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Things conspired against me yesterday leaving me unable to post my blog entry. That’s twice in less than a week it’s happened and I am less than pleased with myself. Therefore, I voluntarily stick out my virtual bottom and drop my kegs for you all to heartily spank my plump little cheeks.
Monday was [...]
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Before I get stuck into yesterday’s goings on at the Edinburgh Book Festival, I want to say a humongous thanks to everyone who has emailed and tweeted me to express their enjoyment of my book festival blogging and tweeting. It’s an unexpected but deliriously welcome compliment.
And now here comes the plug: If you want [...]
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I started yesterday off with a good deed and I felt like was on a bit of a high for the rest of the day. A lady sat on the top deck of the bus as it moved along the route through Leith into Edinburgh. I noticed two tags sticking out from under her [...]
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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 [...]
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The weather held yesterday, but only just, teetering on the edge of a humidity-fuelled downpour for most of the day, threatening warm rain, which thankfully never came. Not that I would have noticed anyway, trapped in my large open plan office with hundreds of other little workers, busying away on our keyboards.
Actually, this is [...]
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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 [...]
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I don’t have that much to say from this weekend, other than I wasn’t feeling myself and I’m not sure why. I’m not depressed or anything clinical, just pissed off with certain things, which when it happens, affects my writing and that pisses me off even more. It’s a vicious cycle and one I [...]
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Will it ever end with Lothian Buses? God forbid any of their current batch of drivers should end up driving the trams when they arrive, or nothing much of anything will change. Today’s tale comes straight out of the Sid James book of Carry On Laughter, and I present it for your astonishment.
At 07:10 [...]
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Thursday …
I can’t believe I slept in this morning. I should never have stayed up so late reading Rankin’s new book, Doors Open. Serves me right, and it knocked me right off my plans for the day. I had wanted to have written my NaNo quota before I left for work, as it [...]
I read the first four chapters of Rankin’s new novel last night, and I’ve got to say it’s brilliant – even before all the juicy stuff begins. For all those critics that say Rankin is a one-character man, they should get themselves a copy of Doors Open because it’s thoroughly engaging.
I met Gail at lunchtime [...]
I’m way behind with my Slick synopsis from where I wanted to be at this point in Augist, but I’m not going to berate myself for no doing so. I think you can tell by reading this blog over the past few weeks that I’ve been as busy as a beaver, which is also why [...]
I had rather an annoying wee hangover today, making the day job a major inconvenience and the two events I had booked at the Edinburgh Book Festival less appealing than I would have preferred. Still, I battled on and got the best out of the day, despite my flagging brain.
After a rough morning in the [...]
Shattered, I got up mega-early this morning more motivated than I have been any other day of this Book Festival brimming week. Why? Because by the time I left for the day job, my intention was to have fully completed my re-working of Hunting Jack.
And I achieved it.
Hunting Jack is now a fresh, new, and [...]
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At long last the book festival is back. It never seems like a year since the last one, yet it always does, and the feelings that go with arriving for the first day never seem to go away. Charlotte Square at any other time of the year is just a patch of [...]
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