LordWoolamaloo

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2026-05-25 14:59:03 UTC

Happy #TowelDay to those who celebrate, and to all the rest, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys!
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#DouglasAdams #books #livres #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
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2026-04-14 21:58:54 UTC

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@nprofile…xqa7 Hope you feel better in the morning

2026-04-14 16:22:01 UTC

Why do the roadworks crews always do this? A sign designed for the wider area of a road, but dumped on a much narrower pavement, blocking two thirds of it (a wheelchair or pram couldn't pass).
And all for the benefit of vehicles, while obstructing pedestrians needlessly, because, as usual, zero thought given to pedestrians daring to use the pavement...
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2026-04-11 18:45:40 UTC

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@nprofile…xqa7 How is his leg?

2026-04-11 13:24:59 UTC

First recuperation walk since coming back to my own flat yesterday. Trying to avoid the bloody kickyball crowds.
Made it as far as the old boathouse at Harrison Park, chum coming to meet me. Wee seat & recover before next part of the (slow) walk.
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photographie #photography #UnionCanal
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2026-04-09 17:43:57 UTC

Dad and I drove to his favourite ice-cream place, Equi's, to resupply the freezer. No mint choc chip today, sadly, so went for Belgian chocolate, which was rich and delicious.
#IceCream #Glace #photography #photographie
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2026-04-06 16:01:12 UTC

Out again with dad; wee drive, then stop for a short walk for us both (exercising but easy pace required, for both of us). We ended up at Port of Mentieth.
#Ecosse #Scotland #photography #photographie #PortOfMentieth
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2026-04-05 10:33:53 UTC

Campsie Fells have vanished behind white clouds.
Hailstones earlier this morning, now snow, contrasting with the green & yellow of the daffodils in the parental garden. It won't lie long at this time of year.
#StormDave #snow #neige #photography #photographie
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2026-04-02 20:01:41 UTC

Finally, after enormous amount of frustration (my nurse chasing the office side repeatedly since morning, thank you), got all stuff & leave with dad & cousin who were through for visit, so could pick me up.
At parental home after 8 days in hospital, relief, looking forward to real bed, nobody waking me continually for tests or swallow this or beeping alarms etc...

2026-03-31 19:18:24 UTC

Taken this day, 2020 : no passengers today...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/49724716166
Lockdown-era walk through the West End, the normally busy tram stop deserted, almost no traffic. Strange days...
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Lockdown #Covid

2026-03-26 09:44:54 UTC

Exhausted and very sore, had to open me up more than planned so longer operation, but surgical team seem happy with results. Managed all way from bed to a seat, which is an achievement right now.

2026-03-24 18:18:30 UTC

It's been a strange spring for me: enjoying the return of light, colour & life (& photographing it, of course), coloured by the distress of my diagnosis & impending surgery (tomorrow).
Posted a few thoughts and pics on my old blog (remember those? yes, some of us still like to keep one.)
Promising myself I will be fit by the time the cherry blossoms bloom in the Meadows.
https://www.woolamaloo.org.uk/spring-blooms-but-brings-bad-news/
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #spring #printemps #photography #photographie #health #cancer

2026-03-23 20:09:23 UTC

After the disappointment of last night's viewing distraction (the dull, cliche-ridden Borderlands flick), tonight, ahead of what's coming, I understandably crave comfort viewing to wrap myself in, so a warm, old favourite it is: Miyazaki & Co's gorgeous Spirited Away.
#animation #film #StudioGhibli #SpiritedAway #ClassicFilm #AnimatedFilm #2000sFilm
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2026-03-21 22:38:47 UTC

Tennessee librarian takes a stand when told to relocate LGBTQ books https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/rutherford-library-director-refusal
#books #livres #bookstodon #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech

2026-03-20 22:30:18 UTC

I had my last day at the bookshop, before the operation next week. My wonderful wee book family all hugged me, then gave me a card they had all signed, and a bag with bits and pieces to keep me occupied during the recuperation and others things.
I'm so not looking forward to this operation, but I'm so damned glad I have such warm people supporting me.

2026-03-15 17:44:11 UTC

Dear #Etsy sellers, please, for the love of god, stop using bloody #Evri for deliveries. Email : "your parcel has just been delivered"
Strange, just returned home, nothing in letterbox or even left outside door, check photo "proof" driver posted, was them holding parcel inside their *van*. Not exactly proof of delivery, is it?
Find it dumped inside entrance to tenement block, simply thrown behind main street door, abandoned. Not the first time from Evri.

