September 2009

Tom Morton’s Week (Sunday Herald, 27 September)http://www.heraldscotland.com (but this isn’t available there) Monday We are awash with rhubarb and ginger jam, which I made yesterday in a fit of autumnal domesticity. I also made a rhubarb crumble so large it could alleviate the Texan constipation problem, which is allegedly as large as most Texans. How…

Honestly, the viral existence of this, the brilliance of it, the effort put in to write and perform it, the humour, the sentiments expressed….it gives you hope for the future of music, art, the human race…

Tom Morton’s Week (published in The Sunday Herald, 20 September 2009) MONDAY I’m having a bit of a cake problem. Desperate attempts to lose weight have foundered, and instead I have taken to the Top Gear solution (wearing sports jacket to disguise increasing chest flab). This has sent me rolling down the road to confectionary…

This is the film record of my June trip with Rob and Ken around the most northerly, southerly, westerly and easterly distilleries in Scotland. Made by The Drapers, father and son, for SingleMalt TV, I think it’s rather amusing. And instructive, both about whisky and archaeology. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid25309100001?bclid=1859711564&bctid=37872677001

I mentioned on the show today that, in my opinion, the best approach to Scotland’s crunch World Cup qualifier with Holland on Wednesday was pessimism. This was born of the hideous, depressing experiences I have had in my life of actually supporting, optimistically, Scotland’s national socceristas in their quest for glory. It works this way:…

“I won’t flinch…” I think this guy’s accent betrays a Scottish origin.

This is a bit of an experiment. In June, as you can read in the Journey’s Blend blog, Rob Allanson (editor of Whisky Magazine) Ken Hamilton and myself completed a 1500-mile motorcycle journey around five Scottish distilleries, collecting samples and creating what we think of us ‘the ultimate geographical blend’. This was filmed for the…