September 2010
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Susan is threatening to put my red sofa in the newly-converted-to-holiday-accommodation barn. I am, of course, fighting a rearguard action! Literally, as I have worn a depression in this settee which perfectly suits me. Though it is….rather difficult to extricate myself from… The red sofa has become my office, my bookshelf, my occasional dining room.…
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Alan Furst’s novels of WW2 and the years preceding are, on the whole, truly excellent. I thought I’d read them all, but for some reason missed Night Soldiers, which is unlike the rest of his books, being much bigger in scale: it covers Bulgarian fascism, Soviet NKVD recruitment and training (in too much detail) the…
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Home after a flying visit south, courtesy of FlyBe, the airline that charges you an extra ten quid for carrying your guitar. Still, it all worked out rather cheaper than the boat would have been, even including a hire car (assuming I’d booked a cabin on NorthLink) and was much, much less tiring. The Caravan…
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The ferry across the Corran Narrows to Ardgour must be the most expensive per metre in Scotland: £6.40 for a car and passenger, to travel what seems like the length of two football pitches, if that. On Friday, with Tom Morton Show time approaching rapidly, I arrived off the ferry after a discombobulating trip down…
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Huge equinoctial gales hammering Shetland, and the NorthLink ferry to Aberdeen cancelled due to, ahem 10-metre swells in the Fair Isle Channel. I remember being on one of the old boats (P&O’s rough ex-Baltic ferries, the St Clair and the St Sunniva, which would have set sail in a typhoon, if we had typhoons) for…
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Published with Blogger-droid v1.4.8 Mysterious arrival of sheep in Shetland – a creature never previously seen in this habitat. Origins believed to relate to knitting activity here.
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Well, That’s six weeks or so since I took possession of the Bellagio down in Norfolk, and almost a month since I arrived home after the 3500-mile excesses of The Barnard Challenge. Susan has reconciled herself to the existence of the Guzzi, and even ordered a special shed for it. Which James put together and…
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Eshaness, Shetland. Built by David in 1929. Now owned by Shetland Amenity Trust and available for tourist rentals! How cool is that? The roof is reinforced concrete and can withstand frequent batterings not just by wind but by the stones and indeed large boulders thrown up over the 61-metre cliffs. Seriously. Extreme holidaymaking! In glorious…
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From the front door this morning. Published with Blogger-droid v1.4.8
