#DiggersPub

2025-12-12

Exhausted after immensely busy day at work (amazing to have so much support, but wow, it is tiring too!). Pondering going to take some pics after work, or just trudge tiredly home when chum texts to say they're in my local. Problem solved...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #Photographie #pub #DiggersPub

Wooden door with etched acid glass with pub logoLooking over the bar top in Diggers
2025-10-12

Taken this day, 2020, Diggers pub during COVID flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_g

The pubs were still closed, but they could serve "takeaway", filling up bottles from the ale taps, behind screens. I waited my turn (only a couple allowed in at a time for social distancing) and bought a few pints to support my local. Such weird times...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #pub #bar #DiggersPub #COVID #Lockdown #2020s

2025-09-18

A once regular occurrence when younger, a few pints with chums after work, now, in middle age, a much rarer happening. Ales, craic, and pies may also have been involved...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #pub #bar #DiggersPub #photography #photographie

Looking past a pint of ale to a busy bar scene
2025-02-02

Awaiting arrival of a chum, may as well make a start on the Jarl and have a read. Relaxing beer in Diggers, where you can still get two pints for under a tenner, an increasing rarity these days...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #beer #ale #biere #DiggersPub #Book #livre #bookstodon

Copy of Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky next to a pint of golden coloured ale
2024-08-11

Slow amble homeward, evening sunlight still bright and warm. Paused to take more photos along Canalside, then found myself passing Diggers and thinking, well, I'm in no hurry to get home, so another rehydration & reading session it is ...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Diggers #DiggersPub #pub #bar #biere #beer #ale #book #livre #AnReading #bookstodon

Backroom at Diggers, a traditional Victorian pub, book and pint of ale on the table in the foreground, wood panelled walls and maroon leather seats opposite visible in background
2024-05-13

Should go home... Or have another pint and keep reading...

Yeah, that really wasn't a difficult decision...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #pub #bar #DiggersPub

View of the old, wooden bar in Diggers, an iconic Edinburgh pub
2024-05-13

Continuing to read while also reacquainting myself with an old friend, a pint of Deuchars.
Along with Caley 80, my go-to ale for many years.

Really not what it once was, supplanted by newer, better IPAs, but still decent enough pint. On draught in the local (for a mere£3.90!), so indulging in nostalgia. Or should that be "nostalegia"?😋

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #ale #realale #DiggersPub #photography #photographie #beer #biere

Close up on a pint of Deuchars IPA on a pub table that is made of a repurposed old whisky barrel lid
2024-01-15

Taken this day, 2014, a session in Diggers with Ali Wilson, Ian Rankin and JF Derry. Ales and pies may have been involved...

flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_g

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #pub #Diggers #IanRankin #DiggersPub #Ecosse #Scotland

2023-12-14

Post-film book and beer, having a pint of Yule Love This, a festive ale

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #AmReading #DiggersPub #pub #ale #realale #pint #photography #biere #beer

Pint glass of dark ale next to a copy of Ava, Anna, Ada novel by Ali Millar
2023-12-01

Pint in very busy local on way home, something I used to do more often, but less frequently these days. But chum having rough time and needs it & chat, and really, so do I...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #DiggersPub #pub #Gorgie

Looking through a very busy local pub on a Friday evening
2023-10-12

Taken this day, 2020, Diggers during Covid flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_g

With pubs closed, my local was allowed to sell take-away to take care of some stock and make a little income, so we'd go in to get some ale to take home

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #Diggers #DiggersPub

2023-10-10

Few days off before the seasonal frenzy in our wee bookshop in November & December (great for business, but very tiring on staff though!) kicks in (we're already unpacking way more new releases aimed at festive gift buyers).

So, afternoon escaping this mess of a world in cinema, then book & beer session in local boozer on walk home

#pub #Diggers #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #DiggersPub

View of the bar in Edinburgh institution Diggers, serving ales in the Gorgie neighbourhood since Victorian era
2023-07-27

Day off movie outting marred by alarm & evacuation of cinema. Fortunately we got back in eventually and saw rest of screening (zero points to cinema staff who never once talked to the hundreds of viewers waiting & wondering, though)

Now post film pint of the Old Speckled Hen to rehydrate....

#pub #bar #Diggers #DiggersPub #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #pint #glass #verre #RealAle #beer #biere #OldSpeckledHen

Close up of a pint glass of Old Speckled Hen on pub table
2023-07-09

Errands run, time to relax. Nice pint of Jarl and a read in the local.

#AmReading #books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #TitusGroan #MervynPeake #Diggers #DiggersPub #pub #bar #ale #biere #beer #RealAle

Close up of pint of Jarl ale on pub tablePint of ale next to a copy of the novel Titus Groan
2023-07-02

Errands run, chores, done; amble to the local for a refreshing pint of Jarl and start a new book that just arrived from chums at @orbitbooks , Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi

Endorsement by Victor LaValle is encouraging.

#books #livres #AmReading #horror #BoysInTheValley #HorrorBooks #bookstodon #PhilipFracassi #pub #bar #ale #DiggersPub

Pint of ale and copy of Boys in the Valley on pub tableSide view of bar in Diggers, a famous Edinburgh pub

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