Notices by LordWoolamaloo (lordwoolamaloo@mastodon.scot)

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.

I visited Edinburgh's newest Indy bookshop, La Belle Adventure, which specialises in comics by European creators, with titles for adults and children, in English and French. I've a post up on Down The Tubes about it - https://downthetubes.net/la-belle-adventure-a-new-european-graphic-novel-bookshop-in-edinburgh/

#comics #BandeDessinee #books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #bookstodon #bookshops #libraries

And on the eight day, after resting, God said "let there be Belgian waffles", and there were waffles; God looked upon the waffles, and she knew they were Good.

Here endeth the lesson.

#waffles #BelgianWaffles #dessert #photography #photographie

Another reason we love David Tennant, as he tells transphobes to just "fuck off" https://boingboing.net/2024/05/07/david-tennant-tells-anti-trans-bigots-to-fck-off.html

Good, long walk along the Water of Leith with chum, first time walking that way since he lost the last of his rescue greyhounds - felt peculiar not to have a long nosed hound nuzzling me for attention.

Walked all the way to Stockbridge, then a couple of drinks in the Bailey turned into several...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #WaterOfLeith #bridge #pont #photography #Photographie

Glass wall

#OmniCentre #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #cinema #Architecture #dusk #glass #immeuble #Photographie #Photography #perspective

How lovely to see wealthy, over-privileged royals rewarding one another with even more honours and titles for being, er, well, them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68882308

Just rubbing our faces in it now, aren't they?

Stepping below a curtain of spring blossoms to view #Edinburgh Castle

#Edimbourg #printemps #spring #photography #photographie #sakura #CherryBlossom

Walked from Saint Cuthbert's to photograph white cherry blossom, through bustling Grassmarket, then Meadows for pink cherry blossom 🌸

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #sakura #cherryblossoms #photography #photographie #nature #Meadows #trees #arbres

Long walk, many photos taken, narrowly avoided walking into flocks of senseless tourists in the Old Town, now rewarding self for walk with rehydration and reading in Cloisters

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photograpie #ale #beer #biere #CloistersPub #pub #book #livre #bookstodon

Just passed rugger crowd consisting of Asterix, Obelix, Getafix and more. I am concerned this means the French team has their magic potion with them. Thankfully the Scottish team has Irn Bru & Tunnock's Caramel Wafers

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #SixNations

Hit the thousand day, unbroken streak for my DuoLingo French lessons aujourd'hui !!!

#language #French #Francais #DuoLingo