Freedom From The Mundane

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I had a surprise day off work yesterday when I had to call in for some time so I could look after a sick family member. My doctor’s duties were called on until mid-afternoon, which meant I missed all of the warm sun that had been afforded Edinburgh. By the time I had [...]

June 15th, 2010 | Tags: Amazon, Day Job, day off, Doctor, drafts, DVD, e-book, Fiction, Film & TV, Football, Gail Galbraith Photography, GDR's, Italy, Kindle, manuscript, markets, movie, novel, novellas, Paraguay, Photography, portraits, proofing, rewriting, Short Stories, Sick, soccer, Submissions, World Cup, Writing | Category: Books, Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (3)

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Long week it has been and I’ve not been feeling too great at all. I’m not sure if I came down with something or if I was just generally run down, but for the latter half I felt like crap. Headaches, dodgy stomach and a desire to sleep constantly, I was in bed [...]

March 27th, 2010 | Tags: Andy Knox, bigotry, Day Job, Football, Freelance, gig, Glasgow, Hampden Park, Holiday, illness, League Cup Final. St. Mirren, Music, News of the World, Old Firm, review, Sick, Writing | Category: Day Job, Freelance, Glasgow, Music, Scotland, Sport, Writing | Leave a comment

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I’m still reeling over Twitter. The whole thing has left me feeling sick to my stomach, so I’m letting Twitter go for a while. I’ll maybe go back to it some point in the future if I can be assured it won’t happen again. Despite it being an online attack it’s still dented my [...]

August 11th, 2009 | Tags: Books, Cabaret Voltaire, Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Freelance, Fringe Festival, gigs, hackers, HMV Picture House, Ian Broudie, live music, News of the World, online attack, Reviews, Sick, The Bluetones, Twitter, Vertis, Writing | Category: Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Freelance, Internet, Music, Writing | Comments (1)

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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 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)

It’s been almost a week since I last wrote in this blog, and what a week it’s been. It would appear I still haven’t learned to listen to my body when it tells me I’m running it into the ground, and as a result, I paid the price, yet again. I was laid up for [...]

September 21st, 2008 | Tags: articles, competition, Duddingston Kirk, Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Family, Freelance, ill, love, Minto Hotel, poetry contest, Poetry Super Highway, run-down, Sick, Six Nations Rugby, wedding | Category: Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Freelance, I.T., Photography, Poetry, Scotland, Writing | Comments (3)