April 2011

  • Glasgow from a distance.

    It’s the end of a frenetic week back in Shetland, one full of council and broadcasting business, great weather,a flurry of filming with Jolene and Rich’s Precious Productions for BBC Online, preparation of holiday cottages for the season and the climbing, in torrid conditions, of a very small hill. And of course, after a fortnight in…

  • Birth of the mediacrofter, death of the hack

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    Yesterday, before salmonella laid me low, I had a meeting about a planned media training programme for councillors and council officials back in Shetland. It went well. The people involved, three of them, have a company which specialises in this sort of thing, and has done effective work for all kinds of major league corporate…