February 2021 tweets

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Mon Feb 01 00:10 Historia de Barcelona, 1/2: #otd * 1568: Auto de fe en el Born (0) * 1624: Faltan provisiones en Barcelona por la nieve (10+7) * 1809: Edicto anti-rave (242) * 1830: Nieva (8) * 1848: Los puercos de San Antonio (345+23) * 1881: Nace La Vanguardia, órgano…
Mon Feb 01 11:45 Just for the record, I think it was Chloe (4) from Leytonstone who taught the toddler to spit, while I'm responsible for her sticking out her tongue at strangers
Mon Feb 01 11:47 The toddler has become so adept at walking into Turkish greengrocers to beg a banana or grapes that I'm starting to feel like Fagin & fear they may start banging down their roller shutters when they see us coming
Mon Feb 01 19:19 RT @itvcalendar: "All my emotion, personality and confidence has been sapped out of me" 18 months after buying her first flat Hayley Tillo…
Tue Feb 02 00:05 Historia de Barcelona, 2/2: #otd * 1428: Terremoto de la Candelaria (95) * 1637: Pagado el altar mayor de Santa María del Mar, pero al cronista le parece dinero perdido (38+19) * 1848: Bendición de las candelas (491) * 1919: Pla: Arribà l’oncle Martí de…
Tue Feb 02 14:46 Now training the toddler to select fruit from the grocers' street displays & walk in clutching a pound coin, but she recognises already that cash is obsolete tech & reaches for the card
Tue Feb 02 14:50 German banks with venerable British subsidiaries redux: "You English are simply pirates. I read a British saying the other day: 'Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack cut off his dada da." All so very Spanish Armada.
Tue Feb 02 19:58 RT @etlawlor1: Summer vs Winter on the North Marsh at #Walthamstowmarshes #WorldWetlandsDay
Tue Feb 02 22:23 Dinu Lipatti playing Chopin in 1950
Tue Feb 02 22:32 Comment: I wonder whether the opening of the E minor étude is Chopin's tribute to the barrel organ, like the section at 2:24 in Katyna Ranieri's Pianola Stonata
Wed Feb 03 00:02 Historia de Barcelona, 3/2: #otd * 1112: Boda en Arlés de Ramón Berenguer III y Dulce de Provenza, inaugurando el dominio de la Casa de Barcelona en Provenza y, según la leyenda, de los trovadores provenzales en Barcelona (0+476) * 1510: Regocijos…
Wed Feb 03 05:22 Corpus analysis of Dutch amateur corona poetry
Wed Feb 03 05:38 You don't have to do something just because you're good at it
Wed Feb 03 06:17 Desmond Morris on how childcare theory almost killed him
Wed Feb 03 06:19 Online forms make it harder but sometimes not impossible to answer "Race: human" and "Sex: yes please"
Wed Feb 03 06:59 The elderly Irishwoman who recognised the toddler at dusk yesterday and clamped onto us, desperate for someone to talk to. "I want to keep to the rules, but I can't bear it any more."
Wed Feb 03 07:36 Russian viagra advertising featuring the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government: "Jenrick Cialis price" - Дженрик vs Дженерик. "Robert Generic" makes sense - bunny gets his percentage & then vanishes back into his rotten burrow
Wed Feb 03 07:41 Comment: @TomChivers @edwest Mental image of Darwin on hands & knees, reasoning with an obstreperous virus
Wed Feb 03 20:18 Finsbury Park Road: * Cyclists dismount. * Cyclists please dismount. * Cyclists must dismount. Any suggestions?
Wed Feb 03 20:47 Vandemic sign on a bus shelter on Beaumont Rise, Elthorne Park. I read "and so on" as "and Soton", Southampton. Why Peterborough? Wednesday is my book (and jam) on-foot delivery day for local orders North London is proving fruitful
Wed Feb 03 20:58 The council wonders whether I am literate in English: "Write about what you did last weekend. Please write ONE FULL page of A4. Remember to use capital letters, punctuation and paragraphs. Please DO NOT use a dictionary and DO NOT ask anyone for help." Can I use big letters?
Thu Feb 04 00:00 Historia de Barcelona, 4/2: #otd * 1387: El concilio de Juan I de Aragón se decide por el antipapa, Clemente (24) * 1493: Romería de los reyes católicos a Montserrat (16) * 1848: Los bailes particulares (1675) * 1872: Antonio López y López regala dos…
Thu Feb 04 06:00 Art Tatum "playing" Chopin - a new window on two greats His drinking & character remind me of the late Francis B
Thu Feb 04 06:11 Horny advertising outside the Rowans bowling alley and bar on Stroud Green Road at Finsbury Park - will it return, or will it go the way of the rather posher George Robey?
