Tweets for October 2022

Bio: Kazoo Academy & Barrel Organ Disco/Yorkshire Almanac/translator Romance & Germanic languages & Russian/old-style jazz trombone & vocals/brass bands/allotmenteer

Sat Oct 01 06:11 Virtues of literalism
Sat Oct 01 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 October 2022: Then: 2010: A Lancastrian libertarian travels to Leeds to learn. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 11°C (52°F), wind south westerly 12mph, visibility good, pressure 997mb, humidity 89%, UV risk 0/11,…
Sat Oct 01 07:36 People always used to ask why I sang a Ghanaian song about inflation, but Kwasi Kwarteng has saved my career
Sat Oct 01 19:35 Thermal Organ Grinder
Sat Oct 01 21:56 Toddler sits on my lap looking along the row of weeping mourners to the curtain is sliding round the coffin, & I so want to tell her about the infinitely superior theatrical mechanics used by Rome
Sat Oct 01 21:57 Comment: The celebrant starts on the adjective-impeded bit about how your man liked his maps & viewed satnav as Satan's work, & it suddenly dawns on me that this is my funeral
Sun Oct 02 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 October 2022: Then: 1800: Harry Rowe, Punch and Judy man, trumpeter at Culloden and the York assizes, dies in the York poorhouse. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 9°C (48°F), wind south westerly 10mph, visibility…
Sun Oct 02 15:26 Comment: @Transblawg The whole point of Twitter is not having to talk about my failures
Sun Oct 02 19:40 The toddler likes the Broadway "Into the woods": "The witch has boobies!"
Sun Oct 02 20:38 "Walk, walk, you harmless nutters, you can catch me, I'm the obese Gingerbread Man Nesting Cookie Cutters"
Mon Oct 03 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 October 2022: Then: 1715: Government agents arrive at Esholt Hall in search of Sir Walter Calverley's Jacobite brother-in-law, Sir William Blackett. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 8°C (46°F), wind westerly 6mph,…
Mon Oct 03 18:32 Toddler rushing around saying, "Now's the time for action," as if the U-turn never happened.
Mon Oct 03 18:34 Comment: The parody party
Tue Oct 04 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 October 2022: Then: 1831: A 33-week strike at Gott's, Leeds, ends with the weavers, with public support, achieving their demands. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind southerly 13mph, visibility good,…
Tue Oct 04 07:49 The suspicion that the main focus of directors of sustainability is always greenwashing
Tue Oct 04 07:50 Comment: Best thing about the film: shots of a BC café
Tue Oct 04 17:57 Comment: @tombcn Tbf I think it's original
Tue Oct 04 19:47 Comment: @NHPNA1 @LASBTWest @WYP_LeedsNW That'll be the guys who do speed trials on Woodhouse Moor I've thought most of my life that scroat was scrote < scrotum, but I've been wrong
Tue Oct 04 19:48 Comment: @jennitpk Oh dear, I hope you're ok
Wed Oct 05 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 October 2022: Then: 1665: John Reresby finds that Charles II has broken a promise and made someone more generous than him sheriff of Yorkshire. 1727: Francis West of Higham (Barnsley) dies aged 80, a witness of the deforestation…
Wed Oct 05 19:14 Nuts in baking are also always cheaper, but I hadn't twigged that VAT was the difference
Wed Oct 05 19:23 I can do a small-scale alternative if @Transblawg will get a gorilla costume
Wed Oct 05 20:13 Postcode physio: in Headingley I was referred in a few days, in Moortown it seems to be at least a year
Thu Oct 06 00:00 Comment: @Transblawg no...
Thu Oct 06 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 October 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 11°C (51°F), wind south westerly 16mph, visibility good, pressure 1018mb, humidity 77%, UV risk 0/11, pollution…
Thu Oct 06 08:47 Regular conflict on North Hill Road, Headingley between cyclists plus pedestrians and Uber drivers speeding students around
Thu Oct 06 18:29 Classic Yorkshire - government by drivers for drivers
Thu Oct 06 18:44 The toddler has begun glottalizing medial & final T, presumably from Dick van Dyke - can't think of any other influence post-Stanley Johnson. I'd hoped for a Yorkshire accent, but whatevs. (DvD said he learnt to dance for Mary Poppins, & he's so good.)
