Tom Morton
@thebeatcroft.bsky.social
Writer, talker, wanderer. Shetland, Scotland.
Railway station roofs. They are undoubtedly deep spiritual codes. Transcendence beckons.
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Railway station roofs. They are undoubtedly deep spiritual codes. Transcendence beckons.
I think this weekend saw Deacon Blue and Wet Wet Wet playing major gigs in Glasgow with Hue And Cry in The City of Paisley, and Edwyn Collins in Edinburgh. Meanwhile, Caught Up In This Big Rhythm, - 72-pages of 80s Scottish pop snapshots and memories by me and Stewart Cunningham - is coming soon
October 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I think this weekend saw Deacon Blue and Wet Wet Wet playing major gigs in Glasgow with Hue And Cry in The City of Paisley, and Edwyn Collins in Edinburgh. Meanwhile, Caught Up In This Big Rhythm, - 72-pages of 80s Scottish pop snapshots and memories by me and Stewart Cunningham - is coming soon
Perfect in tone but somehow lacking in space. Feels dense, crammed. Always that sense of both lightness and movement in Le Carré’s prose. Fascinating though.
October 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Perfect in tone but somehow lacking in space. Feels dense, crammed. Always that sense of both lightness and movement in Le Carré’s prose. Fascinating though.
So many memories with this. #MarquesdeRiscal. Never imagined I’d find it in the Lerwick #Tesco
July 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
So many memories with this. #MarquesdeRiscal. Never imagined I’d find it in the Lerwick #Tesco
Full of jarring, sometimes bizarre anomalies and clangers from 1971: the Tory PM is called Patrick Harvey, there’s a Soho nightclub called The Gaza Strip. But pacey as hell and still with weird political relevance in places. #Hurd #ScotchontheRocks
June 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Full of jarring, sometimes bizarre anomalies and clangers from 1971: the Tory PM is called Patrick Harvey, there’s a Soho nightclub called The Gaza Strip. But pacey as hell and still with weird political relevance in places. #Hurd #ScotchontheRocks
Incredibly informative and entertaining, but not for the squeamish and from a realm of folky political incorrectness that beggars belief. #HamishImlach #Scottishfolk
April 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Incredibly informative and entertaining, but not for the squeamish and from a realm of folky political incorrectness that beggars belief. #HamishImlach #Scottishfolk
I have Kesey and Kerouac, but the others?
April 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I have Kesey and Kerouac, but the others?
#Burgess on #Hemingway. Brilliantly witty, penetrating, generous and so wonderfully Burgessian I’m going to have to find yet another copy of #EarthlyPowers immediately
April 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
#Burgess on #Hemingway. Brilliantly witty, penetrating, generous and so wonderfully Burgessian I’m going to have to find yet another copy of #EarthlyPowers immediately
Presumably Mark Zuckerberg decided to bypass #Shetland on his superyacht’s voyage to invade Greenland when he learned the Lerwick Tesco was stocking #CarelessPeople.
March 31, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Presumably Mark Zuckerberg decided to bypass #Shetland on his superyacht’s voyage to invade Greenland when he learned the Lerwick Tesco was stocking #CarelessPeople.
“I’ve replaced my nightly glass of wine…” with a large #Springbank 15. Opens the arteries, supports Scottish industry, dissolves dental plaque, quite burny.
March 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
“I’ve replaced my nightly glass of wine…” with a large #Springbank 15. Opens the arteries, supports Scottish industry, dissolves dental plaque, quite burny.
£15 a bottle for pretendy wine/grape juice? When Irn Bru is available? Or Shloer with a dash of bitters?
March 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
£15 a bottle for pretendy wine/grape juice? When Irn Bru is available? Or Shloer with a dash of bitters?
The great lost Glasgow crime thriller.
March 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The great lost Glasgow crime thriller.
Nearly 40 years ago, on tourist visas. Washington Square Park, NYC. That was where it was sort of at…
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Nearly 40 years ago, on tourist visas. Washington Square Park, NYC. That was where it was sort of at…
From the surgery house garden, 6.00pm, ‘twixt equilux and equinox. West Ayre, Hillswick, Shetland. iPhone 14 snap, unedited.
March 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
From the surgery house garden, 6.00pm, ‘twixt equilux and equinox. West Ayre, Hillswick, Shetland. iPhone 14 snap, unedited.
If I take out a subscription, will you employ some subs, oh, Herlad of Glasgoe?
March 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If I take out a subscription, will you employ some subs, oh, Herlad of Glasgoe?
Not an original Spot Records version, but still. That photographer’ll never amount to anything…#dennishopper
March 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Not an original Spot Records version, but still. That photographer’ll never amount to anything…#dennishopper
If you were a voracious child reader in the late 60s, you’ll have this permanently imprinted on your synapses. #NevilShute has a lot to answer for. #OntheBeach
March 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
If you were a voracious child reader in the late 60s, you’ll have this permanently imprinted on your synapses. #NevilShute has a lot to answer for. #OntheBeach
Still works. Now to start stockpiling tins of baked beans.
March 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Still works. Now to start stockpiling tins of baked beans.
Nearing the end of my part in a major project that started last August. 40 years I’ve been writing about this lot #Runrig. A pleasure, always.
February 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Nearing the end of my part in a major project that started last August. 40 years I’ve been writing about this lot #Runrig. A pleasure, always.
Having read and reread the Boyd canon (even that dreadful Landrover advertorial thing) I’m now worried about what I can follow this (unread until now) with. Barry Humphries thought Ordinary Thunderstorms was his best novel. It is terrific
February 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Having read and reread the Boyd canon (even that dreadful Landrover advertorial thing) I’m now worried about what I can follow this (unread until now) with. Barry Humphries thought Ordinary Thunderstorms was his best novel. It is terrific