Freedom From The Mundane

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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 for myself. I figured a day and a half downtime and cut off from the Internet [...]

July 6th, 2010 | Tags: Books, Holiday, Music, notebook, Portugal, Reading, rest and relaxation, run-down, summer, tired, Travel, vacation, Video, Writing, YouTube | Category: Books, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Music, Reading, Travel, Video, Writing | Comments (3)

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Am I struggling to get back into the daily routine or what? Yes, is the short answer. Taking a week off is one thing, getting back on top of day job requirements afterwards is quite something else and may take me another fortnight the way I’m feeling.
A pal from work (hi Annie) commented [...]

April 7th, 2010 | Tags: autobiography, Blogging, book trailers, chapbook, cigarettes, Day Job, Douglas Adams, Fiction, General Election, plagiarism, Poetry, radio broadcast, Reading, script writing, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, Star Wars, Stephen King, The Hitch Hikers Guide to theGalaxy, videos, Writing | Category: Books, Day Job, Fiction, Leith, Poetry, Politics, Reading, Video, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (1)

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No April Fool jokes from me this year you’ll notice. I’ve turned into a nice guy from being a sicko and quite frankly I don’t think my poor mother can handle any more.
I once had her in tears when I told her I was getting married after seeing a girl for two weeks. That [...]

April 2nd, 2010 | Tags: April Fool, Easter Egg, food and drink, Holiday, jokes, lunch, mother, wife | Category: Family, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Video, Writing | Comments (2)

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Thanks for all your birthday wishes posted on the blog yesterday—I passed them all on. Perhaps the most scary comment left was: “A teenage female in the house, good luck mate.” Cheers Stevie—just when I needed a laugh!
I got the feeling all day that yesterday was a public/local holiday of some [...]

March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: 30th Anniversary Tour, birthday, computers, Dominos, DVD, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, I.T, Microsoft Vista, MS Windows, Music, Netbook, PC, pizza, public holiday, Ranfurly Review, ska, teenagers, The Specials | Category: Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, I.T., Music, Publishing and Marketing, Video | Comments (1)