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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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After An 8-Hour Sleep
Image: Looney Tunes At last it’s Saturday. It’s reasonably early, I’ve already eaten, and am now contemplating the ritual that is the shaving of my head. The day ahead lies misty and unknown in my mind, but outside it’s fresh, … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, Photography, Sport, Writing
Tagged Cricket, Day Job, development, English Cricket, Family, GDR, Internet, NaNoWriMo, Saturday, Sleep, Sport, The Ashes, websites, weekend
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I Fancy Holland
Image: Jan Ramroth I found myself on the bus going through Edinburgh at the unfeasibly early time of 6:30am yesterday morning. I was to spend the day working in an unfamiliar building on the other side of Edinburgh and it … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Reading, Sport, Travel, Writing
Tagged Amsterdam, Books, buses, Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, fiction competitions, Football, Holiday, Holland, Netherlands, poetry competitions, Portugal, Reading, Sleep, soccer, Travel, Val McDermid, weekend, World Cup, World Cup Final, Writing
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Talking Bollocks
Image: ArkWorld Friday doth cometh at lasteth. Can’t say I’m anything but delighted because it’s been a hell of a week. Not in a bad sense, I’ve been pushing myself to make sure certain things that need to get done … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Reading, Writing
Tagged 10 Downing Street, Amore Dogs, Day Job, food and drink, Friday feeling, Italian meal, Reading, restaurant, tiredness, useless facts, weekend, Writing
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Weekend Of Sunshine
Image: Dhaval Jani Saturday morning was dehydration derby after Friday’s impromptu drinking session in the Oxford Bar and then in Edinburgh’s fashionably plastic west end. The high pressure weather system that befell the country only added to my woes, making … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Reading
Tagged art exhibition, book shop, Edinburgh, family meal, Frankie and Benny's, Grand National, Hangover, Irn-Bru, MacDonald's, Omni Centre, Sunday lunch, sunny, sunshine, Tennent's Lager, weekend
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A Fine Week
Image: Cessna 206 It’s been a fine week. I’ve managed some good writing, made lots of progress and had a few successes at the day job, my DVD box set of The West Wing and The Bourne Trilogy arrived, and … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, I.T., Music, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged 30th Anniversary Tour DVD, Bourne Trilogy, Day Job, DVDs. CDs, front cover, I.T. computing, John Steinbeck, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, seasons, The Specials, Weather, weekend, West Wing, Writing
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Saturday Morning On Sunday
Image: DDS I was kind of glad the weekend finished when it did. It was all over the place and at times not in the least enjoyable. Parts of it were, though, so they are the bits I’ll talk about. … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, I.T., Music, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Theatre
Tagged album chart, bad mood, black pudding supper, Books, e-books, Festival Theatre, Freelance, Gail Galbraith Photography, gig review, Irn-Bru, Madness, mobile phone, Netbook, News of the World, PC World, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Quadrophenia, relegation, Samsung NC10, SPL, St Mirren, Stella, Theatre, UK music, Vodafone, wedding photography, weekend
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