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| Overheard at the Chippie: Big brither, wee brither | Blackhall, Sheena | 142 | 1 | 7.04 | |
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... a flamin scunner. No, ye canna. Dannie, can I clap yon big Alsation? Nuh. Stuff yer face wi this. Here's a banana. ... |
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| Preparing to Meet the Minotaur | Blackhall, Sheena | 8,944 | 2 | 0.22 | |
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... jist a flamin scunner. No, ye canna. "Dan, can I clap yon big Alsatian dug?" Nuh. Stuff yer face wi this. Here's a ... ... caught on the hop A fast food takeaway . "Oh pussy, what big eyes you've got" Floppy's a rag doll, dried blood stuck to ... |
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| Queerie-Orrals | Blackhall, Sheena | 4,073 | 3 | 0.74 | |
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... inno the bosie o Teenie McGee. It grew through the nicht big's a were-wolf sae furry, Nae twa winks o sleep could she ... ... there. It treetled ahin her fin she wauked tae class, Sae big noo, the teacher could hardly win past. Fariver she gaed ... ... tae her granny, an grat on her lap. (The Worry cam tae, big's an elephant's bap). Granny tuik oot her glaisses, the ... |
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| Serendipity and ither poems in Scots and English | Blackhall, Sheena | 12,339 | 1 | 0.08 | |
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... limes, malaria Elephants an wud monsoons Coconuts an big baboons Seagull, spurgie, blackie, doo Microwave an ... |
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| The Boddamers' Monkey | Blackhall, Sheena | 8,148 | 1 | 0.12 | |
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... The stooshie rages ben Braemar, like burn that's big wi spate. Gee-gaws an tartan trinketry are set at ilkie ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 02 - Purity | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,055 | 2 | 0.65 | |
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... them, Danny, no middle way. And if you played with the big boys... Just after her fifteenth birthday, Jennifer had ... ... are in their pants. He won't wait for ever. What's the big deal about being a virgin anyway? It's only a word. It ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 03 - A Gey Dour Bitch | Blackhall, Sheena | 4,030 | 1 | 0.25 | |
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... as a sign". "A sign o fit, Da?" I speired, ma twa een as big as ashets. "A shair sign," gurred Mither, "that we'll be ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 09 - Millennium Moggies Inc. | Blackhall, Sheena | 1,657 | 2 | 1.21 | |
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... first past that post by a long way. When it grows too big for comfort, you can always eat it. I'm told they're very ... ... Well no, apart from the odd bull, it hasn't caught on in a big way in the animal world. Some tortoises have benefited ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 10 - Nothing Personal [Content label: lesser] | Blackhall, Sheena | 2,457 | 1 | 0.41 | |
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... after all. "I suppose you think you're bloody clever, Mr Big-Shot Writer? I suppose you thought, 'Stupid, drunken ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 12 - The Smiling Horse of Troy | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,474 | 3 | 0.86 | |
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... that it was a tie and that, now he was four and almost a big boy, he would often have to wear one. It straggled over ... ... clink of high-heeled shoes, approaching smartly. The big blue door yawned open and he found himself staring into ... ... left the room. He could hear her speaking to some other big person. "The wretched child's wet himself. Is there any ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 13 - Prune Stones [Content label: lesser] | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,692 | 1 | 0.27 | |
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... John jolted alive, like a jerky puppet. "Yon's ma pal. Big Wully. The pigs done him fur choring a Giro," he announced ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 14 - A Very Dysfunctional Family | Blackhall, Sheena | 2,104 | 1 | 0.48 | |
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... thirteenth labour of Hercules. He treated it all as one big macho thing. Men are such liars," she snorted, remembering ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 15 - Blessed wi the Gift [Content label: lesser] | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,717 | 3 | 0.81 | |
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... sign tellin us we war throwe Kilmarnock spirkit aff "Ma Big Kilmarnock Bunnet", bit Burns couldna bide awa lang noo, ... ... "D'ye iver hear tell o the twa Irish Rary birds, the big Rary bird an the wee Rary bird?" he speired o a suddenty. ... ... oot an hid a fecht, an the wee Irish Rary bird lost. The big Rary bird wis jist aboot tae haive him doon a great heich ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 17 - Veesitors [Content label: lesser] | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,511 | 1 | 0.28 | |
