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LordWoolamaloo

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Bookseller, editor, blogger, reader, reviewer, writer, photographer, drinker, swashbuckler, cat tickler

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LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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The sun going to bed this evening, glimpsed through the trees of the old Dalry boneyard, and the skies turning to burnished copper.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Sunset #CoucherDeSoleil #trees #arbres

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LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Taken this day, 2022, little quackers! https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/52087388758/

Ducklings on the Union Canal

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Taken this day, 2020, chum's elderly rescue greyhound relaxing in the sun during a socially distanced Lockdown walk https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/49897640428/

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Sunlight and shadows

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #Photographie #shadows #ombres #faucet #tap #robinet

LordWoolamaloo, to books
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The Arthur C Clarke award shortlist is out https://twitter.com/ClarkeAward/status/1789973716517929105?t=dT4IT12X-B63OXchlb7kFg&s=19

#books #livres #ScienceFiction #bookstodon #ClarkeAwards #ArthurCClarkeAwards #awards #BookAwards

LordWoolamaloo, to books
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Original day off plan for afternoon film postponed, as I realised there was a screening perfectly timed for after work tomorrow, so instead stroll to local, a pint of Jarl, and get on with reading in preparation for Cymera Festival chairing duties.

I've not chaired a gig since before my surgery a few months back, now I have three author events within a month of one another to prep for. Lot of work, but also a lot of fun!

#books #livres #AmReading #bookstodon #photography #photographie

LordWoolamaloo,
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Continuing to read while also reacquainting myself with an old friend, a pint of Deuchars.
Along with Caley 80, my go-to ale for many years.

Really not what it once was, supplanted by newer, better IPAs, but still decent enough pint. On draught in the local (for a mereยฃ3.90!), so indulging in nostalgia. Or should that be "nostalegia"?๐Ÿ˜‹

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #ale #realale #DiggersPub #photography #photographie #beer #biere

LordWoolamaloo,
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@feorag @cstross yep, TBH it wasn't as good even before the original brewery closed. Shame, really was one of my favouites back in the day

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Best of luck to my lovely colleague and chum, Olivia, who is off to London for the #BritishBookAwards , as she's shortlisted in the Best Bookseller category, for services in bookselling, managing our bookshop events, co-founding the #Edinburgh Womens Fiction Festival, and drinking huge amounts of tea.
https://www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-british-book-awards

#books #livres #Nibbies #bookstodon

LordWoolamaloo, to history
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BBC article on the rarely-mentioned Operation Freshman, the first Allied attack on the heavy water plant the Nazis used in occupied Norway https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn03e7rzrj4o
Most of those lost on the mission probably had no idea this was to foil attempts to build an atomic weapon, they just knew it was something the Nazis couldn't have, and they risked their lives to try and stop it.

#History

LordWoolamaloo, to movies
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This evening's viewing: Modern Times. Been a long time since I last saw it, & while remembering the amazing & rightly famous sequence where Charlie is sucked into the cogs of the machine, I had totally forgotten about the equally amazing roller skate by the precipice scene, which still looks remarkable (the drop is in fact a glass matte painting, a clever bit of VFX for the era)

#film #films #movies #SilentFilm #1930sFilm #ClassicFilm #VintageFilm #ModernTimes #CharlieChaplin

animated gif from Modern Times, with Chaplin seemingly roller skating blind towards a sheer drop by a damaged stairwell railing in a department store.

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Taken this day, 2019, the empty pathways of the night https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/47844221951/

Middle Meadow Walk at night, #Edinburgh #Edimbourg
#photography #photographie #NightPhotography #EdinburghByNight

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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This is most certainly the kind of day which requires picking up a tub of good ice-cream on the way home from work.

LordWoolamaloo, to movies
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This evening's viewing: Vincent Price, Robert (Count Yorga) Quarry, inept policemen, clockwork snakes, elaborate deaths in the desert & hidden Egyptian tombs, in a revisit to the delightfully daft Dr Phibes Rises Again.

animated gif of Vincent Price rising from a high-tech mirrored tomb in the opeing of Dr Phibes Rises Again

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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#Edinburgh book lovers!!

The tiny but award-winning independent book - @TheEdinburghBookshop - is moving! Only a couple of blocks, but to much bigger premises.

It's a lot more than we planned for & will take a lot of work to make it ready, so we'll be adding fundraisers to help, & you can see some architect designs & plans on the bookshop site now https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/newshop

#books #livres #bookstodon #Edimbourg #bookshops #librairies

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Lost in thought https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/53707073407/in/dateposted/

Lady walking through the street market

#Grassmarket #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography

LordWoolamaloo, to random
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Another reason we love David Tennant, as he tells transphobes to just "fuck off" https://boingboing.net/2024/05/07/david-tennant-tells-anti-trans-bigots-to-fck-off.html

LordWoolamaloo, to Cats
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Taken this day, 2011, Cassie cat stealing my seat. Which is, of course, her seat https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/5693186885/

#cats #chats #photography #photographie

LordWoolamaloo, to wildlife
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Previously when I've been lucky enough to see a heron, they normally tend to stay stock-still, watching everything. This one decided to take a wee stroll https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/53703566238/in/photostream/

#Wildlife #Nature #photography #photographie #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #bird #oiseau #WaterOfLeith #heron #Ecosse #Scotland

Jennifer, to scifi
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I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon

LordWoolamaloo,
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@Jennifer @bookstodon Highly recommend Adrian Tchaikovsky, especially the Children of Time trilogy (human and other intelligent life evolving across millennia), or the Final Architecture series (with hints of Babylon 5 in there). He gives big, widescreen space opera but mixes action with more thoughful moments and good characters

LordWoolamaloo, to Scotland
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Taken this day, 2019, white-capped waves and the mighty Bass Rock https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/46984130684/

#Scotland #Ecosse #photography #photographie #landscape #seascape #EastLothian #coast #NorthBerwick #BassRock #waves #vagues

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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The Bike Cafe https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/53698684463/in/dateposted/

#WestEndEdinburgh #Edinburgh #Edimbourg
#photography #photographie #StreetPhotography #Bicycle #velo #coffee #BicycleCafe

LordWoolamaloo, to random
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Among the tidal waves of unwanted ads on the Muskrat's Birdsite today, a slew for various AI apps, which can all smeg off to Blocksville.

LordWoolamaloo, to Horror
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The quite excellent Brit #horror movie Saint Maud is on late-night on @film4 (UK viewers)

#film #films #HorrorFilm #HorrorMovies #movies #SaintMaud

Animated gif from the horror film Saint Maud, with the titular character imagining glowing angel wings on her back as her religious delusions increase

LordWoolamaloo, to books
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Chatting with a visiting Kiwi author, Rachael King, in the bookshop today, she recognised me - turned out I had chaired her fellow Kiwi scribe at @edbookfest a few years ago, and she remembered me!

It really is a small planet (especially the literary part of it!)....

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