Freedom From The Mundane

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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 [...]

February 15th, 2010 | Tags: artist, Cardiff, Coffee, coffee shop, curry, Dundee Utd, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Football, GDR, glasses, Ian Rankin, Poetry, Rabbits, Rose Street, rugby, Ruth Nicol, Scotland, script writing, Short Stories, Six Nations, soccer, spectacles, Sport, St Mirren, Stage Play, The Damned, Twitter, Valentine's Day, Wales, Writing | Category: Animals, Art, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Sport, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (1)

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I was gutted to discover Spotify doesn’t have any of the classic De La Soul album, Three Feet High and Rising on its free database. A quick click on Play.com soon sorted that out. I used to listen to that album a lot in the early 90s, it contained many of the anthems [...]

February 13th, 2010 | Tags: coffee shop, Conservative Party, dairy farmers, De La Soul, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Edwina Currie, eggs, glasses, High School, John Major, Margaret Thatcher, Music, opticians, rugby, Scotland, Six Nations, Spotify, St Mirren, Three Feet High and Rising, Tories, Wales, Writing | Category: Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editorial Comment, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (1)