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- RT @The7Line: Our passports are ready, @MLB. Make it happen! @The7LineArmy with bells on. 1 week ago
- RT @LondonMarathon: #OTD in 2016, @EliudKipchoge won the #LondonMarathon in a time of 2:03:05, just eight seconds off the WR! Since then… 3 weeks ago
- RT @BallySportsCLE: Fans at Yankee Stadium throw things at Guardians players after the game ends. https://t.co/1LIv66LfBW 3 weeks ago
- RT @BallySportsCLE: Moments before the final scene in the outfield in the bottom of the ninth, Myles Straw went right back at fans at Yanke… 3 weeks ago
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Christmas Headaches
Image: News.com.au I was into everything over the weekend—everything! Not only did I get through a ton of Christmas cleaning, DIY work, TV and gadget fixing, and writing work, but I also managed a Day Job Xmas bash, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged alcohol, bevy, birthday party, brunch, Chrimbo, Christmas, Christmas cards, Christmas headaches, Christmas tree, cleaning, Cloisters, coffee and pastries, computer games, curry, daughter, DIY, eBooks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, ereaders, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, free ebooks, Greener is the Grass, Indaba, Indian meal, Khushis, Kindle, Kobo, Mother-in-Law, novel, novella, pizza, pubs, Slick, South African food, summer reading, The Pear Tree, work, Writing, Xbox, Xmas
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The Diners in Durham
Image: Crowborough Social Club A fantastic weekend. The Diners made the best of Durham and we had a great time, although we all suspected by Sunday, that it had yet to reveal the majority of its secrets. The Flix It … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Travel, Writing
Tagged Chinese takeaway, cinema, drink, Durham, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, GDR's, movies, Newcastle, Odeon Springfield Quay, Peter Mullan, pubs, Waverly, Western Hospital, Writing
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Still Got It
Image: celebritiesnews.info Wednesday catch-up: Day job was the day job. I met up with my wife for lunch. We ate soup and a roll in a car park near the Botanical Gardens. Such romance! In the evening I met up … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy
Tagged alcohol, beer, Bevvy, Day Job, drinking, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, friends, funeral, Major Thomas Weir, pubs, vodka
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He Who Hoots With The Owls…
Image: Lindsey T Yesterday was a white wash and it was all my own fault. I take full blame—well, most of it—and accept the part I played in this particular downfall. Wednesday night was one of those nights you just … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Travel
Tagged Americans, Atlantic Ocean, beer, Bevvy, clothes shopping, drunk, Family, friends, Hangover, pubs, vodka, whisjy
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A Successful, But Weird Day
I had the weirdest, gayest dream last night, which I’m not going into. Let’s just say I’ll never look at Irvine Welsh or a transsexual Thai person in the same way ever again. I suppose that’s what I get after … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Freelance, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged Amsterdam, chapbook, Day Job, Edinburgh, Editing, Editorial Comment, Fiction, freelance writing, Irvine Welsh, Jekyll and Hyde, novel, Poems for Pints, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, pubs, Ranfurly Review, Rick Lupert, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, St. Andrew Square, Submissions, Thailand, toilets, transsexual, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
The Cost of Nationalism
Image: English Passport Scotland Votes The result of the Scottish Parliamentary Election was nothing short of staggering. While the Liberal Democrats were being punished for their performance at the Westminster, and the Tories were bumbling on as insignificantly as ever, … Continue reading →