November 2020 tweets

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Sun Nov 01 00:51 Words
Sun Nov 01 01:12 Historia de Barcelona, 1/11: #otd * 1463: Salen barcos para buscar el nuevo "rey" (27) * 1622: Un alboroto mallorquín impide la celebración del Día de Todos los Santos en Santa María del Mar (172) * 1627: Roban la caja fuerte de Santa María del Mar…
Sun Nov 01 09:58 RT @Transblawg: Grounded
Sun Nov 01 10:01 Comment: @StewartWood The context is that Heath and Du Cann loathed each other
Sun Nov 01 10:18 The story of the local drunk in a village near Albacete who woke up one morning unaware that the anarchists (red-black) had driven out the fascists (red-black) overnight & shouted "¡Arriba España!" but survived
Sun Nov 01 16:42 "Qu'il mange de la brioche"
Sun Nov 01 16:43 RT @EleanorArmsPub: 12 years in a row for the trio that work at the Ellie.
Sun Nov 01 16:55 Comment: @ibexsalad Disappointing that he doesn't date it by the year of his reign, like ancient despots. This time I bet, not on the deranged crook, but on the senile one, and now I'm getting that funny old feeling that President Fart will squeak it after all
Sun Nov 01 17:16 @EleanorArmsPub
Sun Nov 01 19:48 RT @NoreenMasud: When I am Ruler of All Things, I will decree that if your car alarm sounds continually for over an hour, ownership of said…
Sun Nov 01 19:50 Excellent PhD thesis by John Milner - "Ellingtonia: the reciprocal and symbiotic relationship between Duke Ellington and his musicians" - deals extensively with harmonisation
Sun Nov 01 23:14 Historia de Barcelona, 2/11: #otd * 1285: Muere Pedro III de Aragón (421) * 1327: Muere Jaime II de Aragón (93) * 1701: Felipe V se casa en Figueras (0) * 1843: La Jamancia: sin fusilería, decreto contra el mercado negro de carne (269) * 1848: Día de los…
Mon Nov 02 12:52 - Just out of curiosity: as the hospital gatekeeper, why aren't you wearing a mask? - I will suffocate. I only wear it when I talk to people. - You talk to everyone who comes in, and you haven't put it on once. - African noses are different. It is difficult for us to wear a mask.
Mon Nov 02 13:13 @B_W_Removals Hi, can you tell me if you're going to be working during lockdown? Ta!
Mon Nov 02 18:32 RT @EOCS_Official: After relaunching our campaign on 27th Sept, we've taken stock of the last few weeks. From a standing start, we now hav…
Mon Nov 02 22:10 RT @EleanorArmsPub: I've just asked my MP to back @CAMRA_Official's #SaveOurPubs campaign to demand a proper financial support package – an…
Mon Nov 02 23:09 Historia de Barcelona, 3/11: #otd * 1442: Robo importante de la capilla de la Diputación (20+6) * 1538: Día y mes del martirio de Severo y Emeterio/Medir en la fabricación de Lorenzo de Padilla de este año (654+368) * 1588: Basándose en el capitular de…
Tue Nov 03 06:58 Recruiter overheard in Tesco: There's nothing left. We're only hiring maternity and care.
Tue Nov 03 08:15 Only a commie pedant would recall Sarajevo & the First World War
Tue Nov 03 10:00 See also its sadly deceased sibling, "X days to save the EU"
Tue Nov 03 11:39 SJ: I hope Donald wins. Me: A lot of people tell me that they do to, but you'll need to be careful who you say that to. Some folks get very cross about it. SJ (sincerely): Really?! Why?!
Tue Nov 03 12:50 RT @PolemicTMM: Media statistic usage rules of thumb. If they are quoted as percentages the absolute numbers are insignificant. If they a…
Tue Nov 03 12:53 The childminder is back from the dead, & the infant made friends with one R. on her first day, but he also only attends one day, so clearly also has no money, & she will need to keep looking.
Tue Nov 03 12:53 Shopping is a lot easier when you pay for the groceries & then forget to load up the pram.
