Tweets for November 2023

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

Wed Nov 01 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 November 2023: Then: 1530: Dining at Cawood on All Hallows, Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, receives divine warning that his time is nigh. 1643: Sam Priestley of Soyland (22) saves a Royalist enemy from drowning in Hebden Water at…
Wed Nov 01 09:47 @Bugaboo Hi, can you tell me if ID 500535 (Bugaboo Bee 5 rear wheels replacement set) is compatible with the Bee 3? Other vendors say it is, but I notice that you don't. Thanks!
Wed Nov 01 16:42 Comment: @DalesBus Hi, can you tell me whether winter Sunday services include 31 December? Thanks!
Wed Nov 01 16:55 Comment: @DalesBus Thanks!
Wed Nov 01 20:44 Free video background removal tool for a small person's half-term video project? No green screen as such, but there's a pretty greenish wall
Thu Nov 02 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 November 2023: Then: 1300: In a pause in the Scottish wars, Archbishop Corbridge of York tells John de Cave and Radulf, bailiff of Beverley, to pursue debasers and deserters. Now: Weather for tonight: heavy rain, temperature 7°C…
Thu Nov 02 20:14 The infant has started dictating stories
Thu Nov 02 21:31 Why, given their local economic & culinary importance, is there so little literature about Pakistani sheep?
Sun Nov 05 18:11 Infant with a nasty respiratory, coughing every few seconds all day. - Please will you use the inhaler the doctor gave you. - No. - I'll give you some cake. - No. Falls asleep, inhaler applied. When she wakes up, does she get the cake?
Sun Nov 05 19:15 RT @thomasforth: How bus use has changed in London and in big cities outside of London since deregulation. (from which London was exempt).…
Sun Nov 05 21:39 Comment: @Bossloper @lordbonkers Carroted & sticked into organised events, & then organised events got really crap, so now we're back to everyone pumping out ICBMs
Mon Nov 06 09:50 Annoyed with my webhosting, so as soon as there's time, there's time for DIY Ubuntu/Apache
Mon Nov 06 11:10 @smyersfish Can you tell me roughly what time can I roll up on Saturday and still get fish? Thanks!
Wed Nov 08 07:24 The old joke about postage costs being 90% storage - a package for Sydney now on its fifth day at Heathrow
Wed Nov 08 07:26 Today's posts include a premonitory vision
Wed Nov 08 11:32 Puzzled why a primary school would give French when there's zero opportunity to use it. Also puzzled why the parents of the 30% of the class who have acquired a smattering of bad Arabic at Islamic Saturday school wouldn't teach their children Punjabi in the playground instead.
Wed Nov 08 16:14 An invite is available for the other place, where I am organgrinder
Wed Nov 08 18:32 In the run-up to the foundation of Fountains Abbey by refugees from fleshpots of St Mary's, York, a poet and historian with a curious name: Hugh de Sotavagina. "Sota" in Occitan/Catalan is "below". Explanation, please.
Thu Nov 09 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: The Singing Organ-Grinder sees his new home of Leeds from the M62, and a terrible memory surfaces: 9 April 2021 is a beautiful spring day, but as the removal van chugs east past Hartshead Moor Services towards Leeds's skyscrapers I am…
Fri Nov 10 10:45 RT @fietsprofessor: "Tire pollution is such a nascent research field that we are only starting to understand its impact on wildlife and hum…
Fri Nov 10 10:47 Comment: Feed functional & being picked up again, now just needs to return to its original state
Fri Nov 10 10:52 "Royal Mail 6/7 business day service to Sydney." Business day 6 (times are Oz) & still at Heathrow
Fri Nov 10 11:14 Lovely story & the track is blatant
Fri Nov 10 23:00 Would the Leeds cocaine mob have been caught had they been able to spell Nueva Generación?
Sat Nov 11 21:15 Dr ApSimon's Armistice Day
Sat Nov 11 22:11 Where to get wild duck?
Sat Nov 11 22:30 Comment: "Wild"
Mon Nov 13 11:51 The younger generation is keener on wet chilly parades than oneself
Mon Nov 13 19:56 RT @Edinburgh_CC: Plans to introduce a ban on pavement parking are being proposed for Edinburgh to help improve accessibility and safety on…
Mon Nov 13 21:41 The infant appears to be able to read some of the subtitles on Bluey, so if I turn the sound off she may not end up with an Australian accent
Mon Nov 13 23:21 An excellent book from the Bishop of Leicester (1979-90)
Tue Nov 14 12:02 This morning the infant went into preschool with her coat hanging off her left shoulder, in imitation of the students. God help us.
Wed Nov 15 11:54 School visit Q&A. Mixed-race woman: What about diversity? Boss: Black history month, neurodiversity, dadada. Parents with glasses: What about gifted children? Boss: Aim high for everyone, neurodiversity, dadada. No-one asks about children who like telling jokes.
Wed Nov 15 11:54 Comment: Year 2 has a Sunday morning vibe: - X, has phonics helped you read better?! - Yes, Miss A! - Y, has phonics helped you read better?! - Yes, Miss A! To Year 6 child accompanying us: - Did phonics help you read better?! - No.
Thu Nov 16 10:26 Nasty cough, & a Swedish woman just told me that this nation needs to adopt the scarf. I've got a couple, including one donated by a Dutch woman - ScarfAid - but it's too warm.
