THE ALL Weather Centre now looks like being the ‘All Whether Centre’ or, as I heard it described recently, the All Wet White Elephant Centre. Now roll on the two cinemas to provide a long-lacking town amenity.
Meanwhile, I wonder if someone in the local authority will see fit to provide local residents with a visual or perspective view of what Cameron Square will look like when all its holes are filled in. Then we – the common five eighths – might be able to appreciate what the future holds there. It would be nice if an artist’s impression of the piazza, terrazza, or whatever could be displayed on a panel or hoarding in the Square, thus emulating the days when we knew what was happening locally thanks to the beautifully signwritten notice boards which were always attached to the railings in front of the Kennedy Monument.
Word reaches me from the terminus of the West Highland Line of high jinks with a telly. It appears that when a couple of youngsters knocked the family TV off its stand, their uncle took it into Seagull City to be sorted. As Mallaig is such a homely place, an arrangement was made whereby the repaired telly could be picked up from the boot of the fixer’s car parked in his driveway. Uncle goes along to where the car is parked, opens the boot – and out falls the TV with a clatter. The TV is duly fixed – again – and, apart from a few dents and scratches on the screen, is working. It is delivered, firmly, into the living room from whence it had come. Repairer has told uncle if it breaks down, or breaks out, again, it will be the subject of the first £1,000 TV revival job.