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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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Launch Date Announced
Image: HimHo I could hardly keep my eyes open at the day job yesterday. I was so tired I just wanted to do my work quietly and without interruption. Unfortunately, my position doesn’t entail that to be possible so I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Video, Websites, Writing
Tagged Amazon, chapbooks, coffee shop, eBooks, Edinburgh, grumpy, insomnia, Kindle, launch day, Leith, Lulu, Mac, media, pen name, poems, Poetry, Portobello, pseudonym, Sleep, Video, web development, Website, YouTube
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My Dad Is 70
Image: Diffusibility My father is 70 years old today. 70. David Currie Galbraith is officially a 70 year old man. I emphasise this for the sake of my poor mother, as it is she more than anyone else in the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Poetry, Writing
Tagged 70, birthday, chapbook, Charlotte Square, dad, daily blogging, eBooks, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Facebook updates, father, Fringe Fantastic, iBooks, image gallery, live tweeting, marketing, media, podcasts, poems, Poetry, POOLSIDE POETRY 2, tweeting, Writing, YouTube
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Pit Stop
Image: TRF1 I started to feel quite run down towards the end of last week and after my last blog post on Saturday felt really quite rubbish. So I downed tools and took a pit stop, a little time out … Continue reading
The Submission Discipline
Image: Umberto Salvagnin One of my things I decided to pay more attention to this year was keeping up the level of submissions I have out and ensuring they get turned around after a rejection as quickly as possible. It … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Theatre, Travel, Writing
Tagged Acceptance, advert, Coffee, Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, GDR's, Hairspray, London, lunch, marketing, musical, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, rejection, roast chicken, Sheffield, Submissions, Theatre, train, Video, Waverly Station, Writing, YouTube
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The Trouble with Hair
Image: partypants.co.uk Shaving I really should shave more often. Ideally I should shave my head and face twice per week, but in reality I’m lazy during the week when it comes to that kind of thing. The problem is this: … Continue reading →