LordWoolamaloo
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LordWoolamaloo
@lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social
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
Orange-tinged sky on the morning stroll to work today.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Second breakfast from La Barantine today. There are pastry flakes all over the bookshop counter...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg
December 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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
#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
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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
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
December 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#ViewFromABus : Haymarket in winter sunlight and shadows.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #architecture
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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
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
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A very late season bloom, covered in raindrops, from this morning's stroll to work.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #flowers #fleurs #nature #photography #photographie
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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
December 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"We are all sawdust" 😋

Spotted on a bridge in #Edinburgh

#Edimbourg #photography #photographie
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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
December 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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
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
Picked up a vegan poke bowl from Bento, and some strawberry cheesecake mochi for dessert. Mmmm ..
December 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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
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
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
December 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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