Tue Nov 03 19:50 RT @MattCartoonist: 'Only 546 Covid graphs to Christmas' My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph Subscribe to my weekly newsletter t…
Tue Nov 03 19:51 RT @MichaelLCrick: Which reminds me of a story about the bookshop in Aldeburgh where I happened to be today. When Jeffrey Archer was doing…
Tue Nov 03 23:06 Historia de Barcelona, 4/11: #otd * 1302: Un privilegio real absuelve Barcelona de homenajear al rey de Mallorca (19) * 1597: Sermón legendario de Onofre Manescal (97+33) * 1788: Abre el nuevo teatro de Santa Cruz (22) * 1823: Algunos de los Cien Mil…
Tue Nov 03 23:57 Cautionary tale of the hospital porter who immediately phoned in sick in March & used his NHS ID in supermarket reserved slots to amass a garage-full of bog roll, then caught the plague before he could go to market & is now ruined
Wed Nov 04 00:01 RT @DorsaAmir: Patron: So one of the horses will be drawn from the side and the other will be from the front. Medieval artist: From the..…
Wed Nov 04 07:06 RT @BryceElder: I strongly dislike being reminded every four years that America has more than two politicians.
Wed Nov 04 23:05 Historia de Barcelona, 5/11: #otd * 1481: Juan de Aragón y Castilla es jurado heredero de la corona (20) * 1843: La Jamancia: el Chiriví, una canción caníbal (77+227) * 1918: Pla: Coromina s’ha comprat una motocicleta –una de les primeres que han…
Thu Nov 05 10:32 The local authority strategy seems to be passive-aggressive: rather than trying to reduce car use by supporting higher fuel duty or outright prohibition, they gradually reduce ratruns until driving becomes utterly absurd
Thu Nov 05 10:37 Josep Pla on the back of the artist Joan Baptista Coromina's motorbike in 1918. Coromina died in 1919 aged 28 or 29 - I guess a late victim of the Spanish flu
Thu Nov 05 10:40 At the playground: - How long's she been walking? She's very steady on her feet! - What do you mean, walking? - It looks as if she's only holding onto you because she thinks you need it. - Ah. I see. Maybe I do. This week's hobby is walking up slides, like ciderish teenagers
Thu Nov 05 10:41 The Bloomberg "as" - cheekily implied causality in news headlines
Thu Nov 05 11:59 Comment: @LowEbbs Ah! for the clarity & honesty of the age of the Republican Democrats and the Democratic Republicans!
Thu Nov 05 12:20 Comment: @petersymon @OECD @OECDinnovation @OECDgov @EUScienceInnov @UNWTO @ITF_Forum Ryanair got a lot of UK gov support, no?
Thu Nov 05 17:18 RT @Transblawg: F off
Thu Nov 05 17:38 About to order some new clothes, but smarter to wait till spring to see how fat I've got
Thu Nov 05 23:01 Historia de Barcelona, 6/11: #otd * 1573: Noticia de la toma de Túnez (18+40) * 1661: Fiestas reales para celebrar el nacimiento de Carlos II (10) * 1843: La Jamancia: deserciones (205) * 1873: Terremoto (1) * 1918: Pla: A la tarda, pel camí del…
Fri Nov 06 08:00 Comment: @Transblawg Certain squatters used to walk 50 yards down Stamford Hill on Sunday mornings to buy them from a tiny shop on the east side, and they were marvellous. Unfortunately squatters used to put all kinds of hippy rubbish on them.
Fri Nov 06 08:49 Is the delight of LibDems like @lordbonkers in the fall of @realDonaldTrump designed to cover their embarrassment that he's the one now leading the struggle for electoral reform?
Fri Nov 06 08:50 The infant now clearly believes that everything she says is both comprehensible and sensible, a trait she has from her mother
Fri Nov 06 08:50 Comment: @Transblawg Canvey Island? Still haven't been
Fri Nov 06 13:02 RT @ExcelPope: I can't remember now why, two years ago, I thought that picture needed Frank Drebin in, but I stand by that mysterious decis…
Fri Nov 06 13:04 Maybe the UK could learn from the US & vote in their head of state. Maybe Trump could become King of Scotland, now Idi Amin has vacated the seat.
Fri Nov 06 14:07 It is in the finest tradition of Royal Mail that 1st class delivery time has increased from 1 to 7+ days without an extra charge being made for storage
Fri Nov 06 14:16 Amazon customers will be able to choose which local shop they want to destroy with each purchase
Fri Nov 06 15:00 Comment: @BishopsWMuseum @EnglishHeritage I was starting to wonder whether the palace was living proof that Waltham was a settlement in a wood
Fri Nov 06 16:45 RT @_F_B_G_: Now he’s got a bit more time on his hands I really hope Trump does Panto.
