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Edinburgh Council Wins Top Pathetically Crap Award
Image: Edinburgh.gov.uk I took Tuesday morning off work for one reason or another. I worked from home but it was a bit of a drag having to go in at all through all the ice and snow come lunchtime. Such … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland
Tagged Council Tax, Day Job, design, Edinburgh City Council, Edinburgh.gov, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editing, Leith Walk, living in Edinburgh, Lothian Buses, New Year Resolutions, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, snow clearing, working from home
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Apologies For The Inconvenience
Image: Unknown When I said it was snowy yesterday I had no idea just how bad it was going to get. The snow yesterday was nothing compared to what I woke up to today! Yesterday was a mere sprinkling of … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Scotland, Travel
Tagged Christmas Carol, Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, Flu, Leith, Lothian Buses, movies, snow, snowman, The Muppets, trams, Travel, Weather
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Mr Forgetful
Image: Digital Stores I was shattered going into work yesterday. And I was in a bad mood because of it. Missing my bus didn’t help either. Fucking Lothian left early. Three coffees in the office didn’t really help move things … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged Biblio Paradise, cancer, cooking, Day Job, death, Family, Fiction, Lothian Buses, Marzetti, Patrick Swayze, short story, sleepy, spine-tinger, tired, Writing
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Editorial Irritations
Image: foundphotoslj When I got up this morning I was a happy chappy; cheerful, enjoying life, and with everything to look forward to. By the time I made it into the day job I was severely pissed off with life, … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Travel
Tagged book, Canonmills, Day Job, Disappearing London, Edinburgh, Editing, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Lothian Buses, Madness, policy, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, snow, Submissions, Suggs, Travel, Weather
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Fun On Lothian Buses #786
Image: edinburghblog.co.uk Will it ever end with Lothian Buses? God forbid any of their current batch of drivers should end up driving the trams when they arrive, or nothing much of anything will change. Today’s tale comes straight out of … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged 2008, awards, coffee gathering, Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, fork, hole in tooth, Ian Rankin, Lothian Buses, mince pies, Mr. Kipling, passengers, seed, teeth
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4 – 1 To Life
It poured all night with the occasional mini-cyclone rattling the bins in the street. Thankfully, by the time I got up it had calmed somewhat. However, I left the house at 7am in good spirits and a bounce in my … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged blue screen, Books, computer, Fiction, Lothian Buses, novels, Publishing and Marketing, rain, storms, Submissions, transport, Weather, Writing
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Prizes Galore
Well I never won the PSH Poetry Contest last night, and I never even came close. The winning entries were superb and fully deserved their plaudits, though, and their work overshadowed mine by a huge margin. I did kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Poetry, Travel
Tagged anger, contest, Dany De Vito, DI Lennox, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Lothian Buses, NaNoWriMo, novel, Poetry, prizes, PSH, Ranfurly, Rick Lupert, St Mirren, Writing
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Good Time To Be A Writer
As I write this first paragraph of today’s blog entry, it has rained constantly now for almost 36 hours. It’s not been light, and it’s not been broken – total, full on saturation, down pouring of water from the sky. … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Freelance, Writing
Tagged Edinburgh, Fiction, Freelance, Lothian Buses, novellas, novels, rain, Submissions, transport, Weather, Writing
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BOWLBAS
Man, it was BUCKETING down when I left the house this morning. And I don’t mean drizzle, I’m talking about large, heavy, warm rain. By the time I got to the office I was thoroughly soaked through to my skin. … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Books, Devon Ellington, e-books, Edinburgh, Fiction, GDR's, Hex Breaker, Lothian Buses, novel, novella, Weather, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
November, and Why It Rocks
November I love November. I love the shift from the unsettled weather of October, which can often have Scotland shivering under a bitter sky one minute then basking in warm sunshine the next. Technically, it’s classed as autumn, but it’s … Continue reading →