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Opening Night of the Trees for Life Charity Exhibition
Trees for Life I attended the official opening night of the Trees for Life charity exhibition last night. It was a very strange experience to see my own poetry framed and mounted on a wall in a gallery for people … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Leith, Music, Poetry, Video, Writing
Tagged Art, Beasley Street, Blue Drill Hall, Caledonian Forest, charity, Edinburgh, Evidently Chickentown, exhibition, Friday Vid, gig, Japanese food, John Cooper Clarke, Kid Canaveral, King Creosote, Leith, Liquid Room, Lothian Road, Lydia Crow, Out of the Blue, Poetry, prose, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, Video, Wagamama, YouTube
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London Burning
Image: Guardian London Burning So—I doubt we will be hearing the much voiced stereotypical line: “isn’t Scotland such a violent place” from any English people in the near future. I am this morning utterly enraged and saddened at the devastation … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Aidan Moffat, arson, Birmingham, Book Festival, Books, Bristol, Brixton, burning, Camden, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, Croydon, destruction, Ealing, EdBookFest, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, fires, gig, haiku, jail, Leeds, Liverpool, London, looting, Man in the East, Metropolitan Police, Nottingham, Poetry, prison, protesters, Reading, review, riots, shooting, Tottenham, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, violence, youth
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Phew! First Draft of New Crime Novel Written
Image: shirleyjacksonawards.org Haiku I think I mentioned it before, but if you missed it, clock over to the Trees for Life exhibition website and check out my Haiku. While there, why not also check out some of the fantastic paintings … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, charity exhibition, Coffee, coffee shop, crime, crime novel, Father's Day, Fiction, fire, Gatecrash, manuscript, newspaper, novel, online submissions, Ranfurly Review, sleeping in, submission manager, Submissions, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, Writing
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To Catch a Creative Fire
Image: DemonMuse.com A lazy(ish) start to yesterday, but hey, I had a day away from the day job so I was going to do it all my way. And that meant lying in! Remember though, a lie in for me … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, Blogging, Books, Coffee, day off, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fiction, flash fiction, haiku, NaNoWriMo, nature, novel, Poetry, Reading, short story, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, Writing
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Summer Issue of the Ranfurly Review Launched
Image: Ranfurly-Review.co.uk I started my Sunday off, as ever, with a nice coffee and read of the paper in Costa Coffee in town overlooking Edinburgh Castle. I finally fond the perfect seat that allows for the best 3G reception, as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Day Job, Edinburgh, Leith, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Art, chapbooks, Costa Coffee, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Editing, Facebook, Fiction, newspaper, Poetry, Poetry Supoerhighway, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Reading, recorded poetry, Silly Poems for Wee eople Vol.3, Stella, Sunday morning, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, websites, Writing
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That Was Thursday
Image: Florencia&Pe It’s a dank, drizzly day over Edinburgh and the only thing putting a spring in my step is the fact that today is Friday. And yesterday wasn’t a great day either, leaving me nothing much to talk about … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Edinburgh, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Music, Writing
Tagged art exhibition, artist, Billy Connolly, birthday party, bollywood, Channel 4, Charlotte Square, Comeo Dine With Me, Edinburgh Book Festival, gallery, Glasgow, Madness, Madness Night, New Writing Scotland, ska, television, Trevor Jones, Weather, Writing, writing muse
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Freedom from the Mundane 
EBS Event: Alistair Darling
Image: The Guardian Alistair Darling Alistair Darling was in town last night to promote his new book, Back From the Brink, “a first-hand account of the (economic) crisis of 2007, and a fascinating view of life inside the Downing Street … Continue reading →