This one will continue to grow and grow richardtaylor.co.uk/stories/size...

Run away, if you can, save yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Thanks to @metoffice.gov.uk for listening to feedback about their app and bringing back the "feels like" temperature. I really appreciate it!

Good meal at Olivo last night - nice atmosphere, friendly staff, tasty food olivo.co.uk

There's nothing like giving up story writing to make me get on with writing another story... this one just popped out over the New Year... richardtaylor.co.uk/stories/shal...

Had a great GF fish and chips at the Brownlee Arms in Horsforth last weekend - thanks again brownleearms.co.uk

TNT Sport continues to grab UK sports rights and put previously free-to-air events behind its giant paywall. I guess, like the Tour de France, I wont be watching the Commonwealth Games next year... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For the avoidance of any doubt, I am not the same Richard Taylor mentioned in this article, and I am a fan of Steve Coogan www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Very informative video, with a great quote near the end "There's nothing to be gained from continuing to interact with people who are bringing negativity into your life" which for me right now means not clicking on "Trending" topics that I know are going to annoy me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlo...

Due to lack of interest and continued brain-fog I am going to take a potentially permanent hiatus from writing (again) www.patreon.com/posts/eddie-...

It was my birthday recently and a nice surprise was that my local pub has a GF beer on tap!

This terrace in Birmingham caught my eye a couple of weeks ago - why have people made the upstairs windows smaller?

When you get your walk in before the day turns rainy, you've earned a nice little rest on the sofa

If you've suffered from long COVID then maybe don't try and do a 200km cycle ride. Easy mistake to make... richardtaylor.co.uk/threads/r_c_...

I also came across this shop in Paris. I think the notice says they can fix anything from 1940 onwards?

Didn't realise Paris did personalised tea pots, tea bags and sugar cubes

I've been running my website richardtaylor.co.uk since 1999 ... so I must be at least 26 years old ... which is more than 18, got it?

Great to see @theprimitives.bsky.social on top form at Guilfest yesterday (and thanks for playing "Spacehead")

Every time you see a "celeb" getting free publicity on TV for their new book, think of all the unknown authors' dreams that just died a little bit richardtaylor.co.uk/threads/r_c_...

Whatever your views, "if civil liberties mean anything, they must survive protest that offends. Democracy can’t just tolerate disagreement, it must stomach defiance" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Went to @boileroom.bsky.social last night and saw The Smiths Ltd play to a small but very enthusiatic crowd. Great night out! www.thesmithsltd.co.uk

I'm trying to learn HTR with Hyper-Parity ... I may be away for some time!

Scanning my old blog I realised that Google still owes me £20.55 more than 7 years after I closed my adsense account. I hope they are adding on interest... eddie-shore.blogspot.com/2022/04/unpa...

Eddie Shore wrote this re-review of Revenge of the Sith over 11 years ago - he still stands by it - and I agree with him eddie-shore.blogspot.com/2014/10/reve...

3 years ago today we brought Lyra home to start her chilled-out retirement with us. I'll be making my annual donation to a rescue charity today - to help other dogs abandonned by the cruel gambling industry.

As if replacing authors with AI wasn't enough, the corporations stole everyone's existing books to build the AI in the first place! #metabookthieves www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

The biggest threat to humanity is not that AI becomes super smart and takes over. The biggest threat is that humanity becomes super dumb by trusting parrot machines to be correct all of the time [they are not]. richardtaylor.co.uk/stories/ai-a...

sleep 172800

Is this fallen tree trying to grow legs?

My manifesto on why AI companies should keep their fake hands off creative works. A lesson in how fiction will become fact in the coming flood of parrot machines trusted by fools richardtaylor.co.uk/stories/move...

A month or two ago, in a galaxy far, far away, something odd happened to a troubled chap in an ill-fitting hat. Read all about it now that the story has emerged from behind the teeny tiny pay-step of my Patreon richardtaylor.co.uk/stories/caug...

On our walk today I saw 5 magpies all together... but I don't know the rhyme past 4, so I had to look it up when we got home! (it's "5 for silver, 6 for gold, 7 for a secret never to be told.")

Sunday's sighthound group walk was at West Horsley Place where the TV show Ghosts was filmed. It was a lovely day.

It feels like the world is burning. I finished writing this story last week. I should probably not bother posting it, because everyone is busy with more important things. But here it is anyway. Maybe it can distract you for a few minutes? www.patreon.com/posts/confid...

Procrastination - fiddling with the design of the index page to avoid making hard choices about the direction of the next story. It's a fair cop ... richardtaylor.co.uk/stories/

AI or not AI, that is a question. Find out an answer and more in my latest story "AI AI Oh" by joining me on my patreon page patreon.com/r_c_a_d

This was high tech when I bought it 40 years ago - a wireless remote for my CD player - and it still works!

My latest story "Caught Red-Handed" is now available to read for subscribers. Join my patrons here www.patreon.com/r_c_a_d

I've just set up a Patreon for my short stories. You could be the first member, hurry! www.patreon.com/r_c_a_d

The laws of physics decided that today, at this time, I would post a link to this story. Or did I just decide it for myself? Who knows how this works richardtaylor.co.uk/stories/utte...

I wrote "The View" at a very dark time, which I fortunately recovered from. Now, I often return to it and appreciate that things are rarely as bleak as we perceive richardtaylor.co.uk/stories/the-...

Warmest coats needed today!

Some positive results from my "plan B" against long COVID and brain fog ... it's not an "easy fix" ... but I'll take what I can if it makes the coming year better than the last one! richardtaylor.co.uk/threads/r_c_...

Happy with our new toys. Merry Christmas!

I wonder if Mrs Davis is watching the new series of Strike which just started on BBC? I am. richardtaylor.co.uk/stories/mr-d...

When you are a bit down, it helps to have a teddy

This week I am mostly re-watching The Fades on the BBC and The Queen's Gambit on the Netflix.

Apparently G**gle says that Y*uTube comments containing links to "tutorials or blogs" may be deleted as spam. So what should I comment? I have a tutorial that explains how to answer your questions but I can't tell you where it is. ???

Correction, this one might be the most niche article I have ever written richardtaylor.co.uk/threads/cubi... because most people give up on ZZ before they get this good... and not that many people start.

Last year I published 7 short stories. This year has been a struggle with long-covid so this is the first of 2024 richardtaylor.co.uk/stories/slee...