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Tag Archives: reggae
The Party is Over
Image: VividLife The party is over; the fun’s all done! My hair has been truly let down and I have wound back down to zero. Three nights on the razz is more than enough for me anyway, but the end … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Writing
Tagged beer, Day Job, DIY, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, friends, GDR's, gigs, Glasgow, home improvement, Music, O2 Academy, party, pub crawl, reggae, Toots and the Maytals, Whighams, 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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The Coming Of Ska
Image: Me I’m feeling it increasingly difficult to think about anything else apart from Wednesday’s gig. I’ll keep the full spiel for tomorrow’s post, but from yesterday morning into last night I saw an increase of my excitement levels ten … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged British music, chapbook, e-books, EZEE Internet, GNHosting, houlnet, Karl Gray, Music, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, reggae, Selektion, ska, The Specials, Trading Standards, Watchdog, Writing
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Hampden In The Sun
Image: glasgowguide.co.uk Well the Buddies got beat; another semi-final disappointment, this time at the hands of the Forces of Darkness. As far as footie matches go it wasn’t one of the best, but St Mirren, I felt, could have taken … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, I.T., Music, Scotland, Sport, Writing
Tagged alcohol, Beltane, bevy, Chinese meal, DVD, e-books, Family, Festival of Fire, Football, friends, gigs, Glasgow, Hampden Park, hot and sunny, live music, Mount Florida, PC, Pub, Rangers FC, reggae, Scottish Cup, ska, St Mirren, The Specials, Weather, work, Writing
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The Leith Carnival
Today was the day of the Leith Carnival; a procession down Lochend Road and into Leith Links before a day of celebration of all things Leith. The carnival included a fairground, live music and acts on a stage, lots of … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Sport, Writing
Tagged arts, Bob Marley, carnival, country dancing, crafts, dancing, drugs, drunk, grass, history, horse racing, Ladies Day, leg, Leith, Leith Festival, marijuana, Musselburgh, race course, reggae, sunshine, Weather
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Freedom from the Mundane 
The Problem with Teeth…
Image: The Telegraph Bad day’s writing and it was all down to my teeth. I’d felt smashing when I got up yesterday: fresh, alert and renewed as though I’d slept the perfect sleep. Basically, I went to work feeling brilliant … Continue reading →