Tweets for July 2016

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

Fri Jul 01 07:56 Moderately poor translation as a selling point redux
Fri Jul 01 07:58 RT @DPRK_News: US celebrates "Social Media Day," as Americans ram all of their shameful deeds down the world's throat in shocking display o…
Fri Jul 01 08:10 #MichaelGove, master of African, European & other clapping styles, lacks Singing Organ-Grinder's multi body tap
Fri Jul 01 09:21 Sophie Tucker ref
Fri Jul 01 09:26 Genius
Fri Jul 01 10:34 RT @FailedArch: Self-Builds: Between Unruly Real Estate Markets and Failed Housing Policies || on @IABR
Sat Jul 02 05:59 Double rainbow over Canary Wharf: thinking of Allan Sherman
Sat Jul 02 06:02 Regretting now. Return of the Whigs
Sun Jul 03 08:24 Breakfast #Walthamstow #Wetlands #LondonRiversWeek Roasting is best but the monkey doesn't mind raw
Mon Jul 04 07:30 #Walthamstow heroes: Andrew Carnegie (public library on the High St) vs William Morris (wallpaper shop in Bloomsbury): no contest
Mon Jul 04 11:45 Sub-sec in last Berlusconi admin, Giuseppe Pizza, arrested for corruption. Nothing's sacred
Mon Jul 04 16:51 Paintworks in Hoxton to close after 31 years Ah, the mid-80s squats!
Mon Jul 04 21:56 Singing Organ-Grinder school gigs come with free punctuation advice. Outstanding, says Ofsted.
Tue Jul 05 07:33 Amateur phonologists here enjoying Stephen Crabb borrowing the @SadiqKhan glottal stop. London Mayoral run as consolation prize? @scrabbmp
Tue Jul 05 07:45 Hoping M. Fromage now takes over @BBC_TopGear - check the shoes @Nigel_Farage
Tue Jul 05 07:55 Gothic joke sentence Working on C19th Bohemian German, can't remember why f & s so poorly distinguished in Fraktur
Tue Jul 05 07:57 How Anti-Growth Sentiment, Reflected in Zoning Laws, Thwarts Equality
Tue Jul 05 08:35 @JamesCleverly Nice use of the rockets' red glare, looking forward to the encore:
Tue Jul 05 08:40 @Walthamsteve Roseate tern on #RiverLea ? V white tail with deep fork. Thought I was dreaming
Tue Jul 05 09:44 Sunday's big news
Tue Jul 05 10:37 Comment: @ibexsalad Sell up and move to Hampstead. You know you want to
Tue Jul 05 11:57 In vino veritas: nasty hangover from my elderflower champagne
Tue Jul 05 12:05 RT @edugalan: Entre lo emocionante y perturbador. La grabación de cómo anunciaron los payasos la muerte de Fofó. @alexdelaIglesia
Tue Jul 05 12:50 Reconciliation of Jupiter & robot love
Tue Jul 05 12:55 Growing policy proximity Austria & Hungary vis-à-vis EU -> rebirth of the Dual Monarchy minus Slav bits? Yust yoking. OK, not funny
Tue Jul 05 13:18 Homerton Prince Edward 150th anniversary Afternoon, neighbours
Tue Jul 05 14:39 RT @WFMU: Nearly 700 John Peel shows available for download:
Tue Jul 05 21:50 Beernocchi Sevilla
Tue Jul 05 22:49 Hadn't noticed Tower Bridge before in Lemonade Joe Which came first, LJ or Benny Hill?
Wed Jul 06 11:10 Bad monkey #RiverLea
Wed Jul 06 11:12 Nervous monkey hoping for quick sale, house vacant, some structural problems #PropertyCrash2016
Wed Jul 06 11:16 RT @elmundotoday: Denuncian y no a Erwin Schrödinger por maltrato animal:
Wed Jul 06 11:19 QE monkey burning money cos Mark Carney just gave him some more
Tue Jul 12 12:19 Se cerró Bar los Noveles #Carmelo #Barcelona! Qué pena! Cuántos recuerdos! (Quién tiene el cuadro del jilguero?)
