Tweets for June 2020

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

Mon Jun 01 04:49 The prof has come up with a deranged dolls house
Mon Jun 01 04:54 The last two people to commission music from me died shortly afterwards, but third time lucky
Mon Jun 01 20:54 Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) is superb - watched it AT NORMAL SPEED over 6 trombone practice sessions . The Thackeray novel is great & didn't expect the film to measure up.
Mon Jun 01 21:22 I wonder if anyone has noticed the similarity between UHOP shout band ceremonies & carnival banding events in places like Oldenzaal Difference: no trombone choirs in Oldenzaal
Mon Jun 01 22:51 Historia de Barcelona, 2/6: * 1271: Se publican las ordenanzas de los corredores comerciales y de bolsa (11+451) * 1296: Privilegio real a Tortosa para la extracción de trigo para Barcelona (19) * 1633: Terremoto (1) * 1929: Inauguración de la Estación…
Tue Jun 02 05:14 Is it a betrayal of national values that people have to walk on the right at the base of One Canada Square (iconic skyscraper without a restaurant)?
Tue Jun 02 05:19 Chinese man claims to regularly steal animals from Stepney City Farm to barbecue, but says none on view at the moment. - They hide when they see you coming, you c--t.
Tue Jun 02 05:24 The Prince Regent, Salmon Lane, Stepney is a gorgeous gallimaufry. Note the somewhat wobbly smokers' snug.
Tue Jun 02 05:27 I fear this is a contribution from the New York Post's Metaphor Department
Tue Jun 02 10:42 Doris the Cockney pigeon-lady at the south end of St Dunstan's churchyard: "They say it's going to be hot forever, but I don't know how they know." The lady who does the north end is not as loquacious but dresses similarly, for a far colder June. I suspect they are twins.
Tue Jun 02 11:05 I find all these European twinning ceremonies from the 60s & 70s curiously moving, e.g. also Friern Barnet Urban District Council with Chaville
Tue Jun 02 14:13 I fear I may have offended a German couple by noting their sprog's resemblance, when smiling, to the adorable Kenneth Williams, who they had to google. But at least I didn't tell them that, when frowning, it looks like Hitler.
Tue Jun 02 18:48 Which were built first: the right-hand houses, under the clearly mistaken impression that load-bearing arches were required; or those on the left-hand, after which someone said let's prettify the next two with arches?
Tue Jun 02 18:50 Comment: (White Horse Road, Stepney, just along from St. Dunstan's)
Tue Jun 02 19:00 Site at 23 New Road, Whitechapel of the first indoor meeting of the Salvation Army on 3/9/1865. After a century of very mixed results, Booth finally got the teetotallers he wanted.
Tue Jun 02 19:10 Freelance Christian missionary's ad in the churchyard of St George in the East, Shadwell: "I will not ask you to do things that are too difficult."
Tue Jun 02 19:56 Beautiful blue bricks made from recycled Middlesbrough blast furnace slag, on the lane adjoining Stepney Green Gardens
Tue Jun 02 19:58 Comment: First thought was that they were the very dense & pretty Staffordshire blue bricks commonly used as headers in red Flemish bond or, again with red, in diapering. But see Dave Greenwood's comment over at 's blog
Tue Jun 02 19:59 Plague doctor graffiti
Tue Jun 02 20:35 Blog: tweets for May in one place
Tue Jun 02 23:53 Historia de Barcelona, 3/6: * 1371: Procesiones contra la peste negra (41+15) * 1568: ¿Libros hugonotes escondidos en balas de mercaderías de Narbona? (847+56) * 1629: Cónclave internacional de los padres Mínimos para elegir Corrector General (771+322) *…
Wed Jun 03 07:15 An attempt to understand Hat Mancock & his clown show
Wed Jun 03 08:15 I've actually started to think that it's time to get a first car, since last thing to be restored appears to be public transport. If you've got a car you can sunbathe on the Welsh borders, but if you use a train to do something useful quite locally the Stasi may descend
Wed Jun 03 08:19 Let's lock up fat old black men
Wed Jun 03 20:07 If HS2 is going to run at 10% capacity, will a return London-Birmingham be cheaper than a private jet?
Wed Jun 03 20:49 I used to tweak my nose like that.
Thu Jun 04 00:28 Historia de Barcelona, 4/6: * 1424: Bendicion de banderas de la armada que quiere rescatar a Alfonso V y conquistar Nápoles (24) * 1864: Primera representación, por 2.300 músicos, de una cantata nacional de Clavé: ¡Gloria á ESPAÑA, la heróica matrona!…
Thu Jun 04 06:51 RT @MattCartoonist: *googles 'How to become a lorry driver' 🚛* My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph 📥 Subscribe to my weekly news…
Thu Jun 04 07:37 The pupils of St. John's School, Knaresborough, meet Google Streetview. I hope the raw images of stuff like this will be made available at a suitable point in the future.
Thu Jun 04 12:32 Comment: @SamMiles87 @Hackneycyclist I can't see a camera either, and if anyone is actually fined they'd be mad not to appeal: if you're turning right off Berger or Oriel you're already into the filter by the time you've seen the warning. But virtue-signalling achieved.
Thu Jun 04 12:34 Comment: @ibexsalad @edugaresp Hahahaha
Thu Jun 04 20:23 Thought I'd racked up my 2nd racial insult of the week, after the aggressive Bangla beggar who works Mile End Rd near Mazahirul Uloom ("Fuck Jews!"), but "Don't fucking try that, stonehead," proffered by 3 stoned Windian lads who didn't want to stop at a zebra, just means pothead
Thu Jun 04 20:35 Monstrous kudos to the Meon Valley Garden Club & many others for helping my favourite brewery build a new home delivery business when the pubs closed.
Thu Jun 04 21:15 Comment: @Transblawg When I bet on Trump in 2016 people were furious with me because they thought it increased his chances. I don't know what this superstition is called.
Fri Jun 05 00:30 Historia de Barcelona, 5/6: * 1918: Pla: Elimino, amb desagradables dificultats, una borratxera de pernod * 1919: Pla: Reflexionant sobre la conversa d’ahir, la gran sorpresa –a part de l’amabilitat de Borralleras– fou de constatar l’interès que Josep…
Fri Jun 05 18:45 Comment: @DanielWunsch @Transblawg Er lebt!
Fri Jun 05 18:48 Half empty: Moved back to Hackney, police all over the place with forensics & dog team, great! Half full: Baby liked dog team spaniel.
Fri Jun 05 18:51 Comment: @Hackneycyclist If it works at Well Street I'll be down there. 35 outside Tesco this morning & no concessions.
