Notices by LordWoolamaloo (lordwoolamaloo@mastodon.scot)

Theakston doing non-alcoholic ale now, Nowt Peculier, so giving it a try. Quite nice I can get several decent ales in non or very low alc versions now, used to be just lager or ciders.

#ale #RealAle #beer #biere

Canoeist on the Union Canal this evening.

#Fountainbridge #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #UnionCanal #canoe

Buchanan Street, from yesterday's jaunt to #Glasgow .

#Photography #photographie #BuchananStreet #Ecosse #Scotland

Chum just sent me this and it made me giggle - #StarTrek the Bluegrass edition!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbkruyjOx9Y&ab_channel=GordonLustig

#music #musique #Bluegrass

More Foxgloves being, well, fabulously Foxglovey.

#foxgloves #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #flowers #fleurs #nature

Found in the bookshelves of my old room in the parental mansion: The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories, selected by Herbert ("Bertie") Van Thal, who edited some 24 volumes in the series, as well as numerous other anthologies. Wonderfully lurid cover art.

#books #livres #horror #horreur #PanBookOfHorror #vintage #VintageBooks #HerbertVanThal #bookstodon

R.I.P., Brian Wilson. Incredible innovator in music and in recording sounds. Years of mental health problems, but still created amazing, fresh music and leaves a deeply influential legacy. Thanks, Brian, for all the good vibrations.

#BrianWilson #music #musique #BeachBoys #PopMusic #RockAndRoll #RIP

I tried to categorise and shelf this new book today, but every time I looked at it, it changed.

(What do you mean, #FridayPhysicsPuns aren't a thing?? They are now! Except when they're not, of course)

No cats, waves, or particles were harmed in the making of this pun.

#books #livres #Science #QuantumPhysics #physics #pun #PopularScience #bookstodon

Fifty years since a heritage group bought the Waverley and lovingly restored this last sea-going passenger paddlesteamer https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mrryl2nm7o

Still happily sailing "doon the watter" of the magnificent Clyde Coast, and all around Scottish and UK waters.

#Scotland #Ecosse #WAverley #Paddlesteamer #SteamShip #History #Histoire #Glasgow #RiverClyde

I love that NatureScot has a contingency plan just in case someone actually found Nessie https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyzxmjj3m2o

Basically get DNA samples if possible, ensure animal ok and released safely back into the loch, with the legal protections afforded to any wild species in Scotland.

This makes me smile

The Water of Leith at The Shore, looking rather splendid yesterday evening.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Leith #photography #photographie #boat #bateau #WaterOfLeith #reflections #reflexiones

We managed to do some book sales the old fashioned way - cash only, writing down what we sold so we could put it through the system when back up, so we were relatively okay for the short time the power was out.

And just before it we all had ice-lollies in the bookshop, so, you know, not all bad!!

Fun for the last hour of work today as power went out for several blocks. Everything, lighs, computers, even the local cell tower must have gone as phone reception died (meaning using the 4g signal backup to wifi for our card machines was a non-starter).

This also took out traffic lights at busy Holy Corner. Most tried to slowly negotiate the four way junction, taking turns, but the SUV Wankpanzer brigade just barreled through, heedless of anyone's safety.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg

On this day, in 1969, for the first time in thousands of years of human history, people walked on the surface of a celestial body that was not our world.

First, tentative steps out of the cradle by those who really did go where no-one has gone before...

"We came in peace, for all mankind"

#Apollo11 #Apollo #science #OTD #1969 #history #NASA #SpaceExploration

Tried watching a horror film called The Lodge this evening. Was it any good? I can't actually tell - the cast mumble and whisper their lines throughout.

Even with the sound cranked up I couldn't actually make out half of the dialogue, eventually gave up. Presumably the makers thought this built atmosphere or tension, but actually it was just frustrating.

#film #films #horror

Walked from Haymarket across town to Newhaven, via the Water of Leith, reward: few pints sitting outside the Old Chain Pier pub looking out across the mighty Firth of Forth

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #FirthOfForth #coast #Ecosse #Scotland #Newhaven

pushing trolley down supermarket aisle, older couple. are having deep discussion over the merits of particular potatoes. The man has the trolley sideways, so he & partner totally blocking the aisle.
They look up, see people trying to get past, then ignore them.

On a polite "excuse me", get very dirty look, as it say how very dare I put them to so much trouble, before grudgingly moving over just a tiny bit. Why do so many people lack the most basic manners & courtesy???

@FlashMobOfOne He broke the Nazi bastard's own baton over his head, that's just such a delicious image!
Besides, he got off light - some of the American GIs who liberated the camps were so horrified and incensed they shot the SS guards out of hand, so a thrashing was fairly light.

The Nazi Field Marshall, beaten by his own marshall's baton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHVFQe4ofbE&list=LL&index=1&t=938s&ab_channel=MarkFeltonProductions
Certainly against regulations, but hard to blame this British commando brigadier, fresh from liberating Belsen & seeing more dead camp prisoners in the streets around him, from losing his temper with a surrendering top Nazi and beating the hell out of him
(also, you never, ever want to get on the wrong side of a Commando)

Ye gods, I can hear the warm up sound tests for the Taylor Swift concert at Murrayfield in my flat, even over the music I am trying to listen to (and the concert proper hasn't even started yet!). Three nights of this to put up with...

And no, before anyone says it, I've no problem with folks enjoying a gig. Problem is this is a rugby stadium, not designed for concerts, so the music can be heard for miles, which is a bit unfair on the locals.