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Armchair Books

About Me

Armchair Books ekes out its intense and blustery existence on Edinburgh's hallowed West Port...ancient home of booksellers. In view of the castle, above the Grassmarket, it bakes under the torrid Scottish sun. The dangers are manifold; Our overburdened shelves groan like masts in a squall, our threadbare and quasi-oriental rugs may distractingly catch the eye or foot. Books in the window may spontaneously burst into flames, and the Manager must be kept locked in at all times... Sporadically under feeble but sinister attack by the government, we struggle under goad of Fear, towards Beauty. If ye be men and women of valour, and gallus or foolhardy enough to wish a visitation on our labours, ye may find us at;
72 - 74 West Port
Edinburgh
SCOTLAND
[email protected]
(131)229 5927
Open...
10am - 7pm (or later, if we can be arsed to)
Seven Horrid Days a Week
Unless closed for reasons of Health and Safety, in which event, you may be invited in as our guest. Led by one brain, with a motley crew of satellite intellects, Armchair Books is an Idea worth fighting for. Will you join us? Death to the enemy....

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

14th-17th August
West Port Book Festival

Kindly entertained, disturbed and solaced by the archaic rituals of S.R Gents, who insist upon playing good music……These three troubadour minstrels may be sighted, and even heard, performing on various swank West Port street corners, in taverns, and incommodious bookshops, throughout the duration of the 4 day Festival….We presume they will leave then, as the wine will have given out.

My Blog

David's tools in 74

please stop taking my tools out of 74, and into 72.if you have lost your tools in 72, you will just have to do without them until you find them again.i have a hundred jobs to do in 74 which you will n...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:22:00 GMT

VALLIARD

"despite my anger, you cannot stop yourself making soup in the shop and leaving your mess for us to clear up.no-oneis contesting your superiority, or our inferiority, or your right, inall justice, t...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:32:00 GMT

Another word from the Tzar

Someone has gone behind my back, anonymously, as usual, and reinstituted the use of the fridge, without even having the grace to empty the water out of it first. the fridge was never there primar...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:13:00 GMT

health and safety. your much esteemed visit

thank you for coming to visit us in our humble workplace, convicting us of sin and of imminent death from the fires that are to come, and offering us salvation and eternal life.   our sins a...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:32:00 GMT

THE ORDERING OF THE ARTEFACTS

it would be nice if we could achieve a situation where there was a place for everything, and everything in its place.i have started with the biscuits.in accordance with the new colour coding system, a...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:22:00 GMT

RISK ASSESSMENT FORMS HOW TO FILL THEM IN

THE GOVERNMENT TELLS US THERE ARE ONLY THREE WAYS TO GUARD OURSELVES AGAINST ALL THE HORRIFIC DANGERS THAT SURROUND US, EVERY MOMENT OF EVERY DAY, WHERE-EVER WE ARE, WHATEVER WE DO.   ...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:57:00 GMT

HEALTH AND SAFETY - FIRE PRECAUTIONS (from the Owner)

WE HAVE HAD NO FIRE IN THE SHOP IN THE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF ITS EXISTENCE, AND SO WE MUST TRY TO IMPROVE ON THIS RECORD.WE MUST, THEREFORE, ALL TRY TO KEEP TO THE FOLLOWING RULES, REGULATIONS, PROVISIONS...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:49:00 GMT