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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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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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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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Commercialised Love
Image: Washington Watch Valentine Did you celebrate Valentine’s Day yesterday? We usually go out for a meal but it’s a bit difficult with our schedules just now so we’ve agreed to find a quieter time to go out. The problem … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, chapbook, cinema, Clinton Cards, commercialism, Editing, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, love, movies, Poetry, prose, restaurants, revisions, Valentine's Day, Writing, writing arcs, writing project
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The Diners in Durham
Image: Crowborough Social Club A fantastic weekend. The Diners made the best of Durham and we had a great time, although we all suspected by Sunday, that it had yet to reveal the majority of its secrets. The Flix It … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Travel, Writing
Tagged Chinese takeaway, cinema, drink, Durham, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, GDR's, movies, Newcastle, Odeon Springfield Quay, Peter Mullan, pubs, Waverly, Western Hospital, Writing
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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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So That Was Christmas
Image: Getty Images It’s the gap between Christmas and New Year and all over Scotland people are gearing up for the big celebration. Very soon, we shall turn 2010 over to the bucket of history and make the leap into … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Reading, Writing
Tagged 2010, 2011, Apple, board games, Books, CDs, Charades, charity, Christmas, cinema, Duran Duran, DVDs, Facebook, Family, food and drink, gifts, ice, iPhone, iPod, James Bond, Just Giving, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Little Fockers, Marie Curie Cancer Care, New Year, Ocean Terminal, Pizza Hut, presents, Reading, Santa Claus, snow, Trivial Pursuit, Weather, Writing
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Under The Surface Of The American Dream
Image: PC Pro I shaved! Boy, was it good. The floor of my office was covered in a scattering of hair clumps as my clippers took the growth from my skull and face in one easy swipe. It felt so … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Reading
Tagged American Dream, bald, cinema, critique, Facebook, hair, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Leith, Mark Zuckerberg, movie, novella, Ocean Terminal, proofing, readers, Reading, Sean Parker, shave, skin, The Social Network, Vue Cinema, Writing
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Wittering On
Image: fotolog.com Slept in a touch yesterday morning. I think the sushi I ate in the cinema for my dinner followed by the late night leftover pakora I’d stashed in the fridge from Monday night, may have had something to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Fiction, I.T., Music, Reading
Tagged Apple, cinema, crime fiction, dodgy stomach, dreams, eBooks, iBook, iPhone 4, iPod, London, Mark Billingham, Microsoft, pakora, Popbitch, Rememberance, Rick Witter, Shed Seven York, Soho, Sushi
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Sushi In Leith
Image: Leith.org I’m under a wee bit of pressure at work this week. There’s a deadline that runs out on the 11th of this month and I’m trying to squeeze in about ten days of work into five to make … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Leith
Tagged Adam Sandler, Books, Chris Rock, cinema, Coffee, computers, Day Job, dinner, eBooks, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Grown Ups, I.T, iBook, iPhone, iPhone Apps, Jackass 3D, Kevin James, Leith, Mark Billingham, movie, Naturespace, Ocean Terminal, Reading, Rio de Janeiro, Sushi
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Freedom from the Mundane 