Fri Jun 05 18:56 It was actually rat fleas
Sat Jun 06 00:32 Historia de Barcelona, 6/6: * 1320: Supuesta primera celebración de Corpus Christi en Barcelona (0+15) * 1632: Juramento del infante cardenal por virrey, pérdida de prestigio importante al quitar los sombreros para él, continuación y disolución de cortes…
Sat Jun 06 06:48 So why are police still patrolling the little strip of embankment between Homerton Station & Archer Tower on Berger Road? Dogs & forensics have been & gone.
Sat Jun 06 07:58 I'd forgotten or didn't know about the double dactyl or, in Dutch, & with slightly different rules, Drs. P.'s ollekebolleke: Welkome uitdaging Ollekebolleke Heerlijke hobby Maar slechts een succes Door het doeltreffende Dubbeldactylische Woord dat zich aandient Als versregel 6
Sat Jun 06 08:01 Scottish women sound rather curious
Sat Jun 06 08:09 Windrush white flour
Sat Jun 06 08:41 I was heading in the right direction with my pink ballgown
Sat Jun 06 08:55 Comment: @JohnLovesJulie Surely "on ecstasy" - English prepositions are tough.
Sat Jun 06 13:41 Comment: @DrFrancisYoung @molten_bones @Robin_C_Douglas Magic mushrooms...
Sat Jun 06 13:45 Comment: @JohnLovesJulie How obtuse of me - my mind had gone down quite a different rabbithole
Sat Jun 06 14:55 Comment: @DrFrancisYoung @lewismharvey @molten_bones @Robin_C_Douglas Deconica coprophila aka Psilocybe coprophilia / Agaricus coprophilus / Stropharia coprophila / какашкина лысина etc is found growing on poo in Russia etc & is said to have a short half-life
Sat Jun 06 14:58 Comment: @LowEbbs If the wig includes a full-face beard, yes. Apparently they didn't control for age, & a new study will show that the dead are quite safe.
Sat Jun 06 15:03 Just received large quantity of healthy groceries from "vulnerable" man, who doesn't know how to say to all the kind people that he's actually doing fine, though he'd quite like a decent Victoria sponge
Sun Jun 07 00:34 Historia de Barcelona, 7/6: * Domingo de la Trinidad es el 07 de junio este año; en 1848 fue el 18 de junio * 1639: Incendio de la Cárcel Real y fuga de los presos (695+24) * 1640: Corpus de Sangre: el plebeyo y los vallesanos matan a ricos, notables,…
Sun Jun 07 04:54 RT @george_szirtes: Perhaps they’re ending, those endless months of Sundays, perhaps it’s enough to shape the shapeless, to hold the hour…
Sun Jun 07 04:58 Yet more good news for offline retail
Sun Jun 07 06:55 Doggie, perhaps almost blind, of late middle-aged lady at Bunhill Fields nonconformist cemetery is very pleased to encounter the babe. "He loves childen because he remembers when our house was full of them."
Sun Jun 07 08:06 Comment: @Transblawg Hahaha, I had lain days in wait. Greetings from Stanley. Boris still hasn't replied to his get-well card, but Madison Square Garden has been in touch.
Sun Jun 07 17:00 RT @BryceElder: Petition To Replace The Edward Colston Statue With One of Universally Celebrated Bristolian JK Rowling.
Sun Jun 07 17:36 Robert Southey on Joshua Sylvester, the most popular writer in reign of James I, thereafter cast down: "When idolaters turn iconoclasts, they act as if the outrageousness of the one excess were to efface or atone for the folly of the other."
Sun Jun 07 17:38 Comment: #DoggerelOfTheDay is from Sylvester's translation of Du Bartas: Our bisexed Parents, free from sin, In Eden did their double birth begin
Sun Jun 07 19:23 People have been incredibly generous with baby stuff. Today M. (9) confessed that she wanted to pass on her things, but that yesterday she wept bitter tears while deciding what was to go.
Sun Jun 07 19:57 Ah, Gareth Griffiths' British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Progressives celebrated around the reforming William III's statue during the 1831 Bristol riots, but maybe that too should now be drowned: his parliament's Trade with Africa Act 1697 vastly increased slave transports
Mon Jun 08 00:32 Historia de Barcelona, 8/6: * 1576: El Consejo de Ciento pide a los Hermanos Menores Capuchinos que vengan a Barcelona (38) * 1639: Salen 500 hombres para detener la inminente invasión hereje-francesa de Rosellón (480+568/i) * ☼ 05:16-20:24, 15:08…
Mon Jun 08 13:32 The tragic tale of the retarded undertakers responsible for the funeral of a Merseyside Chinaman, who broadcast via video link the ceremony for a Chinese lady to his grieving family around the world
Mon Jun 08 13:34 Aged Irish M. tells that his numerous siblings weren't given fancy stuff like teething powders or rings: instead their poverty-stricken mother would give them a bone to chew
Mon Jun 08 22:05 Historia de Barcelona, 9/6: * 1359: Batalla naval catalán-castellano en el puerto de Barcelona con importante uso de artillería (535/i) * 1447: Entran los gitanos en Barcelona (36+268) * 1462: Es declarado persona non grata Juan II de Aragón por segunda…
Tue Jun 09 05:29 RT @BryceElder: All statues should be anonymised. Make each a generic celebration of men on horses, men in hats, etc.
Tue Jun 09 05:45 Comment: @Transblawg I have no idea what that was about, but I now know that Christians are baptised in the River Lee at Cork, & that our River Lea was the western limit on the Thames of the Danelaw agreed between Alfred & Guthrum in the late 880s. The Danes are not reclaiming Essex as part of Brexit
Tue Jun 09 05:57 Egregore. Not even in OED, & Wikipedia doesn't know that in the early C18th the French & English have discovered from the Suda that they are the sons of Seth, whose story is incidentally quite mad
Tue Jun 09 11:23 Baby's bantz of the day rankings: Billy the Dog in Millfields & the fist-bumping handicapped Chareidi both pipped by Stanley Johnson, Gene Vincent's drummer, who put on Baby Love in Tesco
Tue Jun 09 13:13 Comment: @tombcn Are you Judas today?
Tue Jun 09 13:19 Comment: @Transblawg .@steve_guy If one of you Vikings kills me you have to pay our lot 8 half-marks of gold or 200 shillings
Tue Jun 09 15:38 'Gender was invented as a term to stop idiots answering “Yes please” to the sex question on forms.'
Tue Jun 09 18:38 RT @LowEbbs: It would be really good to see an entire government covid press conference devoted to Punch and Judy shows, the Punch and Judy…
Tue Jun 09 18:57 Estate agents' photography should attract the same applause previously reserved for contortionists like Joseph "the most extraordinary Posture Master" Clark of Pall Mall
Tue Jun 09 20:09 Wondering why the lady aggressively demanding 4 metres distancing on the marshes this morning didn't just stay at home, and how she managed to get that far from it
Tue Jun 09 20:36 Comment: @DrJACameron It's the song, man, & the CIA believe the current incumbent is hiding at the top of the staircase. PS Will you support my campaign to rid Winchester of the statue of Alfred the Great, whose lot enslaved the native Brits? I am writing a rousing manifesto in Old Welsh.
