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Pop Up Theatre Comes to Leith
Image: Siege Perilous Mad at Marketing A rather hectic day as it turned out. The 3 Ebook Deal began to take off in the evening, with word of mouth actually having a visible effect on visits to the promo page, … Continue reading
Lift Off at the West Port Book Festival
Image: GuerrillaGeek.com West Port Book Festival I nipped up to Peter Bell’s Books in West Port after the day job to collect my tickets for the West Port Book Festival that begins today. Over the next four days I’ll be … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Book Festival, Books, chapbook, Cold War, Colin Firth, eBooks, Edinburgh, festival, Gary Oldman, John Hurt, John La Carré, Kathy Burke, Leith, literature, MI6, movie, Ocean Terminal, Orange Wednesday, Peter Bell's Book, Pizza Express, poems, Poetry, Reading, The Shore, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tom Hardy, Vue Cinema, West Port, West Port Book Festival, wpbf11
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Indian Summer
Image: Fernlea Hotel Summertime Really slow and warm day yesterday, and I mean really slow and warm. In fact, it was slower than a fish swimming through jelly, and warmer in the Athens of the North than it was in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Film & TV, Scotland, Writing
Tagged (Unofficial) Edinburgh Book Festival Blog, Athens, Blogging, cinema, Clive Owen, dialogue, Edinburgh, flix, GDR's, heat, Indian Summer, Jason Statham, Killer Elit, Literary Salon, movie, Ocean Terminal, Robert De Niro, Savvy Authors, summertime, West Port, West Port Book Festival, workshop, Writing
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The World Keeps Turning
Image: freewebphoto.com I went out on Saturday morning and did something I’d not done for a long while: walk for miles through Edinburgh. It was something I needed to do, to give me time to reflect on Ian’s funeral the … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Reading
Tagged A Room in Leith, albums, Blue Mountain coffee, clothes, Coffee, coffee shop, Cuttea Sark, dining, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, funeral, Grassmarket, grieving, Jamaica, Leith, Music, Ocean Terminal, restaurant, Shopping, Spoon Cafe, The Shore, Vic Galloway, Walking
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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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Under The Surface Of The American Dream
Image: PC Pro I shaved! Boy, was it good. The floor of my office was covered in a scattering of hair clumps as my clippers took the growth from my skull and face in one easy swipe. It felt so … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Reading
Tagged American Dream, bald, cinema, critique, Facebook, hair, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Leith, Mark Zuckerberg, movie, novella, Ocean Terminal, proofing, readers, Reading, Sean Parker, shave, skin, The Social Network, Vue Cinema, Writing
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Sushi In Leith
Image: Leith.org I’m under a wee bit of pressure at work this week. There’s a deadline that runs out on the 11th of this month and I’m trying to squeeze in about ten days of work into five to make … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Leith
Tagged Adam Sandler, Books, Chris Rock, cinema, Coffee, computers, Day Job, dinner, eBooks, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Grown Ups, I.T, iBook, iPhone, iPhone Apps, Jackass 3D, Kevin James, Leith, Mark Billingham, movie, Naturespace, Ocean Terminal, Reading, Rio de Janeiro, Sushi
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Viva La Sushi
Image: Kristiaan I wasn’t in the best of moods when I got up today, and things didn’t improve by mid-morning. The sore throat I’ve had these past few days has started to go, but in its wake has left a … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Photography, Writing
Tagged cinema, client, coughing, Family, flix, food and drink, Freelance, ginger, head cold, Internet, Leith, movie, Ocean Terminal, Photography, shivers, sneezing, Star Trek, Sushi, wasabi, Website
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All The Fun Of The Fair
Image: clspeace Murder is a thought not often contemplated by the sane and the civilised, but it crossed my mind today. This probably only serves to prove my theory, that if you had to work with some of the wallies … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Blood Ties, Day Job, Fiction, Hunting Jack, Leith, murder, novels, Ocean Terminal, poems, Poetry, publishers, Starbucks, Submissions, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 