February 2006

  • Off on a boat…the Sooth Mooth beckons…

    Ferry tomorrow. Seems I’ve hardly been home.Forecast was for winds tomorrow night, but this extraordinary calm weather may last until Tuesday of next week. It’s like spring. Only warmer. Heading for Glasgow on Saturday via Dundee (guitar repairs)and then back to Aberdeen on Monday, hopefully in time to interview Paul Weller. Hey Paul! did you…

  • Wanna buy a hotel? We don’t have a local bar and we’re suffering!

    This is the St Magnus Hotel (formerly the St Magnus Bay Hotel) in Hillswick, the township in which we live and breathe and have our being.It’s been empty and unused (though sort of maintained and, we hope, heated) for some 18 months. The owners, a company from Canterbury called, wait for it, Canterbury Travel, have…