Tue Jun 09 22:39 Historia de Barcelona, 10/6: * La Víspera del Corpus Christi es el 10 de junio este año; en 1634 fue el 14 de junio * ... y en 1830 fue el 16 de junio * ... y en 1848 fue el 21 de junio * 0162: El legionario Lucio Cecilio Optato deja fondos para…
Wed Jun 10 12:35 RT @Transblawg: In lockdown, you too can order an ungrammatical poster. Screenshot from Instagram. I don‘t know why people want these texts…
Wed Jun 10 14:06 If only people would formalise their new Index Rerum Prohibitorum now, then I might still have time to purchase copies of everything on it.
Wed Jun 10 14:24 Comment: @ibexsalad Are they simply shifting online?
Wed Jun 10 19:04 RT @jk_rowling: TERF wars
Wed Jun 10 20:48 Wilmink, wife-beater I didn't know any of this, though his more sentimental stuff made me wonder what was really going on
Wed Jun 10 22:42 Historia de Barcelona, 11/6: * Corpus Christi es el 11 de junio este año; en 1640 fue el 7 de junio * ... y en 1842 fue el 26 de mayo * ... y en 1848 fue el 22 de junio * ... y en 1424 fue el 22 de junio * ... y en 1320 fue el 6 de junio * 0844:…
Thu Jun 11 06:03 RT @bhainesva: @HackBlackburn real donald barthelme energy
Thu Jun 11 11:58 Sotto voce, to doggie lady on Well Street Common: - It's such a shame she's asleep, because she adores Dachshunds. - She's awake.
Thu Jun 11 12:02 An Italian drummer & sound engineer introduces himself outside the brilliant Queen's Café on Bancroft Road at Mile End: - She's been staring at my drumsticks for 5 minutes. Does she want a go? Definitely.
Thu Jun 11 13:49 Small boy near Victoria Park: - Baby lose sock! - Thank you, but I keep an eye out for that, & it's in my back pocket. - Baby lose sock! - In fact, here it is. - Baby lose sock! - Why don't I put it on for you. - Baby got sock! Mother: - Thanks, he's fussy about things like that.
Thu Jun 11 13:54 Comment: @Transblawg Mum sang & dad played the piano, but my first memory is of the Protestant marching bands on the Glorious Twelfth in Cookstown, which may explain a lot.
Thu Jun 11 14:00 Comment: @Transblawg We'd better keep all of this to ourselves.
Thu Jun 11 14:06 The police would have a greater chance of avoiding disasters like Frampton Park and, further afield, feeling obliged to take sides in political debates if, when out on foot patrol, they simply said "hello" to everyone they passed. I do, & the 3rd time people talk back.
Thu Jun 11 14:17 Comment: @Transblawg I am still trying to bully Winchester Council into demolishing Alfred the Great, on the grounds that the Saxons enslaved & exiled huge numbers of the native Britons, but apparently we Welsh are not dark enough
Thu Jun 11 18:36 A Turkish gent tells me that the libertarian sweep won a big prize in some lottery last week, and is carrying on working because he likes the people, but the man denies all.
Thu Jun 11 18:39 Comment: @Transblawg How many did you buy?
Thu Jun 11 20:02 Obnoxicated: obnoxious & intoxicated, e.g. Louis Jordan, "Open the door, Richard" (1947)
Thu Jun 11 20:31 Comment: @thisisyogic @kalagoraHQ With apologies:
Thu Jun 11 21:04 A virtual recording of a setting of mine for SATB choir of Willem Wilmink's intermezzo genre - turn on the subtitles to see an example, The Virus Song
Thu Jun 11 21:06 Comment: @thisisyogic @kalagoraHQ I certainly didn't know about the Bagnigge Wells organ, excellent, one more for the anthology!
Thu Jun 11 21:10 Can I interest @PfieldMuseum and @BishopsWMuseum in my walk from Petersfield to Bishops Waltham over the Downs ?
Thu Jun 11 21:11 Comment: @thisisyogic @kalagoraHQ It's not Nell Gwynne's organ is it?
Thu Jun 11 21:14 Does no one pay for translation any more?
Thu Jun 11 22:43 Historia de Barcelona, 12/6: * Esta celebración adicional es el 12 de junio este año; en 1848 fue el 23 de junio * 1630: María Ana, hija de Felipe III, tras un viajecito de prueba por la playa, se despide "de sus hermano y patria, para no verlos más" y…
Fri Jun 12 10:06 Comment: @tombcn I like the idea of anonymising them, so that they are compared by the style of their hat or the testicles of their horse.
Fri Jun 12 10:44 Comment: @tombcn Public art everywhere is going to end up like freaking Dubai
Fri Jun 12 12:29 07:50: a runner with BLM placard and cyclist heading across Well Street Common to enlighten Victoria Park's jogging masses. Just before I'd heard a Bulgarian(?) street sweeper saying to a Windian colleague: "In this country there is law. If you break law people will fight."
Fri Jun 12 13:32 You know that the Hertford Union Canal was built to facilitate traffic between Hertford & elsewhere on the Lee Navigation & the Thames. What you may not know is that Tower Hamlets physicists recently built a wormhole connecting it with the Welsh Marches: the Hereford Union Canal
Fri Jun 12 13:43 Comment: We in the 1st Welsh Armoured Division plan to use this wormhole to quickly take London & end centuries of enslavement of the native British peoples by the Saxons & Angles, before pivoting to Winchester to demolish King Alfred's statue
Fri Jun 12 14:22 Comment: @SocialHistoryOx Perhaps no one would have noticed. I spent two years in a Franciscan nunnery, where the noise at 8 a.m. mass was quite frightful.
Fri Jun 12 14:32 These excellent Friedlanders are surely related to Judah
Fri Jun 12 19:20 One statue I'd like back stood in Newgate Street & showed 2 of Charles I's servants: William Evans, porter (7'6"), and Jeffrey Hudson, dwarf (3'9"). Hudson commanded a troop of horse & killed a Mr Crofts in a duel in 1644 for mocking him. Says Pennant, Of London (1790).
Fri Jun 12 19:30 "Protected by NHS": organised religion or protection racket? (Old toilets, Brooksby's Walk, Homerton)
Fri Jun 12 19:31 Babe theatrically delighted by first tooth
Fri Jun 12 22:43 Historia de Barcelona, 13/6: * Esta celebración adicional es el 13 de junio este año; en 1848 fue el 24 de junio * 1372: Martín el Humano se casa con María de Luna (19) * 1439: Los concelleres piden a varios conventos oraciones para acabar con las…
Sat Jun 13 07:38 "BUM," thought the contributor, hopeful of individuality & even eccentricity in this window display, but of course it's "BLM."