Fri Oct 07 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 October 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 13°C (56°F), wind south westerly 20mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1016mb, humidity 79%, UV risk 0/11,…
Fri Oct 07 19:30 The London Dutch Centre is hosting bigband Het Stroat Ensemble from Oldenzaal on the 16th! @DutchCentre (De enige Nederlandstalige zingende orgelman in het VK is nog te boeken...)
Fri Oct 07 19:51 Surely @sainsburys is encouraging car use by handing out vouchers that offer £6 off if you spend £30. Alcohol is excluded, so it's actually quite difficult to walk out of a store carrying that quantity of groceries
Fri Oct 07 20:24 Great visit to a preschool crowned by encountering two of the ladies later on the street & receiving a bagful of fruit from someone's allotment
Sat Oct 08 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 October 2022: Then: 1671: The infant Walter Calverley suffers the first of several near-fatal accidents. 1733: John Hobson bids £1,400 for most of Delph, including the famous Friarmere bakestone pit. Now: Weather for tonight: partly…
Sat Oct 08 10:17 Every time someone points to a nice country house, I think of Hank Williams and the loveless mansion on the hill
Sat Oct 08 10:19 Comment: @tombcn That's a long wait, so do find something else to do with the time
Sat Oct 08 11:15 How will we protect our streets when there are no longer telephone wires for students to fling shoes over?
Sat Oct 08 12:50 No idea re societal consequences, but, while nurseries provide peer contact, impression (Ofsted outstanding), of some good people + high turnover of tired, unmotivated young women, averse to cold/rain/wind: completely cool with HMG paying me some instead
Sat Oct 08 14:24 Birdbox speed camera on Meanwood Road. The real ones on Otley Road have been out of action since we moved here, 18 months ago, the police expecting those without dashcam to anticipate an offence, film it, and send them footage, which will be duly considered
Sat Oct 08 21:38 Roughly our view, but magnificent through the horse chestnut
Sun Oct 09 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 October 2022: Then: 1647: Adam Eyre whips the maid Jane, again, and prays, again. 1726: Two horsemen attack the house of Mr. Goodwin, rector of Tankersley, near Barnsley. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 6°C…
Sun Oct 09 19:49 Comment: @lordbonkers Daughter took some such autumn gatherings to nursery, where they threw them in the bin - "dirty" I'm not sure baking in vinegar really worked
Sun Oct 09 20:57 The exhilaration on the outcry indicating that one is about to be hunted to the death by a frantic infant mob. "You've cured my son's chicken phobia: now he's chased a 6-foot rooster, why be scared of tiny hens?" - So, how was your 3rd birthday party? - A bit mad.
Sun Oct 09 21:08 Crypto, Russian style, allegedly - quite mad, but read the thread
Mon Oct 10 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 October 2022: Then: 1730: John Hobson observes a fiery red star to the north over Barnsley. Now: Weather for tonight: light rain, temperature 9°C (49°F), wind westerly 14mph, visibility very good, pressure 1009mb, humidity 82%, UV…
Mon Oct 10 08:47 Comment: My ignorance & laziness: the glottal stop seems very common in native Yorkshire speech, & is apparently particularly favoured on Teesside
Mon Oct 10 09:30 A translation non-precious stone: "discriminatie op basis van huiskleur" -> "discrimination on grounds of house colour" - presumably "huidskleur"
Mon Oct 10 10:47 Comment: Is there discrimination on grounds of house colour in e.g. Reykjavik?
Tue Oct 11 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 October 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 6°C (42°F), wind south westerly 7mph, visibility good, pressure 1025mb, humidity 88%, UV risk 0/11, pollution…
Tue Oct 11 10:38 Yet another reason for Amazon's existence: @microscooters quote 3/4 working days delivery, but that can easily turn into weeks because of their selected courier, Yodel. Now hoping the toddler will get the scooter for Christmas
Tue Oct 11 11:12 Something of a Eugene Aram experience this morning
Tue Oct 11 19:30 Nightmare getting Micro Scooters/Yodel to deliver the scooter ordered
Tue Oct 11 19:44 Bangladeshi lady unchuffed at the suggestion that Black History Month might apply to her. The librarian's summing up of other theme months ("and we also do lots of things about British people!") conjures up a pagan recounting his gods to a curious monotheist
Wed Oct 12 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 October 2022: Then: ~0633: Edwin of Northumbria is killed and his army defeated by Gwynedd and Mercia at Hatfield Chase near Doncaster. 0709: Wilfrid's soul departs with the birds. 1833: The handle setters thank their ex-secretary,…
Wed Oct 12 18:48 Old people are now so young that they have forgotten the tradition of front-room wakes
Thu Oct 13 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 October 2022: Then: 1863: Henry Briggs, co-owner of Methley Junction Colliery, receives a threatening letter after a particularly long and acrimonious strike. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 6°C (42°F), wind…
Thu Oct 13 10:24 Comment: @ibexsalad They couldn't bring themselves to say "by, by, by," when the trend is "sell, sell, sell." The great & good are crowding onto the radio to say that of course the BoE needs to keep buying, because their pensions don't care about inflation.
