Freedom From The Mundane

Image: Queen’s Uni

The office was like a morgue yesterday. So many people took the bank holiday off as a holiday, it left the rest of us feeling rather depressed and hacked off that we were still in the office. Not to worry, next week I am off for a couple of days to go through [...]

June 1st, 2010 | Tags: Day Job, dining, Dinner in the Sky, Edinburgh Book Festival, End of Writing Year, Festival in the Sky, Fiction, GDR's, Glasgow, Music, newsletter, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, rain, Ranfurly Review, Supergrass, the office, The Patter, Weather, Writing | Category: Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing, Writing Process | Leave a comment

Image: Jeff Edoe

Set in London and Brighton at the height of the Mod era, Quadrophenia is told through the eyes of Jimmy, a hedonistic style-conscious teenager searching for a place to belong and a girl to love. Misunderstood by his parents and stuck in a dead end job, he sets off on a trip to [...]

May 27th, 2009 | Tags: 1960s, Ben Sherman, Blonde Restaurant, Brighton, Britain, dining, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Festival Theater, London, meal, Mods, musical show, punks, Quadrophenia, Rebus, rockers, scooters, St Leonards, The Who, Union Jack | Category: Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Music, Theatre, UK | Comments (1)

Image: Colin Galbraith

Pay day! Hallelujah! And that means later on today I’ll be going for my monthly Pay Day Lunch with some friends. Today, I think we are going to a new Thai restaurant (new for us) on Frederick Street. Should be fun – it’s got good reviews.
It’s a lot cloudier today, thus, much cooler. [...]

May 15th, 2009 | Tags: Day Job, dining, Harrington Jacket, money, restaurant, Thai, Warrior Clothing, Weather, Writing | Category: Day Job, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Writing | Leave a comment