Extweets for December 2024

SingingOrganGrinder
@elorganillero

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

• Sun Dec 01 18:15 Walking up Kirkstall Ln with 2 apple trees & hazel stakes, I meet a toothless man: - Where's Bromley? Cheap tobacco - Cross the river to that brewery with St Peter's spire behind. Follow the road & you'll get to Bramley. If you still want Bromley, watch out for snow in the Peaks.
• Sun Dec 01 18:16 Comment: @Transblawg The arts coverage is public school Oxbridge graduates with cotton wool between the ears, but I do love it.
• Sun Dec 01 18:23 Comment: He actually turned out to be from Bromley, hence his confusion
• Sun Dec 01 19:51 After school the infant normally plays for 45-60 minutes on the playground, but this Friday at 15:05: - Come on dad, we're going. On the way out she spots the dad of an older friend: - Hey, big fellah, are you coming to Café 21? She had made arrangements during break.
• Sun Dec 01 21:17 - So you want an oven in the garden? One like T's pizza oven, which set fire to a peat stratum & almost burnt down the terrace? - No, an exact replica of the one at the Cistercian monastery of Santa María de Rioseco in Las Merindades de Burgos
  
  
• Sun Dec 01 21:17 Comment:
• Sun Dec 01 22:01 Comment: @Transblawg I sense a Gründlichkeit revival
• Wed Dec 04 11:13 Fast food joints within 400m of Shire Oak Primary: Nando's, Gregg's, Pizza Express, Burger King, Costa, Caffè Nero etc etc Nearest playgrounds (Hyde Park, Meanwood Park, Beckett Park) are all roughly 1500m @shireoakce
  
• Wed Dec 04 11:38 Re popular difficulty in differentiating between swallows & bats at dusk (Catalan folklore of the bat being the devil's attempt at a swallow), here's confusion between cuckoos and sparrow-hawks - good guys harder to identify
  
• Thu Dec 05 12:16 Tata appears to play the same game in NL as in UK - subsidies go to India instead of investment, & any government contemplating termination will be liable for cleanup
• Thu Dec 05 12:18 Boom & bust in building damp exacerbated by deciduous plants' differential water intake in summer vs winter, but would evergreen planting help?
• Thu Dec 05 22:59 - Yorkshire folk don't like you dropping by unannounced. - You're just generalizing from Mr Lockwood's visit to Mr Heathcliff in Chapter 2 of Wuthering Heights.
• Fri Dec 06 09:22 Community hub something of a private/public parable: Post Office staff working hard to get down the omnipresent queue, library/social services staff chatting about Trump etc with nary sign of a queue, security guard sheltering in the kiddies' section with a Greggs & his phone
• Fri Dec 06 10:41 We should, however, continue to attribute most of planning's curious decisions to incompetence
• Fri Dec 06 10:44 Haha
• Fri Dec 06 22:23 Now aware of Masterchef & Gregg Wallace, & that the former isn't Little Chef & the latter doesn't own Greggs
• Sat Dec 07 10:26 Yoon Suk Yeol should upgrade to "I'm sorry for any offence caused"
  
• Sat Dec 07 20:22 My Casio SA-46 keyboard has taken a beating, mostly from me, & half the black keys have gone, but Thingiverse to the rescue: No idea where to 3D print the file. Uni?
• Sun Dec 08 13:35 Promising new role-playing scenario: deciding whether to role-play
• Sun Dec 08 20:33 My Boy Lollipop
• Sun Dec 08 20:43 "Contractors call central Bradford the low submission zone, because everything is cash & there are no guarantees. I told the guy I bought the business off that I was going to do everything legally, & he said to get a home safe anyway, because that's what gangsters will look for."
• Sun Dec 08 21:16 RT @cremieuxrecueil: Thread of some surprising things that are older than other things Notre Dame predates the Maori settlement of New Zea…
• Mon Dec 09 09:48 Looking at the construction of the C19th (?) stone wall bounding James Baillie Park in Batty's Wood, now partially demolished by an apparently healthy sycamore, & noticed for the 1st time a gorgeously lettered 'Woodhouse Ridge' in a ground panel at the 2nd gate from Ridge Terrace
• Mon Dec 09 12:46 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1932: The Jewish Chronicle mulls the Yorkshire Fascist Table Tennis Club’s decision to leave the Leeds league #YorkshireAlmanac
• Mon Dec 09 14:22 Sir Eric reminds me of The Kinks' Autumn Almanac: From the dew-soaked hedge creeps a crawly caterpillar When the dawn begins to crack It's all part of my autumn almanac Breeze blows leaves of a musty-coloured yellow So I sweep them in my sack Yes, yes, yes, it's my autumn almanac
• Mon Dec 09 20:20 Too many children in the school nativity? Administer flu vaccine a couple of days before.
• Tue Dec 10 07:10 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1769: Part of the northern ballad about Bill Brown, a Brightside (Sheffield) steelworker and hare-poacher killed by gamekeepers today near Rotherham #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Wed Dec 11 08:42 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1680: The Great Comet is seen at Halifax as a natural event, in London – amid Popish Plot hysteria – as a portent #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Wed Dec 11 14:14 Best restrictive covenants named today: bans on keeping pigs, burning bricks
• Thu Dec 12 11:56 The prospect of PR being introduced, not because it provides fairer outcomes for the population of this country, but because enough Westminster politicians fear that FPTP will do them out of a job
  
