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Manky Scotland
Image: Flickr A manky day, truly manky. It was below freezing for most of it, the overnight snow (yes, snow!) had iced up hard, and I nearly skidded onto my arse at least twice on my way into the day … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Leith, Music, Poetry, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged freezing, gig review, Kilmarnock, Leith, Living Leith, Music, planning, Poetry, preparations, Scotland, Scottish weather, Shed Seven, SKY Project, sleet, snow, Travel, Weather
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The Power of Twitter and SEO
Image: Glasgow City Council Tweet Power The power of Twitter and SEO, if I ever needed to see it for myself, happened to this blog over the last couple of days. This my blog received three months worth of hits … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, I.T., Music, Writing
Tagged Aidan Moffat, Apple, Book Festival, Books, charity exhibition, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, eBooks, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Family, gig review, haiku, iMac, London riots, Man in the East, Manchester riots, money off, Music, Poetry, Rangers fans, Reading, rioting, riots, SEO, social media, special offer, Trees for Life, tweets, Twitter, UEFA Cup Final, UK riots
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Scotland: The Safest Place in Britain
Image: Glasgow City Council A short entry today as I have been caught between needing to do things and life things getting in the way. So now I must fly like the wind, people, fly like the wind. London How … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Glasgow, Music, Poetry, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Aidan Moffat, Book Festival, Books, charity, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, English, exhibition, Facebook, gig review, Glasgow Academy, haiku, Jim Devine, London, London communities, Man in the East, Manchester, Poetry, Reading, rioting, riots, safe, Scots, Toots and the Maytals, Trees for Life, violence
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Books and Boudoir
Image: BoudoirPhotography.org.uk I had to work on day job tasks late into Tuesday night and then very early yesterday morning, so by the time it came time to leave yesterday, I was shattered. I saved the evening by grabbing a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Music, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Amazon, articles, Big Audio Dynamite, Blogging, Books, boudoir, Day Job, eBooks, Eternal Press, Gail Galbraith Photography, gig review, Kindle, Man in the East, Music, Poetry, poetry competitions, portrait photography, Rachel Sermanni, Sleep, Twitter, wedding photography, Wide Days, Withered Hand, work
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Workplace Wonders
Image: rubberball.com Baccara Revisions My writing in general has taken a tumble these last couple of nights. My new book, BACCARA BURNING, has reached that sticky phase that caused my so much pain in the first draft. It’s a pull … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, Freelance, Leith, Music, Video, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, Day Job, Fiction, Friday Vid, gig review, Man in the East, Mogwai, Music, revisions, story, Video, workplace, Writing
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Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin
Image: TampaBay While perusing the pages of the electronic version of The Guardian yesterday lunchtime, I was delighted to discover that this very blog was highlighted for its Edinburgh Book Festival coverage in their Edinburgh Today supplement. This isn’t the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, Freelance, Leith, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Alan Spence, Anthology, Apple, Autumn, book fair, commissionn, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Edwin Morgan, Fiction, GDR's, gig review, iPhone, Leith, Limp Bizkit, Macmillan Cancer Support, magazine, Music, newspaper, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, short story, summer, The Guardian, Walking, weater, websites
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Freedom from the Mundane 
It’s That Time of the Year Again
Image: Unknown Shocked Lunchtime. I’m munching on a chicken roll and a cup of bacon and sweetcorn chowder soup. I tune into the BBC News website, as I always do, to see what’s happening in the world. One of the … Continue reading →