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Tag Archives: iPod
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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Wittering On
Image: fotolog.com Slept in a touch yesterday morning. I think the sushi I ate in the cinema for my dinner followed by the late night leftover pakora I’d stashed in the fridge from Monday night, may have had something to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Fiction, I.T., Music, Reading
Tagged Apple, cinema, crime fiction, dodgy stomach, dreams, eBooks, iBook, iPhone 4, iPod, London, Mark Billingham, Microsoft, pakora, Popbitch, Rememberance, Rick Witter, Shed Seven York, Soho, Sushi
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It Pays To Google Oneself
Image: Forward Press A bath of ice. That’s what I need to cool my skin and return to a more normal temperature. I’m not really enjoying this week’s “great weather” because I can’t find a balance with clothes. It’s not … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Anthology, clothes, Day Job, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fabio Cappello, Fiction, Forward Press, hot, iPod, iTunes, performance, poems, Poetry, Poetry Rivals competition, poetry slam, sweaty, Tommy Cooper, UNESCO, Weather
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Chasing Rainbows
Image: Thor I think one of the best albums to listen to on a Friday morning on the way to work is Shed Seven’s 1994 album, Change Giver. It’s a work of art. It’s the kind of album that uplifts … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Editorial Comment, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Politics, Reading
Tagged Albert Camus, Books, Change Giver, David Cameron, Day Job, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Gordon Brown, indie, iPod, live TV debate, Music, Nick Clegg, Politics, Reading, rock, Shed Seven
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Why I Write
Image: Burr Marketing In the end I never met my sister yesterday lunchtime—she lost her iPod at work in Glasgow and so never made the train to the Burg until several hours later. By that time I’d been into Leith … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Leith, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, Bijou Bistro, Coffee, doctors, Guardian, iPod, Leith, novella, paranormal, sister, Twitter, Writing
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A Day With Moi
Image: Dennis Wong Yesterday was the kind of Saturday I’ve needed for quite some time. If I could have wished for a better feeling come the twilight of the afternoon, then I got what I desired. It was a nice … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Travel, Writing
Tagged alarms, Arab Strap, Boots, chapbook, Coffee, computers, DVD, Edinburgh, Editing, External Hard Drive, Freelance, iPod, Me Time, moleskin notepad, movie, PC World, pizza, poems, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Samuel L Jackson, Saturday, Scotland's Treasure, scrabble, security, Starbucks, Ten Years of Tears, Tesco, The Cleaner, writers, Writing
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Sea Of Blue
I slept in this morning. It took me 20 minutes to leap out of bed like little Lester, get showered, dressed, download my emails, and leave the house. As I was walking round to the bus stop I felt myself … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Music, Writing
Tagged bus, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fiction, GDR, iPod, Irvine Welsh, no man's land, novella, parenting, School kids, The Pixies, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
A Thank You to Steve Jobs
Image: Unknown RIP Steve Jobs Woke up to the sad news that Steve Jobs died in the early hours of the morning. Shocking to hear it come through although not entirely unexpected; it was public knowledge he had been seriously … Continue reading →