December 2020 tweets

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Tue Dec 01 08:28 Is someone who supports independence for, and believes in the superiority of, Hampshire's offshore island a Wight supremacist?
Tue Dec 01 08:30 Not that cruddy kareoke version
Tue Dec 01 11:37 Comment: @PolemicTMM William Cobbett was horrified by the high street, but probably wouldn't be a fan of Amazon either
Tue Dec 01 13:41 Comment: @Walthamsteve A chance for someone to remind us what the difference was between racialism & racism
Tue Dec 01 22:15 If someone in Llanuwchllyn reads this, I would be very grateful if they would go into the churchyard & transcribe the englyn on the Simon Jones obelisk
Tue Dec 01 23:50 Historia de Barcelona, 2/12: #otd * 1847: Primeros mosaicos de asfalto (33+334) * 1918: Pla: Dilluns * 1936: Thalheimer: Visita a una granja colectiva en Lérida, vuelta a París (583+8) * ☼ 07:57-17:23, 09:26 horas; ☾ luna menguante, iluminación 49,38%,…
Wed Dec 02 08:50 Comment: @Durotrigesdig @NaturalEngland @sdnpa @HistoricEngland And here's how to walk there from Petersfield, & then on to Bishops Waltham Sorry...
Wed Dec 02 09:48 Toddler mayhem allows progress elsewhere
Wed Dec 02 09:50 Comment: @charlottelevene You have never lived in Ireland
Wed Dec 02 09:54 Private Eye MD column re vaccines: "The MHRA must also investigate reported adverse events & any serious harm must be compensated." But look at govt/opposition reaction to massive building regulation failure: "We hope the victims will be OK" #EndOurCladdingScandal @EOCS_Official
Wed Dec 02 13:58 The Man Who Set Back Music 10,000 Years
Wed Dec 02 20:25 Comment: @tombcn You lucky bugger!
Wed Dec 02 20:55 Comment: @petersymon Me, die?!
Wed Dec 02 20:57 Donations to the Tories by developers who hope the Tories will make leaseholders pay for dangerous cladding. I doubt you'd get away with this in Spain.
Wed Dec 02 21:36 Betty Munday's Bottom, in Bishops Waltham parish mag
Wed Dec 02 21:38 Comment: @Walthamsteve Smart countercyclical thinking from WF Council
Wed Dec 02 23:42 Historia de Barcelona, 3/12: #otd * 1601: Correr de toros (52+68) * 1842: Bombardeo de Barcelona y entrada Van Halen (107+111) * ☼ 07:58-17:23, 09:24 horas; ☾ luna menguante, iluminación 49,38%, antigüedad 22 días * ✞ Francisco Javier, Galgano *…
Thu Dec 03 12:37 Gavin Williamson plagiarised from me the joke about the British health regulator being best because it's fastest
Thu Dec 03 23:36 Historia de Barcelona, 4/12: #otd * 1447: Excomulgados, los dominicos paran de decir misa en la capilla de San Jorge (33+18) * 1827: Entra Fernando VII para suprimir a los Malcontents (26) * 1844: Gran nevada (14+37) * 1855: Terremoto (11) * ☼…
Fri Dec 04 08:36 Comment: @DrDavidAEvans @DrFrancisYoung Time to claim Immanuel for our Kantwaraburg
Fri Dec 04 11:18 Interviews with high-end book dealers
Fri Dec 04 11:32 - Have you noticed she can't bend her left knee, shall we get her x-rayed? - Have you noticed she can always bend her left knee except when we try to put on her sleep suit?
Fri Dec 04 11:52 Comment: @tombcn Her best friend, also 13 months, already looks like a cunning Pyrenean farmer foisting a ruin on you
Fri Dec 04 12:05 RT @MrJakeWalters: My portrait of Sir Philip Green taken on his Arcadia office balcony on Oxford Street. He was unpleasant and rude to me a…
Fri Dec 04 20:05 Where can I get the original black and white Ivor the Engine episodes, inc the 6-part 1959 series?