Tue Jul 12 12:20 Otra foto Bar los Noveles #Carmelo #Barcelona Sant Joan 2014
Tue Jul 12 12:26 Comment: @elorganillero
Wed Jul 13 12:20 Funeral v large theatre prod. Public file in, v small casket, horrified chatter: wrong body? Cue music, entry monstrous real casket #hero
Wed Jul 13 13:33 Comment: @tombcn Someone just showed me Pokemon Go. Natural Selection in a handy little box. People forget how much a traffic accident hurts. Nice
Wed Jul 13 16:54 Freaky find this morning Still don't know what a fitchet is, but great castle & windmill #Stansted Mountfichet
Thu Jul 14 11:59 My favourite monkey minister
Thu Jul 14 12:01 RT @ben_machell: David Icke is just phoning this in
Sat Jul 16 09:25 Buddhist monks buy 600 lbs of lobster to release them into ocean Facetious comment here
Sat Jul 16 20:25 pokémon: el nuevo flautísta de hamelín
Sun Jul 17 07:54 How to index-sort „Bohemia“ as Bohemia in Word: {XE "\„Bohemia\“;Bohemia"). Stuff you learn Sun a.m. while GF eating bolly & eggs elsewhere
Sun Jul 17 08:22 Procession of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Clerkenwell this afty
Sun Jul 17 08:50 1597 QEI sent Thomas Dallam & barrel organ to impress Sultan of #Turkey. I'm waiting for QEII's call re #Erdogan #Ottomania @BorisJohnson
Sun Jul 17 08:51 Comment: @ibexsalad Remember Margaret Beckett?
Sun Jul 17 09:57 Debate re #Erdogan & judiciary: closer to Reichstagsbrandverordnung or Ermächtigungsgesetz? Or just Henry VI Let's kill all the lawyers?
Sun Jul 17 10:50 Comment: @stephenkb @ibexsalad US-Israel 1985 deal in 1985 took 18 months
Sun Jul 17 10:52 Comment: @Pornosawa y qué hacer con sus elefantes & el pacma?
Mon Jul 18 16:01 Plague of robin redbreasts on #RiverLea / #WalthamstowMarshes : #SkinCancer, it's #TheBritishWay
Mon Jul 18 16:25 Comment: @ibexsalad 80 years later the only coherent reaction is still to go into exile and let the stupid buggers get on with it
Mon Jul 18 20:23 Quantitative survey of swearing in the US Freaking dingleberries, the lot of em
Mon Jul 18 20:25 And then there's the Italians
Tue Jul 19 14:36 breeze wafting smell of burning brits from the park. sirop de noisette & coffee over ice. nice up here, but london not built for heat
Tue Jul 19 14:44 the horror, the horror of everything
Tue Jul 19 14:45 best bit is press reaction
Tue Jul 19 14:53 Someone buy a Brit slang dictionary for our klepto guardian angels: "We care about cobblers"
Tue Jul 19 16:22 Dis-infer for disinter: probably too subtle even for BoJo
Tue Jul 19 16:29 RT @modestproposal1: The media is ruthlessly defending its claim as the sole legitimate purveyor of plagiarism
Tue Jul 19 21:51 If you go down to the woods today
Tue Jul 19 23:45 Brilliant string arrangement by Harry Robinson Never really listened to Nick Drake, but there's some great stuff
Tue Jul 19 23:56 RT @stevenspohn: I have come as an ominous sign of the end ti-- wheeeeeeeeeeee
Wed Jul 20 08:51 The origins of Ashkenazi Jews near resolution This will be news to Alan, who says he is from Port Talbot
Wed Jul 20 09:11 Kenya nationwide blackout caused by rogue monkey Missed this one. Careless monkey!
Wed Jul 20 09:13 Comment: @ibexsalad That's because all of them already live here! Silly man!