2026-03-07 22:57:51 UTC

Hunter S Thompson's "Red Shark" is up for auction https://boingboing.net/2026/03/06/hunter-s-thompsons-red-shark-can-be-yours.html
As your lawyer I advise you to buy it and drive it to Vegas right away... (drug soaked towels around the pedals not included)

2026-03-07 22:21:43 UTC

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@nprofile…xqa7 Hopefully they will bloom here after I am out of hospital & fit enough to get out to see them. Take my friend with me, she just lost a parent, very suddenly, about same time I got my diagnosis, so we are both trying to look out for each other.

2026-03-07 21:40:58 UTC

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@nprofile…xqa7 can imagine. Here there are a couple of wonderful avenues through the Meadows (huge, popular park) totally lined by cherry trees, so you can walk through them like a "tree tunnel", it's just wonderful when they are in bloom https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/47744754041/in/photostream/lightbox/

2026-03-07 20:04:53 UTC

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@nprofile…xqa7 Gorgeous! Be a while before it is out here, likewise the cherry blossoms will be a few weeks yet.

2026-02-22 10:27:56 UTC

Sitting in the hospital waiting room, drinking radioactive fluids for an hour before they actually scan me. Not my ideal Sunday morning.
Also tremendously disappointed to learn drinking this stuff will *not* give me superpowers. Sigh
#photography #photographie #architecture #Edinburgh #Edimbourg
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2026-02-21 11:39:40 UTC

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@nprofile…gent I seem to recall Whedon had a subplot like this in an episode of Buffy spinoff, Angel. One character breaks into the satanic legal agency, fights to the secure contracts and destroys the one that bound a now deceased woman he was close to, even after death. But it just reforms, and her spirit thanks him for trying, but she knew this when she signed, it was "forever"

2026-02-06 23:24:05 UTC

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@nprofile…xqa7 Yeesh, that sounds dreadful. Take care, matey

2026-02-04 19:34:19 UTC

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@nprofile…xqa7 How are you feeling today?

2026-02-03 19:24:56 UTC

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@nprofile…xqa7 Oh no. At least you can stay home with the furry boy for company. Take care of yourself

2026-02-02 21:56:37 UTC

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@nprofile…xqa7 oh, not good. I am just slowly recovering from whatever floored me last week, hopefully back to work in the morning. Look after yourself, mate.

2025-12-28 21:33:57 UTC

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@nprofile…daef I remember at a previous workplace when colleague and I asked for our first raise in years, one of the company directors told us how we were better paid than he was (this was just after talking about bidding a quarter of a million on a house they liked!).

2025-12-28 21:11:45 UTC

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@nprofile…sych Kengo seems happy with it! Chum had a hatchback and just left the back seats folded down flat, so the greyhounds would go in the back but have the trunk space and the seat space. They'd mostly snooze in it, every now and then one would raise their head and you'd feel a wet nose on the back of your ear as they said hello! Miss that

2025-12-25 22:37:24 UTC

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@nprofile…sych hah, somehow they know. My last kitties didn't get stockings, but my late mother would wrap up remaining bits of turkey for me to take back to them (I'm veggie, so not something I'd ever cook), and each year they went berserk as soon as I came home, going straight for the bag with the turkey

2025-12-05 09:37:58 UTC

Eurovision, you are shameful. Good on Ireland, Spain etc for standing up for mortality https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde6d8wyp79o

2025-12-04 23:47:37 UTC

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@nprofile…sych I'm not sure you'd want to know what he was eating under the leaves!! 😋

2025-11-30 21:02:56 UTC

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I really am sick of these petty little idiots who do this sort of thing, and their love of ridiculous rules that obviously give them some sort of illusion of power. Have also had this at the festive market in Edinburgh more than once, despite the fact it is a public space, owned by the people of the city. Why are some organisations so hostile to someone taking a simple photograph??

2025-11-30 20:59:33 UTC

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... I pointed out I had taken pics there since the place opened, with no problems (outside, not inside), and that I was a regular customer holding a subscription to the cinema there since it opened, and regularly using the restaurants and bars, so as one of the PAYING CUSTOMERS who keeps the place open, I thought they should tell their boss that this is NOT how you treat your regular, local customers...

