This gets my goat!

exactly i really can't see how - NOT opening it discriminate against or excludes anyone.

It's the club that are being discriminated against for respecting the sabbath.

Muslims wouldn't be forced to open on a friday lunchtime!.
 
Slightly off topic the first time I took my OH up there to meet my family I went on and on about 1) how bad the weather is 2) the midgies 3) you don't do ANYTHING at all on Sunday apart from go to church. He thought I was over exaggerating....wow did he get a shock!! You don't hang your washing out, ride your horse, go out for Sunday lunch, just go to church thats it. It isn't quite so strict now but when I was growing up it was VERY BAD to be caught doing anything, the minister would tell you off in front of the whole congregation the next Sunday morning!! MY OH suffered on that trip, he was in a caravan in the garden, it was really hot and he couldn't open the windows because of the midgies!!!!
 
Coming from Scotland I can definately sympathise with the midgies and the weather (that's why I don't live there any more!). When I was at uni I went out with a "wee free" minister's son. The son was lovely but his parents were hard work - thankfully not quite so strict as on your island, but defiantely disapproving of our decadent student lifestyle.
I did go to his christmas eve midnight service once expecting a few happy carols - but even that was doom and gloom!

Has your OH ventured back?
 
I go back about four times a year, OH maybe once a year or as little as he can get away with! The wee frees are serious fire and brimstone stuff - just when I thought I was getting somewhere with John I had to take him to a funeral up there - he was in shock for weeks!!!!!! The minister took great delight in pronouncing us all on the fast train to hell for having a quite large expensive looking 4x4!! OH had never had a telling off in church at a funeral before!!!!
 
I was brought up in Ross-Shire and vividly remember a 'wee free's' daughter being in my primary school class. She wasn't allowed to go on a nature walk with the Brownies on a Sunday and the grace her father gave at a birthday party full of 8 year olds had to be heard to be believed - there were quite a few tears!!

Do the Cal-Mac ferries run on a Sunday yet? When I was wee I heard tell that some of the islands were so strict that you prepared your Sunday meals on Saturday so you didn't have to cook on a Sunday!
 
It is this sort of thing that upsets people, and the word racism starts getting thrown about, if it has been like that for years who has a right to declare we have the money you will do as we say.
It is disgusting
 
Um, just because a stark Sunday is the status quo, it doesn't necessarily mean that its what the local people want.

It just means its what SOME of the local people want; those in control within the community. I bet if you could have a secret ballot, especially among the younger people you'd get a few surprises.
 
Sorry I have nothing to add to this, but just want to say that this is one of the best threads on the forum. Excellent, and very entertaining! I'm sooooo glad i dont live up there.
 
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