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Tag Archives: Camden Town
London and an Oral Saga
Image: Colin Galbraith Oral Hell I’ve been unable to write for around a week now. Things were good up to last Sunday night when I returned from London, then I visited the dental hospital in Edinburgh to have two wisdom … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Photography, Poetry, Travel, UK, Writing
Tagged Buckingham Palace, Camden Market, Camden Town, chapbook, David Gilmour, dental, dental hospital, Docklands, Dublin Castle, Embankment, extraction, FA Cup Final, London, London Eye, Nick Mason, O2, O2 Arena, oral surgery, Photography, Pink Floyd, poems, Poetry, Roger Waters. The Wall, sightseeing, St. Paul's Cathedral, teeth, Tower Hill, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, Whitehall, wisdom tooth, Writing
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The Dangermen Six Year Anniversary
Image: Me Yesterday day was a day of getting things done: interview completed, worked on GATECRASH, printed off GREENER manuscript ready for editing and had a pizza and DVD night with my daughter in the evening. I’m pleased with my … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Travel, UK, Writing
Tagged Camden Town, Dublin Castle pub, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, GDR's, live gig, London, Madness, Music, scorching, sun burn, The Dangermen, Weather, Writing
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Weird Things Inside My Head
Image: Martin Kingsley I hope you all liked the interview with poet Sage Cohen in yesterday’s post. Hopefully it made a nice change from the norm, and I think you’ll agree it made for great reading. I’d like to thank … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, UK, Writing
Tagged 30, anniversary, Blogging, Camden Crawl, Camden Town, clouds, Day Job, e-books, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editing, Eternal Press, Fiction, London, Madness, moon, novella, poems, poet, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Sage Cohen, sky, Writing
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Alo Conlon Obituary
Image: BBC Online/AP * Wednesday’s entry is below this one * Camden Town Landlord, Alo Conlon, died at home last Friday, 9th January 2009. Alo gave British band Madness their residency at the Dublin Castle pub in 1979, which helped … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music
Tagged Alo Conlon, Camden Town, Dublin Castle, London Irish, Madness, Music, Parkway, Pub
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Freedom from the Mundane 
There’s a Black Guy at the Bar
Image: BBC I was saddened to see that former British boxing champion Gary Mason died in a cycling crash in south London on Thursday. He was hit off his bicycle in Wallington by a van – the driver of which was … Continue reading →