join the guerilla shopping bag movement!

Does anyone have any recommendations for cheap/guerilla marketing ideas books?

My friend Rhiannon has updated her website.

Very driech day here again and have run out of coffee... I might have to leave the house. Here is a link to the completed Haunted Photograph Project done by The Photographers Gallery.

The joy of cancelled plans

sort of.

I was supposed to be in London on Tuesday... but I misread my ticket - the train wasn't at 3 but 11am ! So I'm still in Edinburgh and in posession of a bus ticket now for Sunday. This trip to London has cost me £130 before I've even got there. However as I now have unexpected time at home I've been renewing my job hunt and things look a bit more hopeful. So this unexpected parcel of time has had good results. It would be wonderful if I got a yen to so housework at the same time ... but that feeling hasn't overcome me yet.

One of the things I have done is put a link to the Amazon book and video sale I've got going on in the side of my blog - do hop over and see if anything is of interest.

Looking down the high st on a misty day - holga

advice for photographers assistants

Off to London for a trip so blogging light until return.

Its the season of casseroles and tea. Yesterday went here for tea. After a brisk walk around the policies to admire the Highland Cows and the peacocks we went in. We had afternoon tea beside a roaring fire and chatted and discussed and debated. When we left it was dark and Arthur's Seat loomed above us and the most wonderful full moon hung over the city.

"It's not about making art, it's about living a life that makes art inevitable."
Robert Henri via Andrea Scher.

Went to see Dargeeling Limited on Friday. The cinematography and colours of the film are wonderful. One of the railway carriages had a wonderful blue colour which I've been trying to find online but failed.

I saw it with my Uncle who left India when he was 9 - shipped to Scotland durig WW2 I cannot imagine the grim and gray contrast.

Bonus the Dargeeling Himalyan Railway Society website.

slightly odd picture in that I can't quite imagine the angle I wonder if it has got flipped over?

Realisation last night christmas is coming and I haven't organised a christmas work lunch. But you are a feckless underemployed freelancer ... where can you crash lunch? So H & R are you up for organising our own officeless christmas lunch... I was thinking Urban Angel...

Permission cards

Joan Eardley

I wanted to post something with colour - its super driech today. Bucketing down and gray. Luckily I had to meet someone for coffee this morning so have been out and searched for bargain wool at charity shop on way back - nothing ! I am writing to friends as its so gloomy the only thing is to try and spread some postal cheer. More about the artist here.

Misty window at Spoon Cafe Blackfriars St, wish I was there having lunch!

Today is dreich... only way to describe it. Luckily I have to leave the house. I do find that on a day like this its best to leave - go out and do something. Being amongst people is the best thing.

Second best would be a large and substantial piece of cake... must bake tonight I think.

Went to see elderly rellie today - wet, windy, grey, cold and miserable. Dark by 4pm. Want to get christmas lights by the mile to cheer the place up. Hotwater bottle MIA but found this local crafty blogger while wasting time.

"Our truest responsibility to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find the truth."
Madeleine L'Engle

busy sat

I had to go up town to the post office - Amazon booksales. Stocked up on stamps, then went and had breakfast out. What a treat! Free reading of newspapers and free postcards to pick up at a cafe. Then dashed to library and changed books. Got the bus home and saw the amateur football going on in the park. It must have been half time as serious strategising meetings were being held at either end of the field with the teams.

It was just lovely being out on a dry autumn morning.

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