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About alasdairflett

German & English Literature graduate. From Orkney. Interested in alternative and indie music, language, writing and politics.

Opinion: Using correct punctuation is increasingly seen as impolite

Posted on 28/05/2016 by alasdairflett

It starts with the full stop. Every time you substitute an emoji for punctuation you are contributing to the erosion of our linguistic convention. This is not necessarily a bad thing. After all, language evolves; it is a constantly mutating … Continue reading →

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Morning, how are you? Fine. Yeah…fine.

Posted on 02/04/2016 by alasdairflett

To blog is to shout loudly in a room by oneself and expect to spark a conversation. It is this mode however, that I find is so easy to slip into during everyday discourse. Conversation should be like tennis, one … Continue reading →

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Fickle Friends @ Electric Circus Review

Posted on 04/03/2016 by alasdairflett

Fickle Friends hail from the sunny seaside town of Brighton and this is evident in the summery aesthetic of the scintillating synth pop they supply. This was the band’s first ever performance in Scotland, let alone Edinburgh, and they went … Continue reading →

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February, Flats and Frankenstein

Posted on 09/02/2016 by alasdairflett

Happy Pancake Day everyone! Pleasantries aside, welcome to February and to another entry of this long-winded, seemingly never-ending chronicle. What has changed since when I left you last? Well, I sold out to the mainstream media and wrote for the … Continue reading →

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10 YouTube Channels worth Subscribing To

Posted on 02/01/2016 by alasdairflett

We all use YouTube, quite a lot of us on a daily basis, but I’ve found that as a conversation piece it usually falls flat. Often one of the parties is struggling to grasp just exactly what made a certain … Continue reading →

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Doctor Who: A Series in Retrospect

Posted on 21/12/2015 by alasdairflett

Something I’ve noticed at university is that being a Doctor Who fan is strikingly more niche than I had imagined. People are willing to admit that they’ve watched it in the past. They whole-heartedly endorse the concept. Yet their admission … Continue reading →

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2015: Year in Review

Posted on 18/12/2015 by alasdairflett

What happened in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Fifteen? From a broad perspective, Scots had to come to terms with the fact that independence had been put on hold for at least a “generation.” Bumper stickers were … Continue reading →

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Lazy Lights, Lamps, Love and Leather Seats

Posted on 30/11/2015 by alasdairflett

I think I owe you a blog post. It’s almost the end of my first semester at university and I’d like to keep you in the loop. Life in Hermit’s Croft is falling into its routines. The installation of street … Continue reading →

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The Hermit Emerges

Posted on 26/09/2015 by alasdairflett

I write to you after a considerable absence at the keyboard for the past month. Since my last post I have moved to the Scottish capital Edinburgh where I am attending the University thereof in the study of English Literature … Continue reading →

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Wallow in Solitude

Posted on 20/08/2015 by alasdairflett

Not precisely sure where I’m going on this stretch of single track, I see a sign, a brown one, whispering Warbeth. Continue reading →

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