Thu Feb 04 06:13 Comment: I hope someone has archived Rowans' online gallery
Thu Feb 04 06:47 RT @Benwk: Case 1: 1 building where many people work but only 1 person lives, needs a refurbishment but is safe. £12bn taxpayer money to be…
Thu Feb 04 07:51 I guess people have been saying "Good morning, cuntstable" since the word passed into common speech to refer to an officer of the peace
Thu Feb 04 14:28 For those for whom there's more to Sutton Hoo than #TheDig: Martin Carver (ed.): The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe (1992). Excellent 2nd hand hardback copy, yours for £25
Thu Feb 04 18:54 Mid-50s Caribbean-Cockney great-granny on H Road: So our cat's called Blackie, and one day a neighbour was standing in the street calling her, and someone got in a strop because they thought they were being racist to us
Thu Feb 04 20:55
Fri Feb 05 01:01 Historia de Barcelona, 5/2: #otd * 1567: Torneo en el Born (19) * 1601: Gran nevada (0) * 1640: Entra el conde de Santa Coloma tras su victoria (pírrica) en Salses (183) * 1848: La fiesta de Sta. Águeda y un refrán misterioso (60) * 1919: Pla: La meva…
Fri Feb 05 20:23 RT @mangmangmang: Illustrations from the logbooks of 19th-century Nantucket whaling ships
Sat Feb 06 01:03 Historia de Barcelona, 6/2: #otd * 1461: Negociación entre Juan II de Aragón y los catalanes sobre el encarcelamiento de Carlos de Viana (29) * 1610: Gran nevada y helada (58) * 1919: Pla: .Montjuïc * 1939: Falta de confianza en los mercados después de…
Sat Feb 06 11:38 Rock & roll from The Zimmermen featuring Stanley Johnson (ex-Gene Vincent) at Gun Factory Studio
Sat Feb 06 11:38 Comment: The original blog post
Sun Feb 07 00:55 Historia de Barcelona, 7/2: #otd * 1163: Alfonso II reconoce los derechos locales de Barcelona (10) * 1564: Llega Felipe II a Valldonzella en la vispera de su primera entrada como rey (14+5) * 1848: Los bailes de buen tono (1520) * 1919: Pla: A la…
Sun Feb 07 05:50 Wild Ride (A Study In Fox Trot Rhythm) - The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra
Sun Feb 07 06:18 Robert Generic's approach to the cladding crisis, in The Times
Sun Feb 07 06:43 Comment: Also to be found in this excellent Old Codger playlist, along with Marais & Miranda animal cries
Sun Feb 07 07:05 Red sky at morning (Not today, obvs, & not recoloured)
Sun Feb 07 10:17 The big question is why planning keeps allowing Romans to build walls in underground carparks
Sun Feb 07 10:56 The mayor of San Francisco is called London Breed
Sun Feb 07 11:02 Feeling the chill breath of the #PriestFromTheEast
Sun Feb 07 15:32 Comment: @elondems The separate listing of the Berger Rd and Oriel Rd junctions with Barnabas Rd is curious - there's only one modal filter at that point, it's on Barnabas, and the camera doesn't care whether you approach from Berger, Oriel or Barnabas. Maybe "Half fines from one camera" looks bad
Mon Feb 08 00:49 Historia de Barcelona, 8/2: #otd * 1461: Sublevación a favor de Carlos de Viana; fuga de Galcerán de Requesens (22) * 1554: Nuestra Señora de Montserrat resucita a un niño muerto (176) * 1630: Magnífico espectáculo y fiesta de disfraces para la infanta…
Mon Feb 08 05:02 At last, a missing person I know
Mon Feb 08 05:08 The toddler coped brilliantly in her first encounter with an armed functionary the other day. She spotted the suspect immediately because he didn't wave back & then, when the gun cop ran up, pointed in the direction of the robber's travel.
Mon Feb 08 05:13 Comment: Coped rather better than myself on an long-ago trip with SL & kids down the Stranmillis Rd to the arcade on Lockview Rd, Belfast. A couple of Saracens approached going south, & I thought that would be a smart moment to take out one of the toy guns me & T had hidden under A's pram
Mon Feb 08 05:15 Comment: A massive whack from S, & we turned around, went home, & she sat at the kitchen table, put her head in her hands, & wept. I believe M had recently traded in his archery club membership for a UDR revolver.
Mon Feb 08 11:58 So many book orders this morning that I feared a spam attack, but they're all real people
Mon Feb 08 14:35 Wanna avoid wasting 50 quid on an electric milk frother? Use your French press coffee maker - brilliant results
Mon Feb 08 20:17 @londonbrassband ?
