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  • All we like sheep

    Good news! We’ve been told that the Scottish government is to consider changes to crofting law which could put an end to uncontrolled wandering of the lanolin-soaked disease carriers. Also, thanks to Jimmy C for pointing out that the upper limit for the Small Claims Court in Scotland is now £3000. Which might just about…

  • Sheep and why I hate them

    In Shetland they’re disease-ridden, enormously destructive, almost valueless, stupidly romanticised subsidy objects, and if it wasn’t for the ramifications I’d have been out this morning already with the .20 gauge terminating the ones that have destroyed our trees, bulbs and grass. Despite the cattle grid installed at enormous expense. We found out this week that…

  • Reconnecting the Radiocroft

    Fair play to BT, or British Telecom…one on-line reporting of a fault at The Radiocroft, and within an hour or so an engineer – Ross – was in the exchange re-setting the ISDN card…another lightning strike suspected; everything is now fixed and The Radiocroft is back online, with broadband due for installation tomorrow. We’re going…

  • From The Radiocroft back to The Palace of Sheep

    I feel sorry for the local BT engineers, who respond like lightning to…well. Lightning strikes that fry the Hillswick telephone exchange. But over the past five weeks, my ISDN (Integrated Systems Digital Network) line has melted down no less than four times, all but once sending my daily radio show into a disastrous tailspin and…

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  • At Baldragon Academy

    The school soul band rehearse for today's TM show.

  • In Another Land: the death of Larry Norman

    I think it was 1972. Larry Norman arrived in Scotland to play for the first time, at the militantly traditional, eccentrically evangelical Tent Hall in Glasgow’s Saltmarket. It was the moment rock’n’roll in all its glamour, hairiness, colour and American vigour, arrived in the midst of Scottish fundamentalism. Nothing would ever be the same again,…