• Thu Dec 12 12:00 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1641: John Sugden causes panic in Bradford and Pudsey with news of the imminent advent of genocidal Irish Catholics #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Thu Dec 12 12:12 - Your car is blocking the pavement completely - a criminal offence under S. 137 of the Highways Act 1980 - I'm doing takeaways & the road is double yellow - So the disabled & children have to walk in heavy traffic? - No disabled here - Because the pavements are always blocked?
• Thu Dec 12 22:08 Why?
  
• Fri Dec 13 20:22 Chinese drone swarm near Sizewell B
• Fri Dec 13 20:26 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1795: A smoking-hot meteorite weighing 25 kg imperils labourer John Shipley at Wold Cottage Farm, Muston (ER) #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Sat Dec 14 06:44 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1926: 11 days after Agatha Christie’s disappearance, her (adulterous) husband and the police find her concealed in plain sight at the Harrogate Hydropathic #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Sat Dec 14 15:07 Torchlit two hop out of ambulance & start inspecting gateposts & phones. Me from window: WHICH NUMBER DO YOU WANT? Them: X. Me: THAT'S X-1. TRY NEXT DOOR. Them, doubtfully: RIGHT. But into the garden of X, point torches at outbuildings, back to vehicle, drive to X - 1 = 10 mins
• Sat Dec 14 15:07 Comment: Tbf most locals are lost too.
• Sun Dec 15 01:06 Finally found a novel about a kazoo, and it turns out not to be a kazoo
  
• Sun Dec 15 09:15 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1846: Charlotte Brontë tells Ellen Nussey of cold, boredom and debts at Haworth #YorkshireAlmanac
• Sun Dec 15 13:19 2024, and 1 small group of indomitable priests still holds out against the truth: that Santa Claus so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Doctrine would certainly fill the churches at Xmas
  
• Sun Dec 15 21:44 Greatly enjoyed The Elves and the Shoemaker yesterday, not least because it simply told an amusing story, rather than trying - like the dull neo-Victorian moralists responsible for productions for children at official sites - to promote positive values
• Mon Dec 16 19:20 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1914: The Imperial German Navy’s official report on the bombardment today of Scarborough by the southern cruiser group under Rear Admiral Tapken #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Mon Dec 16 20:05 - Daddy, I've figured it out. Father Christmas doesn't exist, does he. - Of course not. - But the school says God does. - They don't believe it. Now, let me tell you about my scheme to redesignate Father Christmas as God, and have someone in costume officiate at Midnight Mass.
• Tue Dec 17 06:40 WP: The goaf, gove, gob, shut or waste is the void from which all the coal in a seam has been extracted and where the roof is allowed to collapse in a controlled manner. The term possibly comes from Welsh language ogof, gof, "cave".
• Tue Dec 17 06:41 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1674: Michael Gilburn, a Halifax lawyer, terminates a drunken weekend in style #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Wed Dec 18 07:23 RT @Byron_Wan: Nov 30: 🇨🇳 little pinks (left pic) harassed a silent protest on Briggate in 🇬🇧 Leeds city center, organized by “Hongkongers…
• Wed Dec 18 09:19 Net cut in the X84 service presented as good news
• Wed Dec 18 10:29 No more mistaken nocturnal cocaine deliveries!
  
