Extweets for January 2025

SingingOrganGrinder
@elorganillero

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

• Wed Jan 01 12:51 Pace, fratellanza e amore, but: - Daddy, please turn it off. I can't bear any more Viennese music. - Let me tell you about the First World War. Serbia is a member of the EBU, so I guess Belgrade broadcasts the show.
• Wed Jan 01 18:49 Comment: No evidence that Gavrilo Princip was driven to crime by the Strauss dynasty
• Thu Jan 02 08:42 If Latin is to be removed from schools, then the quid pro quo should be legislation prohibiting authors who can't read Latin and French from publishing books about medieval English battles
• Thu Jan 02 08:51 Comment: @DanielGalef Hodie mihi, cras tibi
• Thu Jan 02 22:11 Robert Nye's Beowulf is the first one I've seen that I think will work for the infant
• Thu Jan 02 22:28 Comment:
  
• Fri Jan 03 07:58 #YorkshireOnThisDay favourite from 1638: On the eve of the civil war, Henry Slingsby witnesses Royalist cavalry exercising near Wetherby #YorkshireAlmanac #OTD
  
• Fri Jan 03 08:05 Perhaps "poophead" will disappear once we get the infant onto the euphemism treadmill
• Sat Jan 04 22:24 Dear girl in photo 2, can my mum have her slippers back?
• Sun Jan 05 17:24 RT @SistersSalon2: As women are banned from all sports, sports stadiums, employment & walking without a male chaperone, the only way you wi…
• Sun Jan 05 17:38 The Roaches, 27/12/2024: a pilot, shortly off to Austria, whose details we unfortunately didn't get; zwei Wanderer; the flood * 2. Photos CH.
  
  
  
  
• Mon Jan 06 11:40 The Kodee AI chat assistant at Hostinger is a disaster
• Mon Jan 06 18:05 The infant has encountered a new character, who likes to be called Miss, but who is said by her friend's dad to be a bloke with boobs. The infant, perhaps hedging her bets, uses Mrs.
• Mon Jan 06 20:45 HostingUK (iomart): words vs deeds
  
  
• Tue Jan 07 10:27 Probably helpful to give Eric's surname, or perhaps any Eric will do. I know a few, might be right. It is said that quite a few aren't potty-trained here by the time they are 5
  
• Tue Jan 07 10:48 Walton 1 is a bit brash for me now, but the Kölner Philharmonie looks like an incredible hall
• Tue Jan 07 23:33 Has anyone found a blue woollen hat and a white woollen hat, lost respectively on Sunday last and sometime last week, between Meanwood and Headingley? When I take the infant off my shoulders, hats tend to be brushed to the ground. Very embarrassing.
• Wed Jan 08 12:00 Comment: The blue one is back!
• Wed Jan 08 13:57 Mr Sainsbury's garlic
• Wed Jan 08 21:52 Surely an alias alla Rat Scabies, Dinah Cancer, Barry Dalive - Islam meets punk rock
  
• Wed Jan 08 22:09 Convinced I saw roe deer spoor at the allotment (along with the fox, cat, rat, birds), but how did it get in, and in whose compost bin is it hiding?
• Thu Jan 09 20:14 - We argue a lot. She says something and then forgets she's said it. - What kind of thing? - Oh, I can't remember.
• Fri Jan 10 10:09 Headingley: from children to cars
• Fri Jan 10 10:25 Comment: And the white one has returned! Panic over.
• Fri Jan 10 10:30 With the excellent Sharon O on this
  
• Sat Jan 11 17:16 The notion that bystanders film casualties rather than helping them because that enables them to disassociate themselves psychologically from what is happening. The notion that people film concerts for the same reason - the music is so abysmal.
• Sat Jan 11 17:20 Comment: This explains why my music is rarely filmed.
• Sun Jan 12 20:45 Bedtime stories, and we reach the end of The Railway Children, which most people find quite moving. The infant: "Now let's do The War of the Worlds again, starting with Chapter 1."
• Sun Jan 12 22:34 Paediatric first aid certificates: given that (1) the online bit can be done in 1/2 time simply by trying different options, (2) face-to-face days seem always to end early, & (3) no one ever fails: is the first aid aimed more at training providers than infants?
• Mon Jan 13 14:20 Lady says 'pneumonic' instead of 'mnemonic', no 'bubonic' yet
• Mon Jan 13 21:13 A lovely poem by John Richmond
  
• Mon Jan 13 21:51 Sounds like Virgin Media aren't necessarily a great choice to put in broadband
• Tue Jan 14 14:03 Dehumidifier pickup from a nervous young man: "Watch out, sir, it's heavy. You'll need a trolley to get it to the carpark." Trolleyed up, & before his anxious eye, one takes the travelator down to the carpark, abandons the trolley, & carries the thing up out onto the street.
• Wed Jan 15 06:36 Comment: @Transblawg But someone here is not ready to go completely offgrid
• Wed Jan 15 09:13 That's not George VI in the middle
• Thu Jan 16 05:37 RT @azforeman: Personally I think I should be able to say things like this in print without editors kicking a fuss, but that is not the wor…
• Thu Jan 16 06:40 Haha
• Thu Jan 16 12:12 Pryor: "We're prepared to help pedestrians, trees etc, as long as that doesn't inconvenience motorists." Cf the shambolic A660 scheme.
• Fri Jan 17 09:32 Comment: @j_vollenbroek "Unable to resolve handle"
• Fri Jan 17 09:41 Akira Sakazaki, as well as a real-life film director elsewhere, is a literary translator in a shoebox apartment in David Lodge's great satire on academic literary theorists, Small World
  