Mon Feb 08 23:38 Urban horticulture
Tue Feb 09 00:42 Historia de Barcelona, 9/2: #otd * 1425: Una gran procesión pública pide ayuda contra los terremotos (114) * 1842: Primer día de Cuaresma, 1842 (67) * 1848: Los dentistas y la fiesta de su patrón, santa Apolonia (278) * 1919: Pla: Diumenge * ☼…
Tue Feb 09 09:01 Comment: @DrFrancisYoung @GeorgianGroup More convertible than a medieval pile, so more silver for the Commissioners to assuage any guilt?
Tue Feb 09 12:12 That easy camaraderie of people who walk in the middle of the road to avoid slipping on dogshit & ice, & to enjoy the views of the houses on both sides, unclaustered by cars & wheelie bins. This morning someone from the east coast of Norn Irn, who feels at home in our soggy snow
Tue Feb 09 14:13 Comment: @charlottelevene @Clare_Brock @LydiaMizon Darling, your world view is becoming positively Hobbesian!
Tue Feb 09 19:43 ngram "en route to" vs "on route to" - civilisation is still safe
Tue Feb 09 20:21 Denglish: "Punshing Ball." The writer obviously doesn't know what the English "punching" sounds like, & I wonder whether he is confusing it with "punishing," perhaps in football: "He had the class in his boots and could deliver a punishing ball into the feet of a striker."
Tue Feb 09 20:29 IP war between producers of fully electronic "barrel organs" (rather like the gypsy in Barcelona who has a rather pretty chest with a cassette player inside): RJ says that AP has reverse engineered its model
Tue Feb 09 20:45 Ronnie Barker misdirecting with some clerical rhyming slang
Tue Feb 09 20:55 Comment: And the two holy men about to go Chinese at around 5:45: Prawn chop suey and a chicken fritter, Large Drambuie and a pint of bitter, Corkscrews and waiters, Rice and potaters, Hurry up and finish with these *** gladiators
Tue Feb 09 21:20 RT @lawrencehurley: “I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” says lawyer after Zoom filter mishap “I can see that,” responds judge
Tue Feb 09 21:40 The Revd. Ian Paisley in Farsi
Tue Feb 09 21:44 Comment: Sorry, link: Couldn't they find a rather less forgettable voice?
Tue Feb 09 21:47 Comment: The man Was Trump a fan?
Wed Feb 10 01:10 Historia de Barcelona, 10/2: #otd * 1319: Privilegio de Jaime II concediendo a Barcelona el derecho de usar pendón (163) * 1887: Intensa nevada (19) * 1939: Pla publica su "retorno sentimental de un catalán" (537) * 1944: Ejecutado Justo Bueno, "asesino…
Thu Feb 11 01:12 Historia de Barcelona, 11/2: #otd * Jueves Lardero es el 11 de febrero este año; en 1842 fue el 3 de febrero * ... y en 1571 fue el 22 de febrero * ... y en 1848 fue el 2 de marzo * 1742: Nace Ramón Lázaro de Dou, último cancelario de la Universidad de…
Thu Feb 11 19:55 Jenrick's "leaseholder needs must be balanced against those of taxpayers" is surreal for someone whose precipitate action in Westferry saved a developer friend from a £40M contribution to Tower Hamlets. A guy who could lose the next election for the Tories #EndOurCladdingScandal
Thu Feb 11 20:00 Passed the council's GCSE-level writing test ("what did you do last weekend") with a tale about the toddler's new career in crime fighting, & the 3rd party website for the reading test didn't work, so I'm now officially literate in the eyes of the bureaucracy
Thu Feb 11 23:53 I played with Chick Corea on a Scientologist cruise liner in the Caribbean under very strange circumstances. So there.
Fri Feb 12 01:07 Historia de Barcelona, 12/2: #otd * 1808: Bienvenida con reservas para las tropas de Napoleón; infelicidades meteorológicas y eclesiásticas; Brusi entra en la clandestinidad tras confiscarse su Diario de Barcelona (7+552) * 1826: Corre agua del nuevo…
Fri Feb 12 20:33 1/2 I pram the sleeping toddler to Stoke Newington, where she awakes, looks around, & goes mental. On the return, the tempest starts again until it dawns that all she wants to do, at 18:00, is walk 2.5 miles home, passing as many kebab bars as possible
Fri Feb 12 20:37 Comment: 2/2 Outside one a 40ish Turkish woman is waiting in a posh car: - Gorgeous! She reminds me of my son when he was 2 - always curious, never wanted home. I was a schoolteacher & I tell you she will have a very high IQ - Downgrade me. How's your son? - He just made me a grandmother!
