LordWoolamaloo

LordWoolamaloo, 11 months ago to random

what a surprise, the vile Boris breached the ministerial code in accepting new job at the Daily Hate https://theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/jun/16/boris-johnson-partygate-report-rishi-sunak-damian-green-vote-conservatives-uk-politics-live

Meant to clear new jobs with committee to avoid former ministers cashing in on their previous govt job, Boris only told them 30 mins beforehand... Total disdain for rules and expected behaviour by an entitled bilgebag.

LordWoolamaloo, 11 months ago to books

Taken this day, 2014, @nnedi & Ken MacLeod in conversation with Stuart Kelly for @ScottishPEN at Summerhall https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/14422508405/

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #photography #NnediOkorafor #KenMacLeod #ScottishPEN #ScienceFiction #Summerhall

LordWoolamaloo, 11 months ago to books

As part of today's event in the bookshop, I got to hold a 75 million year old dinosaur fossilised bone! 🦖🦕

We had Steve and Anne Brusatte for an all-ages event on dinosaurs and mammals, with books for adults and children. Huge fun

What did you do at work today? Made kids interested in reading, got to handle dino fossils... I do love my work

#dinosaurs #fossils #bookshops #librairies #books #livres

LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to photography

It's a door open kind of lazy, warm, Sunday afternoon...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #BennetsBar #StainedGlass #pub

LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to books

Happy #TowelDay !!!

Remember, if you can't see the Ravenous Buglatter Beast of Traal, it can't see you

#books #DouglasAdams #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #livres

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LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to books

Delighted to hear from fine @orbitbooks crew that long-gestating project to bring The Culture drawings of the late, & still much-missed Iain M Banks to print, now has a November 2023 release.

"Faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks kept in the 1970s & 80s, these annotated original illustrations depict the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail."

#Books #Livres #ScienceFiction #IainMBanks #TheCulture

Interior pages from the forthcoming The Culture - The Drawings, collecting sketches and art and notes about his bestselling Culture series of novels by the late Iain M Banks

LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to random

Interesting piece on the Romans in #Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65388673

I've always been aware of this history, as the town I grew up, on the edge of Glasgow, was a major fort on the Antonine Wall. Got young me interested in history, learning that it didn't all happen "far away", but also on my doorstep.

#History #ScottishHistory #Romans #Ecosse

dpscifi, 1 year ago to random

It's 7:30 am, May 11. The railing is parallel to the street which runs north-south, so I'm facing due east. The shadows now have a distinct tilt to the south which means the sun is rising from the northeast. Northeast! I'm probably the only person in Seattle who has noticed or cares.

helenczerski, 1 year ago to books

This just went straight into my top ten favourite boat names.

I’m in Guernsey (for the first time) to speak at their literary festival tomorrow on Blue Machine, so if you know anyone on the island, do encourage them to come along. #books #Guernsey #ocean #boats

LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to random

Met "expresses regret" for acting like the bully boot boys of a fascist regime rather than police officers in a democratic nation https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65527007

They wilfully deprived citizens of their rights. To hell with the Met and it's pretend regret . And to hell with this Tory government that rushed through a law that enables police to act in this way. On a democracy policing is by consent, they're meant to serve the people. They do not

LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to random

Met Police at one point tweeted that they has "intelligence" that some they pre-emptively arrested had rape alarms that they could have thrown to scare horses in coronation parade.

This remind me of Blair's "intelligence" that "proved" WMDs in Iraq, ie both total nonsense to justify heavy handed policy.

And given Met's terrible record of sexually abusive officers, any rape alarm would likely be to protect against assault by an officer.

LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to random

Behold, the King!!! The new monarch takes the salute from a flyby of biplanes.

#KingKong #NotMyKing

LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to random

We haz snowballs for afternoon cuppa! Colleague picked up this fine, Scottish delicacy from nearby Luca's.

Much yumminess ...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #snowball #cuppa #teabreak

LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to books

"I had always felt safe in a library, as if the books were there to protect me, like a fortress of words, thoughts & learning"

Currently reading Anya Bergman's Witches of Vardo ahead of event, while also surrounded by books.

#AmReading #books #AnyaBergman #TheWitchesOfVardo #livres #Norway

LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to random

For those nauseated by this cringeworthy "please swear allegiance" feudal nonsense https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65435426

Some kings I would much rather give allegiance to:

Arthur, the Once & Future King

Martin Luther King

Jason King

Elvis.

#NotMyKing #Coronation #king #allegiance #FeudalNonsense

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 1 year ago to jazz

♪♫ "Once you have been bitten by the #Jazz bug, it is not a choice anymore."

• Terri Lyne Carrington
  #drums #musicians @jazz
  • https://www.apassion4jazz.net/quotations2.html •

LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to books

Reading some lovely Flying Eye books for kids that are coming out next month, for Bookseller's Circle (kind of a recommends for Booksellers, by other Booksellers).

Laura Suarez's graphic novel Monster Support Group (nice Addams Family vibe to take of growing up & changing), & Adriena Fong's picture book Ning & the Night Spirits, which is channelling some seriously lovely Ghibli vibes.

#books #ChildrensBooks #livres #AmReading #FlyingEyeBooks #GraphicNovels #PictureBooks #bookstodon

LordWoolamaloo, 1 year ago to edinburgh

Taken this day, 2020, no passengers today https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/49724716166/

Empty tram platforms in an almost deserted West End #Edinburgh during the early weeks of the Lockdown. Since we were allowed one exercise walk a day during the Lockdown, I would take my camera and document the eerily empty streets of the city

#photography #Edimbourg #WestEndEdinburgh #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Tram #EdinburghTram #deserted #Lockdown