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Tag Archives: sister
Monday and Tuesday Review of the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: Colin Galbraith Apologies for yesterday, folks. This blog post is a day late due to the attention of a hacker at about 3:10am the night before last (Monday). It would appear that this technical challenged choob hacked into my … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Photography, Reading, Writing
Tagged Apple, Book Festival, Books, cancer, Celtic FC, Charlotte Square, Christopher Brookmyre, City of Literature, Coffee, Costa, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh Bookshop, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Family, hacking, iMac, Internet, John Hartson, Julie Hill, meal, media accreditation, Pamela Stephenson-Connolly, Pat Nevin, Press Pod, Reading, sister, Spiegeltent, TGI Fridays, Tobias Wolff, William McIlvanney, yurt
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Such a Busy Life
Image: MailLife.co.uk Brunch I took my daughter out for a lazy brunch on Sunday. We spent a couple of hours up in town chatting and talking about, amongst other things, both our hopes for the future. We did all of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, book release, Books, booze, brunch, chapbook, daughter, Day Job, Devon Ellington, Edinburgh, Erasure, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, London, marketing, mobile phone, novel, Poetry, Reading, sister, West End Festival, Writing
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June Workload: The Penultimate Plan
Image: Academics.de Late I slept in yesterday. Working my full week’s work in the first three days of the week, then being unable to catch up with lost sleep from the first few days, finally took its toll. I woke … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged black pudding, breakfast, cinema, Day Job, Family, filled roll, fried egg, gardening, GDR's, Goals Dreams and Resolutions, knackered, lawn, movie, mowing grass, sister, Sleep, slept in, tired, workplan, Writing
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Strong Characters Make Strong Stories
Image: iBug Quack An early doctor’s appointment yesterday morning meant I was up at my usual time – actually that’s a lie – I was up earlier than normal to make up for the loss of time towards BACCARA BURNING … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, chapbook, characters, cinema, coffee shop, Costa, Devon Ellington, Editing, Family, Fiction, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, John Wayne, newspaper, Omni Centre, Poetry, revisions, sister, True Grit, Westerns, Writing
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Grab My Books For Free Today Only!
Image: 1choice4yourstore.com I’ve been unable to blog the last few days. Guess why? I have discovered the source of the recent problems with my home PC’s Windows Operating System. It appears that under most conditions, running the disk defragmenter while … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Family, Film & TV, I.T., Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged baking, cakes, cinema, computers, Ewan MacGregor, Family, flix, Football, Free e-books, Kim Cattrall, movies, PC, Pierce Brosnan, Poetry Super Highway, Roman Polansky, Scottish League, sister, SPL, St Mirren, The Ghost, Vista, Windows
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Why I Write
Image: Burr Marketing In the end I never met my sister yesterday lunchtime—she lost her iPod at work in Glasgow and so never made the train to the Burg until several hours later. By that time I’d been into Leith … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Leith, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, Bijou Bistro, Coffee, doctors, Guardian, iPod, Leith, novella, paranormal, sister, Twitter, Writing
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Waiting For Binny
Image: Mo Riza Nice and early start on Saturday, made all the better with the knowledge it was only day 2 of my extended weekend. One of Gail’s pals had crashed over for the night – their night not ending … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged alcohol, bevy, book cover, Celtic, cover design, Edinburgh, Family, Football, Glasgow, Hangover, Leith, marketing, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, Scottish Cup, sister, St.Mirren, Stella
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Freedom from the Mundane 
The Taste of Blood
Image: Unknown I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is Friday is one again upon us, the weather is cracking, and tonight I will meet my new niece for the very first time. The bad … Continue reading →