Fri Feb 12 21:13 Comment: @petersymon 1/2 When I was on Bonaire, several local musicians including me were invited on board to jam with the great man, who was learning merengue styles by copying poor people's fingerwork. The whisky was cheap & at a certain point a local roadbuilder said, come and have a look round.
Fri Feb 12 21:15 Comment: @petersymon 2/2 Novels by L Ron Hubbard in glass cases, dadada, but nothing interesting. However after a while we noticed that the ship had begun to move, & feared that we had been kidnapped by the Scientologists. However, after some protest (they wanted to drop us at Aruba) we were returned
Fri Feb 12 21:43 Nice trombone portamento at around 0:39 in this 1930 recording by the Walter Fenske band, about which I know nothing
Sat Feb 13 01:06 Historia de Barcelona, 13/2: #otd * 1939: Una "operación policial" sustituye a la guerra civil (117) * 1960: Amistad al azar entre un marinero estadounidense y un niño sordo (50) * ☼ 07:46-18:23, 10:37 horas; ☾ luna menguante, iluminación 49,38%,…
Sat Feb 13 13:52 Let's move to Otley
Sat Feb 13 13:54 #DoggerelOfTheDay
Sat Feb 13 18:03 RT @MikeAmesburyMP: Cronyism and chumocracy at the heart of the building safety landscape. Resident #leaseholders should not be footing the…
Sat Feb 13 20:24 Estate agent recommends a house on the basis that the neighbours are renegade Anabaptists
Sun Feb 14 01:02 Historia de Barcelona, 14/2: #otd * Domingo de Quincuagésima es el 14 de febrero este año; en 1848 fue el 5 de marzo * 1257: Expansión de la participación en el gobierno político (20+27) * 1494: Primera edición de las constituciones catalanas de Johann…
Sun Feb 14 08:46 Comment: @petersymon I was trying to remember the other day the name of the Manchester-West Indian gospel band for which I and Handlebar Stew on sax formed the people-of-pallor horn section
Sun Feb 14 08:48 Comment: @petersymon We did one big show somewhere on Moss Side where orthopaedic aids were abandoned, & played at the Fridge just before it officially opened, almost perishing on the M6 on the way back when the van driver fell asleep & we awoke with it bouncing from side to side on the carriageway
Sun Feb 14 14:31 What do you call a gull that squawks like a phone? A ring tern.
Sun Feb 14 14:31 RT @elondems: Some photos I took from 2004 around Clapton Pond and Hackney Wick for a podcast I made about Hackney. I only got as far as th…
Sun Feb 14 17:34 Who orders Deliveroos at 8 in the morning?
Sun Feb 14 20:10 The first cephalic fashion-mongers were the Macrones of Pontus (NE Turkey), where they were esteemed for the best gentlemen, who had the longest heads #JohnBulwer #Anthropometamorphosis #EarlyModernEngland #ComparativeAnthropology
Sun Feb 14 20:27 Comment: Would there be anything remotely amusing about photoshopping a diacritic macron onto an image of Emmanuel Macron?
Sun Feb 14 22:01 Lady Rodolpha in Charles Macklin's Man of the World (1792): Why, your orgeats, capillaires, lemonades, and aw your slips and slops, with which you drench your weimbs, when you are dancing.—Upon honour, they always make a swish-swash in my bowels, and give me the wooly-wambles.
