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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Feels like we hit the old house renovation jackpot today: asked the joiner to gently prise open the panels either side of the dining room window, discovered a complete pair of original shutters, plus many decades of dirt accumulated since they were painted shut #heritage #renovation

A 4-paned sash window viewed from the inside. The window is in a deep panelled recess and has gold curtains either side

A pair of panelled shutters in front of a window. The panels are aged and dirty. In the recess where the panels sit when they're open, even dirtier old wallpaper is revealed

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Also, swimming and boating in the lakes

A view of a red wooden building looking towards a lake with a grassy area in front. The building is long and low with a covered balcony running its whole length and a round spiral attached to the side. In front is a small white painted building, single storey with a pitched grass covered roof

A small rowing boat with two people in it on a lake with land and trees in the distance. A small red buoy is floating near the front of the scene

View across a lake. In the foreground, a red hut, small wooden jetty and a tree. The sky is blue with some light grey clouds

View across a lake with a sandy and stoney beach in front. The sky is blue and the feet and legs of the photographer can be seen in the foreground as the picture was taken sitting on the ground

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Back from a couple of weeks' holiday in Sweden. We took a sleeper train to Stockholm before going north to Sundborn and Falun, then home via the IKEA museum in Älmhult

View of the rear end of a tall wooden ship. The dark wood contains portholes, rectangular openings, and richly carved rows of figures. The ship is inside a brutalist concrete building

View of a two storey wooden house with two people walking in front of it. The house is painted in red and green and has a pitched roof and large windows. The house is set in a garden and is partly obscured by leaves hanging from a tree

View down into a deep pit with several terraces of ground going down towards the bottom, a former open mine working. Along the ridge of land at the other side of a pit, small wooden buildings show the scale of the pit, being tiny in comparison to the depth of the pit

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Looks as if AI Winter has come early for Google

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

Tube strike afternoon walk from Waterloo to Kings Cross brings me past the radical reformer John Cartwright, still sitting in his garden waiting for annual parliaments

A life size bronze statue of a seated man in 19th Century clothes. The statue is on a large stone plinth, taller than the statue itself, with a lengthy inscription on a metal panel attached to the front. Inscription reads: "JOHN CARTWRIGHT, BORN 28. SEP 1740: DIED 23. SEP 1824.
The Firm, Consistent, Persevering Advocate OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE, Equal Representation, Vote by Ballot. AND ANNUAL PARLIAMENTS.
He was the first English Writer who openly maintained the Independence of the United States of America: AND Although his distinguished Merits as a Naval Officer in 1776 presented the most flattering Prospects of Professional Advancement,
yet he nobly refused to draw his Sword against the Rising Liberties of an oppressed and struggling People.
in Grateful Commemoration of his inflexible integrity, exalted Patriotism, "profound constitutional Knowledge" and in sincere admiration of the unblemished Virtues of his Private Life
THIS STATUE was erected by Public Subscription. near the Spot where he closed his useful and meritorious
CAREER."

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby. Tag yourself

An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768
From Wikipedia: The painting depicts a natural philosopher, a forerunner of the modern scientist, recreating one of Robert Boyle's air pump experiments, in which a bird is deprived of air, before a group of onlookers. The group members exhibit a variety of reactions, such as grief, disbelief and dismay, but for most of the audience scientific curiosity overcomes concern for the bird. The central figure looks out of the picture as if inviting the viewer's participation in the outcome.

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Fun new game for art gallery visits: find all the portraits that could be valid UK passport photos

Screenshot of a passport photo checking app. The image checked is a portrait of a medieval man looking slightly sideways and wearing a red hat. A warning reads "Issue detected"

Screenshot of a passport photo checking app. The image checked is a portrait of a medieval man looking straight at the viewer. A green checkmark and the text "Initial verification complete"

Screenshot of a passport photo checking app. The image checked is a portrait of a woman. A warning reads "Issue detected" and warns "Correct face orientation" and "Mouth closed"

Screenshot of a passport photo checking app. The image checked is a portrait of a woman looking straight forward. Text reads "Initial verification complete"

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Really enjoyed the opening of #Lotherton's new exhibition 'Botanically Beautiful'. If you're in or about Leeds in the next few months, go and see for yourself. I'm biased obviously, what with being married to the curator museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/bo…

A display case containing ancient sculpture, antique ceramics and modern sculpture

