The Screen Machine service has been in operation for 25 years.
It was due to be taken off the road next month because the lease on the current vehicle was coming to an end.
Operator Regional Screen Scotland has secured £350,000 funding to keep it going another two years.
Which is a great thing. I have seen many, if infrequent screenings on board.
After a $12 million gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center's board voted to rename Thompson Island as Cathleen Stone Island.
Despite Mrs. Stone's genuinely admirable and accomplished environmental career, this seems like a bad idea.
The Orkney islands are to test two electric ferries for commuting between its outlying islands as part of efforts to cut carbon emissions from shipping.
The battery-powered hydrofoil ferries, whose hulls are raised above the water, are part of a three-year, £15.5m demonstration project funded by the UK government, due to start in March 2024.
The race – first established in 1984 – is for teams of hill runners and sailors over a long weekend around the west coast of Scotland.
The sailing course is 160 nautical miles and includes the tides and overfalls of the Corryvreckan and the Mull of Kintyre. Runners travel 60 miles and compete in 11,500 ft of climbing.
Just got back from the #boundarywaters in northern Minnesota. If you ever want to detach from the internet, enjoy the quiet, and/or see loons, this is your bet.
8 years ago today (yesterday, actually), 20 September, 2015, when I was a contract engineering mgr for GoDaddy in #Culver_City - a company they had just acquired in the process of an #IPO.
I'm not quite sure how that all works, but everytime I get in the middle of one of those, all the C-Level folks and those who hired me disappear a few days later, buy #yachts and #islands, and I end up being one of the big bosses working for bunch of people I never meet, lolz.
After we stopped at the Islands Leros and Lipsi we reached our destination, the island Patmos. The ferryride in total was 5h. We enjoyed it a lot, especially because we could see all these incredibly nice islands (at least the harbour vilages). #traveling#greece#islands#patmos