Sun Feb 14 22:07 Comment: Weimb is more usually wame amongst various forms: belly or womb. Dunbar: The fowll monstir Glutteny, Off wame vnsasiable and gredy
Sun Feb 14 22:46 RT @BrentToderian: Amsterdam’s plan to remove 11,200 parking spaces from its streets by the end of 2025 is even more inspiring when we real…
Mon Feb 15 01:03 Historia de Barcelona, 15/2: #otd * 1519: Carlos I de España entra y jura los fueros (36+23) * 1603: Tres palmos de nieve en Collserola (132) * 1938: Cuatro días de nevada (33) * 1971: Pete Seeger da su primer concierto en Barcelona en el bar de la…
Mon Feb 15 11:23 RT @OSaumarezSmith: Ron Hitchins died in 2019 aged 98. He was a Chinese Lithuanian East Ender, who worked as a tailor, a coal miner, a flam…
Mon Feb 15 11:34 "The women of Siginnus (see Ctesias' Indica), a city of Egypt, are reported to have great care that they may seem to have most long heads," but big hair or skull-squeezing? #JohnBulwer #Anthropometamorphosis #EarlyModernEngland #ComparativeAnthropology
Mon Feb 15 13:01 Comment: @Rachel_Mantell @lordbonkers I though that 1990s Es were this sophisticated, but memories are blurred
Mon Feb 15 20:45 RAT INFESTED, DO NOT ENTER! The street door to the electric/gas/water risers in the Optivo block on Sedgwick St, Hackney, fell off last summer & evacuation stewards (ex-fire marshals - there's now a fire alarm) live there & are attacked by rats when the bin store is emptied
Mon Feb 15 20:50 Comment: Welcome to the United Kingdom, 2021
Tue Feb 16 01:02 Historia de Barcelona, 16/2: #otd * 1528: Guerra contra Francia e Inglaterra (23) * 1604: Nevada sobre la ciudad (0) * 1615: Nevada (0) * 1711: Los ingleses pierden un buque de guerra frente a la costa (87) * 1809: Decreto por el qual se manda sacar de…
Tue Feb 16 12:20 Trev's Bar aka the Bowling Green, Otley
Tue Feb 16 14:33 The Germans have short heads. Their mothers or nurses lay them in their cradles so they are always deep on their backs, their hands unswathed & tied on both sides on the cradle #JohnBulwer #Anthropometamorphosis #EarlyModernEngland #ComparativeAnthropology
Wed Feb 17 00:55 Historia de Barcelona, 17/2: #otd * Miércoles de ceniza es el 17 de febrero este año; en 1848 fue el 8 de marzo * ... y en 1842 fue el 9 de febrero * 1566: Solemne oficio en la capilla de la Diputaci?n tras justas en el Born (59) * 1839: Espect?culo del…
Wed Feb 17 08:49 Wollen/können/tun: those who want to buy something and are able to do so but who somehow never get round to paying
Wed Feb 17 08:50 There is every reason to cry over spilt milk, even if only on the hob: it spreads like water and is fatty like butter
Wed Feb 17 09:24 The Greeks of old loved a round head. Pericles had a long head in fashion of a mallet, and the Attic poets called him Cynocephalum, dog's-head, and Schinocephalos, onion-head #JohnBulwer #Anthropometamorphosis #EarlyModernEngland #ComparativeAnthropology
Wed Feb 17 14:57 RT @CladdingKermit: Got a question for me? Let me know in the replies! Cookie Monster MP will read out as many as possible in a video tomo…
Wed Feb 17 19:26 "Come into my parlour (said the spider to the fly": the Tardis house on Crow Lane, Otley
Thu Feb 18 00:53 Historia de Barcelona, 18/2: #otd * Esta celebración adicional es el 18 de febrero este año; en 1848 fue el 9 de marzo * 1566: Se lleva a ba?ar la Vera Cruz para aliviar la sequia (17+7) * 1919: Pla: Com que la situació de Barcelona continua essent molt…
Thu Feb 18 11:12 RT @AndrewHammel1: Two German men getting really excited about fulfilling 2 stereotypes at once (h/t my neighbor).
Thu Feb 18 14:31 RT @AntoniaBonello: Here is the clip of Brian Martin - civil servant & safety expert - explaining that the 18m rule “was chosen because the…
Thu Feb 18 14:40 Daddy falls asleep on the floor & his little darling, to prevent him freezing, puts a lady's hat on him, and then, to avoid death of thirst, pours a glass of water over him
Thu Feb 18 14:43 Barrel organ music is so 2019
Thu Feb 18 14:53 The Muscovites, for the most part of a square proportion, have broad heads. When they are young infants, their faces are directed to grow into this gentilitian form #JohnBulwer #Anthropometamorphosis #EarlyModernEngland #ComparativeAnthropology
Thu Feb 18 19:47 Leading page over at the family thing is currently the tree of William Williams Pantycelyn, Wales' best hymn-writer
Thu Feb 18 20:35 I still haven't finished translating the medieval Low German epic poem about the battle between the monkey in the organ at Strasbourg cathedral and the cockerel
Thu Feb 18 21:55 Homerton & Clapton's Winter Wanderland theme this year was love. Here are a couple of windows from Sewdley Street, next to Millfields. Apparently everyone does neon now, and I prefer the second, though Tesco fishfingers aren't as good as I hoped
Thu Feb 18 21:56 A ghost ghost hand on Sandringham Road, taken to pick up bubble wrap from Dalston Argos
Thu Feb 18 21:59 Assassicles on Sedgwick Street, Homerton preventing the normally zealous residents from using their bin store, which is also overrun by rats. My impression is that rats have come through the pandemic far better than mice.
