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A New Arrival
We have a new arrival in our family. No, my wife wasn’t pregnant before the calls start coming in, and no I haven’t been out and brought more floppy-eared bunny rabbits back home. We’ve got a cat. He’s a two … Continue reading
Beer and Curry Medicine
Image: Curry Council Intensity Lull After the intensity of my blogging at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival, September feels quiet, low and almost uninteresting on the availability of things to write about. It’s a lull that happens each year; one … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged 9/11, Animals, Bannerman's, beer, beer and curry, Book Festival, Books, change, contributors, curry, Day Job, dialoge workshop, Edinburgh, Editing, egotism, Leith, Malt and Hops, pets, Rab Howat Band, rabbit hutch, Rabbits, Raj Restaurant, Ranfurly Review, Reading, rejections, Submissions, The Shore, whisky, Writing
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Bless the Bunnies
Image: Pippin Writing Routine Totally buggered up my early morning writing session yesterday morning when I went and slept in. I woke up at 9:20am having had a night full of manky dreams, and although I made it to work … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Fiction, Music, Writing
Tagged animal cruelty, Animals, BBC, bunnies, Chinese New Year, doctors, Dreaming, dreams, edits, hospital, nurses, pets, Rabbits, revisions, Sleep, The Musicians' Masterclass, Writing, Year of the Rabbit
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Sixteen Points Below
Image: deadlinenews.co.uk It was minus sixteen degrees Celsius over night. That’s -16C. A dozen marks and two pair below freezing point. Scotland is a really cold place just now, so much so that during the day it never made it … Continue reading
Sleepless In Leith
Image: PlaidCreature Spare a thought this morning for my good friend Devon Ellington. One of her beloved cats, Elsa, has been sickly of late and last night she found out the reason why: the onset of cancer. Devon’s cats have … Continue reading
Another Reason To Ban Fireworks
Image: Mopsy 7 ½ Weeks Old I really need to do something to cheer this blog up so I’ll begin with a short review of my recent trip away to Fuengirola in Spain. I went away with the determination to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Reading, Travel, Writing
Tagged Animals, bunnies, death, fireworks, friends, Fuengirola, GDR's, pets, Rabbits, Reading, Scruffy Dog Review, Spain, The Diners, Travel, Writing
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Sunshine On Leith
Image: Juan Tello The weather could not have been nicer this weekend. From Saturday morning until Sunday night the sun shone, the sky was blue, and everyone seemed to get a lift from the summer-come-early weather. The last couple of … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Freelance, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Animals, Books, CDs, chapbook, clients, coffee shop, domestic, e-books, e-zine, Edinburgh, Fopp, Freelance, Music, pets, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Publishing and Marketing, Rabbits, Ranfurly Review, sunshine, Walking, Weather, Website, Writing
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My Weekend
Image: John McTarnaghan I hope you all had a great Valentine’s weekend whatever you chose to do – and whoever with. Gail and I had a nice time yesterday. Our initial plan had been to drop Laura off at her … Continue reading
A Small Tragedy
There was an email from the Scottish NaNoWriMo ML in my inbox this morning. I get them sporadically throughout the year, but they tend to increase in the lead up to November’s writing marathon. This particular email reminded me there … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Theatre, Writing
Tagged acting, actors, Animals, Books, death, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Editing, festival, Fiction, Food & Drink, GDR's, goldfish, Hunting Jack, NaNoWriMo, novels, pets, Steven Berkoff, Theatre, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Wee Brown Doggy
Image: 42 (www.blipfoto.com/42) Man am I tired! It’s not like I’ve been overdoing the hours at the day job again or not giving myself time to unwind before getting down to work on my manuscripts in the evening, but for … Continue reading →