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30 Days and Counting – Book Launch on the Horizon
We are in rehearsal for Launch of My Second Novel in a month’s time – opening night in Orkney and a subsequent performance in Edinburgh. Exciting, one might say – terrifying is more like it. Stage...
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Keeping Mum and other Troubles
Less than a week now until opening night and I am managing the Orkney production from a distance. The launch of the The Trouble with Keeping Mum is next Thursday, and I am, at present, keeping Mum in...
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It’s Publication Day!
Publication day for The Trouble with Keeping Mum is here but, sandwiched as it is between two launches, it is rather a non day.Though I say it myself, opening night in Orkney was a success – a case...
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Today The Show Moves To Edinburgh
Today, I am moved to do housework. Those who know me well, will realise this is unusual. I normally have a high tolerance of dust, crumbs and toothpaste-encrusted basins, but today is the Edinburgh...
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Tales from the Changing Room
Any breach of my table manners caused my father to remark that I would never be asked to dine at Buckingham Palace. And he was right, I have not been asked to dine – a reception with an 8.30pm start...
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Tales From the Changing Room 2
You may be pleased to know that my sartorial problem may be solved. The wonderful Anne Stewart, dress-alterer extrodinaire, is going to let out Granny’s dress. Granny, too, was a big woman – although...
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First Minister a Bully? Health Minister Has a Secret?
A power-crazed bullying First Minister with a cyber army! A Scottish Government minister with a big secret and exponential family problems! No,contrary to what you may think, these are not headlines...
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London Invitations
The last fortnight has been busy literary-wise. Book Week Scotland saw me in Dalgety Bay Library on a panel about how to get published, then I was back home for a talk in Orkney Library and last week...
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Buckingham Palace? Been There, Done That!
Last evening, as members of a cast of many hundreds, we attended Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Reception at Buckingham Palace. Held in place by much elastic underwear, (and no liquid intake since 2.30pm) I...
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With Apologies to The Bard – My Love is like a Slice of Bread
It’s the 25th of January again and I am off out tonight to eat haggis and Reply to the Toast to the Lasses.I am not what Burns would have described as a lass. He liked his female companions to be...
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Doesn’t time fly when one is procrastinating? I should know. I have been doing so for over a year. With two novels down, the time to start writing the third has never been quite right, what with...
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A Perspective for the Union
On Wednesday evening the Church of Scotland held a ‘Respectful Dialogue’ . I reproduce Jim Wallace’s speech advocating the benefits of remaining within the UK. If the references to Christianity are not...
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A Perspective for the Union
On Wednesday evening the Church of Scotland held a ‘Respectful Dialogue’ . I reproduce Jim Wallace’s speech advocating the benefits of remaining within the UK. If the references to Christianity are not...
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Synopsis for Novel : Referendum Scheming – A tale of political intrigue
I often use the plane journey to and from my Orkney home to think about the plot for my current novel but today my mind, like that of many others, is taken up with the forthcoming referendum on...
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Speech by Jim Wallace, Edinburgh, 11th September, 2014
Speech by Jim Wallace, Scottish Liberal Democrat Referendum Rally Edinburgh, 11th September, 2014 As an 11 year old in my final year of primary school, I was fascinated by the 1966 General Election...
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