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Eshaness, Shetland between 3.20pm and 4.20pm. You can see Foula, the westernmost Shetland island, and if you click on the pictures and enlarge them, you should just be able to make out the infamous Ve Skerries lighthouse on the horizon. Everyone who could was out and about this afternoon, soaking in the last bit of…
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Amid tales that The Sunday Post is soon going to have a pay-to-read online version available, and the current subscription-only access to the Sunday Herald and Herald, I decided to make my contributions to today’s papers available here…though of course I’d urge you buy the hard copy editions of both papers if you can! I,…
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An Olivetti Lettera 32, identical to the one used by Cormac McCarthy to write all his novels…only in almost unused condition. £15 I think I paid for it, off eBay. Made in Glasgow too. It is absolutely beautiful, though not as spectacular as the Olivetti Valentine. Nor as expensive. McCarthy’s (broken!) machine was sold at…
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1- General election has to be postponed after Alistair Darling’s eyebrows unexpectedly turn orange and David Cameron is victim of a daring partial head-shaving attack whilst snoozing on a bus. 2- Russell Brand’s utter absence of talent is sensationally revealed after Katy Perry releases YouTube video of him learning Michael McIntyre routine phonetically. He offers…
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A ‘blue moon’, technically, is a second full moon occurring within a month of a previous full moon. And there’s one today. Which is not only Hogmanay, obviously, but also my 54th birthday. The lists thing began yesterday with ‘my top ten live albums of all time’ and then provoked a couple of old pals…
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Following on from a non-sequitur on yesterday’s show, and the news (thanks, Mike Ritchie) that Van Morrison is a father again at the age of 64 (to George Ivan Morrison III, dead spit of his dad, poor wee sod), it occurred to me that the Top Ten Live Albums of All Time might be an…
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Strange time of year; strange days. In between Christmas and New Year, loads of people on holiday, loads of people mildly or very drunk, loads of people hungover, shopping, dreaming, playing with new Santa delievered toys. The Tom Morton Show has always gone for live as opposed to pre-recorded when it comes to the festive…
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Woken for some reason at 5.00 am to find snow falling in shovelfuls. It was, thankfully, a shower, not a Narnian Event. The roads have, as usual in Shetland, been cleared and gritted. Scandinavian welfare state, you see. Still, should be an interesting trip into Lerwick.
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These magically quirky CCTV birdboxes are sculptures built by the Glasgow-based architectural model maker Robert Stewart. They were part of Susan’s Christmas (after much heart-stopping trepidation on my part, she loved them)and are now installed inside and outside our house. You can buy them from Glasgow’s superb Recoat Gallery in North Woodside Road. Many thanks…
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Merry Christmas! Here’s my Christmas Eve guide to the wondrous vehicle that gets me in and out to Lerwick when more sophisticated 4WDs slide, slither and slump. Remember, the TM Show is live on BBC Radio Scotland throughout Christmas and New Year, with the exception of Christmas Day itself.
