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My Dad Is 70
Image: Diffusibility My father is 70 years old today. 70. David Currie Galbraith is officially a 70 year old man. I emphasise this for the sake of my poor mother, as it is she more than anyone else in the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Poetry, Writing
Tagged 70, birthday, chapbook, Charlotte Square, dad, daily blogging, eBooks, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Facebook updates, father, Fringe Fantastic, iBooks, image gallery, live tweeting, marketing, media, podcasts, poems, Poetry, POOLSIDE POETRY 2, tweeting, Writing, YouTube
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Poems and Planning
Image: Natalie Roberts The strained headache I had all day wasn’t conducive to work but I fought through it. There was much head rubbing and the occasional pill dropped to get there, and in the end I made some good … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Apple, Blackpool, chapbooks, Day Job, eBooks, free ebooks, Fringe Fantastic, GDR's, gig, Glasgow, Greece, Headache, Holiday, iBooks, iBookstore, Jamiroquai, Jay Kay, Kindle, Music, planning, poems, Poetry, press releases, Publishing and Marketing, Rhodes, SECC, Silly Poems for Kids, Twitter, Writing
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There’s Not a Herd of Wild Horses…
Image: FindingDulcinea.com The weather couldn’t quite decide what it wanted to do on my walk through Edinburgh yesterday. One minute it was blowing a gale and threatening rain, the next it was calm and cloudy. It even went sunny and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged book marketing, book selling, Books, children's books, Coffee, eBooks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Bookshop, Fiction, Fringe Fantastic, Greener is the Grass, independent bookshop, Kids' Poems, novella, Poetry, Scotland, Scottish weather, Spoon Cafe, Twitter, Walking
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The Kindle Experiment
Image: Windell Oskay Greener is the Grass I’ve not given up on BACCARA BURNING yesterday morning while working on the final polishing up of GREENER IS THE GRASS, the world felt normal again. I felt like I was a writer … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, Calibre Ebook Management, chapbooks, competition, eBooks, Editing, Fiction, Fringe Fantastic, Greener is the Grass, Hunting Jack, Kindle, manuscripts, Poetry, poolside, revisions, self-publishing, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, Twitter, Writing
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Fascinating, Fantastic and Fun: Trudeau, Heaney and McCall Smith
Image: The List Things conspired against me yesterday leaving me unable to post my blog entry. That’s twice in less than a week it’s happened and I am less than pleased with myself. Therefore, I voluntarily stick out my virtual … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Reading, Writing
Tagged Alexander McCall Smith, America, Andrew Sachs, Apple, cartoonist, Dianne Abbott, Doonesbury, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fringe Fantastic, Garry Trudeau, George Bush, Ian Rankin, iPhone, Jackie Kay, Labour MP, Mark Billingham, Michael Portillo, naughty, New York Times, poetry reading, Poolside Poetry, Roy Hattersley, Seamus Heaney, social media, spanking, Steve Bell, Twitter, USA, website statistics
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Ian Rankin And The Live Book Festival Twitter Feed
Image: Twitter Before I get stuck into yesterday’s goings on at the Edinburgh Book Festival, I want to say a humongous thanks to everyone who has emailed and tweeted me to express their enjoyment of my book festival blogging and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Scotland, Writing
Tagged blind, blindness, Blogging, Bookfest Burnout, Candia McWilliam, chapbooks, crime writing, death, Doors Open, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edwin Morgan, Fringe Fantastic, Ian Rankin, Lin Anderson, live tweeting, Makar, poems, Poetry, Poolside Poetry, Rebus, run-down, social media, The Complaints, Twitter, What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness
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Another Belter
Image: MIT I noticed out of my office window yesterday that I’d still to pick up the bird table that got blown over on Friday night. It’s still to attract the attention of any little feathered friends, so I repositioned … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, I.T., Music, Poetry, Reading, Writing
Tagged Amsterdam, Animals, bird table, birds, Bluegate Poets, chapbooks, creative energy, Day Job, European tour, Facebook, Fiction, Fringe Fantastic, live gigs, Madness, Music, nature, novella, paranormal, Paris, Poetry, Poolside Poetry, Stella, Writing
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Looking Out At New Horizons
I stayed up late watching a film last night. It was so bad I can’t even remember what it was about now. Gail got home about 1am and spent a while telling me all about her day photographing a large … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Freelance, Poetry, Theatre, Travel
Tagged Family, Film & TV, Freelance, Fringe Fantastic, Holiday, Madness, movies, organising, Our House musical, Photography, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Poolside Poetry, Portobello, Weather, Website, wedding
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Freedom from the Mundane 
The Quick Fix Doesn’t Work
Image: John Cooper A Scottish quack has called for chocolate to be taxed in the same way as alcohol and cigarettes. Apparently, it’s required so we can tackle increasing levels of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Forward thinking Dr David … Continue reading →