Tweets for October 2016

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

Sat Oct 01 22:59 My auntie believes in magic too
Sat Oct 01 23:00 What did YOU do on October 1 2016, [responsible elder male]? I had a go on one of these, with a 50 cc scooter licence
Mon Oct 03 17:27 Construction barrel pianos/fabricación pianos de manubrio, Barcelona 1964 02:20 @srabsenta sabrá nombre fabricante
Mon Oct 03 18:08 Finally discovered important truth: Patsy Cline Crazy much easier in 3/4 #WaltzesForLazyMonkeys
Mon Oct 03 19:19 I haven't worn a hijab since we left Northern Ireland and my chess has improved considerably
Mon Oct 03 19:26 "Hastings ... home to the largest beach-launched fishing fleet in Europe"
Mon Oct 03 20:58 Rotterdam vocabulary #101: Angelo Noord "Tering" The trick: never shout. Alhoewel.
Mon Oct 03 21:02 Comment: @elorganillero But then there's Harry Merry
Wed Oct 05 06:27 @UPS Spanish message "Hora de entrega estimada: Final del día" English "Estimated Delivery Time: By End of Day" Which is correct?
Wed Oct 05 06:29 Comment: @ibexsalad Brits exiting? Bed free in Barcelona
Thu Oct 06 09:42 Trump in/on Bb Reminded me whimsically of Che gelida manina (Ab)
Thu Oct 06 20:25 Herbert L. Clarke: Trumpet a foreign fad
Thu Oct 06 21:34 Calm down: just cos we'd like "interrde" to be a pun doesn't mean it was for Marlowe
Fri Oct 07 08:06 Trump as Uncle Sam's barrel organ in an original conspiracy cartoon from Mexico
Fri Oct 07 08:18 Only good English wine is elderflower
Fri Oct 07 15:51 RIP Cleethorpes' greatest:
Fri Oct 07 18:33 Used to stone the crows, now we fund them
Sat Oct 08 20:16 New brewery in Oldenzaal, eastern Netherlands
Sun Oct 09 08:55 I said it wasn't the seagulls
Sun Oct 09 13:18 Juggernaut, harvest king: Soundscaping the ERO Grapeliner SF200 self-propelled grape-harvesting machine.
Sun Oct 09 13:19 Comment: @nntaleb Customary to prepare in advance...
Sun Oct 09 15:06 Comment: @Paoficial_ Qué tiene en la jaula? Ratoncito / pajarito ... ?
Sun Oct 09 15:14 Rosas Over the waves/Sobre las olas: but would you have recognised it?
Sun Oct 09 20:56 Prob. no. 1 encountered when trying to list 2nd-hand books on Amazon Marketplace: no "boa constrictor skin" option in binding field
Mon Oct 10 10:48 #FliesForHillary : reënactment of Al-Jahiz's parable of the high brought down by the low? French ed of Book of Animals: Le cadi et la mouche
Mon Oct 10 11:11 = relaxed secession anthem? "Come on and fake away / Get hot and shake away / You'll do the breakaway, by and by."
Mon Oct 10 12:56 Heard Dutch Antillian band play this ages ago, they didn't know its name: But I see it's popular outside my bubble
Tue Oct 11 11:45 Furiously plagiarising for my own miserable about page. Now need to learn to bounce over stages
Tue Oct 11 18:48 Comment: @ibexsalad @thespainreport They're fine: sell up & they can return to Blighty millionaires
Tue Oct 11 18:51 Comment: @ibexsalad Stop being so negative and educate them re spread betting for currency hedging while they try to sell
Tue Oct 11 21:14 Beer: the Tinkers treasure, the Pedlers Jewell, the Beggers Joy, and the Prisoners loving Nurse
Tue Oct 11 21:17 Comment: @ibexsalad That's the great charm of the Chinese (instead of white hipsters) taking over Barcelona's peripheral bars: low price, big smile
Wed Oct 12 07:14 To a mole we're all surface noise
Wed Oct 12 08:06 Playing with me Samsung
Wed Oct 12 13:12 I hadn't seen Mr Billings before - inspired lunacy here: Sam Billings 175, England Lions v Pakistan A
Thu Oct 13 06:32 Checking my flour carefully this morning: vid from a grain silo
Thu Oct 13 06:36 At last, something as bad as the Official Donald Trump Jam
Thu Oct 13 20:30 RT @StephenKing: Today's great country music title: "She Got the Ring and I Got the Finger."
Fri Oct 14 07:41
Fri Oct 14 07:59 Facked translation: (WWII) Tanks, tanks! -> Merci, merci!
