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Fighting Back Against the Fare Dodgers
Image: The List TIME Newsfeed summed it up perfectly: if you ever find yourself on a Scottish train without a ticket, don’t even think about trying to sneak a free ride. The video in this article (which has now caused … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Fiction, Scotland, Travel, Websites, Writing
Tagged Books, Christmas, Coffee, Day Job, eBooks, fare dodgers, feedback, Fiction, free, giveaway, Internet, novel, novella, online, readers, Reading, Scottish, Shopping, Slick, Time magazine, Time Newsfeed, trains, Website
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Back From Rhodes and Ready to Rock
Image: Faliraki-Info.com Hello everyone and welcome back to Freedom from the Mundane! I’ve been gone for over three weeks, quite a long time in the blogging world but then again, needs must. I’ve been away on holiday, recharging my batteries … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Editorial Comment, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Poetry, Reading, Travel, Writing
Tagged Aegean Sea, Allan Guthrie, Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, Atlantica Aegean Blue hotel, Bazaar, beach, Book Festival, Books, BYE BYE BABY, Edinburgh City of Literature Story Shop, Family, gig reviews, Greece, Greener is the Grass, Holiday, JA Konrath, KILLING MUM, Kindle, Kolymbia, Lindos, Marmaris, Mediterranean Sea, music writing, News of the World, novel, novella, patron, Paul Auster, poetry chapbook, poolside, POOLSIDE POETRY 2, Prasonisi, Reading, Rhodes, Rhodes Town, Rhodos, Sara Gruen, seasick, shish kebab, Shopping, sun, SUNSET PARK, THE LIST, The Sky Project Charity, Tsambiki beach, Turkey, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, water sports, WHISKEY SOUR, Writing
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A Perfect Ending
Image: TravelPod.com I’m struggling to get back on an even keel with my sleep after last week’s mega-shift knocked me off my feet. I’ve had to get by all week on about five hours a night, and usually when that … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Writing
Tagged Books, coffee shop bistro, Day Job, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Family, I.T. computers, Internet, knackered, lethargic, Rob Around Books, Robert Burdock, Shopping, Sleep, Sod's Law, websites, Writing
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The World Keeps Turning
Image: freewebphoto.com I went out on Saturday morning and did something I’d not done for a long while: walk for miles through Edinburgh. It was something I needed to do, to give me time to reflect on Ian’s funeral the … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Reading
Tagged A Room in Leith, albums, Blue Mountain coffee, clothes, Coffee, coffee shop, Cuttea Sark, dining, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, funeral, Grassmarket, grieving, Jamaica, Leith, Music, Ocean Terminal, restaurant, Shopping, Spoon Cafe, The Shore, Vic Galloway, Walking
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A Dog’s Life
Image: iStock It had been put off a while but I allowed myself a bit of a lie in on Saturday morning. With no daughter about (she was at a friend’s house) the morning started slow and easy, which is … Continue reading
Moving Up The Gears
Image: ralphbijker Still struggling to get myself back into sync. I feel totally lackadaisical and uninspired with everything except literature. Call it the holiday blues without wishing I was actually back there by the pool. I’m still on a high … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Travel, Writing
Tagged Albuifera, Algarve, Animals, bull fight, Day Job, Edinburgh Book Festival, emails. blogs, GDR's, Holiday, holiday blues, Old Town, Portugal, Shopping, Vilamoura, Writing New Year
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The Clothing Debate Part II
Image: Senior Money Memos I’m struggling to sleep again. The last two nights I was up after midnight in the knowledge I had to get up at 5am for work. As time dragged on, I started to feel the pressure … Continue reading
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Tagged Bevvy, Blogging, clothes, coming out, comments, Day Job, feedback, gay, homosexuality, insomnia, men's fashion, Pub, Shopping, sleeping
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Advertising Pays
Image: Foothills Data Slick The launch date for SLICK is January 2nd, and with the marketing ball already rolling (and working for once), everything seems to be going rather excitingly and spiffingly well. I got through a huge chunk of … Continue reading →