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David Edmondson
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Simulation, HCI, rusty Psychology. Cars, bikes, old stuff, new stuff, steam, comedy, opera.
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Cute, but our goldfinches look like Deadpool.
A European goldfinch perched on a dance. It’s red and black face look like a mask of the Marvel character Deadpool.
December 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Just saw The Importance of Being Earnes with @stephenfry.bsky.social as Lady Bracknell and a wonderful cast. It’s a fantastic production, highly recommended.
#campasarowofpinktents #oscarwilde
#theatre
A leather handbag suspended in front of the stage curtains before the start of the play.
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The Hind is back from restoration and is looking good.
#aircraft #RAF #1930s
A Hawker Hind at the Shuttleworth Collection. It has been through a restoration and is looking good in a silver and black paint scheme with the aluminium panels around the cockpit and engine highly polished. The Hind is an early 1930s biplane bomber which shocked the establishment by being faster than the contemporary fighters.
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I've just been fighting with PowerPoint slide sizing. If you select A3 it switches to a 4:3 aspect ratio. It knows what the dimensions should be but sets them to a 4:3 region within that. The way they present dimensions also seems designed to confuse. It does A4 better.
The page setup dialog from PowerPoint 16 on a Mac, though it is the same on Windows. I have selected A3 Paper (297x420 mm) but it showing Width 35.56 cm Height 26.67 cm, a 4:3 ratio. Note that for extra confusion they change both the order of width and height and mm to cm. The same dialog box but with A4 selected. The numbers work out much closer, given a bit of a margin.
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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"That's right Stouffer, you help"
#harryhill
A clip from a page about Harry Hill on comedy.co.uk: But it was Stouffer that became the most beloved puppet of the series. He was a frankly odd-looking plastic cat, that was originally black, but Harry had him remade in blue for the TV series, thus an icon was born. Stouffer would sit astride a throne being supported by an obviously fake arm. The whole sketch was a kind of loose parody of variety acts such as Rod Hull and Emu. Harry would say, 'That's it Stouffer, you help me' whenever he quite obviously needed to use his hand through the puppet in order to open that week's fan letter. Initially, Channel 4 executives were confused by the whole concept and expressed concerns that in Harry's scenes with Stouffer you could see his mouth moving.
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Mary Tavy Church, Dartmoor taken at night with a pocket torch illuminating the tower. The sky is dark blue with a sprinkling of stars, the low cloud is a purple red. A row of gravestones are caught by the edge of the torch beam.
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Great tit take off

#birds #PhotoFailFriday
A great tit is taking of from a metal bracket. Its feet haven't moved yet but the rest of it, especially the head, is an upwards blur.
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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DH88 Comet Grosvenor House

#photography #aircraft #racer
Grosvenor House, registered G-ACSS, was one of three DH88s built for an England to Australia air race in 1934 and came in as the winner. It has two engines, narrow wings and a long nose, which holds the large fuel tanks.
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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You should never discount the Cybermen
A Cyberman costume in a BBC shop flanked by 50% OFF signs
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Lagonda at Bicester

#infrared #photography #weirdcarbs #astonmartin #lagonda
The William Towns designed Aston Martin Lagonda was a stunning wedge shaped luxury four door saloon car. This infrared picture from a front quarter view shows the sharpness of some of its lines in the difference between reflected sky and deep shadow. Or I like to think so anyway.
October 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Napier Railton and a small dog in IR

#photography #infrared #dog
The Napier Railton aero engined racing car holds the absolute lap record at Brooklands, set in 1935. The picture shows it in front of a hangar at Shuttleworth during the 2024 Race Day event. The infrared converted camera has made the crowd around the car a mix of pale blue and grey, but the car and a small dog appear normal.
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Chiffchaff at Fen Drayton

#photography #birds
I frequently hear them but rarely catch a glimpse of a chiffchaff. It's light brown with a lighter streak over its eye and it has a narrow sharp looking beak. Its perch is about to burst into leaf as the picture was taken in early April.
October 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Bicester Scramble Oct 23
#infrared #photography #astonmartin
A close up of an Aston Martin showing part of the front wheel, a brake caliper, the vents from the wheel well, a V12 logo and the edge of the door. The photo was taken with an infrared converted camera so the lurid green body shows as pale blue.
October 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Spooky coffee while my Guzzi California is having its MOT.
#spooky
A cup of coffee with a ghost drawn in the foam.
October 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Curlews at RSPB Loch Leven:
#RSPB #birds #photography
Nine curlews in flight over marsh land with a wooded area beyond
October 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I took a few hundred photos of cars and bikes that day, but this was the last:
An early Berliet open car with a V8 aero engine, a Curtiss I think. One side of the bonnet (hood) is open so you can view the engine. Seen at the Shuttleworth Collection's Race Day in Bedfordshire, UK
October 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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This rider brought smiles all around the crowd as she circulated on her Scott at the Shuttleworth Race Day.

#photography #motorcycle #joy
A young woman riding a Scott motorcycle. She wears a black leather jacket, a white "pudding bowl" helmet and an expression of joy.
October 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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On a steam ship tour to WW2 air defence forts in the Thames Estuary

#photography #ww2 #fort #decay
Two air defence forts, between them and the far shore are a number of wind turbines. Each fort is a rusty two storey metal cuboid on four angled legs.
October 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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View from our room
#photography #river #Scotland
A view along the river Clyde from New Lanark Mill Hotel. An 18th century industrial village accommodation was built to house workers at the cotton mills. The site was started by Dale and Arkwright, inventor of the Spinning Jenny, but later bought and run by reformer Robert Owen.
September 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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A surprise gift, The Book of the Morgan from 1932
#Morgan #morganmotorcompany #weirdcarbs
The inside cover pages of the book. On the left an advertisement for Castro XL oil, some of which seems to have been spilled on the book, with a picture of a Morgan three wheeler. On the right JAP Engines are fitted to all Morgan cars, with a photo of an overhead valve water cooled example.
August 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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This Cornish church
Well known for a mermaid tale
Few take time to wonder
At the colours in the kneelers
Once crafted from animal, vegetable and mineral
Now synthesised
Remote from the nature they are used to portray

— A Zennor dye ode
Two kneelers in Zennor church. One shows a tractor, the other a beach scene. Shown here to justify a silly joke.
July 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Song thrush parent and soggy child?

#photography #birds #nature #ornithology
Two song thrushes on a drizzly misty day. One is neat and tidy and the other looks drenched. I suspect it is parent and child.
July 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Meadow view

#photography
A view through a window, set in deep walls ,of a meadow of long grasses and yellow flowers. In the background hedgerows divide fields up a hill. There is an electricity pole on the far side of the meadow. The sky is blow with a little cloud. On the windowsill is a jug and a bowl.
July 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Duck!
A cloud that looks like a duck
July 4, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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A large silvery fish in the river Alde at Snape Maltings. It is about 60cm long. A Coot sat on a nest of dried leaves on the bank of the canal at Wrest Park. An Oystercatcher on the bank of the long water at Wrest Park. It is a long way from the coast, so it was a surprise to see it. The house at Wrest Park, viewed from beside the long water. There are many statues and people enjoying the grounds, you can usually tell which is which.
June 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM