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

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Sketchbook
February 16, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Taken this day, 2023 - Holy Corner after dark
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#Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #photography #photographie
Holy Corner After Dark 02
A handful of improvised night shots around the busy junction of Holy Corner in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh. This spot gets its name from having a large church on all four corner of the junction....
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February 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Taken this day, 2020, a coffee and some dog biscuits, please

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Lady and hound enjoying a break on Porty Prom

#Portobello #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography #Chien #Dog
Coffee and Some Dog Biscuits Please
Yes, thank you, I'll have a skinny latte and a muffin, and a side order of dog biscuits for my companion here....
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February 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Bakehouse after dark

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #photography #photographie
Brightly lit signs for the Mor Bakehouse on a wet, winter night
February 16, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Iain’s debut novel THE WASP FACTORY was published 42 years ago today…

Available on BBC Sounds – Iain Banks discusses THE WASP FACTORY with James Naughtie & readers at
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🚨CONTAINS SPOILERS🚨 – read the book before listening!
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BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks talks about his first novel The Wasp Factory.
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February 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb: a 🎂 🧵
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“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”

—A 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career
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Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M.) Banks - The Bottle Imp
Iain Banks’ writing can be located within a context of contemporary British fiction, namely the period after 1970. The rationale for the provision of a context wider than Scottish fiction is determine...
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February 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Augh. Massive flooding in Angoulême. Those who have been to the festival will recognize the Museum. Overhead shot of the plaza & the building, and groan the ground floor.

Tough year for Angoulême. Held hostage by the vile ex-director, fest canceled, now this.
February 16, 2026 at 10:34 AM
lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social
spending a long time in a phone queue to speak to NHS, emaild me details of an upcoming appointment but totally failed to say what it is for, which is fairly basic info I need to know during this very trying time. Frustrating
February 16, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Rogatons Rediffusions - 01/07/2025 - "Les Larmes de Dieu"
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LES LIVRES
Rogatons tome 1: www.exemplaire-editions.fr/exemplaire/l...
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Les Larmes de Dieu Texte off: Il y a quelques années, j'avais été invité à une dégustation de vin On voit Boulet un verre à la main, un vigneron qui renifle le sien, et Tetsuo de la BD Akira (la légende dit: je sais plus qui, disons que c'était Tetsuo pour préserver son anonymat). Texte off: Alors dans ces trucs, le gars essaie de t'encourager, de te faire trouver toi-même les réponses... Le vigneron: Alors... Quelle est la première chose qui vous frappe ? Tetsuo (intense et grave): Mhh il est frais... Avec des notes minérales. Boulet est perplexe. Dans une bulle, son cerveau lui dit: "Après analyse poussée, nous pensons qu'il a un goût de vin." Le vigneron (off): "Oui, très minéral, mais encore ?" Boulet lève son verre pour le regarder, dubitatif. "Après examen minutieux du verre, je dirais 'vin blanc'. Je propose qu'on bluffe." Boulet (devant Tetsuo estomaqué): "Je sens une note de fruit, si je ne me trompe pas ?" Le vigneron: "Oui ! Bravo ! Elle est discrète, mais il y a une note fruitée très reconnaissable !" Boulet (fanfaronnant): "Haha il me semblait bien, en effet !" (En arrière plan, Tetsuo gonfle et se déforme) texte off: Tetsuo jaloux de la finesse de mon palais Le vigneron: "Mais la question est: quel fruit ?" Boulet (transpirant abondamment de gêne): "Mhh... Voyons cela." Boulet (in petto): "Merde merde merde réfléchis. Fouille le palais de ta mémoire sensorielle !" On voit le palais de la mémoire sensoriel: c'est une sorte d'immense dépotoir malodorant avec des colonnes doriques. Boulet: "Oh boy." Boulet: "Alors... Je cherche ce vague soupçon de fruit..." Boulet fouille dans un gros sac de fruits : "Je suis nul pour les goûts... Je retiens rien, c'est quoi la différence de goût entre une myrtille et une mûre, bordel " Boulet est dans le sac de fruit jusqu'à la taille, tête la première: "Ça c'est quoi ? Ça dit juste "parfum" et ça sent la fleur. Pourquoi il y a 'malabar' dans les fruits ?" Boulet est dans une scène de son enfance et se voit lui-même petit. Il pense: "Concentre-toi... Ça t'évoque quoi, spontanéement ? L'enfance... La campagne..." Boulet se voit enfant manger des groseilles. "Les groseilles du jardin ? Non... Un truc qu'on achetait. Du melon ? Du lichee ?" Boulet enfant approche d'un saladier de fruit dans lequel une absence brille. Il tend la main vers un point d'interrogation. "C'est LÀ, sur la table de la cuisine... Je le sens presque ! Tends la main et..." Boulet lève son verre triomphalement. Tetsuo n'est plus qu'un gros blob-bébé dégueulasse. Boulet: "JE L'AI !" Boulet, entouré d'une auréole de sagesse: "LE RAISIN ! Cette note de fruit, c'est du raisin." Le vigneron et Tetsuo (qui reprend un aspect humain progressivement) sont sans voix. La caméra s'éloigne. Boulet réalise ce qu'il vient de dire et répète, la voix faiblissant jusqu'à disparaître: "Du raisin. C'est un vin qui a un goût de raisin." Texte off: "Dites pas à ma belle-famille américaine que j'ai raconté cette histoire: ils croient encore à mon raffinement français."
February 14, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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February 14, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Taken this day, 2017, slanted winter sunlight across the roof beams of the National Museum of Scotland
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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie
slanted winter light
Recent visit to the National Museum of Scotland the low winter sunlight was slanting through the Victorian glass and steel roof over the main hall (which floods the interior with natural light, even i...
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February 15, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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Taken this day, 2016, Greyfriars Bobby pub at dusk www.flickr.com/photos/woola...

