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Revamped, state-of-the-fart toilets at #Glasgow’s Queen Street Station are inaccessible and in this day and age, who has a 50p coin to spend a penny? Charge if you want, Network Rail but the digital age is uh, nearly here…

This whole ‘non-alcoholic spirit’ thing is exploitative nonsense.

Very good, very necessary re-evaluation of the great Derek Cooper, from a Hebridean perspective. The genial and mellifluous don of British food writing and broadcasting. welovestornoway.com/index.php/arti…

Final book in David McCloskey’s splendid Artemis Aphrodite Procter series is a modern American CIA mole hunt paying explicit and loving tribute to #GeorgeSmiley and Tinker Tailor. Only with loads of guns, jokes, alligators and acronyms. Oh, and extremely aggressive short women.

Suddenly realises that’s Spooner Oldham on organ with #NeilYoung at #Glastonbury2025

Treason or blasphemy? Guinness GB BrewDog . Actually, #Blackheart is superb. 1960s Murphy’s in the Station Bar, Cork

Wonderful, subversive song. Longest piano solo on a hit single. Triumph of the permed mullet

I’m squarely in this book’s target demographic, but still. It’s brilliant. Best in the Hepworthian rockstalgia genre… “You like to think you chose the right music when the truth is that the music chose you.” #HopeIGetOldBeforeIDie

What's in the box? A bit of housekeeping...I'm emigrating from #substack to #Wordpress, which will continue to fire out newsletters by email as well as publish online at beatcroft.com (no 'the'). The complete Substack archive is there, plus my 21 years at Blogger

Local dental clinic has always been excellent but now told an “urgent” appointment from NHSShetland could take “weeks or months”. Emergency is only “bleeding, swelling or pain not subject to painkillers”. Oh well. Back to the Lagavulin and Polyfilla…

First time trying to replace Shimano trigger shift derailleur cable. My advice, after 60 years of bicycle maintenance? Throw the thumb shift away, get a new one with the cable already installed. Or fit downtube friction shifters

Jokes in a dream can be incredibly niche: Dreamt that the former Bethany (gospel) Hall in Troon, Ayrshire had been turned into a BP petrol station. To which I said, “ah, from PB to BP”. If you know…

My Best Temporary Friend beatcroft.com/2025/07/12/my-…

Worst night of attempted sleep in #Shetland ever, thanks to a plague of EVIL ORCADIAN FLIES

So many memories with this. #MarquesdeRiscal. Never imagined I’d find it in the Lerwick #Tesco

Thrawn in the USA, 1986. All come to look for America #DelAmitri beatcroft.com/2025/07/19/thr…