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Tag Archives: dentist
A New Jedi Knight
Image: Surfur Dude It was a drookit day from dawn till dusk yesterday; overcast, grey, manky and just plain wet. Just as well I spent several hours in an office complete with regular shapes, strip lighting, keyboards and monitors. Earning … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, Darth Vader, Day Job, dentist, DVD, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Han Solo, hygenist, I.T, Jedi, movies, office work, overtime, paranormal fiction, pizza, Princess Leia, rain, revisions, Skywalker, Star Wars, teeth, The Force, Weather, Writing
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The Taste of Blood
Image: Unknown I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is Friday is one again upon us, the weather is cracking, and tonight I will meet my new niece for the very first time. The bad … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Family, Poetry
Tagged babies, dentist, Family, Liz Lochhead, national poet, niece, operation, Poetry, Scots' Makar, sister, surgery, teeth, wisdom teeth
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Stovies and Headaches (Not Related)
Image: Stovies.com I’ve got a new dentist! I have my first session with him on the 20th January and by all accounts he’s one of the best around. If both my wife and daughter like him then he has to … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Scotland, Writing
Tagged cooking, Day Job, dentist, GDR's, Headache, painkiller, Savvy Authors, Scottish recipe, Stovies, workshop, Writing
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Edinburgh’s Shame Part 2
Image: BBC Margo Macdonald is at it again. She’s talking sense when all around her are going mad. Again. She’s the first MSP to come out with a case for scrapping the Edinburgh Trams farce altogether, citing the council’s plans … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Freelance, Music, Photography, Politics, Reading, Writing
Tagged advertising, Bilfinger Berger, Books, Calton Hill, Day Job, dentist, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh City Council, Edinburgh trams, Editing, Fiction, Gail Galbraith Photography, gig review, history, Man in the East, Margo Macdonald, National Monument, Photography, Politics, proofing, public transport, rewriting, Six Nations Rugby, special offers, Supergrass, traffic
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Toothy Tales
Image: Conor Lawless One of the first things I did today was call the dentist. At 9:01am I dialled the number while tonguing the rather large (or so it felt) hole in the upper, rear, left area of my mouth. … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Politics
Tagged America, Bowling for Columbine, dentist, fillings, GDR's, Heston, Michael Moore, Obama, pizza, teeth
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The Problem with Teeth…
Image: The Telegraph Bad day’s writing and it was all down to my teeth. I’d felt smashing when I got up yesterday: fresh, alert and renewed as though I’d slept the perfect sleep. Basically, I went to work feeling brilliant … Continue reading →