Thu Oct 13 19:35 Ingenious hack for the appalling thermal performance of Leeds's remaining back-to-backs (demolish em!) at 1 Edgware St & all over Harehills: brick cladding glued over the original, crumbling brickwork, layer of polystyrene in between? Note how the coat isn't flush with the ground
Thu Oct 13 19:37 Comment: More architectural Armageddon at the (new) Babylon kindergarten, where the efflorescence on the bottom two feet of brickwork that was worrying me a year ago now appears to be compounded by a failing damp course. Bricks crumbling, demolish & start again?
Thu Oct 13 19:40 Comment: @jennitpk On the other hand, I'd be quite tempted to move to near an airport if I thought there was a decent chance of closing it down
Thu Oct 13 19:49 Comment: And don't get me started on the Olympic Park in East London
Fri Oct 14 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 October 2022: Then: 1854: During the Crimean War, Queen Victoria tours the docks of Hull, which is not as pretty as Constantinople. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 8°C (46°F), wind southerly 9mph, visibility good,…
Fri Oct 14 20:32 hanged, drawn and kwartenged
Fri Oct 14 20:33 Comment: @charlottelevene You're not making me feel better, young lady
Sat Oct 15 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 October 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 7°C (45°F), wind south easterly 9mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1000mb, humidity 97%, UV risk 0/11,…
Sat Oct 15 18:49 OK, but who's going to pay the artists if everyone's dead?
Sat Oct 15 19:53 On sitting down to eat AMA would exclaim, "They came to pray, but remained to scoff," inverting Oliver Goldsmith's "fools, who came to scoff, [but] remained to pray." Between the C18th and now, when was the first inversion, & when was it first applied to guzzling?
Sat Oct 15 21:15 I reckon Philip Larkin's early cycle, The North Ship, derives from childhood recollections of the diaries of Charles Smith, surgeon on the Diana, a Hull whaler famously marooned in Arctic ice off Baffin Bay in 1866-7
Sat Oct 15 21:17 Comment: ( The Yorkshire Almanac has also been marooned by a deranged determination to write a decent PHP script to get lunar data, but should shortly sail again, well behind schedule )
Sun Oct 16 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 October 2022: Then: 1685: John Reresby recovers his sword, lost between Barnsley and Wakefield. 1840: A traffic count on Park Road, Sheffield on the quietest day of the week. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 9°C…
Sun Oct 16 10:56 Large quantities of apples, so all conceivable processes, inc my favourite, tarte tatin. But what's a good apple press?