Sat Jun 13 07:39 Essex is close
Sat Jun 13 07:52 Nice cropmark diagram
Sat Jun 13 07:56 What the photo doesn't show is the pram shaking as babe chuckles & flails her arms & legs. Doggies rule, though cats are gaining.
Sat Jun 13 07:58 I keep seeing the tallest of the microclimate-altering towers lining the Danish bank of the River Lea as a windmill
Sat Jun 13 08:03 "Ofsted bloody awful" on Holton Street, Mile End, Tower Hamlets. I haven't checked the official reports, but a lot of people, rich and poor, seem to feel gravely let down by the schools in this area.
Sat Jun 13 08:24 Comment: Cf. "Less than a year" by Peggy Thomas
Sat Jun 13 10:45 Also the joke about the statues of Mars & Venus. After 500 years they get permission from God to stand down for a bit, disappear into the bushes, & there's 30 minutes groaning & panting. Out they come. Mars: What now? Venus: You hold down the pigeon & I'll shit on it.
Sat Jun 13 14:51 Babe greets mildly curried spag bol like a charismatic preacher receiving the word of god: eyes fervently closed, hands and face raised to the heavens
Sat Jun 13 22:49 Historia de Barcelona, 14/6: * Esta celebración adicional es el 14 de junio este año; en 1848 fue el 25 de junio * 1488: Reunión del Concejo de 32 sobre la peste (24) * 1497: Muere Jeroni Pau, humanista, bibliotecario, consejero del gran mafioso Rodrigo…
Sun Jun 14 06:05 I'm not sure that the Welsh were terribly offended
Sun Jun 14 06:05 Why does chocolate have a use-by date?
Sun Jun 14 06:26 Comment: @thisisyogic @kalagoraHQ Oh, but that's a Ord Hume's misattribution! The Bagnigge Organist (1790s) re C Griffiths: What passion cannot music raise and quell! When C[harley] struck his corded shell, The list'ning drunkards stood around And wond'ring, on their faces fell
Sun Jun 14 06:28 Comment: @thisisyogic @kalagoraHQ I think the mechanism was as described up to the musical control mechanisms, and some similars had dual control - keyboard/barrel. I don't know Davis (books bottom right) but I guess a composer of popular songs or smut
Sun Jun 14 06:28 RT @elorganillero: @thisisyogic @kalagoraHQ Oh, but that's a Ord Hume's misattribution! The Bagnigge Organist (1790s) re C Griffiths: What…
Sun Jun 14 10:11 Early morning bantz. Pramming it down Chatsworth Rd, both of us chanting the Ride of the Valkyries. West Indian man at a bus stop: "It's the best time of day for singing!" Then a young Turk(?), who may have smoked more than he'd slept: "If only the whole world was run like that."
Sun Jun 14 11:32 Comment: Further, on the marshes, an earnest & black (visual not political skin hue) Bengali: BLM is a revolt of the privileged - v few African/Bangladeshi/Pakistani protestors, despite their generally being poorer & less well connected than the well represented Caribbeans.
Sun Jun 14 11:37 Comment: The man (who probably has a name) is also a fan of the understandably underpublicised notion that the United Provinces & England became great free societies because the Atlantic trade empowered merchants institutionally and economically vs autocracy - no slave trade, no democracy
Sun Jun 14 21:18 Babe's death metal scream causes sensation on Hackney Marsh, & she loves it
Sun Jun 14 22:01 Historia de Barcelona, 15/6: * Esta celebración adicional es el 15 de junio este año; en 1848 fue el 26 de junio * 1533: Más de dos mil personas, algunas descalzas, andan a Montserrat para curar a la mujer de Carlos I de dolor de muelas (59+101) * 1639:…
Mon Jun 15 08:34 D presumably already well underway on the bike from Bishops Waltham to Bath - beautiful route, apart from the first stretch to Romsey. I fear my days of rolling out of a hedge & pedalling off randomly into the early morning summer sun are over for a bit
Mon Jun 15 10:49 So if Hackney shops are open, why are the libraries all closed?
Mon Jun 15 18:17 In the 60s someone on the Basque side wrote a creative family history, beginning with the falconer of Francis I & terminating with his father, whose "character was somewhat impaired by his extremist views on many subjects and his utter lack of objectivity."
Mon Jun 15 18:23 Judgement/judgment
Tue Jun 16 00:36 Historia de Barcelona, 16/6: * Esta celebración adicional es el 16 de junio este año; en 1848 fue el 27 de junio * 1571: Juan de Austria llega desde Madrid para reunirse con la flota de Lepanto (12) * 1818: Establécese la sociedad de diligencias y…
Tue Jun 16 12:05 Even Rosie's got a mask
Tue Jun 16 12:08 Top-down vs bottom-up: "community is strength" vs "cash for scrap"
Tue Jun 16 12:42 3½-year-old Ida: "I can remember exactly how everything was when I was in mummy's tummy. In fact, it got so noisy that I decided that it was time to pop out. Now I am going to the park to marry mummy, & daddy will be my stepfather. He is at work now, so I will tell him tonight."
Tue Jun 16 12:44 Activists demand the removal of the prehistoric cave paintings at Altamira for advocating animal torture
Tue Jun 16 12:52 Comment: @tombcn Delicious. Are your butchers open?
Tue Jun 16 12:55 The Bagnigge Wells organ features in a sing-along in Handley Cross by Surtees, who I remember mainly from Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. "Queer chaps the Londoners."
Tue Jun 16 13:07 Comment: The 1830s graffiti next to the gate of Bagnigge Wells House (artist John Wykeham Archer) seems to read "fuzzy muzzy" -"hairy fanny"(?)
Tue Jun 16 13:09 Comment: I think that "Fuzzy muzzy" was the original title of Louis Jordan's "Fuzzy wuzzy," & that he was required to swap the sexual epithet for a racial one for broadcasting. Anyone who has sat in a band pit for vaudeville dance will know what he was on about
Tue Jun 16 16:11 Misnegation at the movies: - The first time in two months I've felt like doing nothing for you, now you don't want me to do it. - Was there something wrong with that, or is it just my hangover? Howard Hawks, El Dorado (1966), script Leigh Brackett
Tue Jun 16 16:14 Comment: This guy Brackett" (ahem) also wrote interplanetary scifi -
Tue Jun 16 18:51 RT @LDNWaterkeeper: We can do much better than sending raw sewage into the Olympic Park Wetlands. It's stagnant now. As the summer continu…
Tue Jun 16 18:54 Two older lady tennis players encounter the pram. 1: How adorable! I don't think I've ever seen such a happy baby! You know that's always a sign of happy parents? 2, slightly acidly: Make sure you tell your wife the good news.