Ironically one of the few pubs in the city that *doesn't* allow dogs!

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography
Greyfriars Bobby, dusk
Greyfriars Bobby pub just after sunset this evening, on my walk home from work. The pub adjoins the historic neighbouring Greyfriars kirk and cemetery, scene of some major moments in Scottish history....
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February 15, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Liz The Lettuce Truss really is increasingly pathetic www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Right about everything’: Liz Truss tweets photo of meeting with Trump
Unclear how encounter between Britain’s shortest-serving PM and US president was initiated and how long it lasted
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February 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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Wet reflections

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #rain #pluie #reflections #reflexiones
Looking along a narrow pavement as a sign reading "Hawksmoor" on a building is reflected on a rain soaked path
February 15, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Lovely day spent with dear friends who came through to town just to spend time with me after medical news. Hugely appreciated at the best of times, even more right now because, frankly, I bloody well need it.
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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This week on Bylines Scotland...

" Poverty has been demonized, priorities are for profits, not for people or our planet, humans dehumanised to those who can be exploited for further wealth contribution or discarded for their uselessness."
Jim Ratcliffe and the art of shamelessness
Immigrant billionaire owner of Manchester United condemns immigrants – just the poor ones, though
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February 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Lovely chums coming through from Glasgow to spend some time with me & boost my morale. Off to gorgeous Portrait Gallery to see exhibition (I've seen it, they haven't, quite happy to revisit it)

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie
Looking past a marble statue into the highly decorated entrance hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
February 15, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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😂🤣
We know it.
February 15, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Sunday scribble. It’s only rain!
#sketchbook
February 15, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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Best comic shop in the UK, no question! Happy birthday!
goshcomics.bsky.social Gosh! Comics @goshcomics.bsky.social · 2d
40 years ago today we first opened our doors, at our inaugural site on Great Russell Street, opposite the British Museum. Originally dealing predominantly in back-issues, we’ve grown to host all aspects of the culture of comics, weathered the tumult of the industry and settled in to 1 Berwick St.
February 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.

Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.

Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
February 15, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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Wild to see wealthy Reform politician "explaining" to poor people they don't understand their own experience.

Let's make sure every single person in Gorton & Denton (and the country!) knows exactly that Reform is bankrolled by dodgy donors. Mask is off.

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Exclusive: Greens Hit Out At Reform 'Frauds' After Zia Yusuf Suggests Poverty Rates Are Exaggerated
"Reform have totally let the cat out of the bag this morning about what they really stand for."
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February 15, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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It can often be hard to pinpoint the exact inspirations for a piece of writing, but there were a few really distinct things that brought to life my new Scottish gothic horror novella, In This City, Where it Rains: Ghostly waypoints.
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In This City, Where it Rains and how it came to be
It can often be hard to pinpoint the exact inspirations for a piece of writing, but there were a few really distinct things that brought to life my new Scottish gothic horror novella, In This City, Wh...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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"Small acts of kindness and service can change the world. Sometime it all comes down to helping one person, and letting those actions ripple from there." You can read the full blog by @dmbeucler.bsky.social on @scalzi.com The Big Idea 💙
The Big Idea: D. M. Beucler
Small acts of kindness may not always seem like they change the world, but they certainly change the world of whoever you’re helping. Author D. M. Beucler discusses how acts of kindness are a…
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October 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Desperately looking for anyone in Scotland to foster a 2 year old female cat named Bambi. Incredibly affectionate and friendly. Indoor-only. Whether temporary (a few weeks) or longer term.

She's going to be put to sleep otherwise -- due to a heart issue that won't affect her for another 12 months
February 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM