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I conducted a little experiment today: using a portable monitor, I measured my blood pressure at 3.00pm and after the show finished at 4.00pm. 202 over 120 and 193 over 128. Which is not good. Normal is…120 over 80. Don’t ask me what those numbers actually mean. Well, actually, I can tell you what they…

"In every Daphne, there's a Maggie straining to get out…" From the planned concept album: The Auchenshuggle Years…and also available on the Tom Morton’s Chatter and Twang podcast – iTunes or the XML link over on the right. Oh, and check out Daphne’s own blog here…

Spring, eh? Well, actually, I’ve experienced colder summer nights in Shetland…but this picture was taken almost three weeks ago, and subsequently we were hit by tonnes of snow and, over the past four days, ferocious winds gusting up to 95 mph. The snow was, of course, sheer delight for the St Bernards. Lulu has a…

…help ma boab, etc. It was Oor Wullie’s 70th birthday yesterday, and I seem to have spent most of the week being interviewed about it. There are/were features in The Scotsman, Daily Record, on Grampian TV, Reporting SCotland (BBC1) and on oor ain BBC Radio Scotland. Everyone’s in a particular lather about the anti-Nazi strips…

One of the problems with blogging is knowing when to post and when to leave the deathless work of artistry you’re so proud of in place for folk to….jeer at/admire/ponder the significance of/wonder if you’ve died. Seeing as I was sitting next to my boss, Mr Jeff Zycinski, today, and he was pointedly pointing out…

The Broons and Oor Wullie are 70 on 8th March. This song is by way of a wee personal tribute…

Right, here we go with my first ever podcast! I should say right away that this is NOT the radio show and has NOTHING to do with the BBC. It has everything to do with the kind of songs you can find on my myspace site or by clicking on the ‘tom morton’s songs’ link…

…their great battle songs a-thunder on the blast!” The entry of the 2006 Northmavine Up Helly Aa Jarl Squad into the Hillswick Hall in the early hours of Saturday morning. Play the video! Just 30 seconds I'm afraid.

…if you can be bothered, check out my new myspace page which is at http://www.myspace.com/tommortonmusic. I’ll put a permanent link up over in the right hand links column in a minute. You can download or listen to four songs there. If you feel inclined, sign up as a ‘friend’. Up Helly Aa was great, by…

  It’s Up Helly Aa day in Northmavine, and the galley Hankavaar, constructed over the past two years (last year’s festival was cancelled following a local tragedy)sits sparkling in the Hillswick sunshine even as I write. Chief viking for the ‘day’ (which will last until around 8.00 am tomorrow!)is Ivor ‘Hank’ Hughson, and he will…