Tue Jun 16 19:11 Comment: @britcultarchive @lordbonkers Anyone know what happened to the film/manifesto made by Tony Williams, now @SIUCEnglish, about the 1981 Moss Side Riots?
Tue Jun 16 19:24 Old Hulme pics
Tue Jun 16 20:38 Estate agents: Leeds & Cambridge
Tue Jun 16 22:51 Historia de Barcelona, 17/6: * Esta celebración adicional es el 17 de junio este año; en 1848 fue el 28 de junio * 1453: Consagración de Santa María del Pino (14) * 1543: Blasco de Garay, su barco de vapor, y el tesorero Rávago (78) * 1921: Atentado…
Wed Jun 17 11:43 Comment: @jdmccafferty Taking the pi$$ as usual
Wed Jun 17 16:22 Should choral singing be a criminal offence?
Wed Jun 17 18:26 Scorsese on Fellini
Wed Jun 17 21:06 How will C21st readers understand C20th fiction if all the civil servants they encounter are working from Thailand?
Wed Jun 17 22:52 Historia de Barcelona, 18/6: * Esta celebración adicional es el 18 de junio este año; en 1848 fue el 29 de junio * 1291: Muere Alfonso II de Aragón (0) * 1481: Entra por primera vez como rey Fernando el Católico (0) * 1640: Entra el duque de Cardona, ya…
Thu Jun 18 07:15 Chinese report of medieval Etna: Groups of people in this country use poles to carry large stones weighing five hundred to a thousand catties to the mouth of the cave and throw them in. In just a short time, there is an explosion and fragments of stone fly out like pumice.
Thu Jun 18 07:21 Courts to have online shops selling cut-price Apple tech?
Thu Jun 18 07:22 Comment: Idea is to discover whether eruption is imminent
Thu Jun 18 08:47 Johnson has never used a spreadsheet in his life, & BLM (similarly challenged) did him a massive favour by shifting the debate away from public health/economy spreadsheets to slogans and bluster, where he is pretty competent. Vive la conspiration!
Thu Jun 18 10:06 Comment: @Robin_C_Douglas Distracting attention from the bonking boffin?
Thu Jun 18 11:38 Arnold Bennett's "Riceyman Steps", taken by the landlord of the Bagnigge Wells Tavern - lovely little story
Thu Jun 18 19:04 Kirsten Flagstad's version of Dido's Lament was rather good
Thu Jun 18 22:52 Historia de Barcelona, 19/6: * 1525: Francisco I de Francia, prisionero de los españoles, desembarca en el puerto (0) * 1848: San Gervasio (y su fiesta mayor), menos popular entre los barceloneses que la Virgen de la Bonanova (116) * 1884: El…
Fri Jun 19 08:35 @HMLandRegistry Our first registration application was expedited on June 3, but we've been waiting four days now for a response to our query re a requisition. Can you help?
Fri Jun 19 09:23 Comment: @HMLandRegistry I did yesterday at 07:59
Fri Jun 19 11:25 Comment: @HMLandRegistry Thanks, but are you referring to this specific case, or is this a general assurance?
Fri Jun 19 14:32 Comment: @LDNWaterkeeper As you probably know, lots of people swim in the stretch between where the Flood Relief Channel rejoins the Lea and where the Lea passes under the newish red bridge slightly upstream, still adjoining Hackney Marsh. Do you know if the sewage levels are a risk to them?
Fri Jun 19 15:22 Almost the language of Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year
Fri Jun 19 15:59 Things one doesn't mean to say: - What are you putting on? - Beat It, so she can learn to dance like Stroud's finest. - Isn't she too young for that? - No one's too young for Michael Jackson.
Fri Jun 19 18:56 They offered me $0.04 / 0.02
Fri Jun 19 19:06 So many pastimes have been militarised into sport, in lycra & with groaning & grunting, that it was a delight to encounter a young black man next to Granard House, off Wick Road, having a smoke & nonchalantly flying a kite at helicopter height. A couple more have now joined in.
Fri Jun 19 19:11 This flat on Wyke Estate always likes to get things really clean
Fri Jun 19 19:14 Etiledif Villa on Meynell Road, near Well Street Common, is fidelité (loyalty) backwards, but why? I don't think it's a hipsterism.
Fri Jun 19 19:15 Redundant "that" at Mossbourne Academy
Fri Jun 19 19:21 The last brick finally fell onto the pavement of Bradstock Road by Well Street Common, and now Health & Safety has sent along a scaffold to fix the problem
Fri Jun 19 19:23 Who cares if the wine rack's always empty if the recycling bag's always full?
Fri Jun 19 19:28 Shopkeepers on Chatsworth Road aren't all in favour of Hackney Council's incredibly modest emergency pedestrianisation measures
Fri Jun 19 19:29 9 out of 10 rabbits are too frightened to use the tunnel under the railway
Fri Jun 19 22:54 Historia de Barcelona, 20/6: * 1391: Entra León V o VI de Armenia que venía de Castilla (0+1220) * 1705: Pacto de Génova "para establecer en la monarchia de España a su verdadero Rey Carlos III Archiduque de Austria en que dicha Serenísima Reyna [de…
Sat Jun 20 04:58 They Might Be Giants
Sat Jun 20 05:11 Percy Ingle had been closing stores for years & then spent good money rebranding to Ingles (unaccented Spanish for "English"...) to escape to the segment above Greggs, only to immediately close everything. It was said that they were going to try to live off retail rents, but...
Sat Jun 20 05:14 Comment: 2018 post tax loss 160K, 2017 440K...
Sat Jun 20 05:38 Blair didn't realise that by handing power in NI to the identitarian nutters he was starting a fashion
Sat Jun 20 14:19 Comment: @gabrielmilland Are they the same Yorkies who I think still do Soviet battle reenactments with a T-34 they picked up somewhere?
Sat Jun 20 14:38 The Compleat Angler, Victoria Park
Sat Jun 20 14:41 Bugger iron men, give me Alloy Bodies, as featured on some kind of luton van
Sat Jun 20 14:44 "Mercedes Benz of Glasgow", near Victoria Park. Vendors from the Midlands are amazingly common at the local Nigerian club for reasons quite beyond me.
Sat Jun 20 14:49 My latest conceptual project is to decorate the Hackney with stage instructions from porn films. The photo shows "Pant wet" from an early Berth Milton reel on a grille on Wyke Estate. I still haven't kept my promise to the Angels of Doom to write up the true Berth Milton story.
Sat Jun 20 18:36 See also the hydraulophone
Sat Jun 20 19:54 Perhaps the fascists who vandalised the statue of Cervantes in San Francisco would have done so even had they known that he was sold into slavery: ancient, white, male, spoke to all humanity. They may vince (obsolete: win the day, be victorious) but surely they won't convince.
