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Tag Archives: Flu
A Glass A Day
Image: The Daily Mail Not a bad weekend all things considered. Despite the culmination of what I think may have been the flu – or something like it, on Friday – by Saturday I was feeling a lot better. I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Poetry, Writing
Tagged baby, Books, chapbooks, coffee shop, Comedy, comedy writing, curry, discounts, drink, Family, Flu, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Gail Galbraith Photography, GDR's, Indian meal, Madras, money off, niece, Photography, Poetry, red wine, roast chicken, Savvy Authors, sickness, sisters, small business, Walking, website development, websites, workshop, Writing
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Coming Down With A Katzenjammer
Image: Unknown I never noticed it starting yesterday, but today I have awoken with a head cold and it seems to be getting worse. My head is pulsing, my eyes swollen and my mouth is dry. Simply not what I … Continue reading
James Tait Black Memorial Prize And Alan Warner
Image: Forbidden Planet I’m definitely coming down with a bit of chesty nonsense. It’s been worsening as the week progresses, which is just NOT what I needed with it being slap bang in the middle of the book festival. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Reading, Writing
Tagged air conditioning, Alan Warner, AS Byatt, Charlotte Square, chesty, Day Job, Flu, Ian Ranking, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, John Carey, Morvern Callar, sunny weather, The Sopranos, The Stars in the Bright Sky, Writing
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Apologies For The Inconvenience
Image: Unknown When I said it was snowy yesterday I had no idea just how bad it was going to get. The snow yesterday was nothing compared to what I woke up to today! Yesterday was a mere sprinkling of … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Scotland, Travel
Tagged Christmas Carol, Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, Flu, Leith, Lothian Buses, movies, snow, snowman, The Muppets, trams, Travel, Weather
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Shaping the Idea
It must have rained heavily overnight. Large puddles had gathered on the corners of the roads, and our back garden gleamed with droplets on all the trees, the smell of an early morning dew rampant when I went out to … Continue reading
Posted in Freelance, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged articles, Fiction, Flu, Freelance, Gatecrash, GDR's, health, Hunting Jack, ideas, Non-Fiction, novels, Rabbits, Ranfurly Review, Reviews, Scruffy Dog Review, Slick, Submissions, Weather, Writing, Writing Process
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RTFM
Long day. Not so much with my workload, more so with the fact I have STILL got this damned cold. I’m still coughing and my head is still full of gunk, to the point where headaches are just something I … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment, Freelance, I.T., Poetry, Reading, Writing
Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, Books, Brick by Brick, Daily Writing Tips, Day Job, Editing, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Flu, freelance writing, GDR's, health, I.T., Non-Fiction, novels, One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Poetry, Ranfurly Review, Reading, Reviews, Scotland's Treasure, Scruffy Dog Review, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
A New Member Of The Family
Image: FCM Things are looking to be on the up after having slept for the best part of 30 out of the last 36 hours solid. When I got up this morning the tiredness was waning but my head still … Continue reading →