A display case containing a large earthenware plate decorated with naive characters, a large silver epergne, a child's model garden, and other items

A display case containing textiles, ceramics, and a large and ancient book open to show illustrations of plants

A beaming curator in front of a display case. She is wearing a floral dress and holding a large bunch of cut flowers

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

'The case of the missing charter: the bookseller, the bookcase and the lampshade?' - West Yorkshire Archive Service #leeds #history #archives wyascatablogue.wordpress.com/the-le…

Mr C E Cheshire, owner of the bookshop in Canterbury, initially had no idea what he had in his possession. In a letter to the Town Clerk on the 21st June 1952 he reported that “it was bought by us about six years ago and then disappeared. It had fallen behind a bookcase and has only just come to light”.

Mr Cheshire had originally purchased it as part of a composite lot bought at a village sale in east Kent. When he first saw the three large vellum sheets that had slipped behind the bookcase he thought he could use them to make nice lampshades! Thankfully, after seeing the Latin text and wondering about its importance, he beckoned over his Archivist friend Mr Urry to take a closer look and Mr Urry quickly alerted his friend, Miss Foster.

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Nostalgic flick through my 2016 photo archive. I have no recollection of this #UserStoriesNoContext

Index card with writing in black felt tip pen, all caps:
"AS A SHIPWRECKEE
I WANT THE GDS SERVICE STANDARD
SO I CAN PREPARE FOR MY LIFE AFTER RESCUE"

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

#Renovation milestone: Test areas of gloss paint removal from stone window sills, and repointing in lime mortar which will replace a hotchpotch of cement-based repairs. Old house needs to breathe!

The bottom half of an old window. Three small panes of glass with white painted glazing bars. Below a stone window sill, the left hand end of which is bare, yellow stone, the right is covered in thick shiny white paint. The surrounding walls are made of stone blocks

Close-up of stone wall. Between the courses or rectangular stones an even light brown, sandy mortar

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

Google Photos reminding me it's a year since I first reported fly tipping in our street. Good times!

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

Just spotted a UFO descend rapidly over my garden and land in the street beyond. If anyone in the north #Leeds area is missing Peppa Pig and a deflated unicorn I can point you in the right direction

A cluster of pink and blue balloons high in a grey sky

The same balloons closer up with a large but crumpled and deflated balloon hanging from the cluster of blue, pink and yellow ones

A cluster of blue and pink balloons behind a yellow leafed tree

The cluster of balloons now on a tarmac road by a brick wall. The deflated balloon appears to be a pink and white unicorn design, while an inflated Peppa Pig branded balloon is also among the pink, blue, yellow and purple balloon cluster

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

Heritage Open Days peak inside one of #Leeds' rarely seen but most spectacular interiors historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-…

A complex and delicate Art Nouveau style stained glass window in the colours of a peacock: pale greens, mauves, blues, and browns. Circular glass of varying sizes is mixed in with flowing patterns in the leadwork

Close-up of a pair of richly decorated wooden cupboard doors. Each door has a different flower in blue and green on a gold background. Intricate metal brackets and handles wrap round the edges of each door

Close-up of curved cupboard doors glazed with intricate clear glass leaded lights. Above and to the right of the doors are a series of carved shelves in a medium brown wood, each shelf suitable for displaying a ceramic plate, jug or figurine

A close-up of a door handle on a wooden door. The handle is made of metal, almost organic in form and the pierced metal surround spreads into the middle rail and lock stile of the door. The wood panels of the door have a pronounced and swirling grain.

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

Drying in front of the stove after a rain-soaked day out in North Yorkshire

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

Lovely bank holiday out at Kiplin Hall, North Yorkshire

Centre: A red brick three storey Jacobean mansion. To the left a wing of the house is shrouded in scaffolding and white covers. Either side, tall mature trees. In front a wide expanse of grass hedges and a wrought iron gate. The sky behind is blue with white fluffy clouds

View across a large walled garden. From foreground: a bed with yellow flowers, a mainly green bed with some red flowers, a strip with pink or purple, a row of stakes for sweet peas, a line of apple trees trained along horizontal wires, a brick wall, mature trees behind

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025

Yes, exam board, this is definitely the top thing your users are seeking when they search on your website for "proof of qualifications"

