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Tag Archives: The Selecter
Day 10 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest I was really quite tired yesterday after such an intensely enjoyable weekend at the Edinburgh Book Festival. It was back to the day job for 8am, clutching a bacon roll and black coffee and wishing I was up … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged 2-Tone, Andre Schiffrin, black culture, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, Chris Close, City of Literature, EdBookFest, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Music, New York, Pantheon, Pauline Black, photo shoot, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, racism, Random House, Reading, ska, The Guardian, The Selecter, writers
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A Weekend for Moi
Image: http://www.visualphotos.com I must have had a good weekend because it seemed to last for ages. Last Friday already seems so far off in my mind that I have no doubt it was because of the amount I managed to … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Writing
Tagged and Bevvy, Baccara Burning, clothes, clothes shopping, Coffee, coffee shop, Corstorphine, Costa Coffee, DAB Radio, drink, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editing, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, GDR's, home cooking, in-laws, jeans, manuscript, meal, Music, novella, On Writing, Pauline Black, PC World, Pets at Home, Rabbits, radio, reggae, revisions, rigby, Rugby Union, Scotland, Six Nations, ska, Stephen King, Tesco, The Selecter, Twitter, Wales, weekend, Writing, writing workshops
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Ska – A Way Of Life
Image: 2-Tone Info I said I was beginning to get excited on Monday, yesterday I was almost fully distracted. Walking to work with Man at C&A, Do The Dog and Gangsters filling my ears, I could feel the adrenalin pulsating … Continue reading →