2025-11-30 20:58:03 UTC

After leaving my chums this evening, I paused to take some night photos on the walk home, including around Fountainpark, which has its festive lights up. And soon after found two security chaps (politely) telling me I can't do that. Why? Have taken pics around there since it opened years ago...
Apparently the current landlord doesn't like it. Oh. Really? Why? ...

2025-11-26 21:26:30 UTC

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@nprofile…sych unseasonable visitor, but quite welcome!

2025-11-20 22:12:56 UTC

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@nprofile…sych Nice here today, but very, very cold, only a couple of degrees centigrade, freezing overnight. No snow in the city but saw several cars driving in from the outskirts which had a lot of snow on their roofs. I have finally switched over to the Great Winter Coat (massive, long, wool vintage officer's coat, very toasty!)

2025-11-19 13:11:31 UTC

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@nprofile…8eua it rarely lies in the city, although few years ago there was a huge snowstorm, even the buses had to stop, the canals froze solid. I took this on Saint Andrew's Night in 2010, the Castle at night, covered in snow https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/5221426019

2025-11-12 22:21:17 UTC

Royal Mile after dark
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54919824361/in/photostream/lightbox/
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography #UrbanNight #RoyalMile #OldTownEdinburgh #BlackAndWhitePhotography

2025-11-10 10:39:37 UTC

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@nprofile…sych there wasn't time, the owner was already past the door and impatiently tugging the dog on without looking back to see why they'd stopped

2025-10-20 19:23:24 UTC

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I don't think this cultural cohesion she seems to pine for even exists just within the home nations that comprise the UK - Scotland is not the same as England, nor is Wales, or NI, they all have their own unique cultureas and traditions outside this imagined UK homogenity, and that's before factoring in wider diversity from immigration that gives so much spark to our shared cultures.

2025-10-19 22:21:26 UTC

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@nprofile…sych Did you pick up any good books?

2025-10-19 19:56:11 UTC

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@nprofile…sych Yes, loved it!

2025-10-19 19:24:22 UTC

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@nprofile…sych Is that what it means? Interesting . Haven't been in, just passed it recently and the bright paper lamp sign in the window made such a good contrast with the night street outside I thought I would grab a pic. Are you settled back in at home now?

2025-10-18 16:01:23 UTC

Spotted this sweet ride on the high street back home, while out and about with dad.
#motorbike #photography #photographie #moto #HarleyDavidson
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2025-10-18 14:44:13 UTC

Standing at the northern edge of the Roman Empire
#History #Histoire #Kirkintilloch #AntonineWall #photography #photographie #architecture #AuldKirkMuseum #Glasgow #Scotland #Ecosse #AncientRome #ClassicalHistory
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2025-10-17 22:34:58 UTC

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@nprofile…sych Hope you had a nice trip and catch up with family and friends. I imagine your furry boy was glad to have you back though!!

2025-07-09 21:23:43 UTC

Watching a history channel on YouTube that I like a lot, but the (American) presenter just did the "England" thing when he means Britain, which, apart from being incorrect, is just bloody insulting and infuriating to those of us in other nations of the UK. Sadly very common, and not usually meant as an insult, stemming from ignorance rather than malice, but still bloody infuriating (yes, I did send him a gentle correction)

2025-06-18 19:31:50 UTC

Spiral, ascending
#photography #photohraphie #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #spiral #stairs #escaliers #architecture
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2025-04-27 11:13:11 UTC

Aujourd'hui j'ai atteint 1500 jours consécutifs sur Duo!
Today I achieved 1500 straight days on Duo
(yes, I even managed to do lessons on the day of my surgery the other year to keep my unbroken run!)
#French #Francais #language #langue
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2025-04-07 10:51:43 UTC

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@nprofile…62fu we're still enjoying a run of nice weather - mild rather than warm, though, but gorgeous, golden spring sunlight. Walked miles across the city in it yesterday taking photos.
Downside is couple of rural parts of Scotland have had wildfires, because the undergrowth is so dry. I'm sure rain will return soon enough - it is Scotland, after all!

2025-03-31 21:58:00 UTC

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@nprofile…62fu After a few days of constant sunshine, rain showers, sunshine, showers, we've had several days of pretty pleasant, spring weather - nice light, mild temperatures, been quite pretty.

