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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 books
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From @cymerafestival : Elizabeth May, Taran Matharu and Snorri Kristjinsson in conversation with Katy Bacica https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/53767575166/in/dateposted/

#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Cymera2024 #bookstodon #ElizabethMay #SnorriKristjinsson #TaranMatharu #fantasy #ScienceFiction

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From @CymeraF : Katya Bacica & Elizabeth May https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/53767899589/in/photostream/

LordWoolamaloo, to photography
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Currently trying to decide if I should take the red pill or the blue pill, and wondering why a polka dot pill isn't an option...

#photography #photographie #RedPill #BluePill #Matrix #JellyBeans #film #movies

LordWoolamaloo, to photography
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Fashion clash! It appears @cstross & I have both turned up at @cymerafestival sporting t-shirts with a dinosaur 🦖 consuming a tasty unicorn 🦄 theme.

Who said fashion's dead??

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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It's not the Cymera festival until I get to talk to Tabitha, the literary kitty!

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #cats #chats #photography #photographie #Cymera #Cymera2024

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LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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People enjoying a return to sunny weather after so much rain recently

LordWoolamaloo, to random
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ICJ orders Israel to stop attacking Rafah. Netanyahu has his military go after targets in an area packed with refugees, regardless. Mass slaughter of civilians ensues. But yeah, "tragic mishap"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjjj26d0eqxo

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Looks like the Meadows has a new duck pond! Good for reflecting shots, if nothing else.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #relfections #photography #photographie #trees #arbres #reflexiones #park #parc

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LordWoolamaloo, to Horror
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Happy birthday to the great Peter Cushing, who was born on this day in 1913. I'm sure a lot of my lifelong love of #horror came from late night viewings of many Hammer films with Peter and his good friend Christopher Lee, probably at an age when I was too young for them but didn't care, because I loved them.

#PeterCushing #film #films #HorrorFilm #movies #actor #cinema

LordWoolamaloo, to Scotland
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Taken this day, 2019, sudden flashbacks to North by Northwest as this vintage biplane buzzes over us near North Berwick https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/47930802826/

#Scotland #Ecosse #photography #photographie #biplane #avion #plane #airplane

LordWoolamaloo, to movies
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This evening's viewing: a long-overdue revisit to Wings of Desire. First seen many years ago at my beloved Filmhouse, this was the #film that introduced me to Wim Wenders, who would become one of my favourite film-makers.

Achingly beautiful piece of cinema. How many amazing works did the Filmhouse introduce me to that I'd likely never have seen otherwise? So looking forward to its return later this year...

#films #cinema #WingsOfDesire #WimWenders #1980sFilm #ClassicFilm #EuropeanFilm

Animated gif from the German language film Wings of Desire, with the actor standing atop a church tower, contemplating the world, translucent angel wings appear and disappear from his back.

LordWoolamaloo, to nature
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Taken this day, 2020, bright eyed and bushy tailed https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/49912996938/

Squirrel in George Square, brightening a solitary Lockdown-era walk.

#nature #wildlife #photography #photographie #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #squirrel

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.

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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/

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #dogs #chiens #photography #photographie #greyhound

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Sunlight and shadows

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

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 mere£3.90!), so indulging in nostalgia. Or should that be "nostalegia"?😋

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 , as she's shortlisted in the Best Bookseller category, for services in bookselling, managing our bookshop events, co-founding the Womens Fiction Festival, and drinking huge amounts of tea.
https://www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-british-book-awards

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)

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,

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.

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