• Wed Dec 18 12:37 RT @fietsprofessor: 'Even to people who experienced direct violence of vehicles, whose skin touched the metal, glass, and rubber, or who lo…
• Wed Dec 18 17:34 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1642: “Bradford quarter” is given to a Royalist besieger during the First Siege #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Wed Dec 18 22:16 The rhubarb is shooting up in most unseasonal fashion, but the fire isn't below
  
• Thu Dec 19 20:43 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1826: Charles Mathews, comedian, awaiting his fellow actors at York for the evening performance, receives some unwelcome news from a newly arrived foreigner #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Fri Dec 20 11:32 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1966: Greek-Cypriot cook and artist Stass Paraskos appears before Leeds magistrates charged with obscenity under the Vagrancy Act 1838 #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Fri Dec 20 19:46 Bsky vs Extwitter moderation/prudery - 1960s' magistrates back from the grave on the former
  
  
• Fri Dec 20 20:00 RT @hoyer_kat: I left Magdeburg this morning annoyed that I didn't have more time to explore. Like Dresden, Magdeburg was destroyed by WWII…
• Fri Dec 20 21:07 Positive Input Ventilation looks like a scam (if you heat the loft air, it's not going to ventilate your 1st, let alone your ground, floor) but I suppose it might be a crass misunderstanding of mine ventilation
  
  
• Sat Dec 21 07:31 Autonormativity meets autonativity
  
• Sat Dec 21 17:29 And will he/it teach Latin?
  
• Sun Dec 22 12:27 Nutty Glaswegian come to England hopes Germany will stop admitting deranged sectarians from the Muslim lands. Um.
• Sun Dec 22 12:33 Comment: Man curious why pupils at a CofE primary school should be dressed in Rome's imperial purple
• Sun Dec 22 21:55 "Israeli culture just values having children intensely" vs English dogwalkers making more than childminders - seems to be the case locally
• Tue Dec 24 07:47 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1777: Christmas Eve at Wuthering Heights, as told by housekeeper Nelly Dean #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Tue Dec 24 08:11 Bell ringers using their surroundings as an excuse for yet more excess
• Tue Dec 24 22:02 Comment: @barbmilne And the same to you! Met some salleys today, just out of reach.
• Tue Dec 24 22:27 Brief glimpse of heaven tomorrow
• Thu Dec 26 21:49 Comment: Ah! They said they'd implemented it, but they hadn't.
• Fri Dec 27 23:32 Incredible temperature inversion (-> ground-level cloud) over Staffs. Infant full of Xmas sangfroid led us from the tea room & thru it up the steep face of the Roaches into bright sunshine at Hen Cloud: "Come on mum, you're doing really well." A Caspar David Friedrich moment.
  
• Fri Dec 27 23:34 Comment:
• Sat Dec 28 07:18 Soundtrack obviously horn calls from Staffordshire's ancient forests
• Sat Dec 28 08:32 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1886: James Lonsdale Broderick (45) makes his final journey, from Hawes over Buttertubs Pass to a grave above the family farm near Crackpot (Swaledale) #YorkshireAlmanac
  
• Sun Dec 29 20:44 Infant wandering around writing "Dad is a stinky poop" etc, but "Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information" - Paulo Freire, Poo-dagogy of the Oppressed
• Sun Dec 29 21:12 Some kind person sent me Chris Cook & John Stevenson's excellent "History of British Elections since 1689" for Xmas: directions to lots of great rabbit holes, inc the immensely pleasing 1979 Liberal manifesto
• Sun Dec 29 21:14 Comment: I see David Steel, once ennobled, changed his mind on Lords reform
• Sun Dec 29 21:29 Wiktionary: pronunciation "couch grass" = /ˈkuːt͡ʃɡɹɑːs/ is OK but RP
• Mon Dec 30 00:00 People are rather down on Wikipedia contributors, but this is lovely:
• Mon Dec 30 07:41 Great Corona Borealis story
• Mon Dec 30 07:53 Phones obviously impact children's reading, but the reading series sold by companies to schools and libraries are also dreadfully dull, & institutions' free-range books are 90% amateurish tripe - Julia Donaldson ripoffs, naked moralising
• Mon Dec 30 08:01 If Edmund Beckett's Big Ben mechanism could go several months in the 1850s without losing a second, how come Devonshire Hall seems to gain 10 seconds a day? (See Original for the Westminster references:
• Tue Dec 31 07:23 RT @BBCLookNorth: Dozens object to flats plan for ex-children's home

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