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Tag Archives: Royal Mile
Planning Out my Literary August
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
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Animals, Armed Forces Day, August, Book Festival, chapbook, Charlotte Square, cleaning, coffee shop, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Holiday, literary, London, planning, Poetry, rain, Red Arrows, Royal Mile, tropical fish tank, Writing
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Slow Saturday
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
Posted in Art, Books, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Sport, Writing
Tagged booze, contest, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Editing, Football, Grassmarket, manuscript, poems, Poetry, Poetry Superhighway, rain, revisions, Royal Mile, Scottish League, Silly Poems for Kids, Sleep, SPL, Sport, St Mirren, storms, thunder, Weather
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A Right Royal Day Out
Image: simplyairlines.com My mother came to town yesterday and what a day we did have. We were all over and took in royalty, government, museums, pubs, a meal and a show. And all the while the sun shone brightly and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Theatre, UK
Tagged bus travel, day out, eBooks, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Festival Theatre, Glasgow, Lenny Henry, Marcus Adams, mother, Museum of Childhood, Museum of Edinburgh, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Pink Olive Restaurant, Royal Family, Royal Mile, Royal photography, Royal portraits, Scottish Parliament, Southsider Pub, Spoon Cafe, The Pink Olive, The Queen's Gallery, Twitter
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Scotland’s Royal Wedding
Image: Colin Galbraith Yesterday’s Royal Wedding kind of took over everything for me, quite in a way I never expected it too. Sometimes, it’s days like that, which make living in Edinburgh so worthwhile. I was in a coffee shop … Continue reading →