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  • Sheep attack

    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.

  • Last of the Stevenson lighthouses

    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…

  • Misty dawn of what would be a lovely day

    From the front door this morning. Published with Blogger-droid v1.4.8

  • Lerwick, the Miami of the north

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  • My favourite workplace window

    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…

  • THE BEATCROFT BLOG MOVED…and then moved back here!

    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…

  • Kayaking at sunset, Hillswick

    One of those uncannily still nights when you just have to separate yourself from the land…

  • Motorcycle sunshine

    You know you’re getting old when…you can’t face the wind-in-teeth 12-mile pedal cycle run you used to do with James and without breaking sweat (nearly). So James went off for a lightning fast velocipedal sprint around the Ollaberry circuit, and I watched the Grand Prix. And then, as befits a man of my age and…

  • The Victors…The Passion Singers…at the ABC2

    A DVD arrived today from Mr Stewart Cunningham containing 230 photographs taken on Saturday night at the Victors 30th Anniversary gig. Here’s one showing Victors lead singer Brian McGlynn during the encore, with some of The Passion Singers. I feel sure that what Brian’s doing with his right hand in the second snap is NOT…

  • Thirty Years After…Duffin, Morton and (a much younger) Morton

    I know, I know. There’s been an election and I haven’t said a word about it. Partly, that’s because I’m not really allowed to make public political pronouncements, on pain of having the BBC whip withdrawn. But also, it’s because my mind has been on other things. Namely, Saturday night’s 30th Anniversary reunion gig by…