Sun Oct 16 11:07 Comment: No apple press sounds good
Sun Oct 16 14:11 Comment: @birder_bee @Primark I really got into @Primark when they used an elderly & extraordinary Hackney friend called Stanley Johnson as a model, but I wish their ladies' slippers were a bit bigger
Sun Oct 16 14:15 Comment: We have a cider plan
Sun Oct 16 19:28 Comment: @DanielGalef That's rotten
Sun Oct 16 20:06 Trick said to be easier with Porsches
Sun Oct 16 22:29 The lie to the banking truism that you can't eat an unrealized capital gain is given by the two whales taken in June 1866 by the Diana of Hull, and where feasible consumed during the subsequent hunger-winter marooned in pack ice
Mon Oct 17 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 October 2022: Then: 1688: York on the eve of the Glorious Revolution: 'an archbishopric without a bishop, a city without a lord mayor, a garrison without a soldier'. Now: Weather for tonight: light rain, temperature 11°C (53°F),…
Mon Oct 17 07:47 The stove
Mon Oct 17 11:25 See also the @UniversityLeeds 's properties on North Hill Road
Mon Oct 17 19:35 Toddler's take on York: O, the grand old Duke of Pork, He had ten thousand pigs, He marched them up to the top of the hill And they all came down in wigs. Ring a Ring o' Roses is nothing more than childish nonsense, deriving from the street (happy days!) transmission of lyrics
Mon Oct 17 21:17 Marvellous tales of (Hong Kong) Chinese parents moving as close as they can to Mirkwood Primary, & gritting their teeth & attending Henry's Church for two years if close is not close enough to qualify
Tue Oct 18 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 October 2022: Then: 1917: Private John Dunnett of Wilsden dies at Passchendaele, prompting an extraordinary home-made tribute. 1966: The charter converting the Bradford Institute of Technology into the University of Bradford defines…
Tue Oct 18 18:21 Comment: @tombcn May, may not
Tue Oct 18 18:43 Toddler now pointing out Ss and a couple of other letters, but I still can't figure how last month she spontaneously & immediately correctly paired Arabic numerals with animal group images, & she does look at me with disdain every now and again
Tue Oct 18 18:47 A bit musically recherché, this from Quentin Letts, who I never fancied a brass-band fancier
Tue Oct 18 18:53 Comment: @ibexsalad "Mom, wife, blah." I once worked at a tech biz which got bought by an American chaebol, & their CTO started meeting #1 with "Hello, I'm X, & I'm a dad, a husband and a Christian." I'm afraid I laughed & others sniggered
Tue Oct 18 18:58 Whatever happened to the Soviet military fan club somewhere in NE England - Yorkshire, Durham, Tyneside, Northumberland - which had inter alia purchased a WWII Russian tank?
Tue Oct 18 20:02 Surprised no facetious soul has rebelled against the standard translation - "the workshop of tribes/peoples/world & the womb of nations"
Tue Oct 18 20:54 Anyone in Headingley sitting on a stash of campden tablets?
Wed Oct 19 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 October 2022: Then: 1715: Abraham Sharp of Halifax doubts he will find an heir for the scientific instruments he has built. 1775: Mayor Joseph Outram lays the first stone of Hull's first dock and customs quay, dooming the town's…
Wed Oct 19 22:32 A Babylon spokesman on the energy wars: "If you try to tunnel into our strategic oil stash, we'll break down your garage door & nick your candles."
Thu Oct 20 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 October 2022: Then: 1676: John Reresby learns that the Duke of Norfolk is claiming in London that he killed a black servant by castrating him. ~1836: The West Riding Sessions contemplates the potential consequences of a post-dated…
Thu Oct 20 08:29 Tremendous pleasure standing in the drizzle, chatting to a robin & knocking apples off a couple of abandoned 1930s/1940s(?) trees, but what variant?
Thu Oct 20 14:54 How about a PM who doesn't think that politics is about getting a big dressing-up box?
Thu Oct 20 14:54 Comment: @tombcn Indeed.
Thu Oct 20 14:56 Going off playdates with adults who simply want a quiet place so they can get out their tablet & keyboard while Muggins does the childcare
Thu Oct 20 16:25 Comment: @HeadingleyHEART Never been to this before, so could you tell me how the pressing works? Do you get to take away the juice from your apples or does it stay on site? We've been emptying a couple of abandoned trees opposite...
Thu Oct 20 18:39 The parable of two men and their drowning children
Fri Oct 21 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 October 2022: Then: 1536: Henry VIII's herald encounters adherents and leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace at Pontefract. 1555: Wool middlemen are again permitted at Halifax to avoid the destruction of the local economy. 1830:…
Fri Oct 21 17:16 Probably naive to expect the threat of a fart in the face to dissuade a three-year-old from trying to pull down one's trousers
Fri Oct 21 21:54 Coordinating washing machine drying with pizza making is, sadly, probably the closest I'll get to the stuff I did on waste-heat recovery generation with Stork Boilers
Sat Oct 22 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 October 2022: Then: 1906: A devil among the stones of a Wensleydale wall. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind southerly 12mph, visibility good, pressure 999mb, humidity 93%, UV risk 0/11, pollution…
Sat Oct 22 17:17 Comment: @MythicalIberia The Brother in Flann O'Brien
Sat Oct 22 18:38 Tape heaven
Sat Oct 22 21:43 Johnson none of my business, but the toddler still singing the well-known showtune, "We're off to see the wazzock, the wondrous wazzock of was."
