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Tag Archives: drinks
Book Sales and Rising
Image: Blogspot Get Over It I felt absolutely downtrodden going to the day job yesterday and it was all down to the thought of missing that blasted Arab Strab gig. It got stupid when people were tweeting they had a … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Music, Poetry, Video, Writing
Tagged Arab Strap, Baccara Burning, crime, dining out, dinner, drinks, ebook, eBooks, Editing, Family, Fiction, Friday Vid, friends, gig, Glasgow, Leith, meal, Music, Nice n Sleazy, paranormal, Poetry, revising, royalties, sales, Shed Seven, The First Big Weekend, Twitter, Video, Writing
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Making an Arse of it at the West Port Book Festival
Image: WPBF Emily Dodd Emily Dodd entertained a full house in West Port’s Edinburgh Books last night, with her own unique brand of poetry and song. Through tales of insomnia as a child, to Percy the Puffin, meeting The Queen, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Banana me Beautiful, BBC Scotland, beer, Blogging, Books, bookshops, CBeebies, Day Job, drinks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Books, Emily Dodd, Grassmarket, Lothian Road, The Queen, West Port, West Port Book Festival
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With The Family In Glasgow
Image: Destination 360 Sorry about that video I posted on Friday. When I first viewed it there wasn’t a problem but it seems, somewhere, someone has. Basically it was a witty wee display of two-tone nonsense that would have made … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Reading, Video, Writing
Tagged An Evening in Schoenbrunn, Apple Store, Books, Bread and Butter, Butterfly and Pig, coffee shop, drinks, Editing, Family, family meal, Glasgow, iMac, manuscript, Mozart, Reading, Ruby Anniversary, Schoenbrunn Palace, Strauss, Video, Vienna, Waterstones, Writing, You Tube
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Totally Psyched
Image: BorisWatch.com Yesterday’s blog tour stop over at Cate Master’s was a great success. Cate gave me a special interview plus the spot came with a free giveaway of a copy of STELLA. It’s open until Sunday so you can … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Interviews, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged 2-Tone, 30th anniversary, blog tour, Blogging, Boris Johnson, Cate Masters, computers, Day Job, debate, discussion, drinks, Edinburgh Book Festival, Family, friends, I.T., in the groove, Interview, macaroni and cheese, marriage, Open University, psyched, Publishing and Marketing, ska, skanking, The Beat, writers, Writing
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Neighbours From Hell
Image: Unknown I’m a guest of the rather wonderful Cate Master’s today. This is a special interview with lots of new information and a giveaway, so go check her blog out at: http://catemasters.blogspot.com. We have new neighbours. They’ve moved into … Continue reading
A Wider Horizon
Image: nxb I don’t have that much to say from this weekend, other than I wasn’t feeling myself and I’m not sure why. I’m not depressed or anything clinical, just pissed off with certain things, which when it happens, affects … Continue reading
Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011
Image: Whisky 2.0 Blink and you might miss it. That’s the phrase I could apply to 2010 such has been the ferocious pace it seems to have shot by. Either it’s a sign I’m starting to grow older and time … Continue reading →