Wed Jul 20 09:16 howsabout some rice, paddy? #Walthamstow #Wetlands hotter than valencian fields (not) etc
Sat Jul 23 18:38 Garibaldi actually a Scotsman called Baldie Garrow + insect playing trombone
Sat Jul 23 19:11 Escaping London's heat for quiet night in village
Sun Jul 24 21:58 The lamentable loss of Britain’s pubs Parks are far more interesting now, and rather better value
Sun Jul 24 22:53 Impossible to take Herzog Aguirre seriously post Monty Python
Sun Jul 24 22:54 RT @Pornosawa: Sin ser muy fan de Baroja, me emociona esta aparición en la adaptación de "Zalacaín"
Mon Jul 25 09:06 Is the curious smell to be noted passing thru Tottenham on the #RiverLea manifesting itself in prose?
Mon Jul 25 09:09 GBP/EUR to soar on cunning French strategy of not letting Brit tourists in?
Mon Jul 25 11:04 RT @iocolivenews: Recep Kara Wins Emotional 655th Kirkipinar | @scoopit
Mon Jul 25 12:06 Earworms meet Big Data (on Twitter)
Mon Jul 25 18:34 Comment: @ibexsalad If the troll is natural, how did it evolve?
Tue Jul 26 09:32 Website intermittently available. Hoping @asmallorange figures out MySQL soon. The curse of @EnduranceIntl ?
Tue Jul 26 10:25 RT @estwebber: the only travel advice you'll need this summer, via @chrisbrooke
Tue Jul 26 13:22 Comment: @asmallorange @EnduranceIntl When will it restart? Down for > 5 hours now, MySQL probs & other extensive downtime earlier this month on Tang
Tue Jul 26 17:10 ¡British planners take spontaneous commercial->residential change of use seriously! We're not in Barcelona anymore, Toto
Tue Jul 26 20:57 Any Czech speakers out there can help with a copyright permission letter for an image for the Bohemian organ-grinding story?
Wed Jul 27 09:44 Haven't been to Ally Pally ex-theatre since the 90s. Wonderful space
Wed Jul 27 09:49 Comment: @alexkbcn I wondered whether by "assent" they actually meant "accent": "independencia" or "independència." But I'm obtuse, and flippant too
Thu Jul 28 13:03 Wonderbra by Zarah Leander (h/t KW)
Thu Jul 28 14:50 Prettier than Abramovich's floating fridges, but...
Thu Jul 28 15:48 Moppie voor ouwe communisten: Al is de Pravda nog zo snel, de waarheid achterhaalt ze wel
Thu Jul 28 16:52 St Peter's Italian Church Clerkenwell procession, wagons look like Spanish Civil War anarchist tanks
Fri Jul 29 07:23 wind power unreliable? put your turbine outside my front door - 24*365 raging gale #HinkleyPoint
Fri Jul 29 07:26 Comment: @amazingrando So where is Randy going next? @asmallorange just deleted a week of modifications & data...
Fri Jul 29 19:07 Photo Essay: The Fading Glory of Brazil’s Disappearing Love Motels I have never been to Brazil
Fri Jul 29 19:13 1/2 Biddle Brothers on Lower Clapton Road, classiest pub in Hackney: just sold large bust there of Napoleon on horse bestriding cannon
Fri Jul 29 19:14 2/2 purchased shortly before from Romanian leavers in Wood Green. One customer: Hang on, that's Napoleon III not Bonaparte
Fri Jul 29 19:15 Comment: @amazingrando Ta mate!
Sat Jul 30 07:11 A lot of the guys you see playing clearly haven't been outdoors in a decade. Adjusting's hard
Sat Jul 30 07:13 I should have asked for more for my Napoleon. He's clearly back
Sat Jul 30 12:24 Mousetube
Sun Jul 31 09:03 RT @colebrax: 'Return My Love' from Chuck Jones's 'What's Opera, Doc?' (1957) moves me more than I care to admit.
Sun Jul 31 22:10 1/2 Ein Mannsbild, das nicht kareßirt. / Und das nicht liebt den Wein, / Verdient daß man ihn strangulirt, / Soll gar kein Mensch nicht seyn
Sun Jul 31 22:11 2/2 Der ist nichts anders in der That, / Als ohne Baumöl ein Salat. C19th German humour