despite its vast, ruinous, costs and wastes.
Mr Turnbull should agree that the foregoing is the crux of all the arguments about climate .
Charles Wardrop
Viewlands Rd West
Perth.
Stop trying to mislead readers with dangerous nonsense
Charles Wardop in his letter (Strathy June 15) ‘CO2 is green’ denies that carbon dioxide, CO2, causes global warming. But his argument is flawed both in what it claims, and for lack of evidence.
Mainstream science, as summarised by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows how carbon emissions, including CO2, are causing global warming. Rather than being ‘unproven’, this science is proven until falsified by theory that is accepted by mainstream science.
Mr Wardrop’s competing theory about water vapour and clouds was debunked, with credible evidence, in Roy Turnbull’s letter (Strathy June 15) ‘Information v misinformation’. As we know from school, plants need CO2 for photosynthesis. Perhaps increasing CO2 in horticultural houses can stimulate plant growth. But global warming, driven by CO2 emissions, is killing plants with heat and its consequences of drought, floods, wildfires and pests. Global warming is a cause for plant extinction in the current 6th Extinction.
So, contrary to Mr Wardrop’s assertion, the rising concentration of CO2 in the world’s atmosphere is not ‘green’.
Reducing greenhouse emissions, what he calls ‘decarbonisation’, is not “horrendously costly” compared with the future costs of global warming. This was concluded back in 2006 by The Stern Review .
The IPCC now reports that the future dangers of global warming are much greater than known in 2006, so the benefit of tackling global warming is today greater than when Lord Stern reported.
So please, Mr. Wardrop, stop trying to mislead readers with your unsubstantiated assertions.
Such dangerous nonsense resists negotiations at COP28 in November, when nations will try to agree on how to save our planet from unbearable climate, from greater mass extinctions and possibly from collapse of civilisation (Spratt & Dunlop, 2019, Existential Climate-Related Security Risk).
Dermot Williamson,
Kincraig.
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Sea-sick at Grantown cemetery
I cannot find the words to say how disappointed I was to arrive in Grantown New Cemetery on Friday, June 16 to be confronted by a sea of yellow flowers.
Perhaps “No mow May” is the explanation, but we are now in the middle of June!
After my late husband’s funeral in May last year, many of my friends commented on the beauty of the cemetery.
I wonder what their reaction would be now?
A number of people will disagree with me, I’m sure, but first impressions count and my impression was sadness and anger at the scene in front of me.
Iris McIntosh
Kirkhill Drive
Lhanbryde.
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It’s all a ludicrous waste of public money
The police have revealed that the cost of their investigation into SNP finances – with no resolution – has now exceeded more than the missing amount of £600,000.
That is utterly ludicrous. And the innate utterances from Douglas Ross and Alister Jack, defending Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, point to a Westminster desperate to ignore devolution, the SNP and independence.
Courage and determination are now required from Holyrood, if we are to continue to build a welcoming, inclusive and diverse modern Scotland, unlike this broken Brexit Britain.
The people of Scotland must remain defiant, passionate and resolute in their support for an independent Scotland, in line with other successful, small but progressive European nations.
Grant Frazer
Newtonmore.