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Tag Archives: The Shore
Lift Off at the West Port Book Festival
Image: GuerrillaGeek.com West Port Book Festival I nipped up to Peter Bell’s Books in West Port after the day job to collect my tickets for the West Port Book Festival that begins today. Over the next four days I’ll be … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Book Festival, Books, chapbook, Cold War, Colin Firth, eBooks, Edinburgh, festival, Gary Oldman, John Hurt, John La Carré, Kathy Burke, Leith, literature, MI6, movie, Ocean Terminal, Orange Wednesday, Peter Bell's Book, Pizza Express, poems, Poetry, Reading, The Shore, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tom Hardy, Vue Cinema, West Port, West Port Book Festival, wpbf11
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Beer and Curry Medicine
Image: Curry Council Intensity Lull After the intensity of my blogging at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival, September feels quiet, low and almost uninteresting on the availability of things to write about. It’s a lull that happens each year; one … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged 9/11, Animals, Bannerman's, beer, beer and curry, Book Festival, Books, change, contributors, curry, Day Job, dialoge workshop, Edinburgh, Editing, egotism, Leith, Malt and Hops, pets, Rab Howat Band, rabbit hutch, Rabbits, Raj Restaurant, Ranfurly Review, Reading, rejections, Submissions, The Shore, whisky, Writing
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Revving Up The Writing Engine
Image: F1 Rewind Okay, so I’m back in the saddle and things are in a low gear, but I’m building up revs. It takes a fair amount of will power to get back into the swing of things properly after … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Travel, Writing
Tagged Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, Auld Reekie, birthday party, Blogging, charity auction, coffee shop, Day Job, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Family, gigs, Holiday, Indian food, Interview, Leith, Music, niece, Raj Restaurant, Rhodes, Savvy Authors, The Shore, The Sky Project, tickets, Travel, Water of Leith, West End, Writing, Writing Magazine
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The World Keeps Turning
Image: freewebphoto.com I went out on Saturday morning and did something I’d not done for a long while: walk for miles through Edinburgh. It was something I needed to do, to give me time to reflect on Ian’s funeral the … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Reading
Tagged A Room in Leith, albums, Blue Mountain coffee, clothes, Coffee, coffee shop, Cuttea Sark, dining, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, funeral, Grassmarket, grieving, Jamaica, Leith, Music, Ocean Terminal, restaurant, Shopping, Spoon Cafe, The Shore, Vic Galloway, Walking
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Freedom from the Mundane 