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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Creswell Crags in the sunshine yesterday morning

A lake extending along a valley with vertical, rocky, sides. Trees grow along the tops of the sides, and a path runs around the lake. The sun shines gently from a blue sky above.

Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Attic clearout... Soviet microscope going free. Worth about £100 if eBay is a reliable guide. Don't want to post it. In Oxford, UK.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Moo has little sneezing fits sometimes. tishtishtishtishtish, around 4 Hz. This morning I counted. Results: 13 in a row. Then pause. Then 8 in a row. Pause. Then 5 in a row. Fibonacci sneezing? Is that a thing? All the internet finds is an old Reddit thread that didn't receive any useful replies.

Two tabby cats on a cat-bed shelf in a room, Moo and Mabel. The background is cluttered with items such as books, plushies, cushions, and picture frames. Moo is looking up and to the left, and has one paw poking forward out of the bed. Mabel is looking down and to the right, and is performing "loaf".

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

That feeling when you need to find the definition of a quantity and the reference next to it in the paper you've been given leads to three separate massive review articles

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I quite like the "No shit, Sherlock"-ness of the two signs at the entrance to the road. Lower Street, Islip, on my walk today.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Not one, not two, but three(!) level crossings on today's walk. That's a record. onthegomap.com/s/0mgr3a71

onthegomap.com

On The Go Map

An app for mapping running routes.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"You're looking tired!" Well, thanks*. I'm tired 100% of the time, but I thought I was more or less successfully not broadcasting it to all and sundry. *Not actually thanks. Actually sudden annoyance. Why do people say this?

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

A page for the Thames Path walk Short one, this - the content is all here at this link on this newly created page. I'll update that page as I go, and make occasional posts to draw people's attention to updates.

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A page for the Thames Path walk

Short one, this - the content is all here at this link on this newly created page. I'll update that page as I go, and make occasional posts to draw people's attention to updates.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

There are two kinds of people: 1) Fanfrnoch enjoyers; and 2) Those who have yet to hear a fanfrnoch. Today is your lucky day: www.warnerchappellpm.com/track/fontan...

warnerchappellpm.com

Fanfrnoch 1

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Chatty little visitor to our garden this morning. José was keen to make friends across the catio netting, but the others weren't so keen.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

José and Moo were unusually close together (getting close to José is a rather chancy business), and then Mabel got up from the other end of the sofa, and walked along to curl up on top of their intersection.

Three cats in a cuddle pile on a sofa, limited by a box and a laundry bag. José is asleep; Mabel is working on being asleep; Moo is alert and suspicious.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Fun little mental workout of a morning!

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

A notebook that dates to at the latest 1935 and was written in by a British person is marked thus on its first page. I thought that perhaps one could use this information to find out online when it might have been manufactured. But the company name is hard to internet-search. Any bright ideas?

Stamp inside notebook reads:
No. 5
THE "CANVAS" SERIES.
J.W & CO.LTD. LONDON
Between is a table of possible sizes. No. 5 is 10x8 inches, or 254x203 mm, with 300 pages. It is a solid book.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Well, this turned out surprisingly well

A 2048 game board in end-of-game state. The highest tile scored is 8192, the second highest 2048, the overall game score 124092.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

How many footnotes is too many? Asking on behalf of someone who's just produced a page that has 22 lines of transcribed text and 23 lines of footnotes..

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Reading someone's account of their time as a pupil at a British public school in the 19th century? You're going to feel sorry for them. No two ways about it. For goodness' sake - he tells us that having to leave the school due to catching typhoid fever was a great relief.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Finished cataloguing family history box. Said out loud: "That's done"; wind moved the curtain, knocking a pile down. Tidied, saw paper on radiator - 2011 letter from uncle to Dad (both now dead) - I remember Dad passing me it; somehow it ended in that pile. Added it to the archive. "Now I'm done".

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

<bites into ham and hummus sandwich> "Hmm, this tastes quite spicy. I wonder if the hummus has turned?" <remembers spreading a pile of chilli flakes liberally across it this morning> "Ah, that makes sense"

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If ever anyone deserves a much bigger platform, it is George Monbiot here and now. He thinks and expresses himself so clearly and incisively.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

just over here photoshopping muppets onto the cover of elle magazine: thread

Beaker as Dua Lipa on the cover of Elle magazine.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Decided today was the day I would finally learn whether the WhatsApp react shown here means "Thank you" or "High five". Mythical interested reader, it means *both*. If you search in the react list for "thank you", it is there, and if you search for "high five", it is there.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Petrol station forecourt this morning. Thermometer says -1 deg C, and the metal handle of the pump is slowly freezing my palm off. Men behind me and in front both in shorts. Now there have always been shorts-all-year-round people, but is it my imagination, or are there more of them now?

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

In 2017, I wrote "Hilltop Dawn", a depiction of a cold grey sunrise looking out from the ancient and lonely Segsbury Camp. Rob Marsh premiered it recently, accompanied by Gareth Green. Thanks chaps! It lasts from 2'35" to 9'25". Please enjoy Rob's artistry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=scyx...

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Short Trombone recital by Robert Marsh, featuring the premiere of Hilltop Dawn by Dave Taylor.

YouTube video by Robert Marsh

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A rare full cat formation on display. Mostly looking at the camera too, but Moo exercising her right to opt out of that component.

Four cats on an elaborate cat tower in front of a stair banister in a room. José (tabby/white) on the left, Moo in the middle, Alice on the upper right, Mabel on the lower right (all tabby).

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Caught this piano trio on BBC Radio 3 the other day - great music! A composer, Luise Le Beau, completely new to me. Reminds me of Schumann. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luise_A... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH3s...

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Louise Adolpha Le Beau - Piano Trio Op.15

YouTube video by fyrexianoff

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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I know it’s a parliamentary petition, but apparently they get press coverage if they go viral 😅 And this one is very meta, it’s about the coordinated disinformation poisoning our politics! Let’s get it to 100k at a rate that’s hard to ignore? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation

We believe that lies, fraud, and media toxicity threaten our way of life. We think new mechanisms are needed to preserve confidence. How else can people know what to trust?

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My (well-heated) office is next to the entrance to an unheated and uninsulated bridge between two buildings. All afternoon I've been hearing people go through the doors onto the bridge, and then exclaiming loudly. I may have to go try it out for myself soon. It sounds an invigorating experience.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Many have been pointing out for decades the exploitative nonsense of UK utility privatisation. It is now clear to everyone how the scam works, put admirably clearly here by George Monbiot. And still we seem to have no power to alter things so that they work for the people.

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I promised cat content. Here is Mabel fitzing/sitzing.

Mabel the cat curled up in a box within which she does not fully fit

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Dave Taylor @moomindave.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This (at Drayton St. Leonard) must be a ford. A road runs down to it, and, just visible in the trees on the left-hand side on the far bank, a track seems to run up from it. The house next to it is called Ford Cottage. It's a ford. Nevertheless, I decided not to dip my feet/legs in it today.

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