Fri Nov 06 20:13 Look at self-driving cars & think back to Ivor the Engine & weep
Fri Nov 06 20:15 The Chairman Mao & Henry Kissinger joke recycled
Fri Nov 06 20:29 "Who should pay for coronavirus?" Initial wild talk was of the PRC, and the Italians thought for a while that the Germans might pay up, but the simplest answer, as ever, is those unborn or too young to vote, at some point in the future
Fri Nov 06 20:52 #DoggerelOfTheDay #ConundrumOfTheDay The river Thames flows by and by Down to Belfast and up to the sky I had walked over this surely unauthorised paving stone a dozen times previously & now can't remember where it was. HMS Belfast doesn't look like that. Someone explain, please
Fri Nov 06 21:40 Transmission of ironworking across Central Asia via Victor Mair
Fri Nov 06 22:42 The demolished cathedrals of France
Sat Nov 07 01:57 Historia de Barcelona, 7/11: #otd * 1542: Entra Felipe, príncipe de Asturias (16) * 1705: Es proclamado rey de España el archiduque Carlos de Austria en Barcelona (77/i) * 1825: Se divide en dos la sociedad de diligencias y mensajerías (293+8) * 1838: El…
Sat Nov 07 18:42 We once drove a long way to a town with the same name as the one where we had the gig
Sat Nov 07 23:26 Historia de Barcelona, 8/11: #otd * 1843: La Jamancia: hambre, fusilería, decoraciones militares (376) * 1918: Pla: A Aigua-xellida, a peu, amb els Bofill, de Pals (pare i fill), el meu pare i el meu germà * 1918: Pla: Passeig per la carretera de Sant…
Sun Nov 08 08:09 But the idea hasn't gone away
Sun Nov 08 08:11 I thought that the toddler stabbing with a crayon was the result of a colourful episode involving paint, but the way she uses it as a swagger stick, leading me to ever greater disaster, makes me suspect military inclinations
Sun Nov 08 09:07 Comment:
Sun Nov 08 11:59 A bitter argument was raging at the swings about whether to go and see El Donaldo in panto, so the toddler stole other children's bicycles until reproved by an Italian lady with a beautiful northern accent: "You know how that turns out!"
Sun Nov 08 12:00 They cut the bit where she falls out and gets into a fight with a bear
Sun Nov 08 13:32 Vagabonds in power (VIPs): bit of a classist subhead from the SWP
Sun Nov 08 14:28 I hope the @C20Society is agitating to demolish all the worthless crap built this century
Sun Nov 08 14:32 Trevor's axiom
Sun Nov 08 17:10 I know this isn't at all progressive, but it's rather enchanting in the park to see marginally older girls adopt & look after a toddler. The boys don't really do it.
Sun Nov 08 21:20 Several C17th English parodies of the Welsh, e.g. Wallography, call the rabbit Robin Run-a-hole. I'd like an antecedent, but e.g. the Welsh word for rabbit is from the English coney, & I guess it's just the kind of thing Londoners invented to ease Cromwellian dullness
Sun Nov 08 21:44 Comment: The notion that Robin = rabbit: Middle Dutch robbe (now rob -> Robben Island) may be rabbit as well as seal, appears occasionally in C17th/C18th English as sea rabbit
Sun Nov 08 23:22 Historia de Barcelona, 9/11: #otd * 1705: Villancicos para el archiduque Carlos en la catedral (434) * 1775: Una representación de Cid Campeador; la situación militar-pirata (344) * 1835: Iniciativa educativa de la Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País…
Mon Nov 09 12:20 Amazon - evil ... but cheaper. Disdain for Amazon users is starting to remind me of "you know the Smiths have newspaper on their floors?!"
Mon Nov 09 12:43 Gradually shaking free of LaCaixa in favour of € accounts elsewhere. They've gone absolutely mad with fees
Mon Nov 09 14:56 Comment: @tombcn Modern version of buying the wife saucepans
Mon Nov 09 19:56 Institutionalisation of eco-religion. What will the priory look like, & who will inhabit it?
Mon Nov 09 23:17 Historia de Barcelona, 10/11: #otd * 0877: Inventio del cuerpo de Eulalia por el obispo Frodoino en medio de intentos de consolidar el poder carolingio (131+742) * 1620: Un ladrón honesto en las galeras (246) * 1629: Noticia del nacimiento del primer…
Tue Nov 10 07:58 I think the childminder is OK with having Roodkapje/Riding Hood sung through her letterbox at going-home time, minus the wolf howls
Tue Nov 10 08:06 Barcelona #OTD 1620: an honest galley slave: "a little sturdy black Man": the whole ambiguity whether "black" refers to skin or hair pigment: perhaps the former here, given context
Tue Nov 10 11:51 Comment: @martina_der @RemainingKind @MrsAitchBee My Barcelona one's available if you fancy somewhere sunnier...
