July 2023

  • Beatcrofting by bus…

    A busy Tall Ships week, a playlist tinged with sadness… and demands for more grins It’s been a very busy week, working with the team webcasting the Tall Ships Races’ four-day stay in Lerwick. Complicated by the lack of vehicular transport, due to a drastic  power steering failure on the truck and an infuriating hydraulics…

  • Tom Morton's Beatcrofting and beyond, 22 July

    Cars, boats, coffee, golf, music and more boats This week: Car problems Caffeine starvation The horrid moneyed elitism of tournament golf Full blow-by-blow account of my tortured night aboard ship from Aberdeen to Lerwick (unedited version of the Shetland Times column) News of the Tall Ships Race coverage Playlist and Mixcloud link for the Beatcrofting…

  • Mainlanding

    Troon, Banksy, a song about banjos, A bargain lunch and the Beatcrofting show as usual It’s my last day in Troon on a visit constrained by travel and locum issues. Susan has had to go back home early to sort out medical cover for her GP practice, and we had limited time in That Scotland…

  • Food grief

    Eating your way through loss Bereavement removes appetite, and yet provokes condolences in the form of gifted food. Friends and neighbours murmur their sorrow, and bring soup, bannocks, stews. Nothing frivolous, sustaining fuel for the empty days and often nights. Oatcakes. Flapjacks. Everyone needs something sweet. Rhubarb and custard pie, as made by Sue Lawrence…