Tag Archives: Poolside Poetry

Media and Marketing

Image: Diffusibility Friday is here thank goodness and it feels like it’s been a heck of a long week. The day job is responsible for these feelings of dragged out days, but outwith these shifts I’m making good progress on … Continue reading

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Fascinating, Fantastic and Fun: Trudeau, Heaney and McCall Smith

Image: The List Things conspired against me yesterday leaving me unable to post my blog entry. That’s twice in less than a week it’s happened and I am less than pleased with myself. Therefore, I voluntarily stick out my virtual … Continue reading

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Ian Rankin And The Live Book Festival Twitter Feed

Image: Twitter Before I get stuck into yesterday’s goings on at the Edinburgh Book Festival, I want to say a humongous thanks to everyone who has emailed and tweeted me to express their enjoyment of my book festival blogging and … Continue reading

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Edinburgh Book Festival Programme Announced

Image: British Council I logged on to the Edinburgh Book Festival website first thing yesterday morning, but my hopes of an early scan of the 2010 events programme was dashed when I found out it was a 12 noon launch. … Continue reading

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Another Belter

Image: MIT I noticed out of my office window yesterday that I’d still to pick up the bird table that got blown over on Friday night. It’s still to attract the attention of any little feathered friends, so I repositioned … Continue reading

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Looking Out At New Horizons

I stayed up late watching a film last night. It was so bad I can’t even remember what it was about now. Gail got home about 1am and spent a while telling me all about her day photographing a large … Continue reading

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30 Years Young

My wife is 30 today – HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAIL!!! For the first time since I began writing this blog, I’ve broken the 1,000 unique visitors in a single week mark. Between 25 Feb and 2 March, 1,083 people visited Freedom … Continue reading

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