• Fri Jan 17 10:59 How would beavers work in the Meanwood valley?
• Fri Jan 17 16:47 Comment: @GellAndy Ah, I didn't know that last bit. Aware, tho, of the poo in the beck & the tannery goit.
• Fri Jan 17 21:07 Mince pies are out, so I guess Eccles cakes are in, with fruit marinaded in Mr Gove's whisky
• Fri Jan 17 21:16 Comment: @GellAndy Beavers seem to deal effectively with canine invaders of their water-space, so maybe less pollution. Bring it on. (Complements my greens management rent-a-sheep scheme, shepherds being Afghan Deliveroo lads armed with jezails and kuchis & operating from old phone boxes.)
• Sat Jan 18 06:32 '“Some of the older translations of Shakespeare in our country were rather free,” says Akira apologetically.'
  
  
  
• Sat Jan 18 07:59 I didn't know this image of Otley and its bridge over the Wharfe by William Hodges, artist for James Cook on his second voyage
  
• Sat Jan 18 20:58 RT @BBCLookNorth: Protest at plan to shut 98-year-old museum
• Sat Jan 18 21:34 Saturday night, so a nice piece on induction hobs & converter discs To abandon fire altogether would be to betray Prometheus (Orozco's here), so a bunsen burner may be dedicated to the stovetop cafetière
  
• Sat Jan 18 22:17 Fritz Kreisler was a compulsive pasticheur, but was he a good one? I don't know that side of his work
  
• Sun Jan 19 08:05 When MHP(?) introduced me to Kreisler (+ Heifetz), from ignorance I saw him sociologically - of a place & time - but now I'd say he was a creative, not imitative, pasticheur, & that in rubato/tone/harmony Vienna was his greatest (marketing) invention
• Sun Jan 19 08:10 My impression is that the Catholic diocese are doing a great job musically - trying to persuade the infant to come along, to see if she would fancy joining in
• Sun Jan 19 08:18 Comment: So Anne-Sophie Mutter playing the Caprice Viennois with the Wiener Phil is bringing home a concept invented for Paris & New York, rather like the Hollywood Mary Poppins as seen by Londoners
• Sun Jan 19 20:07 Worst thing about Moana 2 (& 1) isn't the post-Wagnerian racial cliché, but that the flash-bangs used in lieu of script & jokes prevent one from catching up on sleep. Swallows & Amazons is a much better girl-led odyssey. Infant finally settled for Madagascar, which is excellent
• Mon Jan 20 07:24 - Is that the fastest broadband they've got? - Too fast for me
• Mon Jan 20 10:06 The lady at the GP surgery who can't understand her own messages, resulting in the waste of hours of patients' time, is a non-native English speaker & occasional writer. It is another lady - a native English speaker - who upper-cases the first letter of every line on notices.
• Mon Jan 20 20:21 On the other hand, I might have got higher exam grades had I been given *less* time to embarrass myself
  
• Tue Jan 21 21:35 The Bosch KGN362LDFG fridge/freezer is both 60/40 and 70/30
  
  
• Tue Jan 21 21:54 Comment: 68/32 by volume
  
• Wed Jan 22 22:24 - Hello, you're new here, aren't you. We saw you move in, and we've signed you up for the breakfast club. - That's so kind of you! What exactly is the breakfast club? - When Maurice sees your curtains open, he'll be round for breakfast.
• Thu Jan 23 20:32 The infant's peculiar smile for the camera today suggests that her theism is founded on the belief that Terry Jones is indeed the Mother of God
  
• Thu Jan 23 23:09 "We all like sheep" vs "All we like sheep" in Handel's Messiah = social truth vs vocal convenience
• Fri Jan 24 10:06 This is a great building
• Fri Jan 24 21:13 RT @dobraszczyk: Brutal on Kinder Scout this afternoon: here's Kinder Downfall in reverse formation
  
• Fri Jan 24 21:37 Lady with two paintings on the wall that look like early Botero. "Who? Someone gave me them decades ago."
• Sat Jan 25 19:52 On a first aid course a couple of weeks ago I was partnered for the CPR etc with a Hong Kong construction worker, who needed the certificate to be able to progress to site supervisor - absolutely lovely man, breath like this plus a forest of fags
• Sat Jan 25 23:30 Ironic that Nectar is one of the main reasons why one is glad to be moving away from Sainsbury's
• Sun Jan 26 19:33 The birthday party of an excellent 5-year-old, who ours has barely seen in 2 years. Ours is the guest of honour, leading one to wonder whether excessive watching of Bluey has turned them into dogs, mourning at their master's grave.
• Sun Jan 26 22:18 News for the Early Years establishment: "little boys like rough play more than little girls even though testosterone levels in little kids are roughly the same in early childhood"
• Fri Jan 31 14:30 Despite all the data-collection to which teachers are subjected, the infant's first report says only that she didn't attend enough, recalling the discreet obituary of a certain drunkard: "Died young."

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/ I say something
// Someone replies
/// I reply to them

... and so it's impossible to show tweet trees involving third parties correctly.

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