David Edmondson

@david-e.bsky.social

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Simulation, HCI, rusty Psychology. Cars, bikes, old stuff, new stuff, steam, comedy, opera.

A comma butterfly facing head down on a fence panel
A Moto Guzzi California Aquila Nera. This model had satin black paint and lots of chromed bits.
A campervan with the brand name Carthago.
A Yamaha VMax with a trike conversion back end.
Quite a large man, wearing a red open face helmet on a tiny yellow motorcycle. The Honda Motocompo was designed to fit in the boot of a car.
Moto Guzzi 1959 Type IV 350 Military Prototype. I would love to know more about its story and if there are any others.
A display of the first six Pelican book covers. Due to the time they were published they are war focussed.
A very fluffy long-tailed tit. Maybe a juvenile
Many tins of Spam
An all black Triumph Speed Triple from 1994 and a Rottweiler are both chained to posts and seem to be facing off. Photo from the original sales brochure.
A Moto Guzzi California Aquila Nera beside a wheat field
A robin fledgling with beak wide open and wings raised and motion-blurred. it's HUNGRY!
A fledgling blackbird perched on the rim of a flower pot
A modern mosaic representing a series of pictures of someone performing a somersault. Muybridge used sequences of photographs to capture motion, famously demonstrating how horses gallop.
A square mosaic with a bearded man with short antlers at the centre and vases and flower designs in the squares around the edges.
A mosaic of concentric hexagons. In the center is a fine looking, and carefully coloured, duck. The next two hexagons have a cresting wave pattern, I'm sure there's a proper term for that.
A Morgan 4/4 parked at Caffeine and Machine, a former pub now car venue near Ampthill.
One of the robins that live in my garden perched on the "windscreen" of a moneybox shaped like a Morgan car. Some dried mealworms can be seen in the passenger compartment.
A wren looking serene between calls.
A wren standing tall, its beak is open and it looks like it is ready to throw a punch.
A bittern in flight with out of focus reeds in the background. We had been hearing a bittern booming but for once not only saw one but were able to get pictures.
A dozing Canada goose with a group of goslings. A gosling is stood upright facing the camera with its wings held out sideways. It looks like a flux pear.
A chiff chaff perched on a branch with some leaves out of focus in the foreground
Animal head masks from the ROH production of Alcina in 2022. A King Charles spaniel is in the centre.
John Lydon, Public Image Ltd Ini Hertfordshire 2012
A number 2 free bus in Manchester. Registration is BU75WKR
Lanyon Qoit is what remains of a Neolithic long barrow with a large capstone resting on three uprights.
The Solovair retail outlet is in the basement of a wine shop in Northampton’s Derngate
A Moto Guzzi California beside a yellow field with a clear blue sky.
A grey wagtail in a pool of water amongst stones. It has just pulled its head out of the water so a trails of water droplets radiate from its head.
A wooden bench with the words "REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL" CARVED INTO THE BACK RAIL.The bench is in front of a diagonal laid brick wall with an exotic fern in a planter between them. A much younger version of me is on the bench.
A sign saying “toilets, please use ice rink”, with icons for women, men and disabled and an arrow pointing left
A sign with the word Music and a right pointing arrow above Divinity and a left pointing arrow.
A night view from a hotel up in the Malvern hill. Clear overhead but a layer of clouds in the distance
A pair of goldeneyes in line astern. Pretty little ducks.
A cormorant in flight on a cold clear day. Its wings have just stroked down and the feathers on one wing are curled up by the force. It is glossy black with a red cheek.
Inside the workshop at Old Warden. The Spitfire, with its wheels up, almost looks like it is flying under the wing of the Westland Lysander
A view across the partially frozen lake to the boathouse. The sky, far bank, boathouse and trees are reflected in the lake
An Alfa Romeo car transporter carrying a pre-war Alfa Romeo car. Photographed at Bicester Motion.
A redwing has just plucked a hawthorn berry
A dunnock so puffed up it is almost spherical.
The main gallery at Windermere Jetty. A sailing dingy, a luxurious steam launch, racing boats, racing powerboats, a water-launched glider and a wing float from a Sunderland flying boat.
Ham House by the Thames west of London. This as a view of the south side of the house flanked by statues
A European goldfinch perched on a dance. It’s red and black face look like a mask of the Marvel character Deadpool.
A leather handbag suspended in front of the stage curtains before the start of the play.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Cyberman costume in a BBC shop flanked by 50% OFF signs
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.
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.
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.
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.
A cup of coffee with a ghost drawn in the foam.
Nine curlews in flight over marsh land with a wooded area beyond
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
A young woman riding a Scott motorcycle. She wears a black leather jacket, a white "pudding bowl" helmet and an expression of joy.