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  • Ullapool, the Stornoway Ferry and, err…me. 

  • Mull Roofing techniques 

  • Tom’s Tour II…after a brutal run from Aberdeen via the horrendous Lecht, sunshine in Ardnamurchan. Waiting for the Lochaline ferry to Fishnish in Mull 

  • Harleys in the Highlands…the dampness factor

    Tom’s Tour II is half way through as I write – I’m in Inverness and my leather breeks have not yet quite dried out after yesterday’s horrendous trip from Fort William.Tobermory was lovely, and the run over from Aberdeen fine once I got past Grantown on Spey. The Lecht was atrocious, but grimly spectacular. The…

  • The Chronicles of Seagirt – parts one and two

    This is the new, somewhat whimsical I admit, column I’m writing for The Shetland Times . Possibly of interest only to those connected to The Old Rock. THE CHRONICLES OF SEAGIRT Part the First: The sinking of the Lachrymose. THE pirates slew everyone on board, and stole every stitch of our cargo. The northern European…

  • Eshaness and da Grind o’ da Navir

    To Eshaness this morning, which was NOT as stormy as this winter picture indicates. Still, one of the great European cliff walks, right along to the legendary Grind o’da Navir, a kind of Giant’s Causeway ripped and crushed by wave action. Fascinating website about Eshaness, waves and indeed the Grind itself, here.

  • Here we go…

    So, here we go again…unions decide BBC’s “offer” ain’t good enough, and are demanding more talks. Doubtless there will be more semantic wrangling over the difference between “negotiation” and “consultation”. Meanwhile, Jeremy Clarkson has (and I never thought I’d say this) some pertinent and very funny points to make.

  • Chick-chick-chick-chick-chicken…

    It’s bizarre, but in the nature of blogging, to move from the macro to the micro, the painful implications of strike action and inaction to, well (sorry, I can’t resist this) chickens coming home to roost. Only our nameless hen wasn’t roosting, she was brooding over a clutch of eggs. Alas, they began hatching yesterday…

  • Off for the moment…

    Thank goodness…no strike next week while the unions consider what to do next. Check outhttp://www.bectu.org.uk/news/bbc/nb0261.html for all the details.

  • Strike(s)

    NOTE: this personal posting is copyright Tom Morton, 2005. All rights reserved. No quoting or reproduction without express permission of the author. The Aberdeen Journals strike of 1989-90 was a nasty, brutal, long dispute, and the results were all bad: diminished, compromised newspapers; bitter divisions between re-employed strikers and those who had worked throughout the…