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Category Archives: Film & TV
Lift Off at the West Port Book Festival
Image: GuerrillaGeek.com West Port Book Festival I nipped up to Peter Bell’s Books in West Port after the day job to collect my tickets for the West Port Book Festival that begins today. Over the next four days I’ll be … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Book Festival, Books, chapbook, Cold War, Colin Firth, eBooks, Edinburgh, festival, Gary Oldman, John Hurt, John La Carré, Kathy Burke, Leith, literature, MI6, movie, Ocean Terminal, Orange Wednesday, Peter Bell's Book, Pizza Express, poems, Poetry, Reading, The Shore, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tom Hardy, Vue Cinema, West Port, West Port Book Festival, wpbf11
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Indian Summer
Image: Fernlea Hotel Summertime Really slow and warm day yesterday, and I mean really slow and warm. In fact, it was slower than a fish swimming through jelly, and warmer in the Athens of the North than it was in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Film & TV, Scotland, Writing
Tagged (Unofficial) Edinburgh Book Festival Blog, Athens, Blogging, cinema, Clive Owen, dialogue, Edinburgh, flix, GDR's, heat, Indian Summer, Jason Statham, Killer Elit, Literary Salon, movie, Ocean Terminal, Robert De Niro, Savvy Authors, summertime, West Port, West Port Book Festival, workshop, Writing
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The Last of the Workload
Image: Glasgow City Council Book Fest It’s Book Fest Eve! Yup, after all the scrambles for tickets, arranging dates so as not to clash with social events, and ensuring there are no clashes with the day job, it is finally … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Video, Writing
Tagged and Bevvy, Apple, Book Festival, Books, chapbooks, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, computer, drink, eBooks, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, errands, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Friday Vid, GDR's, iMac, movies, PC, Poetry, Reading, rioting, Video, workload, Writing
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Paranormal Novella Back on the Agenda
Image: Stock Father’s Day I had a great day out with my daughter yesterday. I’d been called out during the night for work and although it only took me half an hour to resolve, I struggled to get back to … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, charity exhibition, daughter, Edinburgh, Family, Father's Day, Fiction, food and drink, haik, Junk Fu Panda 2, lunch, Omni Centre, paranormal novella, poems, Poetry, Trees for Life, Vue Cinema, Writing
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June Workload: The Penultimate Plan
Image: Academics.de Late I slept in yesterday. Working my full week’s work in the first three days of the week, then being unable to catch up with lost sleep from the first few days, finally took its toll. I woke … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged black pudding, breakfast, cinema, Day Job, Family, filled roll, fried egg, gardening, GDR's, Goals Dreams and Resolutions, knackered, lawn, movie, mowing grass, sister, Sleep, slept in, tired, workplan, Writing
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Man About the House
Image: class-tv.co.uk Walkies I took the bus way, way out to the south side of Edinburgh yesterday morning, to Cameron Toll in fact, then started walking back into town. It’s a several mile treck but it was perfect walking weather: … Continue reading
On a Roll
Image: ratestogo.com Day Job High When I left the day job on Friday I was on a major high; I’d had a fantastic week. Not only had I made two technological breakthroughs for a long term project I’ve been working … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Reading, Writing
Tagged bonus, Day Job, Dean Martin, drafting, DVD, England, Fiction, GDR's, John Wayne, movie, novella, pizza, revisions, Rugby Union, salary, Scotland, short story, Six Nations, Spoon Cafe, The Sons of Katie Elder, Twickenham, Westerm, Writing
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Centering the GPS
Image: teach-ict.com A pleasant day yesterday. I had intended on writing early morning but overslept slightly, so decided to stash my notebook in my pocket and visit a city centre coffee shop to write before work. Same effect; different output, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Film & TV, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Books, coffee shop, Day Job, deadlines, editorial, GDR's, GPS, Prof Brian Cox, QI, radio, Ranfurly Review, Reading, television, The Sopranos, Wonders of the Universe, Writing
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Strong Characters Make Strong Stories
Image: iBug Quack An early doctor’s appointment yesterday morning meant I was up at my usual time – actually that’s a lie – I was up earlier than normal to make up for the loss of time towards BACCARA BURNING … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, chapbook, characters, cinema, coffee shop, Costa, Devon Ellington, Editing, Family, Fiction, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, John Wayne, newspaper, Omni Centre, Poetry, revisions, sister, True Grit, Westerns, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 