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…the King of Laughter is dead… long live the King… R.I.P. Robin Williams…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…It’s not given to many of us to be regarded as a person about whom nobody thinks anything other than ‘what a wonderful human being’… Robin Williams owned that billing, and has done for decades… many of us utilise humour as a defence against the various demons we face from…
…take heart, Author pals… the Amazon Kindle Freebie Promo Program CAN have an afterglow… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…among the truisms offered to we wet-behind-the-ears quill-scrapers when first we dare to step on to the self-publishing carousel is that the best way to sell books is to keep writing more books… the same scribblers’ wisdom avers that once yeez’ve cracked yer third title and got that up and…
…universal reviews (life-blood) appeal on behalf of Authors, Quill-Scrapers, and Scribes… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…never would I be so presumptuous as to say ‘I can speak on behalf of most authors’… EXCEPT on this particular issue: WE WELCOME HONEST REVIEWS of our masterpieces… HONEST REVIEWS are the life blood that helps us all to continue to be ‘present’ as writers… even the so-called ‘negative’ comments…
…Author, Frank Muir… my superb Scots’ scribbling pal, Guest Blogs with us today … enjoy… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…the marvel of the Guest Blog phenomenon rolls on apace… another Scots lad, no less, today adorns my blog with yet another demonstration of how richly talented and deep is the quill-scraper society… my good pal, Author, Frank Muir is here to make the hairs stand on the back of…
…there’s sum’thing mystical in Celtic music… here’s the daft ol’ Jurassic jamming to ‘She Moved Through The Fair’… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…in a month or so, I’ll be taking a ‘Bucket List’ type of journey from where I am currently in the Middle East, back to Tobermory on the Hebridean Island of Mull in Scotland… where I first set foot on the place fifty years ago this year as a young…
… ‘I thought I was badly off when I had no shoes… then I saw a man with no feet’… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…a wee self-indulgent detour from my normal style of blog content today… I’m sure most of yeez have seen the header phrase above at some time or other… a half a lifetime ago, in the early eighties, this ol’ Jurassic was given mere weeks to live by doctors in a…
…yeez wanna help a truly excellent cause? coz, here’s the SHADOWS AND LIGHT anthology… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…there’s seldom anything more satisfying than getting yerselves aligned with sum’thing truly worthwhile… Author pal, the redoubtable Andrew Scorah, triggered a tsunami of willing quill-scrapers, donating their short stories to the SHADOWS AND LIGHT collection… let him tell yeez what it’s all about: SHADOWS AND LIGHT TO BENEFIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE…
…coz Fred showed me how to do it… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…I’ve long since wondered if I’m truly p’raps a closet engineer… despite the fact that anything mechanical I touch instantly (a) explodes (b) falls to bits, or (c) defies any of my efforts to get it to switch on… the reason for my wond’ring is that I’m fascinated by process……
…have yeez Gno-omes to go to?…#TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…I’m certain it’s part of the British DNA, or even more, specifically, the English DNA… queuing up… I posted recently my near-starting-the-Third-World-War incident for calling out a queue-jumper in the local bank the other day… pile that on top of the brainless nutters who either can’t read nor count at…
…what’s in a WURD?… I’m fluent in uttering Rubb-ish… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…it’s not classified as a foreign language, but the patois that used to pass as voice communication back where I grew up in Docklands Govan in Glasgow is still unintelligible to the bulk of the rest of Mankind… even other Scots folks visiting ‘Glesca’, where the Commonwealth Games are currently…
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