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Time is Tight and the Scotrail Fiasco Rumbles On
Image: FoxNoMad Tight with Time Things are starting to get tight with time and for once it’s NOT to do with the eternal battle between the day job and my writing career. This time, it’s Christmas versus DIY. The house … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Day Job, eBooks, Family, Leith, Poetry, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged Art, art students, assault, Christmas, Christmas cards, Christmas presents, Christmas tree, decoration, DIY, eBooks, free ebooks, giveaway, home, House, illustrations, iMac, iPhone, Kamila Ratajczak, Leith, Leith School of Art, living room, loung, novels, Scotland, Scotrail, Silly Poems for Wee People, thrillers, ticket dodgers, time, time is tight, train, violence
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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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Music + Books = Writing
Image: Kassy Miller Very slow day at work yesterday. Being so tired after such a relaxing time was always going to be tough to pick myself up from, but it was much harder than I envisaged. I struggled to remember … Continue reading
Snow, Snow, Snow!
Image: Kate Mereand Snow, snow, snow everywhere you look! Yesterday morning the thin layer of snow that had fallen on Sunday night had frozen to the ground, but last night as I looked out the window, a blanket of soft … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Christmas cards, Christmas presents, cooking, Day Job, gifts, grilled salmon, home cooking, ice, snow, Weather
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Lockerbie Remembered
Image: Getty Images It was a night I’ll never forget. It was a night nobody in Scotland will ever forget. Twenty years ago today, Pan-Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747 carrying 259 people from Heathrow to JFK, was blown out … Continue reading →