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A B.A.D. Week
Image: allgigs.co.uk One of Those Weeks It’s been one of those weeks. Unable to blog much due to travelling between cities, gigging and the compulsion to get BACCARA BURNING and GREENER finished, I was left little time to put any … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Freelance, Leith, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Travel, Writing
Tagged Big Audio Dynamite, competition, e-book, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, GDR's, gigs, Glasgow, Greggs, Leith, Man in the East, Mick Jones, Pie and a Pint, Stella, Thomson's Pub, travelling, Twitter, Writing
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Tweet Meet #2
Image: WWW Oasis My day kicked off in blistering fashion yesterday, with an hour in a city centre coffee shop reading the paper and enjoying a lovely cappuccino. It’s the perfect way to start the week; stick an oasis in … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Leith, Photography, Writing
Tagged coffee shop, Day Job, Edinburgh Photography Tours, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Freelance, James Christie Photography, Leith, Photography, Teuchter’s Landing, Tweet Meet, Tweetup, Twitter
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Man About the House
Image: class-tv.co.uk Walkies I took the bus way, way out to the south side of Edinburgh yesterday morning, to Cameron Toll in fact, then started walking back into town. It’s a several mile treck but it was perfect walking weather: … Continue reading
Things that Irk
Image: cat.biz Things that Irk As I get older I find it easier not to get riled by things. Practice and a degree of self-awareness has led me to the point where I can let most things lie, and walk … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Photography, Video
Tagged annoy, criminals, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, engagement shoot, Gail Galbraith Photography, ignorance, irk, law breakers, legal system, penal system, photo shoot, Photography, police, rax dodgers, Scotland, stabbing, Video, violence
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Oasis
Image: Paul Blinch Mad Bit of a mad day at the Day Job. I’m managing to clear a backlog of work caused by several months of “deep dive” technical work, which is good to finally get off my plate and … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Writing
Tagged and Bevvy, Botanical Gardens, car, commission, Day Job, drink, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, engagement, Food, Drink and Bevvy, free photo shoot, Freelance, lunch, Oasis, office, Photography, weddings, wife, work, Writing
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A Weekend for Moi
Image: http://www.visualphotos.com I must have had a good weekend because it seemed to last for ages. Last Friday already seems so far off in my mind that I have no doubt it was because of the amount I managed to … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Writing
Tagged and Bevvy, Baccara Burning, clothes, clothes shopping, Coffee, coffee shop, Corstorphine, Costa Coffee, DAB Radio, drink, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editing, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, GDR's, home cooking, in-laws, jeans, manuscript, meal, Music, novella, On Writing, Pauline Black, PC World, Pets at Home, Rabbits, radio, reggae, revisions, rigby, Rugby Union, Scotland, Six Nations, ska, Stephen King, Tesco, The Selecter, Twitter, Wales, weekend, Writing, writing workshops
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Work, Work, Work, Writing and Food
Image: Plymouth University I arrived in the West End of Edinburgh at precisely 5:30am yesterday morning. As it was a Sunday, it only took my five minutes in my pre-booked, company-paid cab to get there from Leith. Edinburgh is beautiful … Continue reading
A Working Saturday
Image: Guardian If you read yesterday’s blog post you will already know pretty much all there is to know. Saturday 5th February was, for me, a full day’s work at the Day Job. Big changes are afoot in the company … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Film & TV, I.T.
Tagged computers, Day Job, DVD, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Film & TV, I.T, laptop, Larry David, movie, office work, Photography, virus, virus removal, Whatever Works, Woody Allen
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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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Freedom from the Mundane 
How To Piss Off a Hungover Scot
Image: Matt Groening It’s been quite the few days. Two days in Glasgow full of fun and frolics, followed by a weekend of disruption and hard earned downtime, led me into this week feeling rather dishevelled. Monday, took a while … Continue reading →