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Cole17
@cole17.bsky.social
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Stuck on the wrong train, but it’s paying the bills…
Mid 40s, she/her, Scottish. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Book lover, pro science, anti bigotry, travel enthusiast and crap-but-I-enjoy-it gardener. Massive remoaner 🇪🇺, and aging Pokémon nerd.
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Oh god.. OH GOD!! 😍 It’s as cool as they say it is: I made it to the famous bookshop in Buenos Aires. YOU CAN SIT AND READ YOUR BOOK IN THE OPERA BOXES!! 💙📚

Unfortunately I can’t read Spanish properly, so back to my kindle, and #WheelofTime book #7 I go.
El Ateneo Book shop in Buenos Aires. A classic theatre with ornate decor converted into a book shop. The stage contains a cafe, and the seating area is full of bookshelves. The upper floors also contain bookshelves, and the private boxes are in use as reading/seating areas. View up into a circular triple height space in el Ateneo book store. Previously the entrance hall of a theatre. Upper floors have bookshelves, ground floor is the street entrance surrounded by columns. The upper floors have ornate wrought iron balustrades.
January 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Can’t turn around in Doha without bumping into a bit of Simsima limestone. Rough blocks used for landscaping/ garden walls everywhere.
Picked up a small bit from a vacant lot with a nice chert lens, and had a look with my crappy little pocket phone microscope. #urbangeology #Doha
Pale brown/off white limestone wall made up of rough limestone rocks approximately 10 cm diameter. Topped off with unpolished limestone slabs of the same rock. Small piece of Simsima limestone 5 x 10cm. Beige / light brown in colour, with a darker grayish chert lens visible on one side. Broken into two parts, and cm scale ruler on the left of the photo. Landscaping limestone boulders roughly cut into cube shapes 50 x 50 x 50 cm. Used as outdoor seating with a wooden plinth on top visible to the extreme left of the photo. Scale ruler placed on top of the block. Limestone is light yellowish brown and finely crystalline in texture. Microscope photo of fresh broken limestone surface. Pale grey to off white in colour, fine crystalline texture.
January 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Since I don’t know many people irl who will share my nerdy excitement at this, I’ll share it with the other #TROP fans on here instead.

My Hammer of Fëanor arrived today, AAAAAAAHHH!! #TheRingsofPower

Now to hunt down the hedgehog teapot…
Hammer of Feëanor: silver coloured decorative prop hammer with gold art nouveau style decoration on the handle. Small colourful gemstones decorate the head. Hammer sits in a black gift box with moulded foam, and has a certificate from the maker.
January 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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#FossilFriday / #Urbangeology. Fossil bearing limestone pavement slabs at Doha Library, and I found my little pocket scale card 😃

(I do actually go in there and read books too, not just hang around taking pictures of the building stones, honest!)
Pale grey-brown limestone with many fossil shell fragments. Average size of fossilized shells is approximately 1cm. Scale ruler on left of photo, overall size of paving slab 10 x 10 cm. Limestone paving slab containing many fossilized shell fragments. Limestone matrix is pale brown, shell fragments are off white. Average size of fossilized shells 1 -2 cm. Overall size of slab in photo 20 x 20 cm.
January 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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💙📚 My StoryGraph 2024 Wrap Up.
I’m late to the party with the whole #WheelofTime book series, but I’ll catch up!
StoryGraph 2024 wrap up summary graphic showing the following books: Wheel of Time books 1-5 (Robert Jordan), A Time for Mercy (John Grisham) , Heroes (Stephen Fry), The Psychology of Stupidity, The Jealousy Man (Jo Nesbo), The Book of Lost Tales (Tolkien), Maiden Voyage ( Tanya Aebi), The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for love (Per J Andersson), Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie), Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (Philpotts & Ague), The City and it’s Uncertain Walls (Haruki Murakami).
January 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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This was an unusual one in Doha - floor of a funny little old shopping mall called Souq Al Jabor. @pavementgeology.bsky.social I could use any advice you’ve got on this one, bit of a head scratcher! #urbangeology #pavementgeology #Doha
Close up of stone flooring. Dark orangey red matrix with white clasts of approximately 1-2cm diameter. Hand on left for scale. Stone floor panels, with hand on the left for scale. Each panel is 30 x 30cm. Dark orangey red in colour, with a large yellow and white areas. Worn patches in the polished stone surface are full of grey dust. Polished stone floor tile, 30 x 30 cm with a hand on the left for scale. Dark reddish brown matrix and orange-red, pale yellow and pinkish coloured clasts ranging from 1cm to 7cm in diameter.
December 20, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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This weekends #urbangeology #pavementgeology sightings in Doha Souq metro station. (It’s a rather fancy metro station, and has some nice paintings too!) Carved travertine panels and grey marble pillars (apparently the marble came from Italy this time).
Travertine wall panel with carved geometric pattern and left hand for scale. Travertine has a striped appearance and is grey, cream and pale brown in colour. Travertine wall panel close up with carved geometric pattern of small spirals and left thumb for scale. Travertine is striped appearance and grey, cream and pale brown in colour. Grey and white marble panel with 1cm vertical grooves carved at approximately 4cm intervals. Left hand for scale.
December 8, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

