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Tag Archives: health
Got To Stay Fighting Fit
Image: Max Talbot-Minkin Bit of a busy day today. The day job kept me on my toes but I got some editing work done on a couple of shorts I’ve written over lunch. I spent most of my evening catching … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, Publishing and Marketing, Reading
Tagged Blood Ties, cold, Day Job, Editing, Fiction, health, novella, novels, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Submissions, Writing
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Weekend Catch-Up
Well that’s us booked our summer holiday for 2009! Talk about organised? Yesterday morning sharp Gail and I popped into the local agent and came out with a booking. We’ve become the grabbers of good holiday deals over the last … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Reading, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged drink, Family, Father's Day, fish tea, Food, Drink and Bevvy, gardening, grass, haddock, health, holidays, meal, Newhaven, Peacock Inn, plants, Rabbits, restaurant, upset stomach, weeding
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Andrew Lloyd Webber Saves The Day
Because my doctor’s appointment was at half past eight, I went into work before 7am, then went back out to my appointment; all so I could get a desk for the day! It allowed me to get a few things … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment, Freelance, Reading, Writing
Tagged doctors, Editorial Comment, erection, freelance writing, health
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Leg Switch
I surprised myself by managing to get up relatively easily after such a late arrival home last night. But I did, and felt not bad for it. No need for a breakfast though, not after that Chinese meal I ate. … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment
Tagged Day Job, diet, Editorial Comment, health, pain, weight
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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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Time Out
Image: Unknown Possibly one of the most frustrating days I’ve had at the day job, not helped along in the slightest by the fact I was feeling like death warmed up, and had the patience of a bull dog that’s … Continue reading →