A walk from Leeds-Bradford Airport via Horsforth Station to Headingley

Out through customs, and a couple of minutes later you're standing in a field with half a dozen skittish Friesian heifers and a peaceful Hereford bull. (2025/09/30)

Extweets for July 2025

(2025/08/16)

Extweets for June 2025

(2025/08/16)

Extweets for May 2025

(2025/08/16)

Past todays

2003: geneugelijke geluiden 2003: arme patrick 2003: norwegian papers in spain 2004: “Welsh language threatened by harbour development” 2005: Woodpeckers in Andalusia 2007: Hampshire village butcher 2008: Plague of “Our Mrs of” 2008: Edgar Alampo 2008: Peasants who don’t know how to cross themselves 2008: El Diluvio: periódico independiente, satírico (aunque moral), literario, intransigente, que no inclinará la frente sino ante el ser celestial 2014: Hitler’s interpreter at Hendaye 2014: Yet more disastrous animals 2015: How to piss off America

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From Mariano José de Larra (1809-37), El casarse pronto y mal:

Habrá observado el lector, si es que nos ha leído, que ni seguimos método, ni observamos orden, ni hacemos sino saltar de una materia en otra, como aquel que no entiende ninguna, cuándo en mala prosa, cuándo en versos duros, ya denunciando a la pública indignación necios y viciosos, ya afectando conocimiento del mundo en aplicaciones generales frías e insípidas. Efectivamente, tal es nuestro plan, en parte hijo de nuestro conocimiento del público, en parte hijo de nuestra nulidad.

Or:

The reader will have noticed, if he has indeed read us, that we neither follow a method, nor do we observe order, but do nothing but leap from one field to another, as one who understands none, sometimes in bad prose, others in crude verse, whether denouncing to public outrage fools and dissolutes, or affecting knowledge of the world in cold and insipid generalisations. Such is our plan, in part born of our knowledge of the public, in part of our insignificance.