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Tag Archives: DVDs
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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A Dog’s Life
Image: iStock It had been put off a while but I allowed myself a bit of a lie in on Saturday morning. With no daughter about (she was at a friend’s house) the morning started slow and easy, which is … Continue reading
Bachelor Boy
Image: SELL Yesterday morning was all about one thing: the ticket launch for this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival. As you can see if you scroll down to yesterday’s post, I got all the tickets I was looking for. Will Self … Continue reading
Scrabble Addiction
Image: Patrick Easter We have here a brief interlude in my Christmas/New Year holidays. Freshly passed is the Christmas holidays, packed with fun, food and frolics, and beyond today we have a real break away from home to let our … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy
Tagged and Bevvy, Bevvy, Books, CDs, Christmas, drink, DVDs, Food, Drink and Bevvy, friends and family, Hogmanay, Holiday, Neay Year, Nintendo DS Lite, Only Fools and Horses, poor weather, presents, sales, scrabble, Shopping, snow, Trossachs, White Christmas
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Hooray For Harold Lloyd
Image: ANL.gov Those lovely people over at Eternal Press, the company that published my latest book, STELLA, are in celebration mode. 2009 was one of their best ever year’s for sales, and to celebrate it they are giving away FREE … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fiction, Writing
Tagged Arts Market, black and white movies, block art, Drill Hall, DVDs, Eternal Press, GDR, Harold Lloyd, Leith, Out of the Blue, Photography, silent movies, Stella, Writing, Writing Process
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Dear Green Place
Image: The Blag.com Glasgow was brilliant this weekend; family, laughter, food, drinks, and the weather held up, too. Not that it mattered once my posterior found its way onto my sister’s couch. It could have snowed a blizzard and I … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Interviews, Music, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Travel
Tagged Blazing Trailers, buses, Chicken Maryland, drink, DVDs, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Glasgow cafe, Interview, laughter, Ludovics, movies, Photography, pub lunch, Scotrail, studio lights, trains, Travel
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Love Street Lament
Image: Wikipedia I spent the weekend through in Glasgow – another weekend away from the house, but this time for very different reasons. My sister and I made the trip through to Paisley on Saturday afternoon to watch St. Mirren … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Scotland, Sport
Tagged Chinese meal, DVDs, Family, films, Football, footie, Love Street, Paisley, soccer, SPL, St Mirren, Travel
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Blessed Be The Saturday – Hell Be The Sunday
Image: Zenobia Joy & MKevin747 Saturday I fell asleep watching an episode of The West Wing last night, and only found out about it when Gail woke me up at 4:30am to remove my glasses and turn the TV off. … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Fiction, Film & TV, Writing
Tagged Animals, Books, DVDs, Fiction, injury, NaNoWriMo, novels, sprained ankle, The West Wing, word count, Writing
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Damn Pain Killers
My leg’s slowly getting better, though it was hard to judge the pain on Friday morning, the day after my first session with the osteopath. All across my abdomen, my groin, and down my right leg felt as though someone … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged DVDs, Edinburgh, movies, osteopathy, pain killers, tablets
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Freedom from the Mundane 
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 →