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In Edinburgh
In Copenhagen, the Nørrebro neighbourhood is my favourite. It is bohemian, multicultural and vibrant. The streets are filled with small ‘ethnic’ eateries catering for small immigrant groups and niche culinary interests. My taste buds really came off age when I … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, food, History, love, personal stuff, Print Culture
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Fingerprints
This will require a bit of back-story, but not much. Alasdair Gray is a Glaswegian writer and artist. I once spent a lot of time looking at how he imagines and uses the Book as a material object. Somewhere in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alasdair Gray, Glasgow, love, paratextuality, personal stuff, Print Culture, self, texts and words
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Work As If You Live in the Early Days of a Better Nation
I do not know how many of you have read Alasdair Gray’s excellent dystopian novel, Lanark: a Life in Four Books? It takes place partly in Glasgow and partly in an imaginary Glasgow, known as Unthank. In Unthank the characters … Continue reading
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Tagged Alasdair Gray, Art, bibliomania, Literature, love, Personal, Print Culture, reading, Scotland
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A Beautiful Day
It’s going to be a beautiful day so the bluebirds sing. I have booked myself a short, but much-needed flight home to Denmark in May. I need to spend time with the Danish part of myself, I have decided. Going … Continue reading
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Hogmanay Etc
This is my favourite photo of 2008. I shot it in early August when we went to Sweden for a day. The weather was incredibly hot (although not particularly sunny) and all these tanned, long-limbed Swedish teenagers were hurling themselves … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Gray, Knitting, Personal
Tagged Alasdair Gray, Denmark, events, family, fangirl, friends, Glasgow, health, love, musings, personal stuff, Photography
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Six Weeks of Solitude: Comforts and Frights
A sneak preview of my current project. I am test-knitting a pattern for Old Maiden Aunt and I’m quite excited about a new technique I’ve just picked up. The Six Weeks of Silence idea seemed particularly attractive this morning after … Continue reading
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Tagged Alasdair Gray, books, Personal, reading
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Life’s A Cabaret, Old Chum
Some time ago my partner, David, bought us tickets for the one-year anniversary of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School – a burlesque-meets-art school monthly event. David and a pirate had attended a previous Dr. Sketchy’s and loved it. What happened? A … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Gray, Art, Music, Popular Culture, Scotland
Tagged Alasdair Gray, Art, camp, Crafty, events, fangirl, friends, gender bending, Glasgow, illustrations, meeting famous people, Music, musicals, real life
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Back To Books
I may have injured my wrist through too much knitting. Yes. Really. I’m going to see my doctor tomorrow for my usual ‘why do I keep keeling over, Doctor McKay?’ thing and might just ask him about my poor overworked … Continue reading
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Spoils
Stephen Moffat does write the best Doctor Who episodes. A planet which is one giant library? Yes, please! And that is all I will say as I do not want to give away any spoilers.. Now, as some longterm readers/friends … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Gray, Fandom, Knitting, linkage, Literature, Print Culture
Tagged Alasdair Gray, books, doctorwho, fangirl, Photography, Print Culture, technologies of writing
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