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... in his jaiket fan he spied the quine hersel comin frae the Big Hoose. The gentry wis aye haudin concerts an balls sae it ... |
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| The Heavenly Cow of Thebes [Content label: serious] | Blackhall, Sheena | 9,752 | 1 | 0.10 | |
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... web’s a corker. I met a cow in Delhi, a bobby-dazzler Big as a London bus Its horns so strong they’d puncture ... |
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| The Humpty Dumpty Man [Content label: serious] | Blackhall, Sheena | 6,223 | 3 | 0.48 | |
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... the moon's her pillow and stars shine round her head. The Big Round Moon Last night the big round moon walked down to ... ... shine round her head. The Big Round Moon Last night the big round moon walked down to the loch Carrying stars to drop ... ... flee. This warld o yird an ocean, it birls like a baa. Its big eneuch fur continents, bit whyles its unca sma. Fin lions ... |
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| The Lan o Tea an Tigers: Poems fae the Muckle Furth | Blackhall, Sheena | 6,393 | 2 | 0.31 | |
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... brocht ither wouns Far dysentry kept company wi rain as big's dubloons Aside the Kwai the smilin Thai in bricht ... ... traffic lights you never see Thin mosquitoes whine. Moths, big as plates land on the drilling plan In guarded compounds, ... |
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| The Quarry | Blackhall, Sheena | 23,932 | 7 | 0.29 | |
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... (Bappy): b.1994 Myra Anderson (Jed’s mother): b.197 Big Tam Laggeran (a drug dealer: Myra’s boy friend) Neil ... ... Jed wis bikin on ahin him, a brosie laddie fa lived aff Big Mac baps, wi a wame tae suit. Bappy, the ithers cad him: ... ... oot fur her “eerans”: a wrap o poother or mebbe peels frae Big Tam Laggeran, the Mr Fixit o Meikleburgh’s junkie-lan, her ... ... tryin tae sook siller frae his nearest an dearest wis the big show-stopper: that efter aa he wis their faither, wis he ... ... oot. Jenny’s dallie’s pram wis cowpit on its side, wi Big Tam Laggeran, the dealer, sprauchled ower it. Tho his een ... |
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| The Toad on the Rock's Opinion | Blackhall, Sheena | 5,941 | 1 | 0.17 | |
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... bows..pretty, rubber shoes, Hair, waving in water like a big hello, The suicide lady rolls jelly baby eyes. Lost ... |
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| The Win an the Rain | Blackhall, Sheena | 8,793 | 3 | 0.34 | |
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... HIS career on hold', Mags reflected. Elena was weeping on big Tom O'Farrell from Computing's shoulder about the ... ... shelter. She would never again make superior cracks about Big Issue sellers, she vowed, if only this night could pass ... ... bringing you,’ The teacher speirs, ‘from his great big sack?’ Connor McGraw thinks hard and says ‘He’s bringin ma ... |
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| The Wizard o the North | Blackhall, Sheena | 5,141 | 7 | 1.36 | |
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... Dunoon! Ilkie reeftap blew aff o the toon! They flew past Big Ben at a quarter tae ten, Wi a wife in an auld flannel ... ... quine wis greetin, Said she catched her boyfriend cheatin. Big Joe Christie's giro's tint, Phoned the Broo tae sae he's ... ... bin chawin at. Her ma weirs furry anklet beets, Knickers big as King Kong's sheets. She keeps twa littlins in a pram, ... ... inno the bosie o Teenie McGee. It grew through the nicht big's a were-wolf sae furry, Nae twa winks o sleep could she ... ... there. It treetled ahin her fin she wauked tae class, Sae big noo, the teacher could hardly win past. Fariver she gaed ... |
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| War Time 1914-1918 (For Private William Middleton, Gellan, Coull) | Blackhall, Sheena | 102 | 1 | 9.80 | |
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... fit of the mairch past. Fairm-sodjer-bairn, In the ower-big uniform (Onythin dis tae dee in) Someither-body merriet ... |
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| Winnlestrae [Content label: serious] | Blackhall, Sheena | 7,366 | 3 | 0.41 | |
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... lanely fur a littlin fin the dragon comes tae play Fin the big fowk on the sofa dinna hear a wird ye say She niver leaves ... ... Bingo, they aa hing oot, Wee Mo, Pamela, Jake an Spats, Big Plug Patterson, Ranjit, Newt, Jinx McPhail frae the high ... ... gie's a drag'. 'Young Toun Crazies Rule,' they craw. Big Plug Patterson sprayed his name Wi a tinnie o gloss on the ... |
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| A Fair Deal | Blair, Anna | 88 | 1 | 11.36 | |
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... Great angels, small ones Got to arrange Five Wee for a Big As the rate of exchange. Heads low in cahoots There's a ... |
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| Any other Pleb | Blair, Anna | 259 | 1 | 3.86 | |
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... Buttered toast and nursery games In winter after dark, My big hair bows and plimsoll shoes My pinafores for Drill And ... |
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| Cookers | Blair, Anna | 194 | 1 | 5.15 | |
