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Tag Archives: The Queen
Making an Arse of it at the West Port Book Festival
Image: WPBF Emily Dodd Emily Dodd entertained a full house in West Port’s Edinburgh Books last night, with her own unique brand of poetry and song. Through tales of insomnia as a child, to Percy the Puffin, meeting The Queen, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Banana me Beautiful, BBC Scotland, beer, Blogging, Books, bookshops, CBeebies, Day Job, drinks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Books, Emily Dodd, Grassmarket, Lothian Road, The Queen, West Port, West Port Book Festival
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Scotland’s Royal Wedding
Image: Colin Galbraith Yesterday’s Royal Wedding kind of took over everything for me, quite in a way I never expected it too. Sometimes, it’s days like that, which make living in Edinburgh so worthwhile. I was in a coffee shop … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Photography, Scotland
Tagged Canongate Kirk, coffee shop, Duke of Edinburgh, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, haiku, Millers Arts, Monarch, Prince of Wales, Prince William, Royal Mile, Royal Wedding, Scotland, The Queen, Union Flags, Wills and Kate
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Nice Day for Another Royal Wedding
Image: Brian Wilson [streetlifephotography.co.uk] The weather since I got back from Greece has been superb in Scotland. It’s been sunny and warm most days, which is as much of a surprise as it is welcome. Looking out my window to … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Book Festival, dinner, Duke of Rothesay, eBooks, EdBookFest, Family, Greece, Leith, marketing, Mike Tindall, newsletter, poems, Poetry, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Royal Wedding, Selektion, sunny, The Patter, The Queen, Weather, Zara Phillips
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After Bin Laden
Image: Denise Gould Dead or Alive So, Bin Laden’s pan bread. I can’t say I’m not glad to see the back of the Al-Qaeda leader, the biggest threat to the security of the World since Hitler, but I’m a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Politics, Writing
Tagged America, Britain, British, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, GDR's, Monarchy, national pride, OBL, Osama Bin Laden, President Obama, Royal Wedding, Royals, terrorism, The Queen, USA, work plan, Writing
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The Pope’s Popeing In
Image: Guardian My parents were married 40 years ago today. On 16th September, 1970, they married in Mount Florida Parish Church on the south side of Glasgow. Three years later they had me, two after that my sister, Fiona, and … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Leith, Writing
Tagged anniversary, BBC, Catholicism, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editing, Leith, marriage, Neil Gaiman, Pope Benedict, road closures, Roman Catholics, Rome, Scotland, Scottish weather, the Pope, The Queen, Twitter, Vatican, wedding, wedding anniversary, windy, Writing
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And Now The Weather, By Lothian Buses
Image: RichardWalter The rain is back. Summer is over. I knew it was raining heavily because Lothian Buses were running late yesterday morning; the two often go hand in hand. I could feel the waves of precipitation soaking through my … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Fiction, I.T., Interviews, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Anthology, audio, Autumn, cancer charity, chapbook, Edinburgh Book Festival, Editing, Fiction, GDR's, hardware, Papal visit, podcasting, Poetry, Priests, Publishing and Marketing, rain, sexual abuse, software, summer, the Pope, The Queen, Weather, Writing
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The Misguided Sean Connery
Image: SeanConnery.com I read this morning that Sir Sean Connery has been expressing the opinion that the Scottish people should be allowed their voice through a referendum on an independent Scotland. He made the comments while talking about the Homecoming … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Politics, Scotland, Travel, UK
Tagged Bevvy, England, Independence, Monanchy, RAF Squadron, Scotland, Sean Connery, SNP, The Queen, Travel, UK, York
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Your Majesty, This Is Your Life
It seems that it’s a requirement, particularly in these potent days of nationalist and republican debate, for Scottish writers to be card carrying nationalists and republicans. Week after week I listen to writers getting behind the SNP and taking potshots … Continue reading →