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I spent most of yesterday lathering after-sun cream on my pink forehead and the back of my neck. I was positively glowing as I walked around Edinburgh in the morning and stopped for a coffee and pastry to read the paper. No wonder people were looking at me and tourists were confused.
My neck is [...]
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Busy, but miraculously short day at the office.
I met my wife for lunch. She collected me in the car and we took some sandwiches to a nice wee spot next to the Royal Botanical Gardens. While we were tucking into our chicken mayo ciabattas, we noticed a cameraman and a lady behind [...]
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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 [...]
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My royalty statement for sales of STELLA came in for the last quarter yesterday—nothing—zilch—not a single sale! In the entirety of my writing career this is most definitely a first.
I’m sure it’s not a bad book, though personally I don’t think it’s my best, but is it that bad that sales plummeted to zero [...]
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It was around 11am yesterday when the feeling of being on holiday really kicked in. It was Monday morning and I was able to get up when I wanted and ease into the day; no stresses of getting to work and getting into gear for the day ahead.
I took everything just as slow as [...]
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I finished work around 6:30am yesterday but was so tired opted to go back to bed for 90-minutes. It paid off. I felt much better after the extra nap. When I got up for the second time it was still raining but I felt like a ray of sunshine. *barf*
One thing I forgot [...]
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As I write this you are sleeping. The sun is far beyond the horizon, the birds are asleep, and not a house light is on as far as the eye can see. Except, that is, for the one in my office. The smell of coffee being made in my automatic coffee machine is [...]
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Arrived in work yesterday under grey clouds and heavy rain, to find signs at the front door indicating a critical incident was underway. The network was down and nobody could get logged in. It’s funny how lost one feels when the technology abandons us temporarily, a reminder perhaps that we used to live [...]
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I didn’t really have much to say about Tuesday so I skipped a blog post. Hope you don’t mind. No point in writing about nothing, thought I, and instead put my efforts into making sure it didn’t happen again.
It rained for the best part of Tuesday, all through the night and all day [...]
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I hung out my washing last night because it was nice and warm, but windy. When I woke up this morning it had been raining for what could only have been several hours. My shirts and shorts were still hanging on the line when I left for work, drookit and pathetic looking.
I kicked yesterday [...]
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I thought I would try something different for a change this weekend – a Saturday evening post. Put it down to the flexibility of my desire to experiment, though the reality is, I’m bored and need to something to do. Writing a blog entry seemed like a god idea followed by some reading. So [...]
It poured all night with the occasional mini-cyclone rattling the bins in the street. Thankfully, by the time I got up it had calmed somewhat. However, I left the house at 7am in good spirits and a bounce in my step. Today was, after all, Friday.
When I got to the bus stop it all started [...]
Nothing but constant rain and it’s really getting on my wick! Every day I get up and it’s chucking it down, so I know that even before I leave the house I’ll be soaked through to my skin by the time I get to the day job. I mean, I like rain, but this is [...]
Warning: Long post alert!
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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