Archive for April, 2007
Friday, April 27th, 2007
One of my friends, Kenny, always teases me that no matter where I go my desk always looks the same; in other words, it is always laid out the same way. And he’s right, but there’s a good reason for that: it works for me.
One of the parts of that system-that-works-for-me is a small […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
This evening our water went off. Seemingly Scottish Water are doing essential maintenance in the area and the supply will be off from 19:00 this evening until 04:00 tomorrow.
Which is a real shame as I had to cancel the first annual “Anstruther Cleanest Car and Wet T-shirt Competition” that was scheduled for this evening. You […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
At the weekend my Mum phoned to tell me that my paternal grandmother — whom we called ‘Nana’ — had died. She’d been ill for some time, and it wasn’t entirely unexpected, but the news of the death of a family member is always a sad time. Mum was in tears as she […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
The front
The back
Back in the day, I had friends who sent me postcards. These days they either e-mail, send an expensive text, or we just chat as usual via Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger). This week’s archive postcard is from Chomas, a friend of mine from school days.
Before you read the text […]
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
This blog post contains the words “penis”, “urine”, “urethra”, and the phrase “Get that ****ing tube out of my **** you ****ing ***** of Satan!”
Author’s note: Please feel free to laugh at any or all of the following post. I wouldn’t have shared it with you if I didn’t think that you would have a […]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
View out to the Bass Rock from a beach near Dunbar.
What a wonderfully relaxing weekend Jane and I had in the company of our lovely friends D and J. Following my evening at Powerpoint Edinburgh and Jane’s at a Colour Me Beautiful party we rolled up at D and J’s house in south Edinburgh […]
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
It’s time to dust down my guitar, amp and riffs for another month: it’s Powerpoint Edinburgh tonight; the last of the current session.
I drove down to Edinburgh last night for rehearsals, which was fun. Except for the bit where I nearly crashed into the side of a lorry when, without warning, the road was […]
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