Thu Feb 18 22:00 Even trees have masks nowadays
Thu Feb 18 22:05 One for my mother: useful timber offcuts, though the branding would puzzle her
Thu Feb 18 22:09 6-fers at the Turk
Thu Feb 18 22:17 The stoned-again tree, on Mehetabel Road, Hackney. An authority once told me that Mehetabel wasn't the wife of Hadar (Genesis 36:39) or some patriarch (Nehemiah 6:10), but , which I don't necessarily believe
Thu Feb 18 22:20 Periodic reminder that the piano is still in the Albion at Lauriston Road/Church Crescent. I don't follow planning apps, so don't know whether this great pub will be demolished or apartmentalised
Fri Feb 19 00:51 Historia de Barcelona, 19/2: #otd * 1925: La regulaci?n municipal de los taxis en respuesta al Decreto Real de 25/12/1924 introduce franjas de color amarillo y azul para distinguir su categor?a de servicio (1140+15) * 1944: Nieva (10) * ☼ 07:38-18:31,…
Fri Feb 19 11:10 The women of Cumana affect a long head and face, and gently compress the heads of their infants between two little pillows to extend them #JohnBulwer #Anthropometamorphosis #EarlyModernEngland #ComparativeAnthropology
Fri Feb 19 11:10 Comment: Such contradictions there is in the fantasies and opinions of men and clashings in point of elegancy in the figure of the head, that we may well cry out with Pliny that there is no thing so vain and so proud as man.
Fri Feb 19 21:10 Those Edwardian architects certainly knew how to style a discount appliance centre
Fri Feb 19 21:39 Yeltsin, Gorbachev and Queen Elizabeth II in the sash window of a psychoanalyst on Northwood Road, Highgate
Sat Feb 20 00:45 Historia de Barcelona, 20/2: #otd * 1809: Edicto por el qual se manda barrer las calles de Barcelona los mi?rcoles y s?bados de cada semana (174) * 1815: Se comienza a arar para hacer el Jard?n del General (15+100) * 1919: Pla: Dijous * 1956: 5…
Sat Feb 20 05:25 #DoggerelOfTheDay is Johnny Clarke's Burnley: I’ll tell you now & I’ll tell you firmly I don’t never want to go to Burnley What they do there don’t concern me Why would anybody make the journey? Etc The fuzzy rhyming is facilitated by his gold teeth
Sat Feb 20 05:44 Comment: On Chuck Berry: "He's got cheekbones you could hang your coat on. Very handsome man. Greatest lyricist in rock, obviously. You read the lyrics and you're just singing the song. Every beat is spoken for. It's a tragedy he's remembered for My Ding-a-Ling."
Sat Feb 20 21:42 In the Province of Old Port in the West Indies there are men that have a square head, so made by art, for they put their children's heads between boards when they are new-born #JohnBulwer #Anthropometamorphosis #EarlyModernEngland #ComparativeAnthropology
Sat Feb 20 21:42 Comment: The geometrical pates of our square-headed and platter-faced gallants is a new contrivance: for these fashions of the head were not known and discovered in the time of Galen, nor the violation of this artifice practised
Sat Feb 20 21:46 Comment: I think that Old Port is the city now in Ecuador and called (San Gregorio de) Portoviejo, but initially Puerto Viexo, Puerto Viejo, Portus Vetus etc
Sat Feb 20 21:54 Spanish tobacconists to be required to shout "You're going to die!" at customers
Sat Feb 20 22:00 Comment: The determination of rebellious subjects to sacrifice themselves to King Tobacco or Covid is giving rise to some impressive vernacular architecture
Sun Feb 21 00:41 Historia de Barcelona, 21/2: #otd * Esta celebración adicional es el 21 de febrero este año; en 1848 fue el 12 de marzo * 1852: Estrena de la comedia biling?e "La festa del poble", con castells y bailes provinciales (96+114) * 1873: Rebeldes militares de…
Sun Feb 21 11:05 RT @EOCS_Official: As @AndrewRosindell states, 'The government must not delay on this any longer.' It's time for decisive action from @GO…
Sun Feb 21 11:47 Brian Scott has simply got better since someone put a frog in his boot at Ballynagilly
Sun Feb 21 11:53 Comment: & his CV is even weirder than mine
Mon Feb 22 00:39 Historia de Barcelona, 22/2: #otd * 1550: Celebraciones por la coronaci?n del papa Julio III (15) * 1571: Jueves lardero 1571: justas a costa de la Diputaci?n (23+19) * 1789: Guerra entre cirujanos y m?dicos sobre una ni?a con dos cabezas (897+236/i) *…
Mon Feb 22 07:15 Mail English: "At the time, she was a blonde high school student with green eyes"
Mon Feb 22 07:18 I'm assuming the Tories have done the electoral maths & are content to take their chances with the red wall - back to being the party of people with lots of money who live in houses
Mon Feb 22 07:20 Comment: Macklin Man of the World quote: selfish leaders, who have no friendship but in faction—no merit but in corruption—nor interest in any measure, but their own
Mon Feb 22 07:23 Great temptation to select the wrong meaning for irons
Mon Feb 22 14:50 It turns out that the £3.5B announced by the govt for cladding above 18m is only payable insofar as entire blocks of leaseholders stump up the often far greater sums required to simultaneously fix other lethal defects, which, due to leaseholder bankruptcies, just won't happen
Mon Feb 22 19:29 I've mixed with low & high in several countries & never met up with spontaneous communal singing
Mon Feb 22 19:31 There's been a growth in the toddler's personality cult, already noted when she walked down Stoke Newington High St the other night, scattering Deliveroos & pie-munching policemen: Chloe (4): I love her so much. Ida (similar): I have called my new baby doll after her.