Sat Jun 20 19:58 Comment: Bring back vince, and maybe even @vincecable
Sat Jun 20 23:54 Historia de Barcelona, 21/6: * 1461: Noticia de la Capitulación de Villafranca del Penedés, limitando el poder de Juan II de Aragón a favor de la oligarquía catalana (42) * 1627: Los inquisidores queman a un hereje anciano (992) * 1660: Terremoto (5) *…
Sun Jun 21 01:19 @MPSHackney Is there anything that can be done about neighbours who start parties to coincide with the end of cover of @hackneycouncil 's out-of-hours noise service?
Sun Jun 21 10:48 The disastrous Father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in the front garden on Sidney Street of a notable of the Bangladeshi nationalist-Islamist Awami League, which, a LibDem strategist tells me, calls the shots in Tower Hamlets' Labour Party. Should any statues be saved?
Sun Jun 21 11:20 Comment: You certainly don't want to start examining the records of the Classical deities that make up our monumental warp & weft, or of the human rights-ambivalent societies, revered by our PM, that produced them. I've never read anything good on the Dutch iconoclast beeldenstorm
Sun Jun 21 12:44 1/3 I'd noticed that William Cobbett often slags the new capitalist class of "jobbers & Jews" - e.g. John Edward Taylor, whose profits from black slavery in the Caribbean & white slavery in the Lancashire mills founded the Guardian - but hadn't realised that Cowper was his source
Sun Jun 21 12:45 Comment: 2/3 From Table Talk: A. Poets, of all men, ever least regret Increasing taxes and the nation's debt. Could you contrive the payment, and rehearse The mighty plan, oracular, in verse, No bard, howe'er majestic, old or new, Should claim my fix'd attention more than you.
Sun Jun 21 12:45 Comment: 3/3 B. Not Brindley nor Bridgewater would essay To turn the course of Helicon that way: Nor would the Nine consent the sacred tide Should purl amidst the traffic of Cheapside, Or tinkle in 'Change Alley, to amuse The leathern ears of stockjobbers and Jews.
Sun Jun 21 12:49 Comment: The opening stanza sets out his & Cobbett's stall: A. You told me, I remember, glory, built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt: The deeds, that men admire as half divine, Stark naught, because corrupt in their design.
Sun Jun 21 12:55 Comment: Cobbett's loathing of the wealthy & influential Taylor & his Guardian (e.g. in his Political Register) is a thing to see. My impression is that initially he was an ironic anti-abolitionist - why should poor blacks be free if poor whites are to remain in miserable servitude?
Sun Jun 21 12:57 Comment: I think there's still a bit of a cult of Cobbett in Labour, perhaps because no one has read him in the last century, but his positions often seem more Farage
Sun Jun 21 12:59 Comment: Sorry, "in the US"
Sun Jun 21 18:22 I had visions of an Atlas under every one
Sun Jun 21 18:26 First ever Father's Day card contains such a list of qualities that it seems that either my memory has gone or the list describes what must come rather than what is gone - a bit like my school reports
Sun Jun 21 18:35 RT @n1artisan: @HackneyYIMBY @hackneywick And my painting.
Sun Jun 21 18:46 Some things are as they should be
Sun Jun 21 18:48 "Nobody asked me"
Sun Jun 21 19:20 Filipinos name their baby daughter Covid Marie as a sign of hope & in the hope that she'll grow up to be a doctor, after Indians called their twins Covid & Corona
Sun Jun 21 19:22 Comment: Now searching for all those late 14th century heavy metal babies baptised Black Death & Bubonic
Sun Jun 21 19:38 RT @SpainInTheUSA: (1/4) We deeply regret the destruction of the statue of Saint Junípero Serra in San Francisco today, and would like to o…
Sun Jun 21 19:47 Comment: @Transblawg What a strange thing to hear! x
Sun Jun 21 21:05 Comment: A solution has been found involving carrion crows
Sun Jun 21 23:53 Historia de Barcelona, 22/6: * 1424: Ordinació de la Festa de Corpus (326+185) * 1525: Francisco I de Francia, prisionero, sale hacia la corte (18) * 1848: Octava del Corpus (3229) * ☼ 05:16-20:30, 15:13 horas; ☾ luna menguante, iluminación 49,38%,…
Mon Jun 22 18:37 Mail from the inimitable Stanley Johnson: his portrait is headlining an exhibition opening Saturday June 27th at Jusus' old bike shop at @WellSpaceE9, 241 Well Street, Hackney. More on the man: We still haven't played any barrel organ/snare drum duets...
Tue Jun 23 00:01 Historia de Barcelona, 23/6: * 1481: Fernando el Católico jura los fueros (15) * 1842: En busca de la verbena (76) * 1843: La población huye por miedo de bombardeos desde Montjuic (32) * 1848: Inauguración del Instituto Industrial de Cataluña (424+8) *…
Tue Jun 23 06:24 Comment: @tombcn Explain to me again why it's a couple of days after the solstice.
Tue Jun 23 06:27 Had some very curious free lunches off his followers as a broke teenager
Tue Jun 23 06:33 I think this is going to be Jack & the beanstalk by the time it's finished - Bancroft Road, just along from Mile End Hospital
Tue Jun 23 06:36 Comment: Gutted that the slightly out-of-the-way café that served sit-down breakfasts throughout the emergency has received a warning letter (but pleasingly no fine) from the council
Tue Jun 23 08:37 Nice idea that Christian summer/winter solstice celebrations are close to but not on the actual date so that you can have your cake & eat it - censure or burn the pagan sun worshippers but adopt their parties
Tue Jun 23 09:19 Comment: @tombcn Dog whistle
Tue Jun 23 12:12 Comment: @thhamilton People have been telling me for years to get a car
Tue Jun 23 13:21 Reintroduction of Latin to aid social distancing
Tue Jun 23 13:49 Comment: @tombcn I think that's false & haven't read article, but remember seeing doc of people purchased years before on Cuba still being held in slavery in BCN in late C19th. So are they going to demolish SagFam?
Tue Jun 23 16:29 Comment: @tombcn On a par with "5G causes corona" but more obviously populist
Tue Jun 23 16:39 .@puiwingtam I hope the NYT will rethink its decision to dox Scott Alexander. His blog was one of many, years ago, that persuaded me that I no longer needed a NYT sub. It might be more appropriate for you to work to improve your own content rather than blitzing alternatives.
Tue Jun 23 20:03 Comment: @aquilanebula Mengelberg, in my head
Tue Jun 23 20:09 Sitting in MG with babe, & a Francophone W African lady approaches, circling endlessly: "What a pretty baby!" "And your boy is so handsome!" "How is your wife?" "Very well, thanks. And your husband?" "Mon mari est mort. But I must carry on." On every pass, I learn something new.