Tue Nov 10 11:54 Best crowd yet outside the Barnardo's nursery at Victoria Park. It's the wig wot dunnit.
Tue Nov 10 13:34 #NotInMyName: bcfhjklquwxyz
Tue Nov 10 13:37 Very nice, but if you travel round the globe equatorially there are either more or less than 24 hours in Christmas Eve
Tue Nov 10 13:49 Comment: @Victoria_Spratt @resi_analyst @theipaper No, because it's going to be over by then and the market always picks up in the spring anyway
Tue Nov 10 14:45 Comment: @JohnLovesJulie Wait, you don't mean that Santa Claus ...?!
Tue Nov 10 14:51 The translation market fell away in the spring, and a good friend signed up for Rishi's self-employed hardship grants (SEISS). Luckily he has now figured a new way to make money, but is worried that everything he earns will be taken away in grant clawback. What should he do?
Tue Nov 10 17:43 What are we to do when there's no cash but also no banking for people who don't want to carry round a GPS tracking unit? Apart from their absurd new fee structure, La Caixa seem determined to get rid of customers without a smartphone, ditto newcomers like Revolut
Tue Nov 10 18:04 If a big fat useless toddler like me can get over those post-siesta grumps, why can't a proper one?
Tue Nov 10 18:11 Nice piano transcriptions from Mr Gershwin
Tue Nov 10 19:53 I commend to all the approach to infant nutrition of my mother (4 in 5 years): feed the buggers scraps while you're cooking, because they'll probably throw the finished product on the floor
Tue Nov 10 20:32 Young Bengali mum has eschewed the full binbag & is pretty lonely: - He's called Ishaaq, and he's very shy. - What a lovely boy, & what a lovely name! I know several Isaacs and one Yitzhak, & they all end up being Ike or Zak. What do you call him? - They call him Hack.
Tue Nov 10 20:35 I realise now that A's companion in retrograde motion is his social worker - expensive clothes, malapropisms galore - but she's good on toddler diet: - You're going to be going on at her for years about being good, so put butter & sugar in her birthday cakes & give her hope.
Tue Nov 10 21:02 New CD: Charleston in the Netherlands 1924-9 The Armenian refugee Grégoire Nakchounian of the Russian North Stars is a figure about whom I would like to know more
Tue Nov 10 21:03 Comment:
Tue Nov 10 21:11 RT @Dadsaysjokes: What do you call a dinosaur with a strong vocabulary? A thesaurus.
Tue Nov 10 21:14 Apparently BAME doesn't stand for Bala, Merioneth, so what is the point?
Tue Nov 10 23:46 Historia de Barcelona, 11/11: #otd * 1843: La Jamancia: nueva batería Montjuic lista, negociaciones, expropiaciones (328) * 1844: Fundación de la escuela para sordomudos (9) * 1848: Fiesta mayor en san Martín de Provensals (51) * 1856: Una salida via el…
Wed Nov 11 13:03 RT @LowEbbs: Hoping to have a look at the statue commemorating Mary Wollstonecraft in Newington Green later today. So far the best comment…
Wed Nov 11 16:36 Granddad's armistice is now 102 years ago I've been a bit short of time since then, but the transcription project will be finished one day
Thu Nov 12 00:12 Historia de Barcelona, 12/11: #otd * 1834: Te Deum al acabar una epidemia de cólera (20+29) * 1843: La Jamancia: otra batería gubernamental en construcción, robos, negociaciones (503) * 1918: Pla: A primera hora del matí, la notícia de l’armistici, que…
Thu Nov 12 05:09 George Ellis aka Sir Gregory Gander, The Twelve Months (not dwarves): Snowy, flowy, blowy, Showery, flowery, bowery, Hoppy, croppy, droppy, Breezy, sneezy, freezy. #DoggerelOfTheDay
Thu Nov 12 06:30 Of course Ivor the Engine is a rewrite of Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood. Is Llantisilly from Llanycil, Merioneth, just across the water from the Bala Lake Railway?