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... Hinge'd to the grate To simmer a pot Keep it hot. The next big change A cast-iron range Edges to buff Wi' emery stuff, ... |
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| Daytime | Blair, Anna | 212 | 1 | 4.72 | |
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... scene To strut their buskin' on the green. There's this big dame in Irish clogs Hitches her skirts and jigs her jogs, ... |
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| See the Boat | Blair, Anna | 213 | 2 | 9.39 | |
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... Great day's here, You cannae beat Your once't a year, your big-big treat To sail the Clyde fae Broomielaw At risin' tide, ... ... day's here, You cannae beat Your once't a year, your big-big treat To sail the Clyde fae Broomielaw At risin' tide, wi' ... |
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| The Fallen Horse | Blair, Anna | 242 | 3 | 12.40 | |
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... icy street A Clydesdale horse Skliff and lose its feet. A big-big horse Sprachle, legs apart An' fankle its hooves Wi' ... ... street A Clydesdale horse Skliff and lose its feet. A big-big horse Sprachle, legs apart An' fankle its hooves Wi' the ... ... like that Up Kyle Street East. It looked that wild Wi'its big teeth bared And it pechin' hard W'its nostrils flared ... |
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| The Gem | Blair, Anna | 272 | 1 | 3.68 | |
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... Thom wi' her long hair-braid We used to call 'The Squaw' Big Urquart first, then Jerry Vonn Was Heidie at St. Mick's Ma ... |
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| The School Photograph | Blair, Anna | 229 | 2 | 8.73 | |
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... Boys with ties pulled-round a' sidieways. There was gawky big Sadie and Harold O'Grady Tizzie Bell with her wee button ... ... There were jerseys in fankles and socks down at ankles Big collars and pigtail skeewiff We'd Specky McGinty, his ... |
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| Tick | Blair, Anna | 194 | 1 | 5.15 | |
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... skint!) Of patchin', mendin', makin'-do Ma kept at bay the big Taboo, The credit, debt, goin' on the slate The things ... |
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| The Buik o Ruth: 02 - Psaum and Ca tae prayer | Borrowman, A S | 169 | 1 | 5.92 | |
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... STAUNAN An God bigna the houss, they fash for nought wha big at it; an God keepna the brugh, he waukens for nought wha ... |
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| Extract from "One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night" [Content label: serious] | Brookmyre, Christopher | 4,155 | 6 | 1.44 | |
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... “But whit’s the point? Buildin’ a hotel or whatever on a big hunk o’ metal? Whit’s wrang wi’ dry land?” “It’s so it’s ... ... Whit’s wrang wi’ dry land?” “It’s so it’s exclusive, big man. So’s scrotes like you an’ maself cannae get near the ... ... himsel’ oot playin’ tig wance, when he ran intae thon big pillar?” “Naw. That was me, ya daft cunt.” “Well, was he ... ... you in Geography in second year. Dished you wi’ that big Atlas.” “Aye, right enough. But still. He must have ... ... “Aye. Overnight stay on an oil-rig.” “It’ll be fine, big man. It’ll be better than that, in fact. Forget the oil ... |
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| Bonny in Black [Content label: lesser] | Bruce, Eddie | 4,823 | 1 | 0.21 | |
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... him the night before - for the first time ever. “You’re a big improvement on the scruffy little bugger you used to be.” ... |
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| Hearts & Darts | Bruce, Eddie | 1,555 | 2 | 1.29 | |
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... watch, Fiona’s lingering fragrance conspired with the two big measures of whisky he had earlier, to quicken his pulse ... ... a vision in her short midnight blue dress, himself and big Alistair MacPhail in their kilts hired for the day…the ... |
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| Thy Neighbour's Wife [Content label: lesser] | Bruce, Eddie | 2,813 | 1 | 0.36 | |
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... he felt as drained as the bottle as he poured the last big dram and took it upstairs with him. He slept fitfully. ... |
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| Peggy's Party | Connell, Andrina | 2,769 | 2 | 0.72 | |
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... “Well just you light up whenever you feel like it. Your big son’s been on the phone and I’ve convinced him he doesn’t ... ... if a bus came first – well. He turned to wave to her. The big silver Christmas tree, its abundant and identical blue ... |
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| Took Fur a Ride | Connell, Andrina | 2,077 | 6 | 2.89 | |
