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Day 11 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest A full day at the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday, but thanks to the late-night writing session the evening before, I slept in slightly and never arrived until shortly before 11am. On arriving, I collected my tickets from the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Poetry, Writing
Tagged BBC, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, Coffee, Costa, crime fiction, Czeslaw Milosz, Don Paterson, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Esther Freud, Freudian, Ian Rankin, Kirsty Wark, Linda Grant, Lucian Freud, media, Newsnight, Orange Prize, podcasting, Poetry, Poland, Press Pod, Reading, Rebus, Robyn Marsack, Scottish Poetry Library, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, The Guardian, The Review Show, writers
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Book Festival Tickets Secured (Eventually)
Image: EBF Book Festival I couldn’t sleep on Saturday night. I was too excited about the book festival tickets going on sale. Little did I know the drama that was to unfold through the day. I’d been up early for … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Music, Reading, Scotland
Tagged BBC, Book Festival, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Glastonbury, music festival, T in the Park, tickets
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Bless the Bunnies
Image: Pippin Writing Routine Totally buggered up my early morning writing session yesterday morning when I went and slept in. I woke up at 9:20am having had a night full of manky dreams, and although I made it to work … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Fiction, Music, Writing
Tagged animal cruelty, Animals, BBC, bunnies, Chinese New Year, doctors, Dreaming, dreams, edits, hospital, nurses, pets, Rabbits, revisions, Sleep, The Musicians' Masterclass, Writing, Year of the Rabbit
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Let Down By The BBC
Image: Treehugger I opened the curtains yesterday morning to see an inch of snow had fallen and more was falling thick and fast. I’d planned on going into town to get a few extra Chrimbo pressies, enjoy a large cappuccino … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged BBC, blogs, Cage Against the Machine, Christmas, complaint, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, gig reviews, ice, John Cage, Leith, letter, newsletter, Ranfurly Review, Reading, Simon Cowell, snow, Weather, X Factor
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From Snowballs To Fireballs
Image: Daily Mail I’m as bored talking about the snow and ice as I am having to walk about in it so I’ll say no more. Unless, that is, I should fall arse over tit again and jar my coccyx … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged and Bevvy, BBC, CGI, Christmas, Christmas presents, computers, cooking, design, drink, falling star, fireball, Flash, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Gail Galbraith Photography, GDR's, home office, I.T, ice, Internet, meteor, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, shooting star, snow, software, stars, Weather, Website, Writing
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Wee Brown Doggy
Image: 42 (www.blipfoto.com/42) Man am I tired! It’s not like I’ve been overdoing the hours at the day job again or not giving myself time to unwind before getting down to work on my manuscripts in the evening, but for … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Film & TV, Reading, Writing
Tagged animal, Animals, BBC, Bill Clegg, Dave Gilmour, Day Job, deconstruction workshop, Devon Ellington, dog, Edinburgh Book Festival, Father Ted, Papal visit, pets, Pink Floyd, Pope, reading books, Roger Waters, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, The Wall, tired, Twitter, Vatican, writing course
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The Pope’s Popeing In
Image: Guardian My parents were married 40 years ago today. On 16th September, 1970, they married in Mount Florida Parish Church on the south side of Glasgow. Three years later they had me, two after that my sister, Fiona, and … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Leith, Writing
Tagged anniversary, BBC, Catholicism, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editing, Leith, marriage, Neil Gaiman, Pope Benedict, road closures, Roman Catholics, Rome, Scotland, Scottish weather, the Pope, The Queen, Twitter, Vatican, wedding, wedding anniversary, windy, Writing
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Louise Rennison’s Kisses And Alan Bissett, Superman
Image: ChildrensStorefront.com I started yesterday off with a good deed and I felt like was on a bit of a high for the rest of the day. A lady sat on the top deck of the bus as it moved … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Leith, Reading, Writing
Tagged Alan Bissett, Alex Salmond, BBC, Candia McWilliam, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Emerging Writers' Festival Australia, good deed, Ian Rankin, Lars Husum, Leith, Lisa Dempster, Louise Rennison, screenplay, STV, Superman, Twitter
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Missing Scottish Weather
Image: BCMom Bit of a slow day yesterday. It’s become so sticky and muggy over the past couple of days that commuting has become a misery (I’m sweating way too much) and sleeping is almost impossible (like lying in a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged air conditioning, BBC, Day Job, Edinburgh Book Festival, flash fiction, Radio 4, Ranfurly Review, sun burn, sun cream, UNESCO, Weather, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Back On Side With The BBC
Image: Treehugger Got through some decent work last night, and with the Christmas/New Year period coming up it’s a good roll to be on. Otherwise, I feel, I might lost the impetus I’ve managed to build up and we can’t … Continue reading →