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Tag Archives: horse racing
Sinn Fein – Just Another Westminster Fraud Mob
Image: BBC Online The good thing about writing my blogs the following morning as opposed to the night before, is that I get to react faster to anything in the news that catches my eye. Even more so when a … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading
Tagged Animals, camera, competition, design, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Guardian, horse racing, IRA, laptops, marketing, MPs, Netbooks, news, newsletter, Northern Ireland, PC World, Photography, promotion, Rabbits, Sinn Fein, Telegraph, Tesco, Walking, Westminster
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Life And Art
Image: BBC Online Since I was feeling much better yesterday morning, I started the day off with a glorious bap containing a beautifully runny fried egg lain across a spicy and thick slice of black pudding. Washed down with a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Publishing and Marketing
Tagged anniversary, competition, Day Job, digital camera, e-books, Eternal Press, Fiction, Freeview box, horse racing, Leith, medieval remains, newsletter, novella, Ranfurly Review, Stella, The Patter, trams, Twitter
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Exhausted
Image: Vox Efx Exhausted. Up early and working by 7:30am on The Company’s network. It was almost 3pm before I was finished. A full day in other words, and it wasn’t the most stress-free of occasions. By the time it … Continue reading
Honey On Soft Bread
Image: Dino Giordano The more I work on Greener is the Grass the more I’m not happy with the title. It’s crap, to put it mildly. It’s not reflective of the story and nor does it create the right emotional … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, I.T., Poetry, Sport, Writing
Tagged Aintree, Animals, Backspace, chapbooks, Day Job, e-books, Fiction, Grand National, Greener is the Grass, horse racing, newsletter, novella, poems, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Stella, Writing
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The Leith Carnival
Today was the day of the Leith Carnival; a procession down Lochend Road and into Leith Links before a day of celebration of all things Leith. The carnival included a fairground, live music and acts on a stage, lots of … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Sport, Writing
Tagged arts, Bob Marley, carnival, country dancing, crafts, dancing, drugs, drunk, grass, history, horse racing, Ladies Day, leg, Leith, Leith Festival, marijuana, Musselburgh, race course, reggae, sunshine, Weather
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Back On Track
Image: Paolo Camera PCs and Macs My PC rebuild is now complete. From installation of the new hard drive to being back up and running, the total time it took was only a couple of hours. Not bad. I’m now … Continue reading →