Thu Nov 12 06:46 RT @gypsy_heart6: If god is all-powerful then why do we still perceive heaven & hell as this medieval place and not a hi-tech place thousan…
Thu Nov 12 07:19 Comment: @DrFrancisYoung @cguyver I lived in a nunnery for two years
Thu Nov 12 15:25 Comment: @JohnLovesJulie Handsome man vs woman vs horse
Thu Nov 12 20:45 RT @BBCYork: This could be the most wholesome first dance of 2020 🥺❤️ #Wedding #FirstDance #Couple #York #Marriage
Thu Nov 12 21:30 Comment: @LondonRemains @thegentleauthor @PhilipGlanville The bit that makes me saddest is the lonely water fountain round to the left, in the corner of the Homerton library plot
Fri Nov 13 00:09 Historia de Barcelona, 13/11: #otd * 1137: Unión dinástica entre el Reino de Aragón y el condado de Barcelona, quedando Barcelona como socio rico pero subordinado y Ramón Berenguer IV como príncipe consorte de un bebé (172+2133) * 1156: Paz entre los…
Fri Nov 13 08:11 17 years to go till the 900th anniversary of the end of the County of Barcelona's political independence, but still no news as to how it is to be celebrated
Fri Nov 13 08:17 RT @george_szirtes: The bird headed plague- man is on his second tour. Quieter this time, he stalks the bare streets light as a whisper wi…
Fri Nov 13 08:18 Should work
Fri Nov 13 12:08 Nice one, @hilarybennmp , but curious why @UKLabour isn't getting behind this
Fri Nov 13 19:40 Дикие лебеди
Fri Nov 13 21:39 What's with cow paintings on Rightmove? Why are people so boring?
Sat Nov 14 01:10 Historia de Barcelona, 14/11: #otd * 1570: Muere el obispo Guillermo Cassador (25+24) * 1843: La Jamancia: violencia al fracasar negociaciones, medidas contra robos (988) * 1914: Batalla campal en un teatro barcelonés sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial,…
Sat Nov 14 05:05 Covid-19 stairs & other London Transport plague photos I haven't used public (or any) transport for quite some time & didn't know that there were now mask compliance officials
Sat Nov 14 05:37 Comment: @LondonRemains @thegentleauthor @PhilipGlanville Here is the fountain. I am sure that one of you will know whose statue occupied the plinth (I'm hoping for Dr John Conder of the Homerton Congregationalists), or will have suggestions as to who might replace him/her
Sat Nov 14 05:46 Clapton CFC oppose modernity in many aspects and are most assiduous in old-school stickering every post on Hackney Marsh and surroundings. I too prefer cheap, local football, but haven't even been to see the Congregationalists at Leyton Orient
Sat Nov 14 05:48 Comment: I haven't seen CCFC - they'd boo me as one of Karl Marx's "vagabonds, discharged soldiers, discharged jailbirds, escaped galley slaves, swindlers, mountebanks, lazzaroni, pickpockets, tricksters, gamblers, maquereaux, brothel keepers, porters, literati, organ grinders etc"
Sat Nov 14 05:59 The Barber of Seville moved to Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park in 1968 and handpainted the sign for Figaro House. (Apparently the Seven Sisters are not the stars of Pleiades or a lesser-known opera by Glinka, but were seven elms circling a walnut at Page Green.)
Sat Nov 14 09:37 Comment: @WateryTom The one after? I have to destroy a piano on the 21st & that will take all my energies
Sat Nov 14 09:38 Comment: @LondonRemains @thegentleauthor @PhilipGlanville (A reminder that it's next to Homerton Library)
Sat Nov 14 10:05 RT @peterfrankopan: One of my all time favourites. Have a good weekend everyone.
Sat Nov 14 13:43 Comment: @soxgnasher @sallyjeffery @thegentleauthor @LondonRemains @PhilipGlanville @HackneySociety Move it to the forecourt, fit it with a guest cherub caricaturing the mayor (to be melted down on his termination, like the heads of Roman provincial governors), & reconnect it to the water main - water for children to drink is surely a precondition for liveable neighbourhoods
Sat Nov 14 20:41 There was a plan to go drinking in the park tomorrow, but there's going to be a strong SW breeze and rain, & the leaves are off the trees, so now checking Google Maps 3D view for tower blocks with pleasant NE façades
Sat Nov 14 20:43 Comment: The pagoda will probably be quite crowded
Sat Nov 14 20:45 Comment: The pubs are missing us already
Sun Nov 15 01:39 Historia de Barcelona, 15/11: #otd * 1305: Reducción en las tarifas de grano (18) * 1347: Llega Leonor de Portugal para casarse con Pedro III de Barcelona (16) * 1722: El cónsul francés manda al Conseil de la Marine francés el trabajo de Juan Salvador…
Sun Nov 15 08:20 German humour. How's British humour these days?
Sun Nov 15 08:33 Not sure I want a passionate butcher, even on a Sunday morning. Wigan ham is great, but I wonder if they wouldn't do better not trying to pander to us liberal metropolitans.
Sun Nov 15 12:30 Tremendous tales of massive & systematic defrauding of St Rishi's self-employed scheme by the Dacians & West Nubians in places such as Donnie. Who'd a thunk.
