May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Firstly, many months ago I had booked a ticket to see John Grant at Barrowland Ballroom. A couple of weeks back I decided not to go. I haven’t really been able to get into his more recent albums. I find them starting to get a bit ‘samey.’ The same themes running through them and just…
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I spent the day at the Glasgow Caledonian University partaking in a study day, which was really good. Having just met up with the OH to do a wee spot of shopping in the Buchanan Galleries, I spotted Alex from Hamish Hawk’s band walk past me. Well, I at least thought it was Alex. I…
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Yesterday was a very special day for my uni study journey. It was the first time I had been to a face-to-face tutorial. There was an opportunity to attend one last year when this current module I’m on was under way – but, if you may remember (not sure I mentioned it), it was taking…
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Good news from His Nibs today in his latest post. A number of good news pieces, for him – Villa Angela has once again opened its doors (just in case that whole “being the frontman for the best live band in the world” suddenly starts to go all pear-shaped after 40+ years, like). Whilst it…
More on what I shared yesterday – re: Summer Punch and taking the first steps into truly creative writing. The following was written out in my writer’s notebook on Sunday… I have nothing to prove to anybody but myself. The learning is the most important aspect of my study. The acquisition of knowledge. The reflection…
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I started talking about my plans to enrol in the OU and going through the application process, etc, here – my “Simple Minds” blog…as if would be of interest to anyone. I’ve also been talking about the study I’ve been doing through the weeks and the disappointment I felt with my first assignment result. As…
What does one do when the creative writing well seems dry? Find a topic? Pick something? It’s nearing the end of the first week of January. I could talk to you about howJanuary feels to me? It feels like a month of 62 days! Most of the time… But this time may just be different….
Today is another day in which the excitement in me is quietly bubbling over. I WANT TO KEEP THIS FEELING! I don’t want to lose it but equally I am scared of trying to hold onto it! Let me explain! I have spoken about it somewhat already in a recent post titled The ‘Off Topic’…
I’m sitting at my PC today wanting to continue with the exercise of writing. And I have things swirling around in my head. Bits and pieces of this, that and the other and just wanting to try and blurt all of these things out and try and do that in a quick manner before I…
We read what we want to read, don’t we? Even with the text there written out in black and white, we can still end up interpreting things as we want to – can’t we? It’s really great to have Jim posting daily again. I actually can’t quite believe he’s posted THREE DAYS IN A ROW…
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