Slightly stormy…but big congratulations to BT Openreach!




These pictures were taken at the Eshaness cliffs on Friday morning, after a night of sustained 80 mph winds, gusting much higher. The electricity failed sometime overnight and remained off, with one brief respite of an hour, until 21.00 yesterday. The previous day, lightning struck the telephone exchange at Hillswick, frying my ISDN connection, which meant a mad dash to Lerwick to do the show from the BBC Radio Shetland studios. BT really came up trumps, though – their engineer was actually listening to the programme(which for the first half hour, as I drove through snow, hail, ice and a plague of frogs to get to Lerwick, had to be hosted by Pam Tibbets in Glasgow) and drove straight to Hillswick to fix the problem! So by the time I came home on Thursday night, everything was working fine. Until, that is, the power cut…

The weather today (Saturday) is grim and gusty. I’m flying south early on Monday morning, by which time things should have calmed down slightly. Still, I’m glad I haven’t booked the boat…

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2 responses to “Slightly stormy…but big congratulations to BT Openreach!”

  1. Jon Roniger -Singer/Songwriter Avatar
    Jon Roniger -Singer/Songwriter

    Tom,very much enjoyed reading your blog. I’m glad that a friend of mine sent me over to your page. I’m a singer/songwriter from San Francisco. I have my own blog on here called SONGS IN THE RAW. I write and post a new song each week.Check it out;http://www.jonroniger.blogspot.com/Also, I am releasing my new record in The UK in March and following with several tours this year. Check out;http://www.digitalrodeo.com/jonronigerthe first 13 songs are from the new record…..then there is more….Anyway, I am headin over to your music myspace page to check out your tunes!All the best! Love the pictures….Peace,Jon Roniger

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    Tonykaku

    what exciting weather you have there!we had a rain here on friday or as the tv weatherpeople here like to call it “Storm Watch 2008”.usually i would go to the beach to take photosof the waves but i was feeling a bit under theweather so i decided not to go out into theweather.i haven’t listened to all of your friday Burns DayShow so i don’t know if you and your station madeit thru until the end of the show. i felt i shouldlearn a thing or two about Rabbie Burns andTam O’Shanter before emailing again.i did find some of your life on youtube. you cansee some of mine by putting in “kevfoto” intothe youtube search field. i have some live music from my travels and a few other things.thanks again for the music, the music triviaand the many interesting topics of conversation.kevin from the south bay of LAps. track #4 of Sigur Ros’ 2002 cd called ( )is one of my favorites and the reason i became a fan. i like the videos you posted and will look to see if there is a video to track #4.

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