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

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Tomorrow (the 19th) will be the (real) 49th birthday of 2000AD! I can't wait to see what @2000ad.bsky.social create for the 50th next year! downthetubes.net/2000ad-49-ye...
2000AD: 49 Years and Counting!
No, we’re not too early – read on to find out why!
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February 18, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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A newfound site in the Italian Alps holds one of the largest collections of Triassic dinosaur footprints ever seen
These jaw-dropping photographs show a new ‘Triassic Park’ of dinosaur prints in the Italian Alps
A newfound site in the Italian Alps holds one of the largest collections of Triassic dinosaur footprints ever seen
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February 17, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Sunlight and shadows, Waverley Station

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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #architecture #photography #photographie
Waiting On The Iron Horse 01
Waiting on the intercity train, on a gorgeous, autumn morning, the old, Victorian glass and steel roof allowing the huge station to be filled with natural light and shadows.
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February 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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Waiting on the iron horse
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Waverley Station on a bright, sunny morning

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #architecture #photography #photographie
Waiting On The Iron Horse 02
Waiting on the intercity train, on a gorgeous, autumn morning, the old, Victorian glass and steel roof allowing the huge station to be filled with natural light and shadows.
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February 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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edinburghbookshop.bsky.social
#WhatWereReading : Joe loved @rachloudriscoll.bsky.social 's debut, Nephthys, following a woman travelling through Egypt, rho may, or may not have a real curse to lift. Now out in paperback from @vintagebooks.bsky.social

#books #livres
Ancient Egyptian style artwork surrounds the silhouette of a woman in Victorian dress
February 17, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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RIP Jesse Jackson (Jacob Lawrence's portrait of Jesse Jackson, created in 1970 for cover of Time magazine, now in collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery) npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...
Painted, stylized portrait of Jesse Jackson
February 17, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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edinburghbookshop.bsky.social
A nice way to celebrate Lunar New Year: a visit from Siobhan McDermott to sign her new Paper Dragons book, The Race to the Cloud Sea, just out from @hachettebguk.bsky.social

#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse
A smiling Siobhan McDermott holding her new children's novel in the Edinburgh Bookshop, close up snap A laughing Siobhan McDermott holding her new children's novel in the Edinburgh Bookshop, close up snap A smiling Siobhan McDermott holding her new children's novel in the Edinburgh Bookshop, standing under the neon "we read past our bedtimes" sign A smiling Siobhan McDermott holding her new children's novel in the Edinburgh Bookshop, close up snap
February 17, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social
#LunchtimeReading : G.K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill, the February pick for the #Edinburgh SF Book Group.

#books #livres #AmReading
A Penguin Classics paperback edition of The Napoleon of Notting Hill, showing a stylised cityscape with whorls and lines like fireworks above the buildings
February 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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dunedinconsort.bsky.social
Discover the extraordinary musical treasures of the @natlibscot.bsky.social in a programme that includes John Dowland’s Lachrimae, viol music by Marin Marais, ayres by Christopher Simpson, and vibrant dances from Jean-Baptiste Lully.
📆 4 - 6 March, 7.30pm
📍 Edinburgh | Glasgow | Perth
🎟️ link in bio
February 17, 2026 at 10:47 AM
lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social
Golden winter sunlight and shadows in #Bruntsfield this morning.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #architecture
Looking past the purple coloured side of the Edinburgh Bookshop down the street to Bruntsfield Primary School, catching golden sunlight
February 17, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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Sweetness review: Music video director Emma Higgins serves Gen-Z Misery with a pop star twist. Kate Hallett is heartbreakingly unhinged. Parasocial horror done right. 🖤 #SweetnessMovie #Horror

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Sweetness: The Annie Wilkes Of Gen-Z Has Arrived - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Emma Higgins' Sweetness blends Misery-style terror with music video slickness. Read our review of the pop star horror starring Kate Hallett.
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February 17, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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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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asls.org.uk
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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2/13
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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 🎂 🧵
1/13

“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 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