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Tag Archives: dining
A Day Off from the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: Porto & Fi I had a day away from the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday, the first of only two days off from the 17 that make up its run. There was no particular reason for this other than a … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy
Tagged Apple, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, Diane Parkin, dining, EdBookFest, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, friends, iMac, Newhaven, Porto & Fi, Reading, restaurant, wedding anniversary, writers
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The World Keeps Turning
Image: freewebphoto.com I went out on Saturday morning and did something I’d not done for a long while: walk for miles through Edinburgh. It was something I needed to do, to give me time to reflect on Ian’s funeral the … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Reading
Tagged A Room in Leith, albums, Blue Mountain coffee, clothes, Coffee, coffee shop, Cuttea Sark, dining, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, funeral, Grassmarket, grieving, Jamaica, Leith, Music, Ocean Terminal, restaurant, Shopping, Spoon Cafe, The Shore, Vic Galloway, Walking
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Another Month Down
Image: Queen’s Uni The office was like a morgue yesterday. So many people took the bank holiday off as a holiday, it left the rest of us feeling rather depressed and hacked off that we were still in the office. … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Day Job, dining, Dinner in the Sky, Edinburgh Book Festival, End of Writing Year, Festival in the Sky, Fiction, GDR's, Glasgow, Music, newsletter, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, rain, Ranfurly Review, Supergrass, the office, The Patter, Weather, Writing
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Quadrophenia At Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre
Image: Jeff Edoe Set in London and Brighton at the height of the Mod era, Quadrophenia is told through the eyes of Jimmy, a hedonistic style-conscious teenager searching for a place to belong and a girl to love. Misunderstood by … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Theatre, UK
Tagged 1960s, Ben Sherman, Blonde Restaurant, Brighton, Britain, dining, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Festival Theater, London, meal, Mods, musical show, punks, Quadrophenia, Rebus, rockers, scooters, St Leonards, The Who, Union Jack
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Harrington Bliss
Image: Colin Galbraith Pay day! Hallelujah! And that means later on today I’ll be going for my monthly Pay Day Lunch with some friends. Today, I think we are going to a new Thai restaurant (new for us) on Frederick … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged Day Job, dining, Harrington Jacket, money, restaurant, Thai, Warrior Clothing, Weather, Writing
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Culture Vultures
Image: http://www.mckellen.com I had a wonderful day off work yesterday (Wednesday). I met my mum off the bus from Glasgow and we had a wee day to ourselves, and as it turned out, one to remember. After a morning coffee … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Theatre
Tagged acting, Art, Dean Gallery, dining, Edinburgh, Family, Ian Mckellen, Kings Theatre, Le Sept, Patrick Stewart, play, restaurant, Samuel Beckett, sculptures, Theatre, Waiting for Godot
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Freedom from the Mundane 