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Tag Archives: St Mirren
Slow Saturday
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
Posted in Art, Books, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Sport, Writing
Tagged booze, contest, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Editing, Football, Grassmarket, manuscript, poems, Poetry, Poetry Superhighway, rain, revisions, Royal Mile, Scottish League, Silly Poems for Kids, Sleep, SPL, Sport, St Mirren, storms, thunder, Weather
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Solitary Refinement
Image: Ninrnimesh I had a much more productive and pleasant trip up town yesterday morning. Just like the day before, I was up early but this time I took the chance of a quiet house to enjoy a slow breakfast … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Reading, Sport, Writing
Tagged Animals, Books, chicken curry, coffee shop, cooking, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Football, Holland, pet shop, Rabbits, Reading, Shopping, South Africa, Spain, Sport, St Mirren, World Cup, World Cup Final, Writing
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Masterplan
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
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, I.T., Politics, Reading, Sport, Theatre, Travel
Tagged birthday party, Books, Edinburgh Playhouse, Football, General Election, government, Les Miserables, Paisley, Politics, Reading, SPL, St Mirren, Theatre, websites
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Coalition Commotion
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
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Politics, Scotland, Sport, UK
Tagged Conservative, David Cameron, Football, General Election, Gordon Brown, House of Commons, hung parliament, Labour, Lib Dems, Mike Crockart, Nick Clegg, Paisley, Politics, SPL, Sport, St Mirren, Westminster
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Goals, Dreams and Resolutions: April Into May
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
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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Bad Apples In The BBC Barrel
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
Posted in Editorial Comment, Fiction, Film & TV, Photography, Reading, Writing
Tagged BBC, Editing, Football, Football Focus, house cleaning, journalism, Mark Lawrenson, Over the Rainbow, Photography, popularity contests, programming, radio, SPL, St Mirren, television, Writing
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Good
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
The Diners Do The ‘Dam
Image: Me I’ve been gone a few days. If you were following me on Twitter you’ll already know I was on a wee trip to Amsterdam with the lads, soaking up all the bevy and sunshine we could permit ourselves … Continue reading →