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Onwards and Upwards

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Civil Society If you don’t like the wind and the rain, the last couple of days will have been utterly miserable for you here in Scotland. If, however, you quite enjoy the sound and effect of the wind and … Continue reading →

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Hell Comes to Saturday

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: paranormalknowledge.com A hellish start to Saturday, and an even more hellish end. There are no two ways about it. I knew I would be working at 6am for the day job, but it should only have taken half an … Continue reading →

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A Trip to Porty

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Undiscovered Scotland Two Halves On the weather front, it was a weekend of two halves: on Saturday, Edinburgh was enshrouded with cloud apart for a brief part of the afternoon when the sun came out. It was warm and … Continue reading →

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New Characters and Old Friends

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: MensMeditation I cannot believe how long this week is turning out. I’m sleeping again—always good when that happens—but I nearly tripped over my eye lids on my way to the day job yesterday morning—not so good—hate it when that … Continue reading →

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Setting Up Podcast Technology

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: articalwiki.com Podcasting I had to be in the day job early doors yesterday so never got anything done prior to then, so I threw myself into getting the podcast software setup for the book festival project. I’m using a … Continue reading →

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Planning Out my Literary August

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: EBF Today is an exciting day: the Edinburgh Book Festival tickets go on sale. The last think I wanted to do was sleep in and miss the 8:30am ticket office opening, the result being that I couldn’t get to … Continue reading →

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My Undeterred Writing Focus

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Stock It’s the hardest thing to try and describe, but for the past few weeks I’ve felt incredibly energetic and charged with the determination, creativity and desire to write. This undeterred focus has seen me write a full novel, … Continue reading →

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A Solid Writing Weekend

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Stock Rain It was another blustery and unpredictable day here in Scotland, and for a Sunday morning it was quite depressing. I’m not a fan of the wind—I worry about little old ladies—but I do like the rain; love … Continue reading →

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A Scottish Summer

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Unknown The weather was somewhat unpredictable yesterday. When the wind blew, it blew hard and cold then calmed as fast as it had picked up. The rain followed the same pattern; sudden downpours, hard and cold, the nothing. In … Continue reading →

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Slow Saturday

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

Image: English Passport My daughter is away for the weekend so I allowed myself the luxury of a lie in yesterday morning. The fact that I had partaken in a pub crawl around the Royal Mile and Grassmarket the evening … Continue reading →

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