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And so we have arrived. After a year of ups and downs—glory and depression, delight and despair, great news and thumping bad news—I finally pull into the station at the end of the line. This is my last post of the year 2009 and the mark of a new beginning.
It’s not the end of [...]
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We have here a brief interlude in my Christmas/New Year holidays. Freshly passed is the Christmas holidays, packed with fun, food and frolics, and beyond today we have a real break away from home to let our hair down with friends, family, food and frolics. Lots of frolics—I like frolics.
Christmas was packed with [...]
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‘Tis the eve of Halloween and all around mysterious things are happening. Work has pretty much taken over everything I’ve been doing, and there are things happening in the day job just now that I must attend to. I’ve not dropped the ball with absolutely everything though, and have managed to keep a [...]
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Welcome, dear readers, to the first blog post on ‘Freedom from the Mundane’ for over a fortnight. Just when you thought it was safe to direct your angst-ridden browsers to my blog, in the false hope that I had been cast adrift somewhere in the Med, I have but returned, full of chirpy [...]
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In about three and a half hours I will be leaving for Edinburgh Airport. From there I will fly to Palma, Majorca, where I will get on board a floating city and cruise the Mediterranean Sea for the next fortnight. Am I excited? A touch. Do I feel like I need it? Absolutely.
It’s been [...]
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Tomorrow I’m on the road for a few days on my annual trip to Blackpool with my best mate. While I’m gone, please make welcome the awesome author (you really should buy her book!) Cate Masters.
Yesterday I could hardly concentrate on anything at work what with my weekend of fun and frolics impending. I [...]
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I’m HOME!!!!
The last few days were some of the best I’ve ever had while on a Lads Tour. From start to finish the craic was sublime, and the bonding, hair downing, and relaxation that took place has made all the boys much stronger and sane for it. Despite being let down 100% by the [...]
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Today is my last full post until Sunday night. Tomorrow when I leave the office I’ll be heading through to Glasgow on my way to a small village on the south coast of Spain. Naturally, I shall miss you all very much, and so by some small way of compensation, I’d like to announce [...]
For the second year running we were lucky to have some fine weather over the September holiday weekend. This year, for our annual family weekend trip away, we found ourselves in Ayrshire, staying in a two-bedroom static caravan at the Sandylands Holiday Park, near Saltcoats, Ayrshire.
Once again we took one of Laura’s pals with us, [...]
Instead of the rumoured Indian Summer, cold and crisp mornings seem to have arrived early here in Edinburgh. That’s how the days have been starting lately since September turned, with heavy rain coming on in the afternoons. I won’t be surprised to hear that this has been the wettest Scottish summer on record when they [...]
A maroon double-decker, number 12 bus to South Gyle passes by Leith Links leaving cloudy sprays of water in its wake. It’s been raining all night and the sky is overcast making it feel muggy and close. Staring out the window at the rear of the bus is me; I am wearing my raincoat on [...]
Thank goodness I’m going on holiday tomorrow. Not only do I need to relax after the mayhem of another Blackpool weekend, but the stress of packing a couple of suitcases for two adults and pre-pubescent is more than anyone needs in their life. Talk about mayhem and hair-pulling frustration and you’re getting there. The trouble [...]
This is it, I’m afriad. The last post until next Monday. My (tiny) rucksack is packed, I’ve got my toothbrush and deodorant. Can’t think of anything else I’ll need except some beer money – check!
It’s a great feeling knowing I can go without having to worry about leaving an unfinished manuscript. Completing Slick has gone [...]
While it’s likely I’ll be present at the day job next Tuesday, today represents my last full day of work in this hole for 3 weeks and 1 day. Tomorrow I leave for my annual trip to Blackpool with my mate, and then within 24 hours of returning, I’ll be off to Rhodes, that lovely [...]
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