Sun Oct 23 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 October 2022: Then: 1679: Presbyterian tears, groans and perhaps meltings at Gisburn, West Riding. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 12°C (53°F), wind south easterly 8mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1007mb,…
Sun Oct 23 12:36 Cider #1: Cut out rotten bits, quarter/eighth, grate 1kg in blender on high, put into muslin bag, hand squeeze over white sieve into big measuring jug, yield 500ml #CiderWithRosie
Sun Oct 23 18:44 Comment: Yield actually averages 600ml/kg. I can't remember from writing Fygir process industry logistics courseware starring Jimmy, the garage cider- and perry-maker, what normal commercial yield is, & doubt @sebranchett remembers either
Sun Oct 23 18:47 Comment: @ibexsalad Whatever makes you happy, Charles
Sun Oct 23 22:00 What to do with the apple pulp/pomace from #CiderWithRosie? No pig (yet), so will try some under the trees to see if the blackbirds, robins etc will take more interesting than tbh
Mon Oct 24 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 October 2022: Then: 1733: Sir John Stapylton of Myton-on-Swale's political career is terminated by a sheep. Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 11°C (53°F), wind westerly 8mph, visibility moderate, pressure…
Mon Oct 24 07:42 Comment: @ExcelPope In the national interest
Mon Oct 24 15:16 Nothing less than the nationalisation of the private obstruction of pavements - public bollards replacing private cars
Mon Oct 24 22:05 On the one hand, this is quite mad, given modern security regimes. On the other, Spanish trains are still bursting with people who shouldn't be there
Tue Oct 25 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 October 2022: Then: 1417: Beverley officially celebrates for the first time that holy oil flowed like sweat from the tomb of St. John of Beverley during the Battle of Agincourt two years previously. Now: Weather for tonight: light…
Tue Oct 25 08:06 Comment: @lordbonkers 28th. For your trivia collection: one Lieutenant Cromwell misbehaved himself towards the Scottish commissioners
Tue Oct 25 08:48 Diwali twats with their nocturnal fireworks scaring the tawny owls and small children
Tue Oct 25 08:50 Comment: Say what you like about Christmas, but at least it doesn't generally involve fireworks
Tue Oct 25 09:05 Comment: A curiosity: I thought I heard a red kite hunting at around 05:50, but lit says they tend to start at sunrise (ca 07:15). Light pollution on Headingley Hill by University of Leeds?
Tue Oct 25 18:50 Our favourite Russian lady is obsessed by Whitby, but it's 3 hours by train, and 90 minutes by car, so she bought one & started learning to drive. 5 tests later, she often sits in it, turns on the radio, & looks at photos of Whitby.
Wed Oct 26 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 October 2022: Then: 1869: Joshua Rowntree, a young solicitor leaving the office, helps rescue men from the Ellen, wrecked south of Scarborough Spa. Now: Weather for tonight: light rain, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind south easterly…
Wed Oct 26 21:48 Yiddish commercial song meets Victorian poetry in the adverts of a Leeds gent's outfitters - tell me more, someone I'm way behind my publication schedule, but the Yorkshire Almanac Songbook is shaping up nicely, & barrel organ is on the mend
Wed Oct 26 21:50 Comment: "S. HYAM’S STUPENDOUS SPRING STOCK FOR 1852!" is just such a beautiful line
Thu Oct 27 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 October 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 11°C (52°F), wind southerly 11mph, visibility good, pressure 1013mb, humidity 93%, UV risk 0/11, pollution low…
Thu Oct 27 09:03 The toddler is so enthused by the apple juice, stewed apple etc from the trees we are emptying that she is willing to go out in today's rain. Wait till she discovers lamb poaching
Thu Oct 27 10:49 Comment: @tombcn Ooh, you subtle English person! Rustling, though sheep don't really rustle
Thu Oct 27 10:51 Comment: @AndrewHammel1 So will cycling down the Rhine get easier? The big plant near Köln(?) was always a curious vignette
Thu Oct 27 20:14 Comment: @SouthLondonGirl @ExcelPope @MsLMG79 Terrible pavements are anti-women (do most of the buggy pushing), anti-poor (relatively unlikely to own a car)...
