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I absolutely love this story…it has a kind of desperately naff, but enormously deep emotional resonance… Basically, your current wife flogs the urn in which you’ve been secretly keeping your first wife’s ashes…complete with said ashes. Of course, she didn’t realise…or did she? I can see this as a Tod Solondz movie.
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I’m grateful to my old pal and former colleague Lamont Howie for this splendid advert from his local paper down in the wilds of Stoke.
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I picked up the new edition of Spirit of Adventure from Shetland Litho the other day, only to find that the agreed 1000 copies had become 500…which means that this is truly a limited edition. And it means it’s easier to sign each and every one! There will be another reprint as soon as managing…
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Maybe it’s an age thing, but I’ve found myself obsessed with the TV series LIfe on Mars, which is of course set in 1973, the year I went to university. I’ve been watching the DVDs with the family, shouting out things like “that’s a Ford Cortina 2000E! One of my first girlfriends’ dad had one…
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Just in case you were wondering, the reason I’m still in Glasgow is that I’m on holiday and well, this is as far as I’m going to get. It’s a complicated business, holidays in our family. James (who has been here in Glasgow with Susan and Martha and me for the past week) is now…
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Just picked up my venerable Honda GL500 Silverwing from Clydebank today, and the folk at Gremlins having sorted out the front brake, I rode it back into Glasgow. Which was fine, if slightly nerve-wracking. Not as nerve wracking as this video, though. It was sent to me by Colin Fraser of the excellent Shetland Island…
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The St Magnus – or, if you will, St Magnus Bay – Hotel, closed for three years, has been sold and will reopen! Meaning that we will now have a local pub! Let joy be unconfined!
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Well, thanks a million to Niall and Jenny, main co-conspirators in last week’s tour of the east coast, along with guest appearances from Fiona and Lynne. And thanks too to the many listeners who came along to see what all the fuss was about, the various guests (from garlic and beef jerky producers to seabird…