Fri Oct 14 10:27 Spanish ruling party corruption megatrial wonderful stuff
Fri Oct 14 15:30 Irregular rhythmic irregularity in southern German music as applied to mechanical organs
Fri Oct 14 22:33 Urbie Green's finest moment? I've got a brand new combine harvester
Sat Oct 15 09:31 Reciprocity: French for prickly pear = "Barbary fig," Berber = "Roman fig." But afaik Berber for orgue de barbarie ain't Roman organ. Pity
Sat Oct 15 09:35 Palermo photojournalist Natale Giaggioli carried prickly pear to add local color to Sicilian mafia crime scenes for metropolitan dailies
Sun Oct 16 09:43 De cuando "Made in Spain" se traduce como "Hecho en China" - historia suculenta de los móviles extremeños Zetta
Mon Oct 17 09:37 Windows 10 update resets all personalization to reintroduce adware. Dicks
Mon Oct 17 12:15 Sack the Dean of @York_Minster, bring back the #bellringers "It’s an HR-related issue" my big purple bottom
Mon Oct 17 12:31 Comment: @Uncle_Bob85 It's nothing to do with the CRB check business, is it? Silly people
Mon Oct 17 12:39 Comment: @Uncle_Bob85 Oh dear, how patriarchal/matriarchal of them. And towing their line is what they're all about ;)
Mon Oct 17 12:49 Brass instruments make you bald aka calvitié des fanfares
Mon Oct 17 13:28 Comment: @elorganillero calvitie
Mon Oct 17 16:40
Mon Oct 17 16:43 Comment: @elorganillero This is better
Mon Oct 17 16:47 RT @SUGCR_Sheffield: Great open letter from our fellow #student #bellringers @RingersYork
Tue Oct 18 09:45 #zetta self-balancing scooter = adal + pegatina
Wed Oct 19 05:07 RT @xkcdComic: Future Archaeology
Thu Oct 20 08:19 @hampshirebowman 1/2 Oh dear what can the matter be One old gent's got locked in the lavat'ry He'd've been there from Wednesday to Saturday
Thu Oct 20 08:20 @hampshirebowman 2/2 So thank you for getting him out!
Thu Oct 20 16:12 Nice mapping: UK Constituency Boundaries - Current & Proposed (for 2018)
Thu Oct 20 17:38 "Watchu picking up a 10 Euro cent coin for?" "It's currently worth 9p!"
Thu Oct 20 19:34 Crows mobbing buzzards east of Old Winchester Hill Bad birds
Fri Oct 21 08:29 Humphrys in Aberfan
Sat Oct 22 07:53 La Vaca Paca, de Marcos López Herrador
Sat Oct 22 13:30 RT @theRacingBear: First prints sold at @MirthMarvelE17 confectionary booth. Open until 7pm today only #Walthamstow #photography #shoplocal…
Sat Oct 22 22:02 "So why did you become a crematorium stoker?" "Nice little urner."
Sat Oct 22 22:11 This'll upset someone
Sat Oct 22 23:04 Player piano main attraction in #Westworld My organ's still waiting for silver screen break, tho karaoke now working
Sun Oct 23 08:19 Can't believe I'd never discovered Ctrl-Alt-Arrow
Sun Oct 23 18:53 Balls running for POTUS?
Mon Oct 24 07:10 Brilliant: Rivers basins of the US in rainbow colours
Mon Oct 24 11:44 FT busts claim that we use more land for golf courses than for homes But are there more ponies than humans in Hants?
Mon Oct 24 13:17 Telemann portrays Lilliput & Brobdingnag
Mon Oct 24 14:05 Gender of Brexit. Other new info: a portmanteau word is in Italian a parola macedonia, as in Macedonia = fruit salad
Mon Oct 24 16:16 Did the house that Jack built come from Spain? Cumulative songs, with the grossest video you’ll see today.
Mon Oct 24 17:55 oh excellent @ibexsalad
Mon Oct 24 17:57 First the obvious ones:
Tue Oct 25 15:08 Transvestite barrel organ dancers in 1930s/1860s London, + acrobats, clowns and Doris and Thisbe, goddesses of wind
Tue Oct 25 18:10 Restes arqueològiques de 1714 al barri del Born destruïdes o cobertes
Tue Oct 25 20:18 Dear Vicar, it's true that it's also an artisan well, but that's not what most people call it. #BeardedTyranny
Wed Oct 26 13:50 Mensario románico de san Isidoro, León en Playmobil con bastante Photoshop
Wed Oct 26 14:20 Hackney Brook Restoration Scheme in Hackney Citizen (but no link to the blog!) @LowEbbs
Fri Oct 28 14:08 Hazel Scott
Fri Oct 28 18:12 Neat self-powered lift
Sat Oct 29 19:20 Clinton Trump / Nixon Kennedy / Moses Aaron / crook creep / yawn
Sun Oct 30 20:39 Comment: @Pornosawa ¿No fueron pareja? Hombre, ¿qué tiene que demostrar él de Las Ciudades? Grrrrr
Sun Oct 30 20:40 Comment: @ibexsalad thought you were talking about me for a mo
Sun Oct 30 20:51 No mobile coverage 30 minutes from the Greatest City in the World, train like an C18th stagecoach #BlameBrexit
Sun Oct 30 21:15 York Minster bellringers call for independent investigation - they're ap-pealing via @Inoreader
Mon Oct 31 14:34 Ubi Sunt?
Mon Oct 31 21:10 RT @tombcn: Happy Halloween.