Freedom From The Mundane

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Scotland’s last minute loss to Wales at rugby on Saturday was a huge blow. For the first time in a long time Scotland played like a team that knew what they were doing. With no fear and renewed determination, they seemed to have picked up their game under the stewardship of Andy Robinson, and [...]

February 15th, 2010 | Tags: artist, Cardiff, Coffee, coffee shop, curry, Dundee Utd, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Football, GDR, glasses, Ian Rankin, Poetry, Rabbits, Rose Street, rugby, Ruth Nicol, Scotland, script writing, Short Stories, Six Nations, soccer, spectacles, Sport, St Mirren, Stage Play, The Damned, Twitter, Valentine's Day, Wales, Writing | Category: Animals, Art, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Sport, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (1)

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Good day at work yesterday; busy, challenging, and one where some long-term results were finally realised. It’s the biggies that count most. I topped it off with a couple of pints of Guinness in Clark’s afterwards. Sorted.
Not much else done because the results I spoke of didn’t actually happen until between 7.30pm and [...]

February 6th, 2010 | Tags: Clark's Bar, curry, Day Job, DVD, Football, Guinness, KORG SV-1, Mike Barson, movies, Music, Poetry, rugby, Scottish Cup, Short Stories, Six Nations, ska, St Mirren, Submissions, The Specials, Writing | Category: Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, I.T., Poetry, Sport, Writing | Leave a comment

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I actually forgot to blog on Saturday morning. When I got up, I got tore into my “to-do” list for the day and stayed in the zone all day, and I just forgot to do it. When I first remembered it was mid-afternoon and I was lost in other work so I just left [...]

October 5th, 2009 | Tags: Aramadillo, Blogging, competitions, curry, design, Edinburgh's Hogmanay, evening out, Football, Glasgow Billy Connolly, M8 motorway, Madness, Reading, red wine, rejections, Scruffy Dog Review, SECC, Sport, St Mirren, steak dinner, Submissions, The Pixies, websites, Writing | Category: Books, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Freelance, Glasgow, Internet, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Theatre, Writing | Comments (1)

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I did intend on blogging over the weekend but as fate had it I never really got around to it. I awoke on Saturday morning up with a slightly dicky tummy. May have been the copious amounts of Guinness I drank on Friday afternoon, may have been the ‘Full House’ pizza from Domino’s [...]

September 28th, 2009 | Tags: cleaning, curry, freelance work, Guinness, housework, Indian meal, Internet, pizza, Rabbits, Scruffy Dog Review, tummy ache, websites, wedding ring | Category: Animals, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Freelance, I.T., Internet | Comments (1)

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Bit of a busy weekend, both in the house and on the socialising-in-restaurants front. It seems Gail and I are currently in high demand for attending people’s functions. A good thing? Not if you’re a hermit like me, it’s not. Well, I say hermit, more like part time loner. Aren’t all writers, [...]

August 3rd, 2009 | Tags: curry, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, friends, gardening, GDR's, home, in-laws, Indian, restaurant, steak house, T-Bone, talking, Writing | Category: Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Writing Process | Comments (1)

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I’m still buzzing from the gig on Monday night and I struggled to get to sleep last night for Prodigy songs rattling around inside my head. It’s always a sign of a good gig when you can’t let go of the euphoric feelings that come with the highs of the performance.
Morning meant day [...]

December 10th, 2008 | Tags: alcohol, and Bevvy, beer, bevy, Christmas lunch, curry, Day Job, drink, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Indian meal, Khushis | Category: Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Food, Drink, and Bevvy | Comments (1)

I’m still stoked about baby Charlotte. You couldn’t wipe the smile off my face today even with a Brillo Pad dipped in formaldehyde.
I got some writing done, all of it transferring text from my notebook into Word of my new novella. Now I’ve began I’m unsure if it will expand to a novel length piece [...]

July 25th, 2008 | Tags: abseil, alcohol, Clark's Bar, curry, Forth Rail Bridge, Indian cuisine, novella | Category: Day Job, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Writing | Comments (1)