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Slow Saturday

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Colin Galbraith

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 →

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Masterplan

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Patrick Hoesly Saturday was a fun day. Up and out the house early but not to a coffee shop or anything like that, to Waverley train station and the 10am to Glasgow Queen Street. My target destination: St Mirren … Continue reading →

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Coalition Commotion

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Stock I was a total waste of space yesterday. Having stayed up through the night until 6am I was woken at 9 by the postman and never managed to get back into it again. Three hours was all I … Continue reading →

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Goals, Dreams and Resolutions: April Into May

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Mikael Tigerström There was no fun-filled and relaxing Saturday had by me yesterday. By 7:30am I was in the office working, my last official task before a lovely week off to myself. I’ll make up for that, though, as … Continue reading →

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Grab My Books For Free Today Only!

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Colin Galbraith

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 →

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Salmond Flounders On The Sand

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Colin Galbraith

Image: BBC There was a sleepover in my house on Saturday night so yesterday morning, despite the rain, I left the house relatively early to gain respite from teenage girls who wear far too much make-up and think wearing scarves … Continue reading →

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Bad Apples In The BBC Barrel

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Colin Galbraith

Image: BBC Sitting with Dan Walker on yesterday’s Football Focus was Scotland Football Team Manager, Craig Levein. When asked about his memories of the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, he recalled how Scotland, as the only British representatives in the … Continue reading →

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Good

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Anonymous My yesterday in a sentence: good work at the day job, good to get home, good to eat a home-made dinner, good to relax, good editing session on GREENER, good book from which I read, and good bar … Continue reading →

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Saturday Morning On Sunday

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Colin Galbraith

Image: DDS I was kind of glad the weekend finished when it did. It was all over the place and at times not in the least enjoyable. Parts of it were, though, so they are the bits I’ll talk about. … Continue reading →

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Summer’s Come Early

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Colin Galbraith

Image: Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic Not a good day to be a Scotland rugby fan, but the defeat to England at Twickenham wasn’t exactly unexpected. This year’s Six Nations Chamionship ended as bad as it could do for us losing in the … Continue reading →

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