LordWoolamaloo
@lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social
Bookseller, editor, blogger, reader, reviewer, writer, photographer, drinker, swashbuckler, cat tickler
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Our #Christmas campaign with Craigmillar Literacy Trust is under way: we have a selection of gift tags with suggestions for books for children who rarely receive them, which you can buy as a donation for the Trust.
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Our #Christmas campaign with Craigmillar Literacy Trust is under way: we have a selection of gift tags with suggestions for books for children who rarely receive them, which you can buy as a donation for the Trust.
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Little pleasures: bedtime with a book, plus you just changed the bedding so it has that softest feel to it, gently leading you towards the Land of Nod...
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Little pleasures: bedtime with a book, plus you just changed the bedding so it has that softest feel to it, gently leading you towards the Land of Nod...
Instagram and its increasingly annoying (and frequent) ads has been bombarding me with the worst religious and pseudo spiritual (ie total nonsense by someone who wants me to buy from them, to energise my inner angelic light).
Batting them away with a hardback copy of Dante...
Batting them away with a hardback copy of Dante...
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Instagram and its increasingly annoying (and frequent) ads has been bombarding me with the worst religious and pseudo spiritual (ie total nonsense by someone who wants me to buy from them, to energise my inner angelic light).
Batting them away with a hardback copy of Dante...
Batting them away with a hardback copy of Dante...
Taken this day, 2019, happy doggo chasing its ball along the beach of a very grey #Portobello www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #dog #chien
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #dog #chien
Man, Dog, Ball, Water 03
Miserably dreich, grey, wet, windy, cold day, but this doggo didn't seem to mind, as he happily continued training his human to throw balls for him.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Taken this day, 2019, happy doggo chasing its ball along the beach of a very grey #Portobello www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #dog #chien
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #dog #chien
Former Co-operative Society Ltd building by the Quayside in #Newcastle , now the Malmaison www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
Viewed from partway across the Gateshead Millennium Bridge
#architecture #photography #photographie
Viewed from partway across the Gateshead Millennium Bridge
#architecture #photography #photographie
Malmaison
The Malmaison, on the Quayside at Newcastle, viewed from partway across the nearby Gateshead Millennium Bridge. As you can see from the old, carved lettering on top of the facade, this was originally ...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Former Co-operative Society Ltd building by the Quayside in #Newcastle , now the Malmaison www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
Viewed from partway across the Gateshead Millennium Bridge
#architecture #photography #photographie
Viewed from partway across the Gateshead Millennium Bridge
#architecture #photography #photographie
Two very different eras & styles of housing: a row of traditional, brick-built, terraced houses in #Newcastle with ugly, mid-20th century tower blocks behind them www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
#architecture #photography #photographie
#architecture #photography #photographie
Different Eras Of Dwellings
Two very different eras and styles of dwellings side by side - the older, traditional brick terraced houses, behind them the mid-century tower blocks that blighted so many of our cities
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November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Two very different eras & styles of housing: a row of traditional, brick-built, terraced houses in #Newcastle with ugly, mid-20th century tower blocks behind them www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
#architecture #photography #photographie
#architecture #photography #photographie
This (disturbing) article details the failing of official bodies to protect young chicks (apparently "tradition" trumps conservation). There is a link to sign a petition to the Scottish Parliament to stop this vile killing in the article protectthewild.substack.com/p/a-protecte...
#nature
#nature
A Protected Colony in Decline: Why the Guga Hunt Can No Longer Be Defended
For decades, the killing of gannet chicks, the “Guga hunt”, on Sula Sgeir has been defended as sustainable, harmless, and woven into cultural heritage.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This (disturbing) article details the failing of official bodies to protect young chicks (apparently "tradition" trumps conservation). There is a link to sign a petition to the Scottish Parliament to stop this vile killing in the article protectthewild.substack.com/p/a-protecte...
#nature
#nature
This tower block has a busy roadway running through below it www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
#Newcastle #architecture #photography #photographie
#Newcastle #architecture #photography #photographie
Towering
This tower block caught my eye because of the way it was designed to allow the busy road to run right through it.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This tower block has a busy roadway running through below it www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
#Newcastle #architecture #photography #photographie
#Newcastle #architecture #photography #photographie
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I'm being much more consistent with my Patreon, so a reminder if you want more behind-the-scenes glimpses of what I'm up to, adventures around Scotland, and the general writing life, it's a thing I have!
Longniddry & Figuring Out a Plot (Knock on Wood) | L.R. Lam / Laura Lam
Get more from L.R. Lam / Laura Lam on Patreon
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November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm being much more consistent with my Patreon, so a reminder if you want more behind-the-scenes glimpses of what I'm up to, adventures around Scotland, and the general writing life, it's a thing I have!
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"If these children needed me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in these days of darkness?"
Memorial to Jane Haining to be unveiled by Saint Stephens, #Edinburgh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#History #Histoire
Memorial to Jane Haining to be unveiled by Saint Stephens, #Edinburgh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#History #Histoire
Plaque for Scottish Holocaust victim to be unveiled in Edinburgh
The Stolperstein stone has been laid outside St Stephen's Church in Stockbridge in Edinburgh.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"If these children needed me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in these days of darkness?"
Memorial to Jane Haining to be unveiled by Saint Stephens, #Edinburgh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#History #Histoire
Memorial to Jane Haining to be unveiled by Saint Stephens, #Edinburgh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#History #Histoire
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Market Street, #Edinburgh.
