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- RT @StevenACohen2: Lin-door just got hurt by a door , ironic 3 weeks ago
- RT @ozozeleren: Almost 10 million citizens of the Republic of #Turkey were defined as "sluts" today by their presidents, Erdogan, because t… 3 weeks ago
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- @BeckettUnite The slap in the face was when she accepted the payment. She should've taken him into the courtroom. 4 weeks ago
- RT @The7Line: Our passports are ready, @MLB. Make it happen! @The7LineArmy with bells on. 1 month 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… 2 months ago
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Tag Archives: run-down
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
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Scotland, Writing
Tagged blind, blindness, Blogging, Bookfest Burnout, Candia McWilliam, chapbooks, crime writing, death, Doors Open, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edwin Morgan, Fringe Fantastic, Ian Rankin, Lin Anderson, live tweeting, Makar, poems, Poetry, Poolside Poetry, Rebus, run-down, social media, The Complaints, Twitter, What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness
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Pit Stop
Image: TRF1 I started to feel quite run down towards the end of last week and after my last blog post on Saturday felt really quite rubbish. So I downed tools and took a pit stop, a little time out … Continue reading
Proofs And Presses
Image: Colin Galbraith I’m shattered. My eyes hurt, my head is sore, I have that run down snivelly thing going on and I want to sleep for hours while at the same time go out and let my hair down. … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Interviews, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Sport
Tagged chapbook, Day Job, I.T, Philistine Press, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, rugby, Rugby Union, run-down, salary, Scotland versus England, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, Six Nations, stress, tired
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Run Down
Image: moblog Two hours into my day already and the sun is breaking. I’ve been working on a “day job” implementation, i.e., running in new software to the mainframe. Menial and boring, but very well paid. I felt myself coming … Continue reading
Freedom from the Mundane 
The Past Week
It’s been almost a week since I last wrote in this blog, and what a week it’s been. It would appear I still haven’t learned to listen to my body when it tells me I’m running it into the ground, … Continue reading →