Screenshot of a webpage titled "AQA Questions matter"
A search box with the search query "proof of qualifications"
"Showing 74 results for proof of qualifications"
Top result: "Making a squirrel proof bird feeder out of metal"

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2025

Back from a lovely week of floating in the Ionian sea, lying on stoney beaches, scrambling up and down rocky paths, and some inept hire boatmanship

A small single storey classical building at the front of a stone harbour, with water in front and a tree-lined hillside behind

View across water from the helm of a small motorboat. In the distance a hillside with bare rocks and trees, and a larger boat

Craggy rocks, spiky green tree branches and blue sky

View out to sea at sunset from an old curved stone wall

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2025

Move slowly and fix things! This wall had been repeatedly plastered over by the previous owners without addressing the damp that was making it fail. We've had the gutters replaced, let it all dry out, and now the wall can be redone with breathable lime plaster #TheRomanceOfMaintenance

An interior wall to the underneath and right-hand side of a window. The wallpaper is peeling and lower down completely missing. A bare patch if plaster bulges out from the wall. At the corner the plaster is cracked and some has completely fallen off

An interior wall to the underneath and right-hand side of a window. A large portion of the wall has been stripped of plaster to reveal the brick

An interior wall to the underneath and right-hand side of a window. Smooth, grey plaster covers the surface where previously it was failing

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025

A few minutes to spend in the Merrion Centre so I visited the wonderful Emett machines on the upper level merrioncentre.co.uk/promotions-even…

Close up of a "machine" made of everyday objects including lampshades, a musical horn and upholstery

A row of three "machines" made of everyday objects including bicycle wheels and parasols

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025

Rainy day reminder: check your gutters, people! Top image is the wall of our house when we moved in last September Below, the same wall this month, with no other intervention than replacing the gutters and clearing some weeds Next job: cut back the concrete hard […] [Original post on social.coop]

Two images of the same portion of stone built wall, with a white painted six pane window. Top image: the wall is streaked with bright green stains and the path in front is covered in leaves
Below image: the same wall has only light green marks and the path is clear

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025

Enjoyed a visit to the Landmark Trust's newly renovated Calverley Old Hall. Amazingly preserved wall paintings and holiday accommodation for up to 10 people

Exterior view of an old stone building comprising three blocks, from left to right: a chapel with a gothic style window of three vertical openings glazed with leaded lights, a smaller two storey block set back from the chapel but connected to it, a longer two storey range including a door and 6 windows at various levels. In front of the building, a green lawn with a gravel path across it to the door

Old black and white wall paintings in vertical strips between brown wooden beams. The designs include stylised mythical creatures, vases and a rose

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2025

Microsoft: Leaving New Outlook... What made you switch back? Me: At the end of a Teams call, the other person clicked "Leave" a split second before me. The "New Outlook" toggle in the window below is in exactly the same place as the "Leave" button was when I went to click it. Confused? Me too!

Screenshot of top right corner of a Windows desktop screen. A sliding toggle control labelled "New Outlook". Overlapping below, a separate window with controls labelled "Share" and "Leave"

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2025

Train announcement: "Good morning to all passengers. I've noticed that the seat reservation service hasn't loaded up. This service is quite temperamental..."

Signs in the interior of a train: on physical signage, the numbers 47 and 48 next to icons depicting seated humans. Next to that are two liquid crystal displays, which are blank. Next to that, two small lights with the word "Reservations", neither light is illuminated

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2025

Can recommend the classic Alan Plater/Ray McAnally drama, 'A Very British Coup' now streaming on Channel 4, wonky 80s sound effects and all www.channel4.com/programmes/a-very-…

Screenshot from TV drama. On a crowded moving train, a woman in a raincoat with a microphone is interviewing a middle aged man wearing a grey suit and burgundy/white striped tie. On screen caption: "Do you always travel second class?"

