"I believe I can fly..." 🐧

Clive Penguin Learns to Fly, Sort Of, a new picture book from Huw Lewis Jones & Ben Sanders, out now from Little Tiger Books

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We're always delighted to have a new book from our old chum, Robin Ince.

Clive Penguin is quite taken with the signed, Indie Bookshop Edition of Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal from PanMacmillan.

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Yes, it's only the start of February, but here is the first, early sign of spring: the annual guide for Scotland's Gardens Scheme has arrived, and Clive Penguin is delighted, because he's "blooming freezing (his words).

It's a bit of an annual tradition for us to shout out the first appearance of the annual Gardens guide, it really is like a sign that spring will come (even in Scotland!)

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Clive Penguin is supervising Jack as he creates a new window painting for the bookshop.

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Sometimes it feels like I am being watched....

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A wee reminder that today is the day for the #Bruntsfield & #Morningside independent traders late-night #Christmas opening - we'll be here late, and so will Clive Penguin!

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Did you know penguins can climb trees?? Clive loves our #Christmas Tree 🌲 in our front window.

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Some days the news isn't great,
Lots of horrors, violence and hate,
So something nicer - we had to bake;
Come on in and have some cake 🍰

Anyone needing a wee respite from the relentless ticker of depressing news, we have a safe space and some yummies for you.

Also this thought from one of our locals, the wonderful Richard Holloway, author & former cleric, who a few years ago, after other bad news, said that in such hard, trying times, it was more important than ever that we try our best to be kind.

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"Listen to them, the penguins of the night... What sweet music they make"

Our guest, Clive Penguin, enjoying #Bruntsfield after dark! His picture book by Huw Lewis Jones & Ben Sanders is out from Little Tiger.

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