Mon Feb 22 23:11 RT @Coldwar_Steve:
Tue Feb 23 00:33 Historia de Barcelona, 23/2: #otd * 1432: La Diputaci?n compra unas casas m?s para el Palacio de la Generalidad (20+11) * 1559: Entra el virrey Garc?a de Toledo en el primer coche visto en la ciudad (49) * 1560: Encarcelados unos m?sicos y bailadores por…
Tue Feb 23 06:32 Many have held opinion that Megasthenes, Pliny & Aulus Gellius were loud liars when they wrote & published that there lived a certain kind of people in Scythia with dogs' heads #JohnBulwer #Anthropometamorphosis #EarlyModernEngland #ComparativeAnthropology
Tue Feb 23 06:33 Comment: Yet the relation is confirmed by some of the order of predicants sent as legates from the apostolic state unto the Tartars, who assure us that there are a certain nation in Tartary who have a dog's face
Tue Feb 23 06:36 Comment: The same authors adding that, although the men have such a resemblance, yet the women have a human visage as other women in the world have.
Tue Feb 23 06:41 Comment: Odericus Poster affirms that in Nicoverra, a city of India, there are men that have dogs' heads, in the isle called Macumeran, which is a great isle and fair, the men and women, who are reasonable, have heads like hounds
Tue Feb 23 06:44 Comment: & NB: By what means these natives might come to he thus monstrously deformed, and the shape of their heads to degenerate into the similitude of a dog's head, shall be suffciently declared in our succeeding face-moulders' scene
Tue Feb 23 06:45 The future of Oxford Street
Tue Feb 23 12:31 On sale, another couple of dozen 2nd-hand academic #archaeology books, inc. a somewhat lighter favourite: Rodney Legg's #Stonehenge Antiquaries (1986), a compilation of 900 years of bizarre theories concerning Britain’s foremost national monument
Wed Feb 24 00:29 Historia de Barcelona, 24/2: #otd * 1560: Fiesta de toros y ca?as para celebrar la boda de Felipe II (31) * 1634: Entra como nuevo obispo el castellano Garc?a Gil de Manrique, ya presidente de la Diputaci?n del General (39) * 1864: Estreno en el teatro…
Wed Feb 24 19:29 RT @Keir_Starmer: Shameful. The cladding scandal continues. The Conservatives just voted against putting vital Grenfell Inquiry recommenda…
Thu Feb 25 00:28 Historia de Barcelona, 25/2: #otd * 1017: Muere Ram?n Borrell (6) * 1565: Torneo de ? pie en frente del nuevo palacio del Lugarteniente General (26) * 1793: Herido el cient?fico M?chain inspeccionando una m?quina de su colega Salv?, que hace de caballo…
Thu Feb 25 20:42 Comment: a nation of men with dogs' heads, negroes inhabiting a mountain near the River Indus, engender with women more canino (doggy-style), accounting any other way of copulation shameful
Thu Feb 25 20:45 The toddler encountered S in a quite outrageous outfit in Tesco & wept as bitterly as she does on his doorstep, so that I no longer think that she has a problem with strangers but that she knows in her heart how he deserted his two infants
Thu Feb 25 20:50 Acephali: Mela says the Blemii are headless & have all the parts of their countenance in their breast, Solinus that some men want necks & have their eyes in their shoulders #JohnBulwer #Anthropometamorphosis #EarlyModernEngland #ComparativeAnthropology
Thu Feb 25 20:56 Comment: Bulwer is unsure whether they exist, and if so, why. He suspects some villainous artifice and affectation to have been concurrent causes of this non-appearance of the head
Thu Feb 25 21:33 It is unfortunate that the final cut of Hrútar (Rams, 2015), the second-greatest Icelandic film of all time, omitted the original ending, in which Gummi, Kiddi and the sheep were rescued from the snowdrift by Ivor the Engine
Thu Feb 25 21:34 Comment: (See 22. Cold Sheep of the colour series)