Tue Jun 23 20:11 Comment: Also, kudos to 2-year-old Leila, who has devised means of using all the playground equipment, despite the council-installed netting & hobbles. Particularly impressive is her slide technique, which is pure SAS. 11-year-old brother Alfie and the dog watch in silent amazement.
Wed Jun 24 00:30 Historia de Barcelona, 24/6: #otd * 1569: Entra en Barcelona Miguel de Cervantes a la edad de 21 años; versión en el Quijote (0+426) * 1826: La Junta de Comercio pone alumbrado de gas en sus escuelas de dibujo (14) * 1842: Ferias de juguetes y mercados…
Wed Jun 24 07:00 RT @Durotrigesdig: To celebrate the bedrock of certainty that is #HillfortsWednesday here’s the 8ha multivallate #Eggardon Hill @nationaltr…
Wed Jun 24 07:13 Perhaps Popper was thinking of Montaigne when he opted for Conjectures & Refutations: ‘tis setting a man’s conjectures at a very high price upon them to cause a man to be roasted alive / c'est mettre ses conjectures à bien haut pris que d'en faire cuire un homme tout vif (Essays)
Wed Jun 24 07:16 Comment: @Durotrigesdig It's surprising how little decent (indecent) fiction uses hillforts
Wed Jun 24 07:26 William Crowe (1745-1829) in "Lewesdon Hill" comments on the lack of literature re Eggardon Camp
Wed Jun 24 13:52 Slick young patrician on his phone in Victoria Park: "I'VE JUST BEEN ON THE MOST INCREDIBLE VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY - ORGANISED BY SOUTHWARK - INTO MY WHITE PRIVILEGE!" I can remember when Southwark made lots of noise about economic privilege, but that's sorted now.
Wed Jun 24 14:24 Well Street legend Stanley Johnson refuses to confirm whether he'll be wearing the New York track suit & helmet to the exhibition on Saturday
Wed Jun 24 18:27 Comment: @ibexsalad Storm in a plantpot
Wed Jun 24 18:30 Comment: @davidfirn Isn't it the same kind of advertorial found in the Mail etc?
Wed Jun 24 18:38 Before it died the cat turned its little head to Mr & Mrs Dewey and miaouwed, "Please spend all my funeral budget on masonry, and don't waste any on a dog-gerelist."
Wed Jun 24 18:47 I guess that (enclosed) lifeboats provide pretty good thermal protection, but a bit of shade in the morning still does no harm - Lea Navigation near Walthamstow Marsh
Wed Jun 24 20:55 RT @Transblawg: vowe dot net :: London tube map made from a working circuit board
Thu Jun 25 00:26 Historia de Barcelona, 25/6: #otd * 1639: Acude "inmensa gente" para ver la salida de 730 hombres para la guerra en Rosellón (57) * 1847: Cesa de acuñarse en Barcelona moneda provincial de calderilla (23) * 1848: Octava del Corpus (191) * 1918: Pla: …
Thu Jun 25 01:17 Blog post: The satyr’s head and 1680 Bagnigge House plaque at 61-63 Kings Cross Road: An explanation, featuring the 17th century goldsmith Simon Thriscrosse, Bagnigge Wells Spa, and, for idle googlers, Nell Gwyn.
Thu Jun 25 15:30 A hint as to the quality of Coop Bank coding
Thu Jun 25 19:18 Where will everyone flytip when this is finished?
Thu Jun 25 19:20 Comment: I hadn't seen a mockup of #MeridianWater . No more quiet walks up the Lea, then.
Fri Jun 26 00:28 Historia de Barcelona, 26/6: #otd * 1458: Terremoto a las seis de la mañana (0) * 1527: Noticia de la captura de Roma y de Clemente VII (0) * 1539: Carlos V ordena a su nuevo lugarteniente general en Cataluña, Rossellón y Cerdaña, Francisco Borja,…
Fri Jun 26 07:04 With lots of street drinking & no public toilets this is going to be our Summer of Wee
Fri Jun 26 07:18 So glad that @HantsPolice nailed this bastard, whose home was talked about at school My memory may be faulty, but it recalls a skinny nervous boy who actually ran back to the home from the weekend foster parents to whom he had been farmed out, because...
Fri Jun 26 12:32 Comment: @BetaRish @thisisyogic Dutch twee = two so might have limited international appeal
Fri Jun 26 12:38 "The German preachers found such dissidence in Westphalia, in Mecklenburg, in Pomerania: areas, as a German physician later observed, where the peasants live miserably on thin beer, pig’s meat and black bread" (Trevor-Roper, The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century)
Fri Jun 26 12:42 Spent the morning evangelising to Marsh-walkers the bit in Defoe Plague Journal where 3 men of Wapping flee & end up at Walthamstow. Extraordinary that this is so little known
Fri Jun 26 12:44 Amsterdam bans holiday rentals completely in old centre. Brilliant.
Fri Jun 26 14:37 I was part of the group years ago that set up the City branch of the LCC - stuff of our dreams
Fri Jun 26 19:33 My few enlightened acquaintances studiously avoid preaching to me, no one listens to the lyrics I sing, and the idea that the state might subsidise or employ me is laughable, but I will study this woke glossary just in case.
Fri Jun 26 19:45 Angry face superimposed on, & making use of the "oo" eyes in, "Hit a mohfucka ur too calm!" at Warley St, Bethnal Green. I don't think it's fair to call it a palimpsest, so what's the pretty word?
Fri Jun 26 19:52 Top Hair Style, Westport St, Stepney. I don't understand why the camera (not Google Streetview) has obscured the street name
Sat Jun 27 00:39 Historia de Barcelona, 27/6: #otd * 1833: Simulacro de torneo con motivo de la jura de Isabel II (31) * 1848: Octava del Corpus (29+44) * 1957: Lanzamiento del SEAT 600 en España (147) * ☼ 05:18-20:30, 15:12 horas; ☾ luna menguante, iluminación 49,38%,…
Sat Jun 27 07:02 World of Hat, Commercial Road. Further down there used to be (may still be) World of Hat & Scarf, which objects anthropomorphise & talk in my dreams. Tower Hamlets contains more entertainment for lovers of English than Hackney, where commercial impulse is more humdrum.
Sat Jun 27 07:11 Comment: I also like Excel Graduate School, which has not updated to Google Sheets Graduate School because it is misusing verb as adjective, or something. I want to be in the brains of these entrepreneurs & discover what possessed another man to call his business Hikdekedekekwak.
Sat Jun 27 07:17 Comment: Someone told me that there is still a Jew living on Hessel Street, scene of Eric Levene's "Feinstein's Theory of Relatives", but a lunatic in one of the Hajj & Umrah establishments denied it, and the closest I could find was a Chinaman imitating Sylheti English
Sat Jun 27 08:12 Quote from "Do re mi" from The Sound of Music in the overture to Mr Wagner's Tannhäuser
Sat Jun 27 14:06 On Well Street: I've got three dogs and Raquel.