Thu Nov 16 10:31 Comment: @tombcn I used to wear the big thick Dutch one when the winter wind came from Moscow, but it wasn't much fun
Thu Nov 16 13:11 12 kg books going out of the door in a wine box, labelled "18+ Do not deliver to persons under 18." Archaeology is dangerous stuff
Thu Nov 16 19:47 Another Bsky invite available
Sun Nov 19 22:17 Anyone one got a free epub of the Plowden Report?
Mon Nov 20 20:27 So the infant decided to learn Let It Go, & sang along with a loop for an hour. It's a hard song - big range, chorus (such as it is) immediately bridges chest/head, each "let it go" is different dramatically & musically - but she's doing really well
Tue Nov 21 11:40 The fatbike is like the fatcar or SUV - designed to create an aura of the wild outdoors around chubby metropolitans. Fatbikes surely mainly an urban phenomenon to give an easier ride for deliveroos who've hacked the speed limiter on their ebike.
Tue Nov 21 20:30 I'd always ascribed allergic reaction to S American apples 10-15 years ago to pesticides, but now someone's told me about oral allergy syndrome, which still leaves me wondering why I didn't get the same reaction from EU apples
Tue Nov 21 21:46 Comment: Eats 5 EU apples. It's there alright.
Wed Nov 22 10:48 It's all in Erasmus: pay toddler teachers more than secondary & you won't be faffing around with extra maths when they're 16
Wed Nov 22 12:45 A local primary's anti-bullying initiative would have made more sense if the kazoos distributed hadn't been of the landfill variety, membranes loose by the time children reached the school gate #KazoosForLife
Wed Nov 22 18:07 Several more BlueSky invites
Thu Nov 23 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 November 2023: Then: 1641: Snow falls at Elmswell (Driffield), and sheep farmers jostle for low ground and feed 1839: Bradford rejects its new vicar William Scoresby's proposal for a church rate by a huge majority, inspiring a…
Thu Nov 23 11:12 Freetube + artist donations is the way, but how to escape the nasty YouTube algorithm & get Up Nexts that reflect my interests rather than content monetization?
Fri Nov 24 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 November 2023: Then: 1826: "Nimrod" of Sporting Magazine buys a waistcoat at Ripon fair 1843: James Byram of Gildersome is ruinously fined for selling used tea as new Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 12°C (53°F),…
Fri Nov 24 22:23 Delight that one of the infant's friends has learned to write her own name at 4y5m, "all thanks to phonics." The infant did that at 3y3m and was writing backwards and upside down at 3y8m thanks to our secret weapon, porridge.
Sat Nov 25 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 November 2023: Then: 1839: Betsy Sawyer, a freed Antiguan slave, and family servant to the Rev. Thomas Murray, dies at Yeadon 1988: John Battle, MP for Leeds West, visits a constituent who had lived near the J.W. Roberts (Turner &…
Sun Nov 26 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 November 2023: Then: 1698: A scholar must also pursue a modern scoundrel like Dugdale the demoniac 1828: Benefit scroungers from Wortley (Leeds) take a six-mile ride to West Ardsley 1978: A rambunctious Leeds wedding 1980: Following…
Sun Nov 26 11:13 Sinterklaas is warming up once again
Mon Nov 27 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 November 2023: Then: 1851: Exports in sterling to foreign ports for the year to date by one of Hull's largest shippers, Brownlow, Pearson and Co. 1941: Tolkien on the introduction by Professor George S. Gordon of lightheartedness to…
Mon Nov 27 10:03 Very much looking forward to our Xmas meat order from @waterfordrandj - recommended to us by a Leeds chef
Mon Nov 27 10:42 Melodic origin of 2 Lovely Black Eyes = Vieni Sul Mar (prob Caruso) "Vieni meco t'aspetta la bruna/Fida barca del tuo marinar": not a brunette, but the dark faithful boat of yr sailor, who hopes his passion so tender will find heaven in yr heart someday
Mon Nov 27 20:07 Someone today said the infant was reading to some degree - if true, an incredible moment of personal liberation, with upstage the whole Paulo Freire education+society shebang
Tue Nov 28 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 November 2023: Then: 1833: Lewis Fenton, Huddersfield MP, falls mysteriously from the upper window of his house Now: Weather for tonight: light rain, temperature 2°C (36°F), wind northerly 4mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1002mb,…
Tue Nov 28 23:07 A remarkable late 19th century epitaph at Muker, Swaledale
Wed Nov 29 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 November 2023: Then: 1730: A suicided chicken-thief at Rothwell finds that his troubles do not end with death 1796: The Royal Navy seeks recruits among the seamen of Sculcoates, Cottingham and Little Weighton, East Riding Now:…
Wed Nov 29 21:19 Got in a bit of a flap while discussing the poisoners AND frying a pan of bacon: flap! bacon over my shoulder and into some plants. Recovered.
Thu Nov 30 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 November 2023: Then: 1673: A verse warns Charles II against his brother James, six days after the latter's marriage to an Italian Catholic 1880: A Sheffield inquest deals less with the death of James Brady than with the storage of…
Thu Nov 30 10:52 Small girls gathered around a huge foot, sticking out into the cold air from a giant's upside-down tomb. Giant: Please, girls, clear the ice off my foot. It's nice and warm down here, but it's so cold up there. Al-ḡaṭṭās the Literalist: That's not the giant, that's you.
Thu Nov 30 10:54 Comment: The infant is quite detached from reality. On awaking, regarding a pillow with floral motifs: - Mmm, the rhino is my favourite, so ridiculous. - What's that one? - That's a tapatapabobo. It has sharp teeth like a vampire, but luckily it can't fly.
Thu Nov 30 23:35 Her steam engine craze is past its peak, but the infant is going to love this