Hamish! Did you hear thon new wifie on Stornoway Coastguard?!

[terry.mcneill]

Tuned in to Stornoway Coastguard for my first time this season and was mightily surprised to hear the perfectly clipped BBC Standard English tones of a young lady reading the Maritime Safety Broadcast (honest, the only thing missing was 'Sailing By' to introduce her!)

But Help ma Boab, not to mention Jings Crivvens...... does this mean we are no longer to be treated to that wonderful local lilting lassie with her forecasts of visibility 'pewer, or very pewer'?!

Please! Tell me it's not true!

 

[Sandy]

It will all be done from a wee bunker down south these days.

 

[terry.mcneill]

Oh please tell me that's not true!

 

[KenMcCulloch]

Tuned in to Stornoway Coastguard for my first time this season and was mightily surprised to hear the perfectly clipped BBC Standard English tones of a young lady reading the Maritime Safety Broadcast (honest, the only thing missing was 'Sailing By' to introduce her!)

But Help ma Boab, not to mention Jings Crivvens...... does this mean we are no longer to be treated to that wonderful local lilting lassie with her forecasts of visibility 'pewer, or very pewer'?!

Please! Tell me it's not true!

The Charlotte Green soundalike was heard last year, she might be part time. It would be a pooer show if the local lassie went off air. The bunker is on the seafront in Stornoway.

 

[awol]

I got quite taken by the furce fur, pur sumtums fur, mono-vowel sound frae Belfast last year.

 

[NormanS]

It's OK, the "pewer" lassie is still there.

 

[wully1]

It's OK, the "pewer" lassie is still there.

TFFT...

 

[Tidewaiter2]

C'mon Me Deah Cheps, RP was designed to ensure that all maritime personnel could understand the transmission, not just the locals!
Gods help some poor devil of a Filipino or Goan Tanker OoW going North about, trying not to spill anything

Dear Gods, it would be as bad as the French weather reports delivered by the shore conscript shift at Joburg CROSS- even French Polytechnic graduates can't understand them!
You can tell when their ex-maritime shift comes on- nice and slow and clear, so you can note it in a bouncy boat:encouragement:

 

[westhinder]

It's OK, the "pewer" lassie is still there.

Great! She was an essential part of a fantastic summer's cruising the West Coast

 

[dunedin]

TFFT...

Good to see that you have mastered the local dialect

 

[wully1]

Good to see that you have mastered the local dialect

Long, long ago.

 

[terry.mcneill]

Long, long ago.

Maybe we should campaign for an MCA calendar, with images of the faces behind the voices we hear from the various stations, in suitably windswept and interesting weather conditions.:biggrin-new:

 

[aquaplane]

Would they be needing larger buns?

 

[terry.mcneill]

Would they be needing larger buns?

Settle down, I only said faces!

 

[wully1]

Settle down, I only said faces!

Be careful what you wish for....

 

[Seven Spades]

Wait 'till devolution, you won't know what the weather is doing then when we cut you off!

 

[claymore]

Maybe we should campaign for an MCA calendar, with images of the faces behind the voices we hear from the various stations, in suitably windswept and interesting weather conditions.:biggrin-new:

No - at least 6 of us wid be broken hearted when we find ra fair lassie fae Stornoway turns oot tae be a swamp donkey

 

[A1Sailor]

Wait 'till devolution, you won't know what the weather is doing then when we cut you off!

That was so last year!
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In fact, was it not so 15 years ago?

 

[NormanS]

Wait 'till devolution, you won't know what the weather is doing then when we cut you off!

Why? Is Englandshire going to be devolved?

 

[Ravi]

You want to hear the fearsome lass who works on Tees Port control. She has the Russian tanker captains pleading for a berthing slot like schoolboys who have lost their homework.
A local fisherman assured me that despite her Norah Batty VHF persona, she looks more like Sophia Loren. I'm not sure if he was pulling my leg or had been at sea too long.