Sun Nov 15 12:31 Comment: @ibexsalad Enemy's enemy. All v confusing.
Sun Nov 15 17:43 Comment: @petersymon Didn't you do this at primary school?
Sun Nov 15 19:56 Those folk who go to N London delis
Sun Nov 15 20:01 Senior medic is boycotting the vaccines & simply staying clear of people - unwise to trust something after so little testing - govts presumed to be betting on possible vaccine deaths being less & more spread out
Sun Nov 15 20:02 Toddler prefers Yuri Norstein Tale of Tales to Top Cat - fair enough
Sun Nov 15 20:19 The notion that in Yiddish kholere may refer to a generality of misfortunes rather than the specific illness c.f. the Dutch "krijg de cholera > klere"
Sun Nov 15 20:24 Written sources for the submerged city of Argentola in Asturias I've been playing around with a fictional Atlantis for ages now after reading the Verdaguer
Mon Nov 16 01:32 Historia de Barcelona, 16/11: #otd * 1768: Casanova sobrevive a un intento de asesinato y es encarcelado en la Ciudadela durante 42 días después de follar la amante del Capitán General de Cataluña (1456+2703/i) * 1842: Sublevación civil contra el…
Mon Nov 16 10:10 Upset that a member of the judiciary and someone who acts for the executive didn't call their child (& lawmaker) Legislature (long live trias politica etc)
Mon Nov 16 10:12 Prampushing this AM & singing Close Your Eyes by the Five Keys to calm us both down. Chimney sweep on Blurton Road: Ooh, you're sending me to sleep with your lullaby!
Mon Nov 16 13:16 An articulate version of how I feel about the vaccines The classic +-7 year discovery/development/approval cycle was there for a reason, & 6 months is a wild gamble
Mon Nov 16 17:29 I talk to quite a lot of people on the street - particularly now the pram facilitates - & the diversity of views I encounter is not replicated anywhere online or in channels that see themselves as diverse
Mon Nov 16 20:16 - I think you would find me less frustrating if you always applied Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - Already priced in.
Mon Nov 16 20:21 The toddler's companion shut her fingers in a door hinge today. He and his family will be dead by dawn, their house a burnt-out shell.
Mon Nov 16 20:21 Comment: @WateryTom @wfcouncil On what is your hope based?
Mon Nov 16 20:25 Barcelona #OTD in 1768: Casanova survives an assassination attempt & is imprisoned in the citadel after shagging the lover of the Capitan General of Catalonia
Mon Nov 16 23:00 Historia de Barcelona, 17/11: #otd * 1466: Los huérfanos pierden su puerta al ángel de la guarda (29+28) * 1842: El ejército huye de Barcelona (21) * 1843: La Jamancia: relativamente tranquilo, negociaciones (1227) * 1918: Pla: Passo una gran part de la…
Tue Nov 17 00:42 Diceman spagbol
Wed Nov 18 01:57 Historia de Barcelona, 18/11: #otd * 1058: Consagración de la primitiva catedral de Sta. Cruz y Sta. Eulalia (11/i) * 1406: La reina María de Luna absuelve a Salomon Gracià, judío, de intentar a rescatar a unos conversos (267+6) * 1843: La Jamancia:…
Wed Nov 18 13:51 The children I sing to have never seen or heard a live chicken, so I promised to take one in next week. I now realise that that was quite rash, since I don't actually own a chicken. Are the costume shops shut?
Wed Nov 18 18:07 RT @NickArvin: If I am named Secretary of Transportation, I pledge to implement all of Richard Scarry's best ideas.
Wed Nov 18 21:36 "Christopher Clarke LJ observed that there were no set rules for the use of the comma and, therefore, its erratic use could not be taken as any real guide to meaning"
Wed Nov 18 21:37 Comment: @Captain_Bionic Mind your eyes & don't try piano strings1
Thu Nov 19 01:53 Historia de Barcelona, 19/11: #otd * 1827: Lanzamiento de la lotería para renovar el pavimento de las calles (13) * 1842: La junta insurgente pide la renuncia del gobierno de Espartero (19/i) * 1843: La Jamancia: capitulación cerca, tropas irregulares en…
Thu Nov 19 07:25 1/3 House purchase/sale indemnity insurance scam. Purchaser's solicitor: "Vendor needs mines & minerals indemnity insurance in case Church Commissioners @churchofengland buy nearby land, mine to 100m, run gallery under house, extract chalk/clay." Vendor solicitor: "600, please!"