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2025

Enough already with the fake anime and action heroes. I asked ChatGPT to make my family into a Staffordshire figurine. Long out of copyright and quite pleased with the result

An AI generated image of a ceramic figurine. Five figures in 18th Century middle class apparel. From left, three men in descending height order, one woman and a man holding a lantern. In front a black cat. Behind is a house with yellow stone walls, a shiny black pitched roof, a door, two windows and plant growing up the wall

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025

On the train to London, looking forward to meeting with our wonderful Patient and Public Voice Board for Digital Urgent and Emergency Care

A photo taken from a moving train, so two trees are shown with motion blur. In the distance a small barn and fields going to the horizon. The sky is blue with a few fluffy clouds, and a strip of orange on the horizon as the sun is rising

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025

Enjoyed hearing about plans for the old medical school in #Leeds to become a health tech innovation hub. As regular readers will know I'm a sucker for new uses of old buildings

Round, blue Leeds Civic Trust plaque on a red brick wall which reads: "LEEDS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
This institution, founded in 1831, was one of the first provincial medical schools in England.
The move here from Park Street in 1894 provided the school with its second purpose-built premises.
W. H. Thorp
Architect: Erected 1891-94"

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2025

Approaching 6 months in the new house. We're holding off making any changes in the garden for the first year. It's a joy just seeing what comes up

View across a large (1 to 2 metres across) patch of pale violet coloured crocus flowers in a border, surrounded by other green shoots yet to flower.Beyond that, a lawn, bare shrubs, and a stone wall with French doors in it. One door ajar

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2025

Spent most of this weekend preparing the floor and laying vinyl in the downstairs bathroom. No more bare boards and rusty nails when getting out of the shower! Didn't plan it this way but I'm pretty pleased with how the fake tiles align along the edge

Looking down at a pair of feet in slippers standing on a black tiled floor. The floor changes to vinyl tile effect floor. The fake tiles are in a diagonal pattern of lines and stars. At the join to the black tiled section, the vinyl pattern butts up neatly along a line

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2025

Goodbye nicotine stain ghost chicken. The old kitchen in the new house is getting a lick of paint today

An arm wearing a stripy jumper is holding a spray bottle of cleaning fluid. The spray is pointed at a wall with off white paint covered in years of grime. In the grime are outlines or objects that used to be hung on the wall, including the shape of a chicken

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2025

MS Teams: Care to tell us why you gave negative feedback? Me: Sure. The thumbs down button is right at the bottom of a scroll bar so I mistook it for a down arrow.

Close up of a computer screen showing a scroll bar to the right. Thumbs up and thumbs down arrows are positioned so that the thumbs down is right below the bottom of the scroll bar

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2025

Finally getting out in the garden, planted a new climbing rose and an apple tree, burned some stuff in the new fire basket I got for Christmas

A small rose bush next to two large wooden posts. The rose is just starting to sprout new growth. The earth around it is freshly dug

A small tree, about 1 metre tall, with a thin main stem and 4 smaller branches. The tree has no leaves and is planted next to a wooden stake, also about 1 metre high. The earth around the tree is freshly dug. In the background, another more established tree, and other garden shrubs. Through the shrubbery, a line of fairy lights are strung across the garden. Behind all that can just be made out a stone house with white front door and windows

A black metal fire basket with small sticks and fir tree cuttings alight inside. The basket is about 60cm across at the top, tapering down to a tripod stand. The stand is on a metal tray for catching ash. The whole thing is sitting on an overgrown gravel path

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2025

#HistoricBuilding #HeatPump Just received a proposal to replace the non-functioning gas heating system in our grade 2 listed, stone-walled house. It's recommending a pair of high temperature heat pumps I'd love to hear experiences from anyone who has taken this […] [Original post on social.coop]

Snow covered shrubs in front of a stone wall. The stone is yellow, but blackened in patches. An upper floor small-paned window is visible in the corner

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2025

Upgrading my #UKsnow report to 7/10 in LS7 It's deeper than I thought

Looking down at feet in green wellies standing in about 5 inches of snow

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2025

#UKsnow 5/10 LS7 a couple of inches settled overnight

View across grass and shrubs covered in about 2 inches of snow. In the background bigger trees with their bare branches also covered in snow

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2024

... and that's how I found myself lying in bed on a Saturday morning chatting with a large language model about Vargo and Lusch's service dominant logic

Screenshot showing a snippet of a conversation with Gemini 1.5 Flash

• You are integrating resources such as your knowledge, critical thinking skills, and the time you invest in this conversation.

• I am integrating resources such as my computational power, algorithms, training data, and access to information.

• Our conversation is a process of resource integration, where we combine our respective resources to create value.

"Ask Gemini" box at bottom of screen

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Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2024

Getting the train across the moors for work, to visit an #NHS team that's doing great things getting patients to the right place for their urgent care needs