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Speaking to an old pal at the BBC yesterday, John Carmichael, who is now something incredibly senior and has sorted out the gremlins that were causing major problems to the show. As noted below, The Radiocroft’s ISDN line has proved too unreliable to risk with a daily two-hour live radio show. However, the long-standing fallback…

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It’s a short comic tale from the Croatian artist Darko Macan and writer Tihomir Celanovic, translated, helpfully, by a friendly blogger. http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/5408800.html

I’m five months into my seventh year of presenting the current manifestation of the Tom Morton radio Show, and the majority of my daily broadcasts have come from The Radiocroft, a small cottage in the north mainland of Shetland. This has been possible due to a technology called ISDN – Integrated Systems Digital Network –…

Moments after these pictures were taken, we had thunder, lightning, then power cuts and probably the frying of ISDN lines. I haven’t checked yet. Too busy with generators and fetching curries.

Here’s the deal: It’s over £140 for a Hydro Connect weekend camping ticket, £20 for parking, an extra £75 if you want to bring a camper van. A programme’s an additional £8 and Tangerine Fields charge a whopping £470 for a six-man tent, already erected, with air beds and sleeping bags (but no pillows). Ostensibly…

This poor crippled pigeon was fluttering about the BBC’s Pacific Quay headquarters this afternoon, doubtless depositing guano on very expensive digital machinery. It may well be the reincarnation of Lord Reith, whose desk (preserved on the third floor)offers an excellent roosting possibility. then again, it probably isn’t. Let’s hope not, if it has to be…

So…here she is! A PROPER camper! Last night, under conditions of great secrecy, I took a train from Glasgow to Edinburgh, another from Edinburgh to Newcastle, and then finally one from Newcastle to Darlington, there to meet a man called Don, custodian of Violetta the VW camper (technically, a Caravelle minibus converted to camper status).…