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... Angel Gabriel diznae werr a shiny yella jaikit lik the big fella in frunt o’ me. An onywise A wiz gaun doon ra way, ... ... Here, A’m telling yous. Wiz this no serious? Ra big man’s fumlin aboot wi sumhing. It wiz straps. A hid bin ... ... right anuff. A pit ma haun up tae ma heid. There wiz a big daud a cotton wool stuck tae ma napper. An anither wan ... ... broke wan fur me. Elbas lik knittin pins. There wiz a big wumman ower the other side. A mean a shuge, big, wumman. ... ... wiz a big wumman ower the other side. A mean a shuge, big, wumman. She damp near need the ither side aw tae hursel. ... |
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| Lecture on Scottish Literature 1 | Corbett, Dr John B | Video | 7,319 | 1 | 0.14 |
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... that far back. [inhale] ah, he just writes these great big long periods. [click] [inhale] But staying in the ... |
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| The Stalking Cure [Content label: lesser] | Corbett, Dr John B | 6,214 | 1 | 0.16 | |
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... Macnab, they huv ither fish tae fry. Bendin gender Ane big differ atween the twa buiks is the wey they tak on the ... |
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| Scotspik | de Rusett, Wendy | 890 | 1 | 1.12 | |
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... house. We say hoose. You say mouse. We say moose. You say big. We say muckle. There’s a moose loose aboot the hoose, An ... |
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| The Wee Reid Hen | de Rusett, Wendy | 1,571 | 1 | 0.64 | |
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... cut doon the corn? Horse: I wis working. I need an extra big helpin, cos I’m a muckle beast. Farm-wife: Far wis you fan ... |
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| All That Glisters | Donovan, Anne | 2,713 | 6 | 2.21 | |
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... careful when you squeezed the tube so’s you didny get a big blob appearin at wanst, but efter a few goes ah wis up an ... ... shape and coloured it green but a bit squirted oot intae a big blob, so ah blotted it and when ah took the paper away the ... ... a shop is stealin. A lot of folk think lik that. Donna’s big brother Jimmy wanst tried tae explain tae me that it wis ... ... me that it wis OK tae steal ooty shops cos they made such big profits that they were really stealin affy us (the workin ... ... his word. In the end ah sellt ma dinner tickets tae big Maggie Hughes and all week ah wis starvin for ah only hud ... |
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| Club review of Vegas, Renfrew Ferry, Glasgow | English, Paul | 1,057 | 1 | 0.95 | |
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... on how you're attired, you could be in for another big surprise - a financial one. Yup, there are discounts for ... |
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| Interview with Michael Stipe of REM | English, Paul | 1,896 | 4 | 2.11 | |
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... brunch of boiled eggs, melon slices and berries. 'I'm not big on breakfast,' he says. 'I got up late today. 'But I think ... ... in June. And he is already relishing the prospect. 'A big Scottish crowd is something that you remember, that's for ... ... Billy Bragg and rumoured squeeze Natalie Merchant at The Big Day in 1990. 'I remember that well,' he says. 'I wore a ... ... bisexuality in 1994 and couldn't believe it when it became big news in the UK in 2001. 'It's something that I've always ... |
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| Interview with Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue | English, Paul | 1,528 | 4 | 2.62 | |
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... and spent the Wednesday getting more together. 'I filled a big bag with old studio shots of the band, and all sorts of ... ... Blue at the height of their success - headlining 1990's Big Day, performing live at Glasgow's SECC and Barrowland - ... ... then he got ill and became very thin. And then he got big again when he was on steroids. 'The rest of the song is my ... ... as it is for his wife and family. But it's been a very big thing for all of us.' Another song on Ricky's album,The ... |
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| Pub review of The Living Room, Glasgow | English, Paul | 696 | 2 | 2.87 | |
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... lads thinking that they were the local equivalent of Mr Big. It's like Morton thinking they're Real Madrid. Still, ... ... one of our boozers commented made 'everyone look healthy', big windows, roomy tables, a long bar and creamy drapes give ... |
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| TV critic review column on The Moors Murderers | English, Paul | 498 | 1 | 2.01 | |
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... of Doctor Who. From the critics' point of view, it's a big ask. Even if Peake's interpretation of a ... |
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| TV critic review column: TV's Ditched as I Switched on to Partying | English, Paul | 520 | 3 | 5.77 | |
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... cocktail stick hedgehog, the boys did lots of that 'what a big surprise' look they do whenever they're near a camera - ... ... countdown littered with references to "tonight's big party in Edinburgh". After the Big Fella peed all over our ... ... to "tonight's big party in Edinburgh". After the Big Fella peed all over our party plans again, maybe Auntie ... |
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