November 2004

Phew! Just back from a night out in Dundee, Newport-on-Tay and Broughty Ferry, which taxed my liver to the utmost. It was work, honest. I’m not at liberty to explain what at the moment, but it’s a mega-exciting project which was signed, sealed and is yet to be delivered. Anyway, I’d never been in Broughty…

So, for the moment, the feeling is that the sound quality provided by ISDN wasn’t quite up to the Beeb’s standards, and therefore broadcasting from the Barn of Bannocks is currently in abeyance. We shall see if a few tweaks can’t sort things out. It was rather unfortunate that the webcam system I’d gone to…

Well, here I sit at last in the Barn of Bannocks, connected up to the wonderweb through BT Business Highway (no broadband in the remote fastness of Northmavine, Shetland) at a glorious 128 thingies. The excellent Scott, with help from Duncan, has converted the barn into a relatively comfortable retreat from the madness of daily…

…or to be precise, wide and long seaside pavement of asphalt and cement. Which could soon disappear, so they’re saying (see http://northtonight.grampiantv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=5174 ) thanks to global warming and big huge waves. This, I hereby aver, would be a great pity. Though I have been gently rapped over the knuckles for saying on-air today that Aberdeen’s…