Hi Rockman.
Independence - sore point. A lot of hearts voted one way, a lot of heads voted the other. Very divisive, it's scarred the country and created social tensions we didn't have before.
And we're going to do it all over again in a couple of years over EU membership. Yikes....
I didn't vote for independence. The economic arguments didn't make sense to me, I couldn't see any contingency planning and, in retrospect and given the current state of the oil industry, I'm very glad it was a no-vote. As a rule of thumb we don't bother tracking the price of oil in detail round here, we just count the rig support vessels anchored in Aberdeen bay. When the price is high, they're all on the move, working. When it's moderate, they all tie up in the harbour. At the moment they're all anchored offshore with skeleton crews to avoid harbour fees. I've a lot of friends and acquaintances in the North Sea game who're either laid off, biting their nails waiting to be laid off or doing the laying off.
Ice cream's not one of my favourite foods so I prefer not to offer an ill-informed opinion based on inadequate expertise.