Fri Feb 26 00:20 Historia de Barcelona, 26/2: #otd * 1559: Garc?a de Toledo visita los baluartes (19) * 1887: La abolici?n del cuarto a favor del c?ntimo hace subir el precio y el tama?o de La Esquella de la Torratxa (192) * 1919: Pla: Ara que em revé el gust de…
Fri Feb 26 05:15 Dearly beloved, let us give thanks for another year in which one has not been beaten to death for saying random stuff to passersby
Fri Feb 26 05:16 RT @thisisyogic: 🌒 still up? Listen to 45 seconds of the Thames at midnight, rising in an old dock 🌊 (no video)
Fri Feb 26 05:34 I find it helps to know that pusillanimous is literally small soul, where pusillus < pullus, a young animal & particularly a chicken - Horace's implumes pulli, unfeathered birdies, though those running scared are rather well-feathered
Fri Feb 26 05:59 Dear seeker of street organ arrangements, the deranged chord scale of Madness' Baggy Trousers (F Ab Bb B C D E) would be a bit of a bugger even on a machine twice the size of yours, but we will get there
Fri Feb 26 08:36 Grandad's only appearance in a Madness video
Fri Feb 26 14:51 Comment: @gabrielmilland @GiveBloodNHS I've never seen so many biscuits
Fri Feb 26 20:12 Such is the disengagement of the Scottish establishment from a rigged Westminster & from the rest of the UK that if you were to do Macklin's Man of the World now, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant & the other Scots might be recast as East African Gujaratis alla Priti Patel & Rishi Sunak
Fri Feb 26 20:13 Comment: Westminster post constitutional reform (PR, reinvented 2nd chamber) would be a much more interesting place with Alex Salmond in the thick of things
Fri Feb 26 20:41 Comment: BTW Did Madness have any relationship with Sturt & Tivendale, like they had with William & Glyn's Bank?
Fri Feb 26 20:44 Alcoholic roof terraces in Leeds must be pretty shite if this is in the top 10
Fri Feb 26 20:45 Comment: I think they post this every six months & I fall for it every time
Fri Feb 26 21:44 The toddler keeps trying to steal scooters & bikes. A Frenchman had quite a good one. - What brand is that then? - Um, it says Scooter on it.
Fri Feb 26 23:03 Historia de Barcelona, 27/2: #otd * 1461: En el conflicto catalano-aragon?s, noticia de la liberaci?n de Carlos de Viana por su padre Juan II (30) * 1632: Muere Serra, obispo de L?rida, enterrador de monstruos, ladr?n de santos aragoneses, presidente de…
Sat Feb 27 06:33 RT @LKPleasehold: Senior MPs getting seriously fed up with mismanagement of cladding / build safety. Full report of APPG yesterday: https:/…
Sat Feb 27 07:46 The moon over (L-R) St John-at-Hackney &, at Highgate, St Michaels (highest church in London - door level with St Pauls cross) & the Swains Lane mast (original telly receiver installed & linked to Ally Pally by cable following transmitter/receiver interference at the latter)
Sun Feb 28 01:56 Historia de Barcelona, 28/2: #otd * 1461: Prohibici?n de bailes de carnaval mientras se celebra la paz entre Juan II y Carlos de Viana (57) * 1919: Pla: Inquietud general * ☼ 07:25-18:42, 11:16 horas; ☾ luna menguante, iluminación 49,38%, antigüedad 22…
Sun Feb 28 05:54 The Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
Sun Feb 28 06:07 Comment: Vauxhall/Воксхолл was a generic term for pleasure garden in C18th/19th Russian. Here's the bull that attacked the organ grinder on the front of the inaugural (Stephenson) train/"samovar on rails" ex Petersburg to the Tsarskoe Selo palace & voxhall in 1837
Sun Feb 28 07:26 A perfect world would contain a Western with a soundtrack by Bill Watrous
Sun Feb 28 11:00 Classical roots of "Beware of the dog" in Guido Panciroli's Rerum memorabilium, iam olim deperditarum, in translation by William Richards of Helmdon
Sun Feb 28 11:00 Comment: @RationalColonel Don't gnocchem
Sun Feb 28 11:49 Baggy trousers - free PDF download