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Manky Scotland
Image: Flickr A manky day, truly manky. It was below freezing for most of it, the overnight snow (yes, snow!) had iced up hard, and I nearly skidded onto my arse at least twice on my way into the day … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Leith, Music, Poetry, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged freezing, gig review, Kilmarnock, Leith, Living Leith, Music, planning, Poetry, preparations, Scotland, Scottish weather, Shed Seven, SKY Project, sleet, snow, Travel, Weather
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A Trip to Porty
Image: Undiscovered Scotland Two Halves On the weather front, it was a weekend of two halves: on Saturday, Edinburgh was enshrouded with cloud apart for a brief part of the afternoon when the sun came out. It was warm and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Websites, Writing
Tagged book festivals, bookmarks, Books, boudoir, bus, business cards, characters, Coffee, coffee shop, crime fiction, design, driving school, Editing, essay, Fiction, fog, muggy, novella, Poetry, Portobello, Porty, Princes Street, promo, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, rain, Ranfurly Review, Reading, Silly Poems for Wee People, The Sky Project, thriller, tramworks, Weather, websites, Writing
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Day 9 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest The sun shone and the people came—that’s the picture to take from day 9, Sunday at the Edinburgh Book Festival. We sat around, we chatted, we bathed in the sun as it warmed our backs (and bald heads), … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Writing
Tagged A L Kennedy, Amanda Palmer, beers, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Canongate, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, culture, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Ford Prefect, Frank Skinner, Giulia I. Sandelewski, Google, Guardian, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Ian Rankin, Internet, Jamie Jauncey, JF Derry, John Mullan, Napster, Neil Gaiman, podcast, Reading, Robert Levine, Sean Fanning, summer, sun, sunshine, The Guardian, Weather, writers
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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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A Scottish Summer
Image: Unknown The weather was somewhat unpredictable yesterday. When the wind blew, it blew hard and cold then calmed as fast as it had picked up. The rain followed the same pattern; sudden downpours, hard and cold, the nothing. In … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Scotland, Writing
Tagged baby, coffee shop, crèche, Cumbria, curry, Day Job, Edinburgh, friends, Indian meal, kids, Prince Balti House, rain, Research, Scotland, Scottish summer, Wallyford, Weather, Writing
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Slow Saturday
Image: English Passport My daughter is away for the weekend so I allowed myself the luxury of a lie in yesterday morning. The fact that I had partaken in a pub crawl around the Royal Mile and Grassmarket the evening … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Sport, Writing
Tagged booze, contest, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Editing, Football, Grassmarket, manuscript, poems, Poetry, Poetry Superhighway, rain, revisions, Royal Mile, Scottish League, Silly Poems for Kids, Sleep, SPL, Sport, St Mirren, storms, thunder, Weather
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Something in the Air
Image: Clive Woolls Sunday Breakfast My daughter and I braved the gorgeous sunshine of an Edinburgh morning to go out for breakfast yesterday. It was a lovely day and put one in a mind of Spring, but we will not … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Big Audio Dynamite, census, coffee shop, Costa, Edinburgh, Fiction, freelance writing, Glasgow, Jacqueline Wilson, Kindle, Louise Rennison, Norman MacCaig, novella, Poetry, revisions, Scotland, Scotland's Census, Sunday breakfast, The Confident Freelancer, Weather, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Still Undecided in the Scottish Parliamentary Elections
Image: STV.tv The Scottish Elections It’s another sunny but chilly day over the Scottish capital. I think this contradiction in weather patterns has something to do with the Scottish Parliamentary Elections this week. Oh, hadn’t you heard? Yes, we Scots … Continue reading →