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Tag Archives: ice
So That Was Christmas
Image: Getty Images It’s the gap between Christmas and New Year and all over Scotland people are gearing up for the big celebration. Very soon, we shall turn 2010 over to the bucket of history and make the leap into … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Reading, Writing
Tagged 2010, 2011, Apple, board games, Books, CDs, Charades, charity, Christmas, cinema, Duran Duran, DVDs, Facebook, Family, food and drink, gifts, ice, iPhone, iPod, James Bond, Just Giving, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Little Fockers, Marie Curie Cancer Care, New Year, Ocean Terminal, Pizza Hut, presents, Reading, Santa Claus, snow, Trivial Pursuit, Weather, Writing
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A Right Pain In The Neck
Image: Chiropractic Life In my last blog entry (From Fireballs To Snowballs – Dec 9th), I was quoted as saying the following: I’m as bored talking about the snow and ice as I am having to walk about in it … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged Blogging, concussion, Dunfermlime, falling, gig, Glen Pavilion, Headache, ice, indie band, live music, Pitncrieff Park, Shed Seven, snow, Video, whiplash, Writing
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From Snowballs To Fireballs
Image: Daily Mail I’m as bored talking about the snow and ice as I am having to walk about in it so I’ll say no more. Unless, that is, I should fall arse over tit again and jar my coccyx … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged and Bevvy, BBC, CGI, Christmas, Christmas presents, computers, cooking, design, drink, falling star, fireball, Flash, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Gail Galbraith Photography, GDR's, home office, I.T, ice, Internet, meteor, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, shooting star, snow, software, stars, Weather, Website, Writing
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Sixteen Points Below
Image: deadlinenews.co.uk It was minus sixteen degrees Celsius over night. That’s -16C. A dozen marks and two pair below freezing point. Scotland is a really cold place just now, so much so that during the day it never made it … Continue reading
Oh, The Weather Outside Is Frightful
Image: Little ol’ me When I got up yesterday the look outside was just as it had been all weekend: hard snow that was disappearing inch by tiny inch. By the time I left for work, large snowflakes were stuck … Continue reading
Posted in I.T., Music, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Cage Against the Machine, Day Job, ice, Louis Walsh, Pete Dochert, Rage Against the Machine, Scotland, Simon Cowell, snow, Stephen Fry, Weather, X Factor
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Kix Takes A Stage Dive
Image: Neil Lupin/neillupin.com The snow relented for a second day yesterday – not that I wanted to go anywhere – but it encouraged hopes across the nation that within a couple of days, the frozen white blanket that has enshrouded … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Freelance, I.T., Music, Scotland, Writing
Tagged album, CGI scripts, CSS, design, Flash, Gail Galbraith Photography, HTML, ice, Internet, Lee ‘Kix’ Thompson, Madness, Magic Carpets, Nicky Woodgate, Photography, saxophonist, Scotland, small business, snow, stage dive, Steve Turner, Violin Monkeys, Weather, Website
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Slippin’ And A Slidin’
Image: Somers Long are the winter days, and long are the day job days every now and then, too. 17 hours I did yesterday; 10 hours in the office and then 7 once I got home. The shift took me … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, I.T., Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Day Job, e-zine, Edinburgh, Fiction, free, free download, Friday humour, ice, Leith, long days, magazine, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, robbery, sliding, slipping, snow, Video, winter
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Music + Books = Writing
Image: Kassy Miller Very slow day at work yesterday. Being so tired after such a relaxing time was always going to be tough to pick myself up from, but it was much harder than I envisaged. I struggled to remember … Continue reading
Snow, Snow, Snow!
Image: Kate Mereand Snow, snow, snow everywhere you look! Yesterday morning the thin layer of snow that had fallen on Sunday night had frozen to the ground, but last night as I looked out the window, a blanket of soft … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Christmas cards, Christmas presents, cooking, Day Job, gifts, grilled salmon, home cooking, ice, snow, Weather
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Let Down By The BBC
Image: Treehugger I opened the curtains yesterday morning to see an inch of snow had fallen and more was falling thick and fast. I’d planned on going into town to get a few extra Chrimbo pressies, enjoy a large cappuccino … Continue reading →