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Tag Archives: teeth
No Camping Allowed
Image: NZTourMaps.com New Sub Ready Out of the desire to get back into the flow of things with something substantial, and out of a nagging feeling that I’d missed something, I read through the full manuscript for GREENER IS THE … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Books, Day Job, dental, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, gums, Harold Camping, Kat Ryder, manuscript, maternity, novella, pregnancy, Reading, revisions, submission, teeth, wisdom teeth, Writing
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London and an Oral Saga
Image: Colin Galbraith Oral Hell I’ve been unable to write for around a week now. Things were good up to last Sunday night when I returned from London, then I visited the dental hospital in Edinburgh to have two wisdom … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Photography, Poetry, Travel, UK, Writing
Tagged Buckingham Palace, Camden Market, Camden Town, chapbook, David Gilmour, dental, dental hospital, Docklands, Dublin Castle, Embankment, extraction, FA Cup Final, London, London Eye, Nick Mason, O2, O2 Arena, oral surgery, Photography, Pink Floyd, poems, Poetry, Roger Waters. The Wall, sightseeing, St. Paul's Cathedral, teeth, Tower Hill, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, Whitehall, wisdom tooth, Writing
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The Problem with Teeth…
Image: The Telegraph Bad day’s writing and it was all down to my teeth. I’d felt smashing when I got up yesterday: fresh, alert and renewed as though I’d slept the perfect sleep. Basically, I went to work feeling brilliant … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, BBC4, Day Job, dentist, DVDs, Empire Strikes Back, fillings, gums, manuscript, movies, Music, nerves, pizza, reggae, Reggae Britannia, revisions, ska, Star Wars, teeth, Writing
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A New Jedi Knight
Image: Surfur Dude It was a drookit day from dawn till dusk yesterday; overcast, grey, manky and just plain wet. Just as well I spent several hours in an office complete with regular shapes, strip lighting, keyboards and monitors. Earning … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, Darth Vader, Day Job, dentist, DVD, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Han Solo, hygenist, I.T, Jedi, movies, office work, overtime, paranormal fiction, pizza, Princess Leia, rain, revisions, Skywalker, Star Wars, teeth, The Force, Weather, Writing
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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
Posted in Editorial Comment, Family, Poetry
Tagged babies, dentist, Family, Liz Lochhead, national poet, niece, operation, Poetry, Scots' Makar, sister, surgery, teeth, wisdom teeth
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Toothy Tales
Image: Conor Lawless One of the first things I did today was call the dentist. At 9:01am I dialled the number while tonguing the rather large (or so it felt) hole in the upper, rear, left area of my mouth. … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Politics
Tagged America, Bowling for Columbine, dentist, fillings, GDR's, Heston, Michael Moore, Obama, pizza, teeth
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Fun On Lothian Buses #786
Image: edinburghblog.co.uk Will it ever end with Lothian Buses? God forbid any of their current batch of drivers should end up driving the trams when they arrive, or nothing much of anything will change. Today’s tale comes straight out of … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged 2008, awards, coffee gathering, Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, fork, hole in tooth, Ian Rankin, Lothian Buses, mince pies, Mr. Kipling, passengers, seed, teeth
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Tooth It!
Well, I got that sleep I’ve been needing, which considering there was a room full of 10-year old girls next door giggling and jumping around until God only knows what time of the night, I’d say that was a pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing and Marketing
Tagged Coffee, dental, email, office, Poetry, Rick Lupert, Sleep, teeth
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Dentistry Wonders
Image: Unknown Teef For my birthday last week, my mother-in-law bought me an electric toothbrush. I’d been meaning to get one for some time, ever since my dentist recommended it to me several visits ago. I finally charged the thing … Continue reading →