Freedom From The Mundane

Image: Austin Evan

Just a quick post today as I have loads to get through. I had an easy day yesterday—as Saturday’s should be. I decided not to leave the house except to feed the animals, because given that I’m off all next week I was in no hurry to rush out to the nearest coffee [...]

March 28th, 2010 | Tags: Art, book shelf, Books, cleaning, home office, Monarchy, Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria, rest, Royal Family, take it easy | Category: Art, Books, Film & TV, Interviews, Writing | Comments (1)

Image: The Hay Wain, John Constable (1821)

Lately I’ve been re-ordering albums I used to listen to when I was younger but only ever had on cassette tape. Vinyl is covered since I got my USB Turntable, which I use to convert singles and LPs into MP3 so I can listen on the iPod, but cassette [...]

February 17th, 2010 | Tags: 3 Feet High and Rising, Art, artist, beans on toast, chapbook, Day Job, De La Soul, dinner, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, GDR's, I.T., John Constable, landscape painting, marriage, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, Writing | Category: Art, Day Job, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, I.T., Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing | Comments (3)

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I had a fantastic evening at the Edinburgh Book Festival last night, the kind of evening that is as much relaxing and enjoyable as it is motivational and thought provoking.
After battling with the rush hour traffic I finally arrived at Charlotte Square, basking in early evening rays of warm sunshine. I met my mate [...]

August 18th, 2009 | Tags: Alan Bissett, Art, author, BBC4, Books, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh Book Festival, Ewan Morrison, Fiction, Generation X, Iain Banks, Ian Rankin, Madness, post-modern art, Reading, Scotland, society, Writing | Category: Art, Books, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Scotland, Writing, Writing Process | Leave a comment

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I had a wonderful day off work yesterday (Wednesday). I met my mum off the bus from Glasgow and we had a wee day to ourselves, and as it turned out, one to remember.
After a morning coffee we took a trip out to the Dean Gallery and spent an hour and a half browsing [...]

April 16th, 2009 | Tags: acting, Art, Dean Gallery, dining, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, Ian Mckellen, Kings Theatre, Le Sept, Patrick Stewart, play, restaurant, Samuel Beckett, sculptures, Theatre, Waiting for Godot | Category: Art, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Theatre | Comments (2)

St. Valentine’s Day: a day for lovers to share their entwining hearts’ divine, or for greeting card companies to get rich quick at the cost of more dead trees? Who knows, and does it really matter anyway? Whatever day it is, I would have been going out tonight because an event Gail wanted to attend [...]

February 14th, 2008 | Tags: Art, Ballet, Dance, Editorial Comment | Category: Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Freelance, Music, Writing | Leave a comment

One week until NaNoWriMo and I am nowhere near as prepared as I was last year. I think I am going to go with Plan B, and not write my new Lennox novel for three reasons: 1) I have not got where I want to be with the research 2) It’s grown in concept and [...]

October 23rd, 2007 | Tags: Art | Category: Day Job, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Freelance, Sport, Travel, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (2)