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Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011
Image: Whisky 2.0 Blink and you might miss it. That’s the phrase I could apply to 2010 such has been the ferocious pace it seems to have shot by. Either it’s a sign I’m starting to grow older and time … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy
Tagged 2010, 2011, Day Job, drinks, Edinburgh, family and friends, Hogmanay, New Year, New Year Resolutions
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Hovering Above Reality
Image: Dream Studies Talk about slow days? Yesterday was so slow I found myself contemplating the merits of growing my hair back by a couple of (albeit thin) inches, then dying the resulting bush bleach blonde. Can you imagine? I’d … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, I.T., Music, Video, Writing
Tagged Acid music, Christmas, D-Mob, hair, Hogmanay, I.T. computers, laptops, Music, New Year, newsletter, slow day
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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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Back On Side With The BBC
Image: Treehugger Got through some decent work last night, and with the Christmas/New Year period coming up it’s a good roll to be on. Otherwise, I feel, I might lost the impetus I’ve managed to build up and we can’t … Continue reading
Last Orders, Please
Image: MenMedia And so we have arrived. After a year of ups and downs—glory and depression, delight and despair, great news and thumping bad news—I finally pull into the station at the end of the line. This is my last … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Scotland
Tagged 2009, 2010, Hogmanay, Holiday, New Year, Scotland, The Bells, The Trossachs
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And They’re Off!
Image: Roger Barker And They’re Off – “they” being “me” and everyone else who has set themselves new goals, dreams and/or resolutions for the New Year. We’ve looked at where we are, know where we want to be and, more … Continue reading
Happy New Year!
Happ New Year to all my readers! May 2009 bring you all a wealth of health, happiness and joy!! Colin Galbraith
Freedom from the Mundane 
The CG Awards – My Best of 2011
Well here we are already, the end of another year. In only a coupe of days we shall slip noisily and cheerily from one year into another (I will, at least!), and then a new year shall dawn. 2012 holds … Continue reading →