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June Workload: The Penultimate Plan
Image: Academics.de Late I slept in yesterday. Working my full week’s work in the first three days of the week, then being unable to catch up with lost sleep from the first few days, finally took its toll. I woke … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged black pudding, breakfast, cinema, Day Job, Family, filled roll, fried egg, gardening, GDR's, Goals Dreams and Resolutions, knackered, lawn, movie, mowing grass, sister, Sleep, slept in, tired, workplan, Writing
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Best Pals
Image: LifeSound.com Breakfast Bonding As you can probably tell from yesterday’s blog post (There’s Not a Heard of Wild Horses… ), my weekend was an absolute belter before Sunday even got under way. After all the excitement that was Saturday, … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry
Tagged coffee shop, competition, Daddy-Daughter Day, Domino's pizza, eBooks, Family, free books, Garden, gardening, pizza, Reading, summer, Sunday breakfast, sunshine, Twitter
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A Fruitful Diversion
Image: Anders B. My weekend went nothing like I planned it. It all went wrong on Friday night and the crisis lasted until late last night, and yet – and YET – I still managed to have a highly productive, … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Leith, Music, Photography, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Animals, cappuccino, coffee chop, Corstorphnie, Costa, Desert Island Discs, eBooks, Edinburgh, Editing, Fiction, gardening, half marathon, hard drive, hardware, HDD, house chores, ideas, Leith, Music, notebook, PC, PC World, Photography, photography studio, poems, revisions, thoughts, Twitter, wedding, Windows, Writing
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Camels In Princes Street
Image: Yes China Tour It was a scorching weekend—Scotland’s summer came early this year and now we (us Scots) are all heading back to work sporting skin all shades of pink and red the spectrum has to offer. Yes, we … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Music, Reading, Scotland, Writing
Tagged August Rush, coffee shop, DVD, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Marathon, Freelance, gardening, housework, movie, Music, pizza, Reading, scorching sun, Scotland, sun bathing, Weather, Writing
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Good Food And Banter
Image: The Busy Brain Bit of a busy weekend, both in the house and on the socialising-in-restaurants front. It seems Gail and I are currently in high demand for attending people’s functions. A good thing? Not if you’re a hermit … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy
Tagged curry, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, friends, gardening, GDR's, home, in-laws, Indian, restaurant, steak house, T-Bone, talking, Writing
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Slobbish Behaviour
Image: Banalities While I was on holiday, the north side of Edinburgh was hit by such severe flooding that the gas supplies were knocked out for the Canonmills and Stockbridge areas. While shaking my head at another poor example of … Continue reading
Polarised
Image: popsci.com Many thanks to Diane Parkin for having me over at her blog yesterday. If you missed it, head on over for what was an in-depth look at the development of STELLA. Today I am feeling rather polarised. On … Continue reading
Lollipops In The Sun
Image: Me Anyone who lives or was visiting any part of the British Isles over the past two days, will know it is no understatement when I say the weather has been nothing short of Mediterranean. Even today as I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Animals, Baccara Burning, back garden, blog tour, Books, e-books, Edinburgh Marathon, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, gardening, GDR's, hot weather, Leith, marketing, newsletter, promotion, Rabbits, Reading, relaxing, Stella, sun, sun bathing, Walking, Writing
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DIY Man
Image: Nadya Peek I had a packed day yesterday; no day of rest for moi, put it that way. After getting up early (6am kind of early) to work on day job stuff, I gave the back garden a complete … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged cooking, DIY, e-books, Fiction, french fry, gardening, laptop, literary, magazine, Netbook, painting, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Samsung NC10, sanding, Sunday dinner, walls, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
The End Is Nigh
Image: Chemical Recovery So, Gary Coleman has died at the age of 42, the end to an existence that by all accounts wasn’t the easiest. His life seemed to me to be one of a bi-polar existence; a child genius … Continue reading →