2025-03-24 11:55:18 UTC

"Records make your life better"
Fabulous to see Dundee's Assai and #Edinburgh 's own Thorne Records (where I buy most of my vinyl, handily placed just across the road from our bookshop) on the BBC site for their well-deserved inclusion on a world-wide list of best record stores https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c2er11m9414o
#music #musique #Edimbourg #vinyl #RecordStore #VinylRecord #Scotland #Ecosse #AssaiRecords #Dundee #ThorneRecords

2025-03-15 22:52:03 UTC

#Polwarth this evening
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #photography #photographie #architecture #UrbanNight
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2025-02-26 22:11:12 UTC

Ship loading at #Leith Docks https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54353125703/in/photostream/
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #LeithDocks #Docks #PortOfLeith #Industrial #Ship #Boat #Bateau

2025-02-22 18:52:08 UTC

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@nprofile…62fu opposite here, suddenly after a long spell of cold weather over the British Isles, a milder front moved in, up to 12, 13C today, which is a lot in Scotland mid February. Visiting dad, sun came out and the light actually felt warm on my face.

2025-01-23 23:53:09 UTC

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@nprofile…62fu Lovely skies. It was nice here today, but we are due a big storm coming in across Ireland then the central part of Scotland tomorrow. Government red alerts were pinging on all our phones in the bookshop today, as they are predicting it could go to 80mph winds, so trains, buses, schools etc all closing tomorrow.
We're shut in the morning and going to see if it gets better. Supposed to have an author event in the evening, but that may be gone now!

2024-06-20 22:31:59 UTC

Damn.
RIP, Donald Sutherland. So many films, so many varied roles.
#DonaldSutherland #film #films #movies #actor #acteur #RIP
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2024-01-23 19:19:44 UTC

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."
Today would have been Rutger Hauer's birthday, or should I say his Incept Date?
#RutgerHauer #birthday #actor #film #films #cinema #BladeRunner #RoyBatty #DarrylHannah #Pris #InceptDate #replicant
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2023-08-26 10:40:41 UTC

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@npub1ex3…c58j Long history of bad behaviour, and each time it is never him, it is always someone else out to get him (even the Mafia?!?! Yeesh). Weapons-grade Bullshitium, methinks.

2023-08-23 18:01:05 UTC

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@npub1ex3…c58j yes, and their union busting ways in US too. Try to avoid, but nowhere else near enough to cinema. Annoying.

2023-08-23 17:56:15 UTC

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@npub1psd…9sr7 very easy to derail though, just a thought for anyone working on the rail lines there, who wants to help their country...

2023-08-23 14:53:59 UTC

Did I drink an entire pot of coffee before leaving home? Why, yes
Am I having more (and cakey treat!) before my film fest show? Why, yes, I am .
Did plan to go to nearby Indy cafe, but they had already closed (3.30, busy city centre street), sadly Taxbucks only other place close enough to the cinema. Well, I tried ..
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #cafe #coffee
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2023-08-20 16:39:14 UTC

Princes Street Gardens and the Scott Monument today
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #PrincesStreetGardens #ScottMonument
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2023-08-17 16:05:35 UTC

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@npub1ex3…c58j Well I cannot fault him for that desire!

2023-08-08 18:45:08 UTC

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@npub1ex3…c58j Anderson is a vile excuse for a human being, rude, intolerant and lacking in the precious gift of empathy

2023-08-06 15:26:05 UTC

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@npub19gz…fj0u so glad NHS is devolved here and under Scottish parliament jurisdiction.

2023-08-05 17:18:27 UTC

Blooms from this evening's stroll home from work
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #nature #Flowers #Fleurs #photography
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/110/838/144/140/858/632/original/a18c26dcac3f636e.jpg

2023-07-05 17:04:41 UTC

Duck flotilla!
#UnionCanal #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #wildlife #nature #photography #Fountainbridge #ducks #canards #oiseaux #birds
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/110/662/557/285/264/800/original/927470dd0557a7f2.mp4

2023-07-05 14:49:07 UTC

This afternoon is being powered by the mighty Tunnock's Caramel Wafer, an ancient delicacy of my Celtic peoples.
#biscuits #Tunnocks #CaramelWafer #Scotland #Ecosse
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2023-05-18 18:04:21 UTC

Purty flowers spotted on walk home this evening
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Flowers #Fleurs #photography #nature #red #rouge
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