Year: 2020

March 2020 tweets

Lea Marshes (aka Walthamstow, Leyton, Hackney…) and the Waterworks Festival, COVID/CORVID aka coronavirus, baby food and allergies, Croydon curiosities, Knaresborough, Homerton and Clapton marginalia. Loads of other nonsense.

<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_bole'>Bee boles</a> for skeps in the castle wall at La Granada, Barcelona, Spain. Wikipedia in Catalan still thinks they're loopholes. / Nínxols per a <a href='https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusc'>ruscs</a> en la muralla del castell de La Granada, Barcelona, Espanya. La Viquipèdia en català creu encara que són espitlleres.

A Welsh story

The post-Napoleonic miseries in Llanuwchllyn and Bala (Merioneth), Liverpool, Sheffield, London and New York of the orphans of Thomas and Catherine Jones of Nantfach Farm, north of Bala; and of the children of Simon and Mari Jones of the smithy at Y Lôn, Llanuwchllyn. From a 1965 piece in the Liverpool Daily Post.

Excerpted family tree showing more or less all those mentioned. Click to embiggen.

February 2020 tweets

London (Hackney/Lea Valley/Walthamstow), Winchester, Swanmore, Knaresborough. The baby, Gene Vincent’s drummer, Solomon Lever, homo Staffordiensis, Joaquín Turina (Poema en forma de canciones para trombón…).

Mr Baiyat of Trust Shoes, Walthamstow High Street, has not popped his clogs (died) but simply taken his shoes off (gone on holiday).