Fiona B

@fifigoesnom

ResearchGeek by day, WarcraftGeek by night, tea-soaked book nerd, wannabe storyteller, kitchen dabbler, and general Asian of Chaos. Currently obsessed with all things spooky in Victorian Edinburgh...

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Fiona B@fifigoesnom· 5d

#GhostSign spotted on Tarvit Street, #Edinburgh

Photo of two ghost signs above The Wildcat bar that read 'Home Handicrafts' and 'Wardrobe - Illingworth - Dealer'

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· 12d

Up close, personal, and stripped right back, Lucia and the Best Boys (or singular Boy last night!) were absolutely stunning @assaiedinburgh.bsky.social last night! Will be spending August playing the arse off the new album, obvs 🥰 #Vinyl #VinylSky #ScottishMusic #Gig

Photo of the album cover for Picking Petals by Lucia and the Best Boy propped up behind the vinyl record on a turntable

Photo of Lucia and the Best Boys performing live in Assai Records Edinburgh

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· 17d

@hbbdoesit.bsky.social and I had very different 90s experiences, makes fighting over the music at home 'interesting' 😏

Garbage's v 2.0 album cover in very loud orange

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Jul 13

When my two favourite nerd worlds collide 😍 @criticalrole.bsky.social x @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com Last night's live show at Edinburgh Castle was everything I thought it would be, and THEN some! 11/10 Off to fangirl at Turalyon on #wow now 😍 #CriticalRole #MightyNein #Darktow #DND #Edinburgh

Photo of the Critical Role cast on stage at their Edinburgh Castle live show, annotated with their World of Warcraft characters

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Jul 12

Garbage storming Edinburgh Castle last night! EPIC!! 🤘 #LiveMusic #Edinburgh

Photo of a large video screen at the side of the concert stage showing the poster for the Garbage concert, with Edinburgh Castle in the background pretty much obliterated by the haar

Photo of Garbage performing on stage in front of Edinburgh Castle, close up on Shirley and Steve.

Photo of Garbage performing on stage in front of Edinburgh Castle (Castle is there, honest, just obscured by the haar!)

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Jul 11

Getting in the mood for tonight's Concert at The Castle 🤘 Fortunately sitting close enough that I should be able to see through the fog... She's coming home! #Vinyl #VinylSky #AltMusic #SoundtrackOfMyLife #Gig

Photo of Garbage's Version 2.0 vinyl album sleeve perched above the vinyl on a record turntable

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Jul 5

What a dreich and drizzly summer it's been. #PhotoSky #Edinburgh #SummerRain

Photo of raindrops on a bus shelter just before the sun sets, focus on the raindrops with the evening street lights and car lights blurred on the other side

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Jul 2

LOVING Polaroid's anti-AI anti-data centre campaign, described by www.instagram.com/afterismm/ as "aggressive". Here's their excellent poster on the London Underground. Now please excuse me while I go and dig out my old polaroid camera... #NoAI #Analogue #Advertising

Picture of a poster on a platform on the London Underground for Polaroid, showing a picture of two people jumping into water. The poster text reads - go jump in some water before the data centres drink it all up.

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Jun 28

Here's mine, bought for me by my husband too 😁

Photo of a framed page of Shakespearean text with "though she be but little, she is fierce" penned over it in large font. In the foreground a wilting Bonsai who is not coping in the heatwave. At all.

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Jun 26

#Tribe <3

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Jun 8

I've told the husband that if I go first he's to burn mine without reading them. I tried when I found them again and OMG the cringe 😬

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Jun 1

Post a poster you used to have on your wall.

Picture of The Lost Boys original film poster

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· May 22

As if the card from @gingertotty.bsky.social wasn't cute enough, look at the personalised envelope it came in!! 😍

Photo of a greeting card showing a girl riding a unicorn over a rainbow, on top of the envelope it came in which has been embellished with cute doodles by the artist

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· May 21

First concert I ever went to!!

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· May 13

Goddammit @brookmyre.bsky.social ! That's the second of your books now that's made me gasp out loud 😮! ps flibbertigibbet 😀👍 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Photo of hardbook edition of Quite Ugly One Evening by Chris Brookmyre

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· May 7

What an absolute beauty of a gravestone! St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh #MementoMori

Photograph of a very old and very weathered gravestone in a leafy St Cuthbert's graveyard, Edinburgh. Tilted at an angle, with skulls on either side and an angel at the top, and a parted curtain design to show the too faded to read inscription.

