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Edinburgh’s Shame Part 2

Image: BBC

Margo Macdonald is at it again. She’s talking sense when all around her are going mad. Again. She’s the first MSP to come out with a case for scrapping the Edinburgh Trams farce altogether, citing the council’s plans to borrow a further £55 million and sack Bilfinger Berger, as well as the possibility of [...]

June 22nd, 2010 | Tags: advertising, Bilfinger Berger, Books, Calton Hill, Day Job, dentist, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh City Council, Edinburgh trams, Editing, Fiction, Gail Galbraith Photography, gig review, history, Man in the East, Margo Macdonald, National Monument, Photography, Politics, proofing, public transport, rewriting, Six Nations Rugby, special offers, Supergrass, traffic | Category: Books, Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Freelance, Music, Photography, Politics, Reading, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (1)

Pavement Chess

Image: Gideon Malias

The behaviour of Scottish people at bus stops is very strange. Every place I’ve lived in Scotland over the years, I’ve noticed different patterns of behaviour. Not as part of some grand scientific experiment you understand, but merely as a gentle observation from years of relying on public transport to ferry me around [...]

February 10th, 2010 | Tags: birthday, bus stop, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, Fiction, Glasgow, manners, Playwright competition, politeness, public transport, Scottish people, Short Stories, Sussex Playwrights’ Club, Writing | Category: Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editorial Comment, Family, Fiction, Glasgow, Scotland, Travel, UK, Writing | Comments (2)