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Tag Archives: Spoon Cafe
A Right Royal Day Out
Image: simplyairlines.com My mother came to town yesterday and what a day we did have. We were all over and took in royalty, government, museums, pubs, a meal and a show. And all the while the sun shone brightly and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Theatre, UK
Tagged bus travel, day out, eBooks, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Festival Theatre, Glasgow, Lenny Henry, Marcus Adams, mother, Museum of Childhood, Museum of Edinburgh, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Pink Olive Restaurant, Royal Family, Royal Mile, Royal photography, Royal portraits, Scottish Parliament, Southsider Pub, Spoon Cafe, The Pink Olive, The Queen's Gallery, Twitter
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There’s Not a Herd of Wild Horses…
Image: FindingDulcinea.com The weather couldn’t quite decide what it wanted to do on my walk through Edinburgh yesterday. One minute it was blowing a gale and threatening rain, the next it was calm and cloudy. It even went sunny and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged book marketing, book selling, Books, children's books, Coffee, eBooks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Bookshop, Fiction, Fringe Fantastic, Greener is the Grass, independent bookshop, Kids' Poems, novella, Poetry, Scotland, Scottish weather, Spoon Cafe, Twitter, Walking
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Man About the House
Image: class-tv.co.uk Walkies I took the bus way, way out to the south side of Edinburgh yesterday morning, to Cameron Toll in fact, then started walking back into town. It’s a several mile treck but it was perfect walking weather: … Continue reading
On a Roll
Image: ratestogo.com Day Job High When I left the day job on Friday I was on a major high; I’d had a fantastic week. Not only had I made two technological breakthroughs for a long term project I’ve been working … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Reading, Writing
Tagged bonus, Day Job, Dean Martin, drafting, DVD, England, Fiction, GDR's, John Wayne, movie, novella, pizza, revisions, Rugby Union, salary, Scotland, short story, Six Nations, Spoon Cafe, The Sons of Katie Elder, Twickenham, Westerm, 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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Freedom from the Mundane 