May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Maybe setting limitations would work to do it? Having a set amount of time in the day? Some of these things I have tried before. Let’s doit again and see. But we’ll implement some different things this time. Anyway, ideas are worth sharing too…hence this post. Click the image to see a video from BBC…
As I am beginning to work through certain things…getting back to some sort of “balance” – I need to work at the writing. A major part of the problem is not having somewhere comfortable to write but, hey ho! Not a lot I can do about it, really. It would be great to have a…
Please do not be fooled by the blurb you see attached to the video! There really isn’t too much talk about the then imminent Scottish Independence referendum. It really is all about the remarkable Alasdair Gray. A man I wish I had been aware of, learned about and began to have some kind of –…
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He has changed the post several times now since he originally posted it last night. He likes to fuss over the posts most times, chopping and changing text as he goes, adding things, removing others. Perhaps he was right about himself when he said to Ricky Ross at the end of that recent interview “I…
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I have just started Lanark. Only just. I’m not the fastest reader and I started much later than I wanted to, which meant my eyelids already were starting to get heavy barely one chapter in. I managed two. Lol. And am already attributing the identity of Sludden to a certain someone. Lol. And I would be…
Recently I have been told by a few people that I write very well. One suggested I contact a music magazine and lodge an application to work for them. This person had written articles themselves for the magazine in question and they gave me the email address of the editor. I didn’t do anything about…
Put on your facade. Wear it like a jacket. Like false armour. Let it mask your face. Show your teeth. Make your most convincing smile. Never let anyone see what’s really behind it. Don’t crack. Don’t falter. Don’t look weak. Ungrateful. Fed up. Tired. Keep wearing the mask. Don’t let it slip! Catch it before…
Well, seeing as most days there is not much to report, I have decided to coin the SM “Slow News Sunday Summary”. A look at what morsels have been reported via SMO or other related avenues during the past seven days. Cherisse on tour with Kelly Jones in June/July Sir’s been to Sicily Sarah’s Saturday…
The opening line to this was read out in a question on a TV quiz…and…it just struck me as sounding like the chorus to The Signal And The Noise. I had never heard of it before! It’s amazing how these things fall into place. It’s a wonderful piece of prose, and something we could all…
A bucket list dream was ticked off today with a visit to Trinity College. About 32 years it has been on the “must see” list…and finally! It happened. It was very surreal at one point and couldn’t quite believe I was there – standing, perhaps, where James Joyce himself may have stood. Just…wow! Also went…
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