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Time is Tight and the Scotrail Fiasco Rumbles On
Image: FoxNoMad Tight with Time Things are starting to get tight with time and for once it’s NOT to do with the eternal battle between the day job and my writing career. This time, it’s Christmas versus DIY. The house … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Day Job, eBooks, Family, Leith, Poetry, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged Art, art students, assault, Christmas, Christmas cards, Christmas presents, Christmas tree, decoration, DIY, eBooks, free ebooks, giveaway, home, House, illustrations, iMac, iPhone, Kamila Ratajczak, Leith, Leith School of Art, living room, loung, novels, Scotland, Scotrail, Silly Poems for Wee People, thrillers, ticket dodgers, time, time is tight, train, violence
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Adam Ant and the Scottish Gales
Image: MusicFeeds.com Short Story Success There was one awesome piece of news that came through last week while I was off recuperating from my wisdom teeth extraction: 11 months after it was first submitted, my short story, REGRETS, was picked … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Travel
Tagged Adam and the Ants, Adam Ant, buses, Dublin Quarterly, Edinburgh, gales, Glasgow, Ian Dury, literary magazine, O2 Academy, publication, rock, Scotrail, Scottish weather, short story, ska, The Blockheads, trains, Travel, windy
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The Scotrail Sagas
Image: BBC Online I felt quite ruffled yesterday. Having to be in Glasgow last night disrupted my planned schedule of events big time, and I felt frustrated with things all day. It meant I could get no work done at … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Leith, Travel, Writing
Tagged bacon roll, beer, Food, Drink and Bevvy, friends, Glasgow, Leith, Monday morning, Poetry, Pub, Queen Street station, restaurant, robbery, Scotrail, sickness, TGI Fridays, train, Travel, vomit, Writing
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From Glasgow to London
Image: TortureCare.org.uk Giggidy Did you like yesterday’s video? Hilarious wee cat, eh? I had a fun time at the Jamiroquai gig on Wednesday night with my sister—as is usually the case when we crack open a tinny and go to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Travel, Writing
Tagged chapbooks, Clapham Grand Theatre, crime fiction, doner kebab, eBooks, Glasgow, Greener is the Grass, Jamiroquai, Jay Kay, Kindle, live music, London, London International Ska Festival, manuscript, novella, Poetry, press releases, public transport, revisions, Scotrail, SECC, train, Twitter, Writing
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Dear Green Place
Image: The Blag.com Glasgow was brilliant this weekend; family, laughter, food, drinks, and the weather held up, too. Not that it mattered once my posterior found its way onto my sister’s couch. It could have snowed a blizzard and I … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Interviews, Music, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Travel
Tagged Blazing Trailers, buses, Chicken Maryland, drink, DVDs, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Glasgow cafe, Interview, laughter, Ludovics, movies, Photography, pub lunch, Scotrail, studio lights, trains, Travel
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Illustrated Edition of ‘Silly Poems for Wee People’ Now Available
Image: Chas Stramash Silly Poems for Wee People (Illustrated) Yesterday saw the launch of the illustrated edition of my popular kids’ poetry book, SILLY POEMS FOR WEE PEOPLE. Published under my pseudonym, Chas Stramash, the book is 38 pages long … Continue reading →