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Tag Archives: sunshine
Day 9 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest The sun shone and the people came—that’s the picture to take from day 9, Sunday at the Edinburgh Book Festival. We sat around, we chatted, we bathed in the sun as it warmed our backs (and bald heads), … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Writing
Tagged A L Kennedy, Amanda Palmer, beers, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Canongate, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, culture, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Ford Prefect, Frank Skinner, Giulia I. Sandelewski, Google, Guardian, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Ian Rankin, Internet, Jamie Jauncey, JF Derry, John Mullan, Napster, Neil Gaiman, podcast, Reading, Robert Levine, Sean Fanning, summer, sun, sunshine, The Guardian, Weather, writers
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Best Pals
Image: LifeSound.com Breakfast Bonding As you can probably tell from yesterday’s blog post (There’s Not a Heard of Wild Horses… ), my weekend was an absolute belter before Sunday even got under way. After all the excitement that was Saturday, … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry
Tagged coffee shop, competition, Daddy-Daughter Day, Domino's pizza, eBooks, Family, free books, Garden, gardening, pizza, Reading, summer, Sunday breakfast, sunshine, Twitter
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Maximum High
Image: Lucidnap.com There’s been a flurry of activity on the gig ticket purchasing scene in the last 24 hours. Suddenly I can look forward to the last ever Supergrass gig (Barrowlands), Gorillaz (SECC), Limp Bizkit (Academy) and Biffy Clyro (SECC); … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Interviews, Music, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Biffy Clyro, Edinburgh, Fiction, gigs, Glasgow, Gorillaz, Interview, life, Limp Bizkit, London, Music, rewriting, rock concert, Shed Seven, sunshine, Supergrass, Weather, Writing, Writing New Year
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Weekend Of Sunshine
Image: Dhaval Jani Saturday morning was dehydration derby after Friday’s impromptu drinking session in the Oxford Bar and then in Edinburgh’s fashionably plastic west end. The high pressure weather system that befell the country only added to my woes, making … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Reading
Tagged art exhibition, book shop, Edinburgh, family meal, Frankie and Benny's, Grand National, Hangover, Irn-Bru, MacDonald's, Omni Centre, Sunday lunch, sunny, sunshine, Tennent's Lager, weekend
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Making Time For Things
Image: Sara Petagna It’s a glorious morning outside. After a Friday that saw the clouds and rain return, and a Saturday that didn’t really know what it wanted, today I look out of my office window and the sky is … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing
Tagged Blogging, Books, chores, Day Job, dinner, drink, e-book, Eternal Press, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, home, Publishing and Marketing, Stella, sunshine, time, Weather, Writing
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Sunshine On Leith
Image: Juan Tello The weather could not have been nicer this weekend. From Saturday morning until Sunday night the sun shone, the sky was blue, and everyone seemed to get a lift from the summer-come-early weather. The last couple of … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Freelance, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Animals, Books, CDs, chapbook, clients, coffee shop, domestic, e-books, e-zine, Edinburgh, Fopp, Freelance, Music, pets, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Publishing and Marketing, Rabbits, Ranfurly Review, sunshine, Walking, Weather, Website, Writing
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The Leith Carnival
Today was the day of the Leith Carnival; a procession down Lochend Road and into Leith Links before a day of celebration of all things Leith. The carnival included a fairground, live music and acts on a stage, lots of … Continue reading →