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The Radiocroft now has a Christmas tree (I’ll take a snap after it gets dark) and it is pretty scabby….but with the people of Peterlee claiming theirs is the worst civic Christmas tree in the UK, where is Scotland’s most appalling? And as for Brad Pitt’s attempt ‘to rehabilitate the moustache’, well…

Phone snap from Findlin’s Farm, looking north-north east. 60 seconds after this, it was snowing heavily. On me.

According to Harrison Ford, a fifth Indiana Jones movie is at the planing stage. But having found the Temple of Doom, the Crystal Skull and the Philosopher’s Stone (or was that a Star Wars movie?) what should Indy be looking for? Also: A Russian advertising agency is using pet dogs as mobile hoardings – what…

Good grief, but Sweden looked amazing in the new TV version of Henning Mankel’s Wallnder books. The acting was, in general, absolutely brilliant, with Branagh’s brilliance quite awesome at times. Fabulous photography, but scripting was occasionally iffy and the choice of Nicholas Hoult from Skins to play the avenging wee brother rendered the whodunnit element…

…and we’re talking mail order disasters (or at least surprises, like the 20 chrome ethernet sockets that arrived yesterday). Unexpected brushes with the law (‘allo, ‘allo, ‘allo, Mr Green…) cover versions that are better than the original and something else that just slipped my mind…oh yes! Forgetfulness. That and embarrassing moments in garages. The engine,…

…in the summer of 1986, when in comes the owner. On a bicycle. Can you guess who it is yet?

Yesterday on the show we nattered about driving tests and strange rockstar names (and those of their children, such as Dweezil Zappa, Zowie Bowie and -most recently- Bronx Mowgli Wendt). Woodside Wullie brought up the demise of Woolworths, and blamed himself – for a shoplifting incident (Dusty in Memphis on vinyl) and his offspring’s abuse…

The demise of the Nippy Sweeties blog, along with two whisky columns I was writing (for the US publication Scottish Life and The Scots Magazine) was provoked by several things: exhaustion, unhealthiness, the need to complete a novel and a complete absence of anything worth saying. Now, with the book finished (Serpentine: due for publication…

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At this time of year in Shetland (now officially possessing the highest quality of life in Scotland, whatever that means) you’ve got to grab whatever daylight there is and try to absorb as much as you can. Even in windily icy conditions like those we have today. So Susan and I took the dogs up…