Fed up with the cold wait, he writes a letter to his local newspaper.
The council takes pity on little Bobby and installs a brand new one.
The letter I wrote at the age of six probably only got published because I was so young.
I had no idea the whole thing was going to snowball like it has!
We don’t take it too seriously though, it is still just a bit of fun.
At one point we had a computer.
It was not connected though.
Considering the winters we have, electric appliances would probably explode!
One day some hamsters appeared, they are now permanent residents chugging their water bottle containing locally brewed beer.
They’re not real by the way.
In the visitors book, there are people who come from as far as Canada and Australia.
I told her that it was by Securicor van - I think she believed me!
I was only fourteen and she didn’t realise I was pulling her leg!
The following year, the Unst Bus Shelter got a Yahoo!
award for the best community website in 2003.
It was all a bit surreal actually!
I don’t really have a favourite theme.
Although I missed the Africa one because I was in Swaziland.
My mum, who now does all the decorating, happened to have loads of giraffe-print material.
I do like it in winter though, we have fairy lights which run off a generator.