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· May 1

Look what you've done Jaf... Look what you've done!!

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Apr 26

May I counter with All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye. All the Beauty and the Beast easter eggs are just a bonus!

Picture of the book cover for Christopher Brookmyre's novel 'All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye'

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Apr 23

Cherry blossoms are out in force in #Edinburgh! Finally feels like #Spring 🥰 #natureinthecity🍂🌿🌳 #phonephotography📱 #galaxyzflip7 #nofilterneeded

Photo of cherry blossoms with the sun shining through the branches, with a tenement building in the background

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Apr 12

Sundays are for vinyl 🎶 I'd forgotten how much I loved this album 'back in the day'. #VinylLove #VinylRecord #AnalogueSounds #SundayMood☀️

Photo of the Ladywhawke album cover behind the playing vinyl record.

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Apr 5

It's Easter Sunday, and springtime has arrived in #Edinburgh... #All4SeasonsInOneDay❄️🌞🤗 #Scotland

Photo of a block of flats in Marchmont Edinburgh on Easter Sunday morning during a snowstorm

Photo of a block of flats in Marchmont Edinburgh on Easter Sunday afternoon in the blazing sunshine

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Mar 29

If you see this post a concert photo you took

Photo of Adam Ant on stage at The Playhouse, Edinburgh, standing in front of a sign that says 'Ant', with his drummer and guitarist (might be bass?) behind him, from 2017.

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Mar 8

Introducing the next generation to #HeroQuest ⚔️👺🧙 My 11 year old niece taking down the orc with a bag of skittles while shouting "Taste the rainbow, motherf*cker!" was not on my bingo card... #ttrpg #fantasy #DMLife

Three character sheets on top of the HeroQuest game board, decorated to varying degrees of artistry (one shield has leaves and heraldic partitions on top of an axe dripping blood, while the other just has a willy drawn on it)

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Mar 7

You in another decade. 1984 or 1985. I can only imagine we were cosplaying St Trinians 🤣

Me and my boarding school dorm-mate playing havoc with our school uniform and hockey skirt trying to look like St Trinians, posing in front of a poster of Nick Kershaw and a Rocky Horror Picture Show postcard stuck on the side of a wardrobe, in our dormitory circa 1984 or 1985.

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Jan 5

And then you get @scottlynch78.bsky.social to sign you a bookplate and personalise it with his 'insult'... GLEE!!!

Photograph of a bookplate signed by the author Scott Lynch that says "What a bunch of book nerds! How unseemly!" which was his comment on an earlier photo of our Warcraft characters named after two of his. Underneath the bookplate is the envelope it came in.

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Dec 20

Started off my Christmas break this morning in style, with the mother of all bacon rolls at www.valvonacrolla.co.uk before hitting their Christmas shop! Home and back in pyjamas by 10.30... #smug #OutOfOfficeOn✔️ #ChristmasHolidays🎄 #Edinburgh #LocalBusiness #FoodPhotography📷💕

Close up picture of a fresh bacon roll, with cherry tomatoes

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Dec 7

Ob-SESSED with @sombr !!! 🎵 In a room full of people, I look for you. Would you avoid me or would you look for me too? 🎵 Early🎄🎁 from @hbbdoesit.bsky.social 😍 #VinylLove #VinylRecord #SundayMood☀️

Photo of a reddy pink vinyl record on a table with the album cover for I Barely Know Her by Sombr propped up behind it.

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Nov 23

Cold dreich Sunday mornings are for making soup! Parsnips currently roasting away in the oven, and waiting for their final 20 minutes and a honey baste 😋 #FoodSky #HomeCooking #HomeMade

Close up picture of a bowl of creamy roasted parsnip and apple soup, topped with a homemade crouton and a parmesan shaving and a scatter of herbs

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Nov 17

The benefit of having a friend in Fife is that they bring you presents from Fisher & Donaldson when they visit... There really is nothing quite like toasted butteries 😍 #BreakfastOfChampions #FoodSky #ScottishFood #SupportLocal

Fiona B@fifigoesnom· Oct 18

They don't half do sunrises up north... 😍 #weekoffwork #roadtrip #visitscotland #highlands #timetochill #sunrise #sunrisephotography #galaxyzflip7