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 peaceful Hereford bull. (2025/09/30)

Extweets for July 2025

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Extweets for June 2025

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Extweets for May 2025

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Past todays

2006: A Javanese hero–or perhaps not… 2007: Older sources for portobello mushrooms 2011: Mi primera canción en español 2012: Philip K. Dick We Can Build You 2012: Dangerously cool (interactive) synths 2012: What to do with all those extra MIDI outputs 2013: Make your reservation from your private area 2014: New Fed chair apparently called Yanet Yellen 2014: Cod is love 2015: Let’s be honest: Islam is worse than Britney Spears 2015: Merchants and tenants at Billingsgate Market include… 2016: At last, a use for the new bridge at Talavera de la Reina 2016: There’s only one serious possible reason not to vote to leave the EU

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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.