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Christmas Headaches
Image: News.com.au I was into everything over the weekend—everything! Not only did I get through a ton of Christmas cleaning, DIY work, TV and gadget fixing, and writing work, but I also managed a Day Job Xmas bash, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged alcohol, bevy, birthday party, brunch, Chrimbo, Christmas, Christmas cards, Christmas headaches, Christmas tree, cleaning, Cloisters, coffee and pastries, computer games, curry, daughter, DIY, eBooks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, ereaders, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, free ebooks, Greener is the Grass, Indaba, Indian meal, Khushis, Kindle, Kobo, Mother-in-Law, novel, novella, pizza, pubs, Slick, South African food, summer reading, The Pear Tree, work, Writing, Xbox, Xmas
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Culture in Glasgow
Image: Samantha Nicol It’s been some weekend! I started last Friday off with a very large and strong black coffee (apparently this is called an Americano in some places—places I now avoid) and a healthy and bountiful morning roll with … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Theatre, Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Alishan Tandoori, Cafe Ludovic, Citizens Theatre, City of Literature, Clockwork Pub, culture, Culture in Glasgow, Dropbox, Edinburgh, Ena Lamont Stewart, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Indian meal, Literary Salon, Men Should Weep, Merchant City, Mount Florida, sisters, Sizzlers, Sloan's pub, The Sky Project, UNESCO, workshop, Writing
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A Scottish Summer
Image: Unknown The weather was somewhat unpredictable yesterday. When the wind blew, it blew hard and cold then calmed as fast as it had picked up. The rain followed the same pattern; sudden downpours, hard and cold, the nothing. In … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Scotland, Writing
Tagged baby, coffee shop, crèche, Cumbria, curry, Day Job, Edinburgh, friends, Indian meal, kids, Prince Balti House, rain, Research, Scotland, Scottish summer, Wallyford, Weather, Writing
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Work, Work, Work, Writing and Food
Image: Plymouth University I arrived in the West End of Edinburgh at precisely 5:30am yesterday morning. As it was a Sunday, it only took my five minutes in my pre-booked, company-paid cab to get there from Leith. Edinburgh is beautiful … Continue reading
A Glass A Day
Image: The Daily Mail Not a bad weekend all things considered. Despite the culmination of what I think may have been the flu – or something like it, on Friday – by Saturday I was feeling a lot better. I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Poetry, Writing
Tagged baby, Books, chapbooks, coffee shop, Comedy, comedy writing, curry, discounts, drink, Family, Flu, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Gail Galbraith Photography, GDR's, Indian meal, Madras, money off, niece, Photography, Poetry, red wine, roast chicken, Savvy Authors, sickness, sisters, small business, Walking, website development, websites, workshop, Writing
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Bachelor Boy
Image: SELL Yesterday morning was all about one thing: the ticket launch for this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival. As you can see if you scroll down to yesterday’s post, I got all the tickets I was looking for. Will Self … Continue reading
Relaxing Productive
Image: Linis Bohman It was a productive weekend. I swapped my Saturday and Sunday routines around so I could have a lie on Saturday morning. I needed it—really needed it—and it paid off. When I arose the infernal tiredness had … Continue reading
Birthday Weekend Part 2
Image: wikimedia.org As I stretch my neck up and look back, I peer fondly over what was my birthday weekend. If you remember, my actual birthday was in September, but the gifts bought for me by my two sisters had … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Scotland, Sport, Theatre
Tagged bevy, birthday weekend, Clockwork Pub, Comedy, Football, friends reunited, GDR's, Glasgow, Indian meal, Michael McIntyre, Mother India, Paisley, SECC, St Mirren
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Awash With Websites
Image: Global Spec I did intend on blogging over the weekend but as fate had it I never really got around to it. I awoke on Saturday morning up with a slightly dicky tummy. May have been the copious amounts … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, I.T.
Tagged Animals, cleaning, curry, freelance work, Guinness, housework, Indian meal, Internet, pizza, Rabbits, Scruffy Dog Review, tummy ache, websites, wedding ring
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Piecing Together a Plot
Image: Row Three Workshop Over lunch, I wrote and posted the revised version of part 2 of the fourth exercise at the Advanced Dialogue workshop. I’ve edited in a sentence or two to subtly indicate where the antagonism is coming … Continue reading →