Tag Archives: Hogmanay

Happy New Year Everybody and December Wrap-Up

Image: PSD Graphics Happy New Year everybody! It’s great to be back blogging again. My new year break is one time of the year when my blogging is at its lowest because I down tools completely to spend time with … Continue reading

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The CG Awards – My Best of 2011

Well here we are already, the end of another year. In only a coupe of days we shall slip noisily and cheerily from one year into another (I will, at least!), and then a new year shall dawn. 2012 holds … Continue reading

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Breaking In The New Year

Image: Fire on your Head HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Welcome one and all to 2011, a year that hopefully will provide you all with all the fun, frolics and creative fulfilment that your hearts desire. I trust you all had a … Continue reading

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Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011

Image: Whisky 2.0 Blink and you might miss it. That’s the phrase I could apply to 2010 such has been the ferocious pace it seems to have shot by. Either it’s a sign I’m starting to grow older and time … Continue reading

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Hovering Above Reality

Image: Dream Studies Talk about slow days? Yesterday was so slow I found myself contemplating the merits of growing my hair back by a couple of (albeit thin) inches, then dying the resulting bush bleach blonde. Can you imagine? I’d … Continue reading

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Last Orders, Please

Image: MenMedia And so we have arrived. After a year of ups and downs—glory and depression, delight and despair, great news and thumping bad news—I finally pull into the station at the end of the line. This is my last … Continue reading

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Scrabble Addiction

Image: Patrick Easter We have here a brief interlude in my Christmas/New Year holidays. Freshly passed is the Christmas holidays, packed with fun, food and frolics, and beyond today we have a real break away from home to let our … Continue reading

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And They’re Off!

Image: Roger Barker And They’re Off – “they” being “me” and everyone else who has set themselves new goals, dreams and/or resolutions for the New Year. We’ve looked at where we are, know where we want to be and, more … Continue reading

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