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Tag Archives: PC World
Charity Begins at Home
Dodgy Belly I suspect it was the fish I had for lunch on Friday that did it, but for the afternoon, evening, and well into the weekend, I had a very dodgy tummy. No loss of appetite, but within a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Art, Bay City Rollers, brunch, bunnies, charity, crime, daughter, eBooks, Fiction, fundraiser, Kenny Herbert, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Nobby Clark, paranormal, PC World, Pets at Home, poems, Rabbits, raffle, revising, special offers, The Rab Howat Band, Trees for Life, wireless router, Writing
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A Fruitful Diversion
Image: Anders B. My weekend went nothing like I planned it. It all went wrong on Friday night and the crisis lasted until late last night, and yet – and YET – I still managed to have a highly productive, … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Leith, Music, Photography, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Animals, cappuccino, coffee chop, Corstorphnie, Costa, Desert Island Discs, eBooks, Edinburgh, Editing, Fiction, gardening, half marathon, hard drive, hardware, HDD, house chores, ideas, Leith, Music, notebook, PC, PC World, Photography, photography studio, poems, revisions, thoughts, Twitter, wedding, Windows, Writing
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A Weekend for Moi
Image: http://www.visualphotos.com I must have had a good weekend because it seemed to last for ages. Last Friday already seems so far off in my mind that I have no doubt it was because of the amount I managed to … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Writing
Tagged and Bevvy, Baccara Burning, clothes, clothes shopping, Coffee, coffee shop, Corstorphine, Costa Coffee, DAB Radio, drink, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editing, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, GDR's, home cooking, in-laws, jeans, manuscript, meal, Music, novella, On Writing, Pauline Black, PC World, Pets at Home, Rabbits, radio, reggae, revisions, rigby, Rugby Union, Scotland, Six Nations, ska, Stephen King, Tesco, The Selecter, Twitter, Wales, weekend, Writing, writing workshops
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Moving Ever Closer To The Mac
Image: Macbitz After much tinkering with the email client on my PC I can formally announce I am now 100% back in action. But I’m still not happy; not happy with the fact I have to go through this every … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Apple, Baccara Burning, Books, desktop, Fiction, Indian curry, Mac Mini, PC, PC World, Poetry, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, software, Submissions, 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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Saturday Morning On Sunday
Image: DDS I was kind of glad the weekend finished when it did. It was all over the place and at times not in the least enjoyable. Parts of it were, though, so they are the bits I’ll talk about. … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, I.T., Music, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Theatre
Tagged album chart, bad mood, black pudding supper, Books, e-books, Festival Theatre, Freelance, Gail Galbraith Photography, gig review, Irn-Bru, Madness, mobile phone, Netbook, News of the World, PC World, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Quadrophenia, relegation, Samsung NC10, SPL, St Mirren, Stella, Theatre, UK music, Vodafone, wedding photography, weekend
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Sinn Fein – Just Another Westminster Fraud Mob
Image: BBC Online The good thing about writing my blogs the following morning as opposed to the night before, is that I get to react faster to anything in the news that catches my eye. Even more so when a … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading
Tagged Animals, camera, competition, design, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Guardian, horse racing, IRA, laptops, marketing, MPs, Netbooks, news, newsletter, Northern Ireland, PC World, Photography, promotion, Rabbits, Sinn Fein, Telegraph, Tesco, Walking, Westminster
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The Edinburgh City of Literature Story Shop and Men
Image: JA Cosgrove The Edinburgh City of Literature Story Shop I’m not one to cast unfounded accusations or remarks—I’m the kind of guy who likes to gather evidence when building a case first—but yesterday I raised an eyebrow at something … Continue reading →