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…there’s sum’thing mystical in Celtic music… here’s the daft ol’ Jurassic jamming to ‘She Moved Through The Fair’… #TBSU…
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…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…
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…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…
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…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…
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…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…
…Authors, there’s no need to sell yer soul to the Marketing Devil… just get yer promotional balance right… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…this ol’ Jurassic scribbler has been referred to more than once in the past as a ‘balanced Scotsman’—with a chip on each shoulder… that’s as may be, but I know for certain I’m a kinda 0% or 100% person in most of my undertakings… NUTHIN in between… when I threw…
…this is how this ol’ Scots Jurassic Author builds his crime thrillers…#TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…aficionados of the scribbling fraternity and sorority will be well-acquainted with the terms ‘pantser’ and ‘plotter’… are yeez the type of quill-scraper who lays down in minute detail everything that yer masterpiece will contain before yeez dive into yer writing? (plotter)… or are yeez the ‘fly-by-the-seat-of-yer-knickers’ kind of scrivener? (‘pantser’)… there’s…
…a rite of passage… when an Indie Author develops into a Self-Publishing Warrior… #TBSU…
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…it seems like a hundred years ago now, when this ol’ Jurassic first stepped off the ’plane at Kai Tak Airport to take up a post in merchant banking in Hong Kong… ringing in my ears was the last thing the Director of the outfit told me in London after…
…a ‘Chinese burn’ with a different ‘twist’… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…it seems a lot of yeez enjoyed the (true) story I posted yesterday about the Society Dame in Noo Yawk and the Chinese gentleman… in similar vein, this may also tickle yeez… I WURKED for many years in Hong Kong, from 1980 onward, and thoroughly enjoyed the experiences there… the…
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