@ kolla
Tricky subject the old Shetland (hjaltland) is, let's just say we... erm borrowed them for a wee while and changed the name a wee bit and are taking good care of them... 
@ Tone007
Orkney is quite simply the land where the best mature Chedder Cheese in the world come from... (they're allowed to roam free on that windswept little place until they reach full maturity, when they are mercilessly culled, wrapped in cellophane and sent off to the shops for me to buy and eat as cheese on toast...) 
@ mikrucio
Are you a Taxman, hmm you sound suspiciously like a Taxman, Burn him, Burn the unbeliever I say... ( or failing that just gently prod him with a long pointy stick...) 
@ JJ
Not even when drunk can either of BBC Albas two viewers understand what is being said, still it's one more viewer than S4C has... :biglaugh:
@ All Across The Pond In The Good Ole U, S of A
C'mon, own up which of you voted for the Tea Party... :confused:
:lol:
S4C has a pretty decent amout of viewers considering the small population of wales of about 3.9M
The first time I put BBC Alba on I thought, What they on about, they must be pished.
I love the scots me. My gran is from edinburgh so I am part scot anyway. Must be the part of me that makes me ddrink every day

No wait there thats the celt in me