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Classic autumn day in the wild west end of Glasgow. On the way back from PQ through the park (aboard the trusty folding bike)I saw a fox and a squirrel next to the Kelvin. Tales of the Riverbank! It’s 36 years since I first came to live in Glasgow, as a 17 year old student…
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A strange, calm sense of wellbeing comes over me in railway stations. If, that is, I’m in plenty of time for whatever train I’m supposed to be catching. It’s even better if I’m not actually catching a train at all. Not that I make a habit of just loitering on railway concourses. Stations are good…
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It was too much, the overnight boat trip from Shetland, followed by a thrash down the road to Glasgow, doing the show, and then another drive down to Wigtown, for the annual book festival. I should probably have had a quiet night in then, but a gathering of whisky writers forced me to partake of…Freixenet…
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Cold, cold, cold in Shetland with an icy north westerly bringing in the Greenlandic North Atlantic Blues…it’s a time for staying in a sorting things out for the dark nights, snatching the fading daylight hours fior roof repairs and house-painting. Instead, I’m on the boat tonight and heading south. Wigtown Book Festival appearance (Tom Morton’s…
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Tom Morton’s Week (Sunday Herald, 27 September)http://www.heraldscotland.com (but this isn’t available there) Monday We are awash with rhubarb and ginger jam, which I made yesterday in a fit of autumnal domesticity. I also made a rhubarb crumble so large it could alleviate the Texan constipation problem, which is allegedly as large as most Texans. How…
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Honestly, the viral existence of this, the brilliance of it, the effort put in to write and perform it, the humour, the sentiments expressed….it gives you hope for the future of music, art, the human race…
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Tom Morton’s Week (published in The Sunday Herald, 20 September 2009) MONDAY I’m having a bit of a cake problem. Desperate attempts to lose weight have foundered, and instead I have taken to the Top Gear solution (wearing sports jacket to disguise increasing chest flab). This has sent me rolling down the road to confectionary…
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This is the film record of my June trip with Rob and Ken around the most northerly, southerly, westerly and easterly distilleries in Scotland. Made by The Drapers, father and son, for SingleMalt TV, I think it’s rather amusing. And instructive, both about whisky and archaeology. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid25309100001?bclid=1859711564&bctid=37872677001
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I mentioned on the show today that, in my opinion, the best approach to Scotland’s crunch World Cup qualifier with Holland on Wednesday was pessimism. This was born of the hideous, depressing experiences I have had in my life of actually supporting, optimistically, Scotland’s national socceristas in their quest for glory. It works this way:…
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“I won’t flinch…” I think this guy’s accent betrays a Scottish origin.
