Freedom From The Mundane

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Friday at last.
I spent most of yesterday in meetings, one of which I almost fell asleep in. It was a combination of the night before and the fact I could not work out why I had even been invited; I never said a word during the entire hour.
I forgot to mention The Specials kicked [...]

April 24th, 2009 | Tags: AL Kennedy, Camden Crawl, Clark's Bar, Day Job, Football, Freelance, gigs, Internet, Madness, meetings, money, Newbury racecourse, Rangers FC, Scottish Cup, Spoonfed, St Mirren FC, The Specials, Twitter, Val McDermid, website client | Category: Day Job, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Freelance, Internet, Music, Reading, Sport, Writing | Comments (1)

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The British Government is considering making it a legal requirement in the new tax year to introduce a law that forces anyone applying or re-applying for an entertainment license to have a noise control device fitted to the venue. For live music venues, this will be the final nail in the coffin because [...]

January 19th, 2009 | Tags: AL Kennedy, client, concerts, Fiction, Freelance, government, Internet, live gigs, Music, novels, petition, Reading, sound, Website, Writing | Category: Editorial Comment, Fiction, Freelance, I.T., Politics, Reading, Writing | Leave a comment

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I didn’t sleep much last night, my stomach still turning over in spasm and gurgles. I tried to eat some bread and consume a cup of tea about an hour before putting out my light last night, but it didn’t sound like it was sitting too well. I hardly ate yesterday at all, and [...]

January 13th, 2009 | Tags: AL Kennedy, articles, Blood Ties, blue hours, Books, chapbooks, dawn, Day, Day Job, dusk, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, GDR's, ill, novel, poems, Poetry, Reading, Scruffy Dog Review, SDR, Sick, Writing | Category: Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Poetry, Reading, Writing | Comments (1)

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I felt a lot better on getting up this morning, although my stomach was still suffering the odd twang and unable to hold as much coffee as I would normally had preferred. My appetite was not as I would have considered normal, although I did force down some toast and some Italian blend before [...]

January 12th, 2009 | Tags: AL Kennedy, Day, Day Job, ill, nausea, novel, Reading, sickness, tummy trouble | Category: Day Job, Editorial Comment, Reading | Comments (2)