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Lloyd Davis

I"m the founder of the Tuttle Club and fascinated by organisation. I enjoy making social art and building communities.

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Wednesday, 13th December 2023

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2023/12/13

On. Those. Trays. # The Chamberlain Memorial and Birmingham Town Hall, from a car park between Chamberlain Square and Gt Charles St, showing the partly demolished buildings believed to be the Mason Science College (later to be the site of the 1970s Central Library) Tony Davis, 1964, I think. # I spent a little time … Continue reading Wednesday, 13th December 2023 →

Tuesday, 12th December 2023

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2023/12/12

I like this format because it reminds me of primary school, where the first thing you had to do was write today’s date at the top of the page. # Today I learned that Stanley Baxter is a) still alive at 97 and b) out of the closet since 2020. # A reminder that the … Continue reading Tuesday, 12th December 2023 →

Weeknote 23/49

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2023/12/11

Ah me, it’s week 49. # I usually write *something* at the end of the week, but rarely (if ever) manage to publish it. For me, writing is thinking more than it is anything else and giving my thoughts on the week an extra polish in order to share them is usually too much effort. … Continue reading Weeknote 23/49 →

Thursday, 23rd November 2023

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2023/11/23

LXI’ve always known that the JFK/Doctor Who 60th anniversaries would mark the 13-month countdown to my own encounter with 2x2x3x5. But it really started last Christmas when I was in the midst of whatever non-Covid knock-out virus that had entered me and I shuddered as I turned 58. 59 was a year a way and … Continue reading Thursday, 23rd November 2023 →

Wednesday, 22nd November 2023

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2023/11/22

60 years ago today, my parents (who were engaged to be married) were taking the bus to get into town and had to change by the cricket ground at Edgbaston. That was when they heard the news from Dallas – on a street, in a crowd of people waiting for their bus on a Friday … Continue reading Wednesday, 22nd November 2023 →

Tuesday, 21st November 2023

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2023/11/21

Yesterday, I said in a team meeting that I needed to be working out in the open more. Very soon after, I got an invitation to go to a thing tonight, coincidentally featuring someone who is associated with Black Elephant. Fun. But really working out loud or working in the open is not restricted to … Continue reading Tuesday, 21st November 2023 →

Daynote 2023-11-20

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2023/11/20

I can’t believe it’s four years since we went to Iceland and then I came back and started work in the church. When people say “We’ve had enough of the madness” I hope that’s true, but I know that I’ve said it about my own odd choices and divergences and it takes longer than we … Continue reading Daynote 2023-11-20 →

Lloyd’s Black Elephant parade: “On Golden Sands”

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2023/09/14

I’ve recently started working with Black Elephant, which is a movement dedicated to building connection through more open, honest conversations among truly diverse groups of people. I believe that this kind of connection, and the sense of belonging that can come from it, should be available to everyone. The basic unit of our work is … Continue reading Lloyd’s Black Elephant parade: “On Golden Sands” →

Who do I know in…?

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2023/09/11

How do you keep track of where the people you know are, right now?

Looking through a microsolidarity lens

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2023/08/30

I’ve found Rich Bartlett’s concept of microsolidarity really useful since I saw it a couple of years ago. It’s gotten complex fast, but the basic stuff that “groups of different sizes are good for different things” chimes with my experience of Tuttle and of other social art and community building practices and projects. I think … Continue reading Looking through a microsolidarity lens →

The Black Elephant circles back

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2023/08/29

You might remember a little piece I shared a few weeks ago about the idea of Black Elephants. Well, part of my re-ignited interest was in watching how some folk had taken the idea and the name and made a thing out of it. And now I’m going to work for them! First off, I … Continue reading The Black Elephant circles back →

What was all that about then?

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2023/07/10

It’s two weeks now since I finished my job as Community Worker at the local United Reformed Church and I’ve had some time to think through what I think about the last three and a half years of practicing community in an explicitly spiritual context – that’s how, when I started, I set my own … Continue reading What was all that about then? →

The return of the Black Elephant

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2023/06/29

I’ve been reminded by Dougald in the comments of his latest newsletter that I did a bad thing. I posted some writing on Facebook that really should have been on the open web. I remember writing it, on 24 April 2019 – we were having new carpets fitted – but I don’t know why it … Continue reading The return of the Black Elephant →

Thursday, May 25th 2023

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2023/05/25

I woke up with an “excessive-certainty” hangover – it comes from hanging out with people who seem absolutely sure of their rightness and are very reluctant to consider theories other than their own. The usual disclaimers about “people” apply – namely “no, not all people, obvs” and “yeah I’m a people too”. It can sometimes … Continue reading Thursday, May 25th 2023 →

Friday, May 12th 2023

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2023/05/12

I just posted the following on FB and remembered that I went looking because I was inspired by old blog posts and so really I ought to be making new blog posts out of such stuff rather than adding to the Zuckoverse (I left the FB identity links in tho). Encouraged by Dean I went … Continue reading Friday, May 12th 2023 →

Wednesday, May 3rd 2023

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2023/05/03

I forget how much of a put off it can be for me to write here, if I think I have to have a title to pull it all together. It’s one of the ways we ruined the blogosphere (with a lot of help from Google Reader imho) by making tools that insisted on having … Continue reading Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 →

The Climate Crisis Will Be Televised Trivially

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2023/03/10

We got a call just after 10:30am on Wednesday from ITN saying that they had a film crew in Guildford reporting on the overnight snow and wondering whether they could come and film at our Warm Hub. In the late summer, you know when we had a change of monarch and several prime ministers and … Continue reading The Climate Crisis Will Be Televised Trivially →

At Work In The Ruins, Dougald Hine, 2023

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2023/03/09

This week, I’ve finished reading Dougald’s excellent book. (also on Audible, read by the author). I don’t really do book reviews – this is more some initial notes after reading. The book’s subtitle is “Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies” so yeah, “all the *other* … Continue reading At Work In The Ruins, Dougald Hine, 2023 →

Half A Pound Of Monkeybread (2023)

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2023/02/01

So first, here it is, the thing I was talking about yesterday: But I feel I should say something more about it than “here it is”. Perhaps where it came from, how it came to be. And as usual where to start that story is hard to pin down. In terms of writing the words, … Continue reading Half A Pound Of Monkeybread (2023) →

Release Day

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2023/01/31

I’m doing something unusual for me tomorrow. I’m releasing some musical recordings that I’ve been working on since the beginning of November. The main oddity in all of that is that I gave myself a release date ahead of time and have finished the work a couple of days ahead of it. My custom has … Continue reading Release Day →

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