Thu Oct 27 20:17 York stone makes Instagram pavements for people who don't walk - beautiful, but lethal when wet leaves aren't cleared - the best solution 150 years ago, the worst now
Thu Oct 27 20:18 Comment: Remarkable evolution of the pavement over that 150 year span, from a place where walkers could avoid all the shit on the street, to a place where all the shit gets piled to enable cars to get around quicker
Fri Oct 28 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 October 2022: Then: 1648: A letter claims that Pontefract Castle under John Morris, Royalist governor, has become an apolitical thieves' den. 1683: York's governor fails to provoke a duel with someone who borrowed his cushion at the…
Fri Oct 28 19:34 Quite a lot of the apple juice produced with blender grater setting & muslin bags has been drunk by us & neighbours, but now there's a 5 litre Wilko demijohn + 5g Gervin universal wine yeast bubbling away in the garage, & heaven help us all #CiderWithRosie
Fri Oct 28 19:53 Comment: @lordbonkers Latino friends, including academics at unis unable to afford the subscriptions, take the Elbakyan route
Fri Oct 28 20:05 Comment: @lordbonkers Some time ago, when I was into language but rather out of disposable, a distinguished & incredibly kind American linguistics prof, who didn't know me from Adam, hacked a backdoor into their systems to give me access. But it shouldn't be that hard
Sat Oct 29 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 October 2022: Then: 1671: Margaret Pinchbeck of Pickering tells the York coroner that she killed her husband with an axe 'for he had done her a great injury and did deserve it'. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature…
Sat Oct 29 14:40 Walking W through all the shite on the N side of Monk Bridge Rd towards Moor Rd, towards me comes a vision of elegance, striding along, her back to the obesemobiles. We stop to cross, & she turns to me and says, "Ai wondair 'ow many of zéir jurneys ar nécezary!" #RhoticMartyrs
Sat Oct 29 19:01 I remember reading about this Tupolev model as a kid
Sat Oct 29 19:04 OECD chart on childcare costs I don't honestly know whether we'd have take up more nursery hours if it had been more affordable - I've certainly had a tremendous time as a result
Sat Oct 29 19:04 Comment: Via
Sat Oct 29 19:21 Ignorant of neighbourhood plans or the Localism Act, but the perception exists that ours (referendum due) is a political exercise to buy the favour of civic groups with honeyed words, without any firm proposals that might now piss off less civic groups or lead to accountability
Sat Oct 29 19:52 Comment: @jonburkeUK Common to hear Headingley residents moaning about antisocial behaviour on the Otley Run, a pub crawl in fancy dress along a road whose horrendous vehicle pollution they somehow miss
Sat Oct 29 20:41 The toddler now judges the world in terms of the 1964 Mary Poppins, & I now see MP as the basis for Jocco W. & her Bert, Rosemary C., & several others too close to mention. Then there's Irwin Kostal's great (C19th) score - Brucknerian major 3rd progs in dev of Spoonful of Sugar
Sun Oct 30 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 October 2022: Then: 1744: Landowners form a partnership to pipe water from Little Horton to Bradford, facilitating urban growth. 1981: Joanne, Michelle and Carl go caking in their Sheffield villages. Now: Weather for tonight: partly…
Sun Oct 30 16:56 Infant believes Walt Disney/Silly Symphonies/The Big Bad Wolf (inc. Little Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs, & Grandma) is sufficient horror at Halloween, so went to Sainsbury's in a great DIY Red Riding Hood cape + kazoo, but students on their phones
Sun Oct 30 16:59 Comment: Here's the Henry Hall version from 1933, the year before, the melody proof that vocal singability guides should be taken with a pinch of salt pork
Sun Oct 30 17:03 Comment: Infant asks of WD SS Night Before Christmas why Santa comes down the chimney instead of using the door. Wait till she sees the Dukes of Hazzard. (Will she ever see an open fire, or will the state's campaign to reverse Prometheus' legacy succeed?)
Sun Oct 30 19:47 Comment: @NHPNA1 Wigan shower room. They could have painted on a trompe-l'œil - garage door, or naked people, or something
Sun Oct 30 20:55 Comment: @NHPNA1 Arts Council England, wake up
Mon Oct 31 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 31 October 2022: Then: 1674: A sozzled Silvanus Rich rides into the River Calder in flood at Wakefield bridge and is washed away, but survives. 1684: Mrs Taylor of Brighouse, a Quaker, is buried upright next to her husband and daughter…