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Tag Archives: booze
Cookin’ on the Costa Del Sol
Image: Jess Conrad On Friday I left Scotland and flew south to the sunny el paradiso that is the Spanish Blackpool, Benidorm! My fellow Diners and I jumped on board a morning plane from Glasgow, and after a raucous flight … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Publishing and Marketing, Websites
Tagged 3 Ebook deal, Benidorm, bookmarks, booze, Costa del Sol, dinner, eBooks, free books, friends, marketing, nightlife, promotion, sunny, websites
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Such a Busy Life
Image: MailLife.co.uk Brunch I took my daughter out for a lazy brunch on Sunday. We spent a couple of hours up in town chatting and talking about, amongst other things, both our hopes for the future. We did all of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, book release, Books, booze, brunch, chapbook, daughter, Day Job, Devon Ellington, Edinburgh, Erasure, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, London, marketing, mobile phone, novel, Poetry, Reading, sister, West End Festival, Writing
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Slow Saturday
Image: English Passport My daughter is away for the weekend so I allowed myself the luxury of a lie in yesterday morning. The fact that I had partaken in a pub crawl around the Royal Mile and Grassmarket the evening … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Sport, Writing
Tagged booze, contest, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Editing, Football, Grassmarket, manuscript, poems, Poetry, Poetry Superhighway, rain, revisions, Royal Mile, Scottish League, Silly Poems for Kids, Sleep, SPL, Sport, St Mirren, storms, thunder, Weather
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Time for a Pub Crawl
Image: The All Seeing One The day job has squeezed much of my time over the last couple of days but I’ve still managed to get through some good work. Savvy Workshop Comments on my first optional extra script came … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Travel, Writing
Tagged alcohol, beer, booze, Chinese food, cinema, dream land, dreams, drinking, Facebook, Family, Gail Galbraith Photography, male bonding, movies, Photography, Savvy Authors, script writing, social networking, The Diners, Twitter, Website, Writing, writing workshop
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One Complete Manuscript
Image: Ranse Parker Over the past few days I imposed internet silence on my activities in order to focus on one important task: completing the manuscript of GREENER IS THE GRASS. And last night, I finished it. It’s a crashing … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Writing
Tagged booze, coffee shop, crime fiction paranormal fiction, critique, Devon Ellington, Edinburgh, Editing, Fiction, Internet, Leith, manuscript, Muse Online Writers’ Conference, NaNoWriMo, Queen Charlotte Rooms, re-writing, short story, trusted readers, Writing, writing workshop
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Snow, Booze, Food, Laughter, Games And Campness All The Way!
Image: scotland.gov.uk Welcome back to ‘Freedom from the Mundane’, in what is arguably my first post of the new decade (by name), but is most definitely the start of a brand new year. Twenty-Ten, Two Thousand and Ten, Two-Oh-One-Oh; by … Continue reading
A Day Of Absolute Madness
Image: Me! It was a weekend to remember; a weekend never to forget. From St. Mirren Park on Saturday (arguably forgettable) to Depeche Mode on Saturday night (definitely forgettable), and from the ska party in Glasgow on Sunday to the … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Music, Photography, Sport
Tagged 1980s, bevy, booze, Clockwork Pub, Depeche Mode, friends, Glasgow, live gigs, Madness, Mount Florida, Music, O2 Academy, Paisley, Pivo Pivo, ska, skinheads, St Mirren
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