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Tag Archives: Hogmanay
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
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
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy
Tagged 2010, 2011, Day Job, drinks, Edinburgh, family and friends, Hogmanay, New Year, New Year Resolutions
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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
Posted in Day Job, Family, I.T., Music, Video, Writing
Tagged Acid music, Christmas, D-Mob, hair, Hogmanay, I.T. computers, laptops, Music, New Year, newsletter, slow day
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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
Posted in Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Scotland
Tagged 2009, 2010, Hogmanay, Holiday, New Year, Scotland, The Bells, The Trossachs
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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
Posted in Books, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy
Tagged and Bevvy, Bevvy, Books, CDs, Christmas, drink, DVDs, Food, Drink and Bevvy, friends and family, Hogmanay, Holiday, Neay Year, Nintendo DS Lite, Only Fools and Horses, poor weather, presents, sales, scrabble, Shopping, snow, Trossachs, White Christmas
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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
Freedom from the Mundane 
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 →