A walk from Leeds-Bradford Airport via Horsforth Station to Headingley

Out through customs, and a couple of minutes later you're standing in a field with half a dozen skittish Friesian heifers and a monstrous Hereford bull. (2025/09/30)

Extweets for July 2025

(2025/08/16)

Extweets for June 2025

(2025/08/16)

Extweets for May 2025

(2025/08/16)

Past todays

2004: lost in translation 2004: Email pricing 2005: Dancing with cows 2007: Ralph Forte and the Valentine’s Day Massacre 2012: A gym called Anthrax 2014: Dessert and drunk included 2014: PP paid off IU and CC.OO to lodge Blesa in Bankia? 2016: Non-existent advantages of bilingualism 2016: Linguistic change as a result of speech defects

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From Mariano José de Larra (1809-37), El casarse pronto y mal:

Habrá observado el lector, si es que nos ha leído, que ni seguimos método, ni observamos orden, ni hacemos sino saltar de una materia en otra, como aquel que no entiende ninguna, cuándo en mala prosa, cuándo en versos duros, ya denunciando a la pública indignación necios y viciosos, ya afectando conocimiento del mundo en aplicaciones generales frías e insípidas. Efectivamente, tal es nuestro plan, en parte hijo de nuestro conocimiento del público, en parte hijo de nuestra nulidad.

Or:

The reader will have noticed, if he has indeed read us, that we neither follow a method, nor do we observe order, but do nothing but leap from one field to another, as one who understands none, sometimes in bad prose, others in crude verse, whether denouncing to public outrage fools and dissolutes, or affecting knowledge of the world in cold and insipid generalisations. Such is our plan, in part born of our knowledge of the public, in part of our insignificance.