Fri Dec 04 21:14 Walthamstow Wetlands on Guy Fawkes' Day - a developer's dream
Fri Dec 04 21:17 Anti-Romanian artwork in Clapton
Fri Dec 04 21:20 "Ruby Cruel is a new creative space [on Morning Lane at Well Street] in Hackney." Perhaps Tony wasn't creative enough.
Sat Dec 05 00:07 Historia de Barcelona, 5/12: #otd * 1082: Fallece Ramón Berenguer II, supuestamente asesinado por su gemelo (651) * 1629: Galeras españolas con ayuda de Santiago toman un navío otomano en una batalla nocturna (557) * 1705: El archiduque Carlos de Austria…
Sat Dec 05 08:18 I don't think Ivor knew about the Raising of Chicago when he wrote Shoplifters
Sat Dec 05 19:26 Comment: So I found #4-6 of the 1959 Ivor the Engine series in poor quality on DailyMotion & everyone burst into tears at the conclusion of #6, but where is the rest? #smallfilms
Sun Dec 06 00:02 Historia de Barcelona, 6/12: #otd * 1435: Terremoto (13) * 1465: Salen dos franciscanos para Santiago para librar Barcelona de la peste (44) * 1536: Llega Carlos I de las guerras italianas (21) * 1718: Juran los primeros regidores del ayuntamiento…
Sun Dec 06 11:32 Many questions for @charlottelevene re her excellent Woman Up!, not least of which: How did she learn to control the weather? (Gloucestershire Olivier for Jude Emmett for performance in a torrent)
Sun Dec 06 15:31 In Spain you can get your knives blessed
Sun Dec 06 16:51 Another good leader from the Sunday Times re the cladding scandal
Sun Dec 06 19:23 Where's the proverb that states that society is about people with monastic lives lecturing their opposites & getting as good as they give?
Sun Dec 06 21:11 Comment: Abel (pastoralism) vs Cain (totalitarian modern agriculture) from Daniel Quinn
Sun Dec 06 22:27 A request from HJH
Sun Dec 06 23:57 Historia de Barcelona, 7/12: #otd * 1492: Isabel cuenta la herida que sufrió Fernando a manos del loco Joan de Canyamars al bajar las escaleras de la capilla de santa Águeda, y el amor popular por su rey (1284+83/i) * 1639: Sale para Salses el diputado…
Mon Dec 07 19:53 Comment: @Captain_Bionic @JVquinie @fayhield "All music is folk music - I ain't never heard no horse sing" is most credibly credited to Big Bill Broonzy
Mon Dec 07 20:35 1/3 Walking the other way, an elderly Sylheti shouldering a plastic sack. He smiles, presumably about to compliment the toddler, but no: "Hello sir, you want to buy socks? Also gentleman's boxers, ladies' leggings, very good price."
Mon Dec 07 20:36 Comment: 2/3 "We're short enough of space as it is. If I get more socks I'll have to get rid of my daughter." "Also lady's lingerie." "I'm interested. How can I find you again?" "One day, Stepney, another day Hackney, another day Commercial Road."
Mon Dec 07 20:36 Comment: 3/3 "Have you been a pedlar for long?" "My father also in Bangladesh."
