Freedom From The Mundane

Image: Jesse Bikman

As the title says, I’m back but not for long. I think I’m just about ready for a break.
My weekend away turned into a bit of a nightmare. Just as things had started off so well after travelling down to Newcastle on Thursday evening, when we arrived in Blackpool, the weekend was turned [...]

July 2nd, 2009 | Tags: alcohol, Blackpool, celebration, death, dehydration, Family, funeral, GDR's, heat stroke, ill, primary school, vomiting | Category: Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Travel | Comments (2)

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I didn’t sleep much last night, my stomach still turning over in spasm and gurgles. I tried to eat some bread and consume a cup of tea about an hour before putting out my light last night, but it didn’t sound like it was sitting too well. I hardly ate yesterday at all, and [...]

January 13th, 2009 | Tags: AL Kennedy, articles, Blood Ties, blue hours, Books, chapbooks, dawn, Day, Day Job, dusk, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, GDR's, ill, novel, poems, Poetry, Reading, Scruffy Dog Review, SDR, Sick, Writing | Category: Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Poetry, Reading, Writing | Comments (1)

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I felt a lot better on getting up this morning, although my stomach was still suffering the odd twang and unable to hold as much coffee as I would normally had preferred. My appetite was not as I would have considered normal, although I did force down some toast and some Italian blend before [...]

January 12th, 2009 | Tags: AL Kennedy, Day, Day Job, ill, nausea, novel, Reading, sickness, tummy trouble | Category: Day Job, Editorial Comment, Reading | Comments (2)

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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 [...]

January 11th, 2009 | Tags: Blood Ties, buffet, Doors Open, drinks, Family, Fiction, Ian Rankin, ill, Lennox, novels, plotting, Reading, Sick, synopsis, visiting, Writing | Category: Family, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Reading, Writing | Comments (1)