13/20
Cover of “Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister “ by Gregory Maguire. Illustration of a pumpkin shaped coach, with a man and woman looking out of the window. A mouse dressed in Tudor style clothing is in the foreground.
December 2, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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Just some building stones from my own neighborhood in Doha today: polished limestone wall and granite paving cobbles. Not sure of the provenance of these, the limestone may be local, the granite definitely won’t be.
#urbangeology #pavementgeology
Close up of dark grey and brown mottled limestone. Polished to a shiny surface, with a hand on the left of the photo for scale. Small granite paving cobbles with a hand for scale. Each cobblestone is approximately 8 x 8 cm square, and contains large visible K-felspar and mica crystals of around 1cm.
November 30, 2024 at 11:40 AM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

12/20
Cover of “Understanding Earth” 3rd edition, by Frank Press and Raymond Siever. Grey marble pattern background with six small insert pictures of the Earth from various angles and different mapping styles.
November 30, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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Parents come over to visit for a couple of weeks and bring my mail - it contained a great treasure!!

Mum, to my middle-aged ass: “Aww look sunshine, they gave you a Triceratops card, your favourite!” 😂❤️
#naturalhistorymuseum #Dinosaurs #museums
Membership card for the Natural History Museum in London. Mint green background with a photo of a Triceratops skeleton.
November 28, 2024 at 3:09 PM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

11/20
Cover of “God is Not Great” by Christopher Hitchens. Pink background with title and author in bold black and white text. Outline of a cross and an axe in the bottom right corner.
November 28, 2024 at 2:58 PM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

10/20
Cover of “The Girl with the Red Hair” by Buzzy Jackson. Watercolor style picture of a foggy, cobble stone street. A young woman with long red hair, dressed in dark clothing is pushing a bicycle.
November 27, 2024 at 11:53 AM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

9/20
Cover of “In Praise of Shadows” by Junichiro Tanizaki. A photo of a traditional Japanese room with tatami mats and paper screens.
November 26, 2024 at 4:17 PM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

8/20
Cover of “The Glass Palace” by Amitav Ghosh. A wooden bridge on stilts, with several people crossing on foot and by bicycle. Under the bridge are still water and green fields, and in the distance the faint outline of a city skyline.
November 25, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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Many thanks to @pavementgeology.bsky.social for sharing their article on urban geology in Doha - I had to go and check this one out for myself, and was not disappointed! Travertine wall in the University services building. #urbangeology #pavementgeology #travertine #Doha
Close up of travertine wall panel with hand for scale, approximate size 40 x 60 cm. Banded crystalline appearance in reds, oranges and whites. Close up of travertine wall panel with hand for scale, approximate size 40 x 50cm. Speckled crystalline appearance in reds, oranges and whites. Close up of travertine wall panel with hand for scale, approximate size 20 x 25 cm. crystalline appearance in reds, oranges and whites. Photo of travertine wall from a distance of 3m. Banded and geometrically shaped crystalline appearance in reds, oranges and whites.
November 23, 2024 at 1:53 PM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

7/20
Cover of “Genji Monogatari” by Murasaki Shikibu. White background with an orange red blurry circle containing ink style drawing of bamboo.
November 23, 2024 at 1:33 PM
cole17.bsky.social
Looking for some help from the bee or nature people in identifying this little fellow.
Have checked the UK bee guide but can only narrow it down to 2 types. I saw quite a lot of them in my garden this summer (North of Scotland, if that helps).
#bee #uknature #nature 🐝🌿
Close up of a bumblebee on lilac-blue coloured wildflower. Bee is yellow at the front, black/dark brown midsection and orangey red coloured tail. Close up of a bumblebee on lilac-blue coloured wildflower. Bee is yellow at the front, black/dark brown midsection and orangey red coloured tail.
November 22, 2024 at 10:39 AM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

6/20
Cover of “Trillions” by Nicholas Fisk. Dark sky background with multiple small spiky metallic objects scattered across the foreground.
November 22, 2024 at 10:21 AM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

5/20
Cover illustration, “Tales from Moomin Valley” by Tove Jansson. Green waves in the background with a small boat and sea monster popping its head out of the water. Various characters from The Moomins in the foreground on land.
November 21, 2024 at 9:39 AM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
Cover of “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson. A pirate ship against a stormy sea background, with a pirate figure in the foreground holding up a lamp.
November 20, 2024 at 8:31 AM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

3/20
Book cover of “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino. Downward facing view of illustrated yellow tower block buildings, floating in a blue sky with scattered white clouds.
November 19, 2024 at 9:11 AM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

2/20
Cover of “Kafka on the Shore” by Murakami. Black background with red circle containing the outline of a black cat, facing right.
November 18, 2024 at 1:30 PM
cole17.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books

1/20
Cover of ‘Five letters from an eastern empire’. Plain white background with an orange circle containing a stylized carved face of an elderly man.
November 17, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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You’ve made my day 100% more cheerful now I know that this is still going strong, thank you! 😊 My dessert from 2016 - the food was really quite good.
Creme brûlée dessert in glass jar, decorated to look like Pompompurin, a Sanrio character. (Round, chubby, lemon yellow coloured cartoon dog with a brown beret).
November 17, 2024 at 3:16 AM