Without the bollard, what would the result have been on the busy pavement?
Without the bollard, what would the result have been on the busy pavement?
We destroy BMWs for fun and will NEVER get bored of it.
#WorldBollardAssociation😏
#WorldBollardAssociation😏
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Market Street, #Edinburgh.
Without the bollard, what would the result have been on the busy pavement?
Without the bollard, what would the result have been on the busy pavement?
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Quite why Maya Forstater thinks her views are more important than the sizeable majority who voted to keep the ponds trans inclusive, as they always have been. But she does. She and her gazillionaire backers have a hearing in the High Court next month - and we're fighting back. goodlaw.social/vs0d
We’re standing with trans people against hate at Hampstead women’s pond | Good Law Project
It’s almost crunch time for a legal challenge from an anti-trans pressure group which could see trans people banned from Hampstead women’s pond. We’re not backing down.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Quite why Maya Forstater thinks her views are more important than the sizeable majority who voted to keep the ponds trans inclusive, as they always have been. But she does. She and her gazillionaire backers have a hearing in the High Court next month - and we're fighting back. goodlaw.social/vs0d
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"The 'ceasefire' is a diplomatic sham – a cover for the continuing extermination, displacement and erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and a distraction for the international public and the media."
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
No, there is no ceasefire in Gaza
Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not a ‘violation of the ceasefire'. It is a continuing genocide under diplomatic cover.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"The 'ceasefire' is a diplomatic sham – a cover for the continuing extermination, displacement and erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and a distraction for the international public and the media."
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
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✨ Emerging animators! ✨
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
✨ Emerging animators! ✨
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
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🌲 If buying a #ChristmasTree
get it delivered by #CyclingGardeners 🚲 #CargoBike
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get it delivered by #CyclingGardeners 🚲 #CargoBike
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November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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So...
A back injury bad enough to warrant an A&E MRI scan who then insisted on specialist spinal treatment.
Cracked vertebrae & herniated/bulging discs really stops you doing stuff.
Just told that NHS wait times are so long that the soonest help will be a phone consultation in Feb at the earliest.
A back injury bad enough to warrant an A&E MRI scan who then insisted on specialist spinal treatment.
Cracked vertebrae & herniated/bulging discs really stops you doing stuff.
Just told that NHS wait times are so long that the soonest help will be a phone consultation in Feb at the earliest.
OK, going to have trouble paying rent again this month due to back injury.
Would appreciate so much the spreading of my online shop to get some cool orders sent out next week.
All signed.
davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com
Would appreciate so much the spreading of my online shop to get some cool orders sent out next week.
All signed.
davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
So...
A back injury bad enough to warrant an A&E MRI scan who then insisted on specialist spinal treatment.
Cracked vertebrae & herniated/bulging discs really stops you doing stuff.
Just told that NHS wait times are so long that the soonest help will be a phone consultation in Feb at the earliest.
A back injury bad enough to warrant an A&E MRI scan who then insisted on specialist spinal treatment.
Cracked vertebrae & herniated/bulging discs really stops you doing stuff.
Just told that NHS wait times are so long that the soonest help will be a phone consultation in Feb at the earliest.
Taken this day, 2024 - @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social in the first snow of the winter www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
#Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #snow #neige #photography #photographie
#Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #snow #neige #photography #photographie
Snow Day 03
Our lovely wee bookshop looking rather gorgeous on the first snowy day of the winter in Edinburgh! Sorry it isn't sharper, it was a very, very quick snap with the phone, in between traffic, as I was h...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Taken this day, 2024 - @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social in the first snow of the winter www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
#Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #snow #neige #photography #photographie
#Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #snow #neige #photography #photographie
UK peeps, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social has the classic #horror Night of the Demon on late this evening!
#film
#film
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
UK peeps, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social has the classic #horror Night of the Demon on late this evening!
#film
#film
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The tower formerly known as Sears, Thursday evening, Chicago.
November 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The tower formerly known as Sears, Thursday evening, Chicago.
The rather lovely, old swing bridge over the Tyne, in the middle of #Newcastle www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
#bridge #pont #engineering #photography #photographie #history #histoire
#bridge #pont #engineering #photography #photographie #history #histoire
Bridging The Tyne 03
The River Tyne boasts a number of bridges as it passed through the city of Newcastle, including some which are now iconic of the city's heritage and identity, as well as its engineering legacy. The ...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The rather lovely, old swing bridge over the Tyne, in the middle of #Newcastle www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
#bridge #pont #engineering #photography #photographie #history #histoire
#bridge #pont #engineering #photography #photographie #history #histoire
A small train crossing the High Level Bridge in #Newcastle , viewed from atop the castle keep www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
Designed by Robert Stephenson, son of George (father of the railways), opening in 1849, still in operation for road & rail
#photography #photographie
Designed by Robert Stephenson, son of George (father of the railways), opening in 1849, still in operation for road & rail
#photography #photographie
Bridging The Tyne 08
The River Tyne boasts a number of bridges as it passed through the city of Newcastle, including some which are now iconic of the city's heritage and identity, as well as its engineering legacy. The ...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A small train crossing the High Level Bridge in #Newcastle , viewed from atop the castle keep www.flickr.com/photos/woola...
Designed by Robert Stephenson, son of George (father of the railways), opening in 1849, still in operation for road & rail
#photography #photographie
Designed by Robert Stephenson, son of George (father of the railways), opening in 1849, still in operation for road & rail
#photography #photographie