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

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Exhausted after immensely busy day at work (amazing to have so much support, but wow, it is tiring too!). Pondering going to take some pics after work, or just trudge tiredly home when chum texts the say they're in my local. Problem solved...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #Photographie
December 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Orange-tinged sky on the morning stroll to work today.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie
Tall, Victorian tenements in morning shade, clouds behind and above, the horizon splashed with orange from the rising winter sun
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Second breakfast from La Barantine today. There are pastry flakes all over the bookshop counter...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg
Golden, flaky pastry pain au chocolat
December 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Great Writers Forum this evening (plus the Christmas book quiz), but ye gods, a wild, wet, windy journey home. My poor hat is much afeared of being blown out to the Forth ...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #photography #photographie
Looking at an angle at the free standing steel signs with their illuminated displays of forthcoming events, on a wet night Looking down the path at night, glistening from rain, as it runs between a glass bus shelter on the left and a row of illuminated displays on the right
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I do approve of Alan Moore's dedication in his upcoming novel :

"For Volodymr Zelenskyy and ant- fascists everywhere. Ils ne passeront pas"

#books #livres
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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#LunchtimeReading : I Hear a New World, the next in the Long London series by the great, bearded Magus of Albion, Alan Moore (coming May '26 from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social )

#books #livres #AmReading
Cover of advance copy of I Hear a New World, showing a couple running in front of a London bus
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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There's nothing quite like a field full of large, glowing balls to give you that retro 1970s SF vibe ...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #NighyPhotography #EdinburghByNight
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Blue skies and golden, winter sunlight less than an hour ago, now murky, grey clouds closing in, and rain starting. There's a reason we talk so much about weather here...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #ohotography #photographie #architecture
View of the Scott Monument and the Christmas market's Ferris Wheel against blue skies, viewed from the upper deck of a bus Edinburgh Castle and the Grassmarket , in the rain The old inns of the Grassmarket in the rain
December 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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#ViewFromABus : Haymarket in winter sunlight and shadows.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #architecture
Looking down from the upper deck of a bus, into the cutting where the main railway line runs through Haymarket station, buildings above in sunlight tracks below in shade
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Fabulous evening with my bookshop posse at the annual Botanics light show last night. Marshmallows were roasted.

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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Excellent evening with chums, strolling the Royal Botanical Gardens #Christmas light show to celebrate friend's birthday, then food, drink & craic.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #photography #photographie
People walking down a long, Gothic arched tunnel of lights
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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End of a very busy day in the bookshop (thanks to everyone for supporting us!).

Now staff outing to the festive lights at the Royal Botanical Gardens to celebrate colleague's special birthday.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres
Looking past the large table of new releases to the wall- long bookshelves in the bookshop
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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A very late season bloom, covered in raindrops, from this morning's stroll to work.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #flowers #fleurs #nature #photography #photographie
Pink, partly unfurled rose, covered in raindrops
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Looks like the Black Sheep chain cafe that many in #Bruntsfield objected to, is nearing completion.

Can't say I'll be using it, been in one, found it soulless (no human interaction, all orders done on screen), left. Much nicer Indie cafes nearby.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #ShopLocal
Looking into the partly completed new chain coffee shop at night
December 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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"We are all sawdust" 😋

Spotted on a bridge in #Edinburgh

#Edimbourg #photography #photographie
Round sticker with a star field above "mountains" made of sawdust shavings and the legend "we are all sawdust", punning on the old "we are all stardust" line
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Another fabulous Pratchett stage adaptation by the Strawmoddie crew! Splendid evening, look forward to them returning to @cymerafestival.co.uk in June.

#TerryPratchett #theatre #books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg
Cast of the stage adaptation of Terry Pratchett's The Fifth Elephant taking their bows Cast of the stage adaptation of Terry Pratchett's The Fifth Elephant taking their bows
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Awaiting the Pratchett play in the Pleasance. Always find it odd to recall I've sat on that very stage with @garethlpowell.bsky.social , @aptshadow.bsky.social and others during @cymerafestival.co.uk . It's a small world, our geek community, yet also infinite ..

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg
Looking toward the theatre stage and it's red curtains
December 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Jolly festive lights spotted as I was strolling to meet my chum from work, as we're off to Strawmoddie's new Pratchett stage productions, The Fifth Elephant 🐘.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #Photography #photographie #NightPhotography
Festive decorations in the windows and door of a corner apartment at night
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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A little premature, given there is most of a month still go, but Flickr has announced my stats for 2025. Well over a million views of my photos, quite pleased!

www.flickr.com/photos/woola...

#photography #photographie
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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So *someone* (naming no names), mixed up his days, thought it was the morning we open earlier and was wondering why nobody else was at the bookshop before the penny dropped.

Oh well, that means more time for breakfast!

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Picked up a vegan poke bowl from Bento, and some strawberry cheesecake mochi for dessert. Mmmm ..
Close up of the mix of food in a vegan poke bowl from the Japanese restaurant, a pair of chopsticks lying across it
December 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Two exceptionally thick tomes in the book mail for me this week. @rtorrubia.com 's Shipwright & the Shroudweaver from @gollancz.bsky.social , & advance copy of Children of Strife by @aptshadow.bsky.social , coming @panmacmillan.bsky.social .

#books #Livres #fantasy #ScienceFiction
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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It is, to use the proper, Scottish meteorological terminology, pure dead minging oot there, so it is.

Soggy walk home, not helped by wankshaft drivers charging through puddles & splashing folks on the pavement.

#Edinburgh #Edinbourg #photography #photographie #rain #pluie
Raib pouring down at night by the awning in front of the local cafe, lights glistening on soaking wet pavements
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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New #StreetArt taking shape near the Union Canal.

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#graffiti #art #mural #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Fountainbridge
Graffiti artist at work on a temporary wooden wall around a building site, the outline of a large cat face taking shape
December 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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This evening's viewing, a blast from the past, early Bruce Willis comedy-crime caper Hudson Hawk. It has a "troubled" history, lots of problems, but also some daft fun moments, Danny Aiello, a bonkers Hugh Grant, & Andie McDowell as a spy-nun. Haven't seen this in decades...

#film
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM