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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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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
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Published with Blogger-droid v1.4.8
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Published with Blogger-droid v1.4.8 This is the view from my desk/kitchen table in The Radiocroft/Bookcroft/Beatcroft, which I have decided to reconstitute as my centre of operations. I can’t, alas, go back to broadcasting from here, due to continued interference from lightning strikes, but it’s still a wonderful place to be. Also, it’s just far enough…
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From May to late August 2010, The Beatcroft was in residence at WordPress. No longer. I’m moving the blog back to its original home, namely Blogger. which is to say, right here. This summer’s posts will essentially be held, with a full archive (until yesterday) of The Beatcroft’s past postings, at http://tommorton.wordpress.com… but… all future…
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One of those uncannily still nights when you just have to separate yourself from the land…