Sat Jun 27 19:05 RT @carfreedayLDN: Could London have 1000 Play Streets running in time for #CarFreeDay @Heidi_LDN; @clairekholland; @dbornat. That’s just o…
Sat Jun 27 19:14 Feelings, importers & exporters of women's clothes, Commercial Road & Morris Albert's hit
Sat Jun 27 19:18 Comment: I think Morris Albert was unlucky to lose Loulou Gasté's Pour toi copyright suit
Sat Jun 27 19:36 CityRealtor ad at Mile End Rd/Cambridge Heath Rd. Old debate whether the City colonised the East End or vice versa.
Sat Jun 27 19:38 "Have you stolen a mummy from the British Museum?" "It's my girlfriend's cassette rack." Mile End Road.
Sat Jun 27 19:39 Comment: @thisisyogic I love the ad
Sat Jun 27 20:51 Shops but not libraries...
Sat Jun 27 22:28 Re butcher's dog Boris' pressups in the MoS: Ngram shows that nothing has ever bounced forward, and that in ca 2003 bouncing back fell off a cliff (I don't think you can say it has bounced back). Optimism is cowardice.
Sun Jun 28 00:42 Historia de Barcelona, 28/6: #otd * 1848: Otra fiesta, pero ¿de qué? (168) * 1919: Pla: Divago –hores– pels carrers dels barris baixos, districte cinquè * 1921: La sangrienta guerra entre la patronal y el sindicalismo afecta a los directivos franceses…
Sun Jun 28 13:32 Comment: Sorry, CD rack
Sun Jun 28 13:49 "In hoc signo spes mea" ("In this sign is my hope") on two blocks at Cornwall Avenue/Braintree Street, Bethnal Green. But Google Streetview figured this common Latin tag was a business name & (given a lack of activity online) that it was permanently closed @DrFrancisYoung
Sun Jun 28 13:50 Comment: Griffin + crescent + ...? No idea which company's arms these are meant to be
Sun Jun 28 20:24 Comment: Aaaahhhh so points out that it's the William Sutton Trust: founder of the UK's first door-to-door long distance parcel service (1833–1900) Still no idea about the heraldry
Sun Jun 28 20:34 I've seen better arses on rugby players than on Will Alsop's balding androgynous hedgehog at Royal London Hospital. The City's so full of monstrous penises and testicles that at the very least he could have sexed it, like Botero's beloved Barcelona cat.
Sun Jun 28 20:37 Platform 9¾, somewhere in E1. Why?
Sun Jun 28 20:45 "You are now entering a gum free zone" pun at Sir John Cass Redcoat School, with some beautiful newish red brickwork behind. The first proper auditorium I played in as a kid was the Colston Hall in Bristol, & I wonder if it's not cowardly to reject the name but keep the assets.
Sun Jun 28 20:47 Comment: More bricks - though probably just cladding
Sun Jun 28 21:50 Babe is very engaged & engaging, says a real photographer, so I should probably be doing something like this with her:
Mon Jun 29 00:45 Historia de Barcelona, 29/6: #otd * 1375: Procesión contra una epidemia de peste de casi un año (32) * 1412: Noticia de la elección de Fernando I por el parlamento de Caspe (24) * 1529: Paz de Barcelona entre Clemente VII y Carlos I (603) * 1794:…
Mon Jun 29 04:52 No pretence of door control or distancing at Coop on Chatsworth Rd last night, now waiting for Chief Medical Office to suggest that the law of supply & demand should lead to their prices (1.50 for 4 pints of milk) dropping rapidly to meet Tesco (1.10)
Mon Jun 29 05:09 The trick is to find a use for "nooks & grannies"
Mon Jun 29 05:13 "Low IQ" trending on Twitter is a confusion of accident and essence
Mon Jun 29 05:21 Comment: Things that bounce forward: skimming stones, bouncing bombs, ...
Mon Jun 29 06:24 Echoes of JMG
Mon Jun 29 07:02 Fuckoffee Can I have a t-shirt?
Mon Jun 29 10:36 Comment: @ibexsalad I'm tempted by Instagram - apparently people are even stupider there
Mon Jun 29 12:01 O hoge bomen in de Noorderwind, koorbankenhout, altijd groene loofbomen, de Dordtse psalmen hoorde ik als kind etc VS. Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader de hoge bomen nog zag staan. Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan
Mon Jun 29 16:04 RT @KeithNHumphreys: For the last time, there is no such thing as "gaslighting" -- you're just imagining it.
Mon Jun 29 18:29 An amiable gent at the address says that the original builder did it, and nobody knows why. A mystery a sleuth or novelist.
Mon Jun 29 18:38 A couple of coots and their chicks on their moored artificial nest on the Lea Navigation upstream from Lea Bridge Road. The reflected light makes it vaguely terrifying. Perhaps I should have brought out the weird red/orange heads of the chicks.
Mon Jun 29 18:41 It's not just schoolchildren who forget how to spell if they're not frequently reminded
Mon Jun 29 18:45 Of course it is not a lion but the phenomenally successful mouse general & dictator called Julius Cheeser.
Mon Jun 29 20:59 Comment: @Captain_Bionic 54, down from 127
Mon Jun 29 21:01 Like the high street, the bar is modern
Mon Jun 29 21:01 RT @SocialHistoryOx: Who could do more push-ups?
Mon Jun 29 21:05 The portrayal of Roman slavery in Asterix is appallingly flippant
Mon Jun 29 22:36 List of settings of Goethe's Kennst du das Land? (Mignon/None but the lonely heart/etc etc)
Tue Jun 30 00:51 Historia de Barcelona, 30/6: #otd * 1478: Fiestas y procesiones para celebrar el nacimiento de Juan, hijo primogénito de los Reyes Católicos (39) * 1629: Tensión protocolaria entre flota real y ciudad, gran interés público por el embarque del duque de…
Tue Jun 30 06:45 Comment: @lordbonkers I assume that, as with Heathrow during the national lockdown, anyone will be able to travel by train to Leicester station & then mix with the general population
Tue Jun 30 10:55 Life & death ads, licit & illicit, at Hawes undertakers on Well Street
Tue Jun 30 10:58 Nature's response to the filth left in public parks is divided: the carrion crows rather like it
Tue Jun 30 13:32 Comment: @Transblawg The well in Well Street used to be near Tesco
Tue Jun 30 20:18 Ghits: "deceptively spacious" = 1.71 million, "deceptively cramped" = 118
Tue Jun 30 21:08 Regularly spaced decorative feature on the walkway walls doesn't synch with regularly spaced flats behind. Estate between Darling Row & Headlam Street, at the south end of Cambridge Heath Road.
Tue Jun 30 21:10 Comment: Neat parking on the same estate - presumably a BMW or Mercedes, which seem to be Bangladeshis' preferred makes