Tag Archives: Holiday

New Characters and Old Friends

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: MensMeditation I cannot believe how long this week is turning out. I’m sleeping again—always good when that happens—but I nearly tripped over my eye lids on my way to the day job yesterday morning—not so good—hate it when that … Continue reading →

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Revving Up The Writing Engine

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: F1 Rewind Okay, so I’m back in the saddle and things are in a low gear, but I’m building up revs. It takes a fair amount of will power to get back into the swing of things properly after … Continue reading →

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Back From Rhodes and Ready to Rock

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Faliraki-Info.com Hello everyone and welcome back to Freedom from the Mundane! I’ve been gone for over three weeks, quite a long time in the blogging world but then again, needs must. I’ve been away on holiday, recharging my batteries … Continue reading →

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Planning Out my Literary August

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: EBF Today is an exciting day: the Edinburgh Book Festival tickets go on sale. The last think I wanted to do was sleep in and miss the 8:30am ticket office opening, the result being that I couldn’t get to … Continue reading →

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Poems and Planning

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Natalie Roberts The strained headache I had all day wasn’t conducive to work but I fought through it. There was much head rubbing and the occasional pill dropped to get there, and in the end I made some good … Continue reading →

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Free Ebooks on Twitter

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: MadrasGeek.com I’m fast approaching my 1000th Twitter follower, and as a show of thanks, not to mention a heightened sense that there’s a marketing opportunity somewhere in here, I’m giving away all my published books as e-books to whoever … Continue reading →

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No Such Thing as a Free Holiday

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Villas in Algarve HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WEE SISTER BINNY!!! And the Winner Is… For the last five days I’ve been getting unwanted phone calls to my mobile. At first it was a Stirling number calling me once a … Continue reading →

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Absolute Madness

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Disko Duck Behold, at the end of this post you will find a short slideshow of the best of my photographs taken in Portugal between the 17th and 31st July. Some are stupid, some are arty and some can … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo Possibility?

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Black Knight I mentioned yesterday that my wife only took a handful of photographs while in Portugal but the ones she did take were of a sunset. Well, I took some too, quite a few in fact, which is … Continue reading →

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Moving Up The Gears

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Colin Galbraith

Image: ralphbijker Still struggling to get myself back into sync. I feel totally lackadaisical and uninspired with everything except literature. Call it the holiday blues without wishing I was actually back there by the pool. I’m still on a high … Continue reading →

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