October 2010
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Aberdeen at night. What is this monstrosity, you may well ask, if you’re not au fait with shopping in the granite city? A car park? An alien spaceship of the most implacably warlike mien? Perhaps it’s one of those nanotech buildings described by William Gibson in the Bridge trilogy, or a nuke-proof governmental bunker? Wrong…
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I was in Eskdalemuir to see the writer Colin Betts about a possible publishing project. He lives, it’s safe it say, in the most isolated house I’ve ever visited, three miles from the nearest proper road, in the heart of Scottish Welsh Celtdom. To get there, you have to ford the Esk, right at its…
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Best view of any Beeb building.20 year old Orbit Gold Medal 531 ST.
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Amazing day with amazing people. In a great place
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Mrs Morton’s birthday today, so Ms Morton baked a cake. And a very splendid thing it is/was too! Tomorrow, no radio show due to Colonialism Games activity, so much tidying before exciting trip sooth to celebrate my dad’s 80th birthday, see four generations in one place at one time, all being well, and fight with…
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It’s late, too late in the year to be on the peat hill at all. If I say that these peats are actually last year’s, belatedly bagged and howked home after a 12 month or more weathering on the moor, many will look askance at my right to wield a tushkar at all. As it…
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I wish I could show the truly wondrous…texture of this van’s paint finish. I’m guessing this has been painted with the bitumen roofing tar used widely in Shetland for felt roofs. Proper underseal would be too expensive.But then, anything to preserve something as glorious as an AX, direct descendent of the 2CV…ah, how I recall…
