May 2010

From May to late August 2010, The Beatcroft was in residence at WordPress. No longer. I’m moving the blog back to its original home, namely Blogger. which is to say, right here. This summer’s posts will essentially be held, with a full archive (until yesterday) of The Beatcroft’s past postings, at http://tommorton.wordpress.com… but… all future…

One of those uncannily still nights when you just have to separate yourself from the land…

You know you’re getting old when…you can’t face the wind-in-teeth 12-mile pedal cycle run you used to do with James and without breaking sweat (nearly). So James went off for a lightning fast velocipedal sprint around the Ollaberry circuit, and I watched the Grand Prix. And then, as befits a man of my age and…

A DVD arrived today from Mr Stewart Cunningham containing 230 photographs taken on Saturday night at the Victors 30th Anniversary gig. Here’s one showing Victors lead singer Brian McGlynn during the encore, with some of The Passion Singers. I feel sure that what Brian’s doing with his right hand in the second snap is NOT…

I know, I know. There’s been an election and I haven’t said a word about it. Partly, that’s because I’m not really allowed to make public political pronouncements, on pain of having the BBC whip withdrawn. But also, it’s because my mind has been on other things. Namely, Saturday night’s 30th Anniversary reunion gig by…

A wee walk before breakfast. Beautiful spring morning in the west end. Manfully resisting the blandishments of The North Star, sustenance was acquired from home-made porridge (with raisins and salt). Plus lashings of Canderel. Interesting psephological fact: On a walk from Hillhead Underground to the shops at Queen Margaret Drive, I saw one Labour window…