Thu Nov 19 07:25 Comment: 2/3 Another example of misselling of indemnity insurance. Purchaser's solicitor: "Vendor needs building regulations indemnity insurance for lost completion certificate for 50-year-old extension built to plan & structurally sound." Vendor's solicitor: "400, please!"
Thu Nov 19 07:26 Comment: 3/3 Vendor buys policy via own solicitors, so what incentive is there for purchaser's solicitors to insist? A cut of the proceeds? Generalised conspiracy of conveyancers to missell insurance to compensate for falling prices due to increased competition? @Moneybox @MartinSLewis
Fri Nov 20 01:48 Historia de Barcelona, 20/11: #otd * 1460: Justas reales en el Born (33/i) * 1843: La Jamancia: la Junta se rinde y el ejército vuelve a entrar (1162) * 1894: El último día de Santiago Salvador Franch, asesino del Liceo (266/i) * 1936: Las calles de…
Sat Nov 21 01:48 Historia de Barcelona, 21/11: #otd * 1435: Primeras ordenanzas sobre seguros marítimos conocidas en el mundo (1620+37) * 1834: Fin de la epidemia de cólera (15) * 1842: Espartero sale de Madrid para acabar con la sublevación barcelonesa (12/i) * 1843: La…
Sun Nov 22 01:46 Historia de Barcelona, 22/11: #otd * 1458: Entra Juan II de Aragón y jura los fueros (13) * 1527: El virrey Fadrique de Portugal pone la primera piedra del baluarte de mediodía (39+28) * 1640: Intensa nevada (0) * 1843: La recogida de armas ilegales tras…
Sun Nov 22 20:49 I think she had piano lessons to a pretty high level, but the Tico Tico Lady's backhanded glissando looks home-baked
Mon Nov 23 01:41 Historia de Barcelona, 23/11: #otd * 1460: Justas reales en el Born con un rubí para Juan Bu (39) * 1461: Con nueve años, jura los fueros Fernando II (25) * 1471: Pregonadas las cabezas del obispo de Gerona y otros (38) * 1843: La Jamancia: vuelta de…
Tue Nov 24 01:39 Historia de Barcelona, 24/11: #otd * 1583: El Consejo de Ciento obliga a los cirujanos de la Santa Cruz a reconocer a las prostitutas con sífilis todos los sábados, (78) * 1620: El entorno: Montserrat, banderolismo, piratería, supersticiones (638/i) *…
Tue Nov 24 07:10 Re a specialised high-pressure screw insertion & extraction device: Cousin Bob: That's very pretty. Where did you get it? AT: Two quid on eBay. CB: Can you get me one? AT: No prob, but why? CB: It'll be handy, though I won't use it.
Tue Nov 24 07:11 The CM has recovered surprisingly well from the plague, given years of weakening by yoga and oat water
Tue Nov 24 18:08 An elderly lady has found the last months pretty tough: I've started drinking on my own, something I'd never ever done before. I now have a rhubarb gin and ginger beer before supper, & to give me time to finish it I've abandoned the microwave & am using the cooker again.
Tue Nov 24 22:13 1/3 Old Mrs Blackman, the BW moneylender, did business from her bed in a house on St Peter's St, & used to get AT's young uncle Jim (who met her after J Ct Farm was sold to Harry W in 1916) & a mate round all the time to do odd jobs.
Tue Nov 24 22:13 Comment: 2/3 One day when Jim was briefly alone with her in the bedroom, she said, "Come sit by me," and then grabbed his hand & pulled it under the covers. Jim blushed terribly: "Oh no, Mrs Blackman, I couldn't do that!" & no more was said.
Tue Nov 24 22:14 Comment: 3/3 It was only later that he realised that she employed them for the company, & knew he was short of cash, & wanted to press into his hand some of the money she kept in her bed.
Tue Nov 24 23:09 Historia de Barcelona, 25/11: #otd * 1406: Muere Sibila de Fortiá, esposa de Pedro del punyalet (35+60) * 1568: Entra Carlos de Austria (7) * 1823: Protesta eclesiástica contra la represión absolutista (93/i) * 1842: Explicación de la sublevación por…
Wed Nov 25 07:35 Entrance to the bat cave at Highgate on the ghost train line of the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway. Other attractions included the mummies' cave at Whetstone and the mad giant at Finsbury Park.
Wed Nov 25 08:52 Sadiq, Crusader, would be interesting
Wed Nov 25 12:23 Comment: @DrFrancisYoung Pepys's morning drafts sound tremendously comforting
Wed Nov 25 14:03 Monday: I'm worried the toddler's getting dependent on Bolognese sauce. Wednesday: Thank god for all that Bolognese sauce you made on Monday.
