by tim_bell | Aug 10, 2015 | Latest News
Taking full advantage of the month of the blue moon in July, I didn’t write a blog. Plenty of stuff happening, as ever, but not blogworthy stuff. Had a cracking tour with a stag party. I normally say the tour doesn’t got well on stag do’s. You know,...
by tim_bell | Jun 24, 2015 | Latest News
Thanks to the thirty-odd Trainspotters who turned up to the Leith Festival programme of tours last week. They were all enjoyable, with good crack going between interested and well-informed people. Some of them were hard-core fans of either Welsh, or Trainspotting,...
by tim_bell | May 28, 2015 | Latest News
Well, whoever would have thought it? A near wipe-out of Labour’s Scottish stronghold. Looking back, we can see the seeds were sown a long time ago. Labour lost contact with the people, we lost the vision thing, and we lost the plot. Now what’s needed is a...
by tim_bell | Apr 13, 2015 | Latest News
Listening to Irvine Welsh on BBC Radio 4 this morning, my first thought was that he regards the idea of Scottish ‘independence’ as some sort of literary construct or theatrical Brigadoon. Meanwhile, here in Scotland, we have to pay the bills, and the...
by tim_bell | Mar 31, 2015 | Latest News
My, there’s the clocks forward already! Wonderful, isn’t it, how the year’s markers keep coming. And what a terrific culture we have in Edinburgh and Scotland for new writing. This month I went to a seminar in Glasgow run by the Scottish Book Trust...