Wed Nov 25 21:08 Comment: @petersymon Are you being satirical? I've never come across it.
Wed Nov 25 21:44 Comment: @petersymon < hate? Are they French?
Wed Nov 25 22:21
Wed Nov 25 23:39 Historia de Barcelona, 26/11: #otd * 1458: Justas (12/i) * 1843: La Jamancia: devolución bienes, liberación rebeldes (159) * 1918: Pla: El senyor Torras Jonama, emigrat del país molt jove, ha fet una gran fortuna als Estats Units i a Cuba, amb el suro *…
Thu Nov 26 21:16 So can we have a pint now @EleanorArmsPub pretty please?
Thu Nov 26 23:08 A brilliant & deeply disturbing report
Thu Nov 26 23:37 Historia de Barcelona, 27/11: #otd * 1568: Sale para Castilla Carlos de Austria (9) * 1843: La Jamancia: prohibición de símbolos de la Junta, vuelta de refugiados (72) * 1936: El POUM en Gracia (296) * 1949: Estreno de un segundo himno del F.C. Barcelona…
Fri Nov 27 07:38 Comment: @petersymon Man, your cultural cynicism is a devilish death cult that has no place on Twitter
Fri Nov 27 07:44 With the toddler talking to Retrograde Akira at the duckpond in Vicky Park, when I am greeted by a very beautiful woman with toddler & doggie & great enthusiasm. We have apparently met, at the duckpond, but I'm afraid I only recognise the toddler & the doggie. How things are.
Fri Nov 27 07:46 Argentines who don't care about football or Maradona
Fri Nov 27 07:53 Cliente: Pone que vais a sustituir la tarjeta de coordenadas con firma digital, y sin ello nada. No tengo smartphone, qué hago? CaixaBank: Puede adquirir uno a traves de las promociones en Compraestrella. Cl: Pues quiero darme de baja. CB: Puede darse de baja con el smartphone.
Fri Nov 27 09:58 Comment: @tombcn Confederacy of dunces
Fri Nov 27 10:25 When I come to make my music-horror film, Perpetual Uke will be in, along with Unending Tuba, Eternal Sax, and Incessant Trombone
Fri Nov 27 10:36 Ahem @petersymon
Fri Nov 27 21:28 The democratisation of street drinking: you escape from a banker wino in Highgate at 3 only to be hailed by mum winos on Hackney Down at 4
Fri Nov 27 23:31 Historia de Barcelona, 28/11: #otd * 1412: Tras el Compromiso de Caspe entra Fernando I de Aragón en la ciudad (19) * 1464: Terremoto (9) * 1827: Fin de la ocupación francesa (19) * 1843: La Jamancia: controles sobre extranjeros (33) * 1918: Pla: Dins de…
Sat Nov 28 23:26 Historia de Barcelona, 29/11: #otd * 1550: Muere la mujer de un cierto Lluis Durall, consejero (23+44) * 1835: Proclamación de un estado de sitio en Barcelona por Espoz y Mina "contra su voluntad" (287) * 1843: La Jamancia: anunciadas fiestas para…
Sun Nov 29 07:45 Are missing cats emboldened by their discovery that they are celebrated on every lamp post?
Sun Nov 29 16:13 People fiddling around with a windmill cap
Sun Nov 29 23:56 Historia de Barcelona, 30/11: #otd * 1625: Los nuevos concelleres anteponen la seguridad marítima a sus rituales cívicos (100) * 1825: El obispo prohibe Causas y Remedios de los Males de Cataluña, sobre la actual situación social (14+19) * 1833: Cataluña…
Mon Nov 30 18:28 I've ordered one inch more waist on some jeans, but just for the time being
Mon Nov 30 19:10 If there were an English cognate of the Spanish fiero, usually adj but sometimes noun - savage beast - I'd have a tier pun which I wouldn't know what to do with: tiers for fiers, referring to the population
Mon Nov 30 19:12 Godzilla, n.: a monstrous multitude
Mon Nov 30 20:05 Childminder: Are you an army family? She loves marching up and down banging a stick on a pan, and I've never heard a toddler shout so loud.
Mon Nov 30 23:55 Historia de Barcelona, 1/12: #otd * 1347: Princeps namque (483+21) * 1833: Isabel II proclamada princesa de Asturias (7/i) * 1843: Isabel II proclamada reina de España (8/i) * 1848: Ventajas e inconvenientes del clima barcelonés, funerales otoñales,…