Mon Dec 07 20:38 RT @RichardHanania: Former head of Israeli space security program says aliens exist, but they think humans aren't ready, so they only commu…
Mon Dec 07 21:55 Herman de Coninck's gloss on Tennyson or whoever's "better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" God verhoede
Mon Dec 07 21:57 Bowman Ales is still doing free home deliveries in Winchester, Romsey, Southampton and Portsmouth, as well as Droxford
Mon Dec 07 22:26 What IS that between his legs? Not sure I interpreted "I will chair-ish when you can sit on me again" correctly
Mon Dec 07 22:33 "Enterance" on the Eagle on Wick Road, Hackney. I think that this & analogous spellings had generally died out by ca 1700, dunno when the pronunciation changed, nor whether older forms survived in Kilkenny, of which this is the local embassy
Mon Dec 07 22:35 Stonehenge - a painting by the young Arthur ApSimon
Tue Dec 08 00:28 Historia de Barcelona, 8/12: #otd * 1536: Carlos I sale para Castilla (16) * 1640: Un rediseño de bandera, supuestamente motivado por los ultrajes anticlericales cometidos por los tercios castellanos (368) * 1842: Fiestas de la Concepción y Santa Lucia,…
Tue Dec 08 08:33 "Frosty the no man" from Metro yesterday
Tue Dec 08 08:37 Comment: They may have the buns, but we've got the puns
Tue Dec 08 21:22 The #CladdingScandal is a standard topic at the swings. A granny childsitter: "So there's actually an EWS1 for my son's block, but he can't sell because L&Q (the HA) refuse to send it to lenders & instead refer him to the developers, Telford Homes, who aren't interested"
Wed Dec 09 00:28 Historia de Barcelona, 9/12: #otd * 1301: Prohibidas para cristianos, judíos y perros las relaciones comerciales con esclavos (60+57) * 1396: Martín I se retira a Perpiñán para escapar de la peste (27) * 1598: Barcelona pide cuatro columnas del foro…
Wed Dec 09 21:26 I used to take people to see the source of the River Mundo as a diversion from a walk, but never saw it like this
Wed Dec 09 22:31 Curious as to the consequences of telling rugby players that it's not the beer that gives you dementia
Thu Dec 10 00:22 Historia de Barcelona, 10/12: #otd * 1617: Remisión papal de los pecados de Cataluña relacionados al bandolerismo (91+348/i) * 1942: Las piernacas de las chicas que van en bici (377+32) * 1946: "El pueblo en masa recorr[e] las calles de la ciudad…
Thu Dec 10 06:27 Hoping Meredith Dinwiddy remembers me this Xmas
Fri Dec 11 00:15 Historia de Barcelona, 11/12: #otd * 1524: Anuncio de una cátedra de política (23+7) * 1918: Pla: En llevar-me veig que sobre el món davalla la llum d’un sol de color de palla esgrogueïda –vagament rogenca * 1986: Un coche bomba de ETA destroza un…
Sat Dec 12 00:12 Historia de Barcelona, 12/12: #otd * 1728: Empieza construcción del nuevo convento de San Agustín (23) * ☼ 08:06-17:23, 09:16 horas; ☾ luna menguante, iluminación 49,38%, antigüedad 22 días * ✞ Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Amonaria, Corentino,…
Sun Dec 13 00:09 Historia de Barcelona, 13/12: #otd * 1639: Llegan desertores franceses de Rosellón (136) * 1848: Fiesta de Santa Lucía (206) * 1918: Pla: Santa Llúcia * 1933: Fuga masiva del Modelo via la cloaca (551+903) * 2009: Inauguración de la línea 9 del metro, la…
Sun Dec 13 10:38 Seville orange supply is now a pressing concern - the 2020 marmalade will only see us through to June
Sun Dec 13 14:35 RT @DavidDeutschOxf: @MahyarTousi "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Douglas Adams
Sun Dec 13 17:30 Support for Dido Harding from Times readers
Sun Dec 13 20:11 One of the stupidest RightMove house blurb openers: "We as Agents are delighted to offer to the market"
Sun Dec 13 20:40 Toddler cheerfully beating pans with great granddad Bill Tangye's auctioneer's gavel, eyeing up the Victorian truncheon
Sun Dec 13 22:14 TA leaving a house after 44 years sheds a tear. Driver AT: So to make the chip shop oil fit for use in this car, I filter it thru a kitchen sieve then thru 2 layers of muslin, & when a layer of sediment starts to form I siphon it off & add kerosene & Bob's your uncle. TA: Thanks!
Sun Dec 13 22:16 Comment: Previous night's ritual included burning unrecyclable bric a brac, letters etc in the garden & drinking excellent elderberry wine - like tawny port, says the expert
Mon Dec 14 00:06 Historia de Barcelona, 14/12: #otd * 1567: Una procesión pide ayuda divina para derrotar a los turcos (29) * 1927: Primer vuelo comercial de Iberia, parte de la lucha entre Lufthansa y Junker (305) * 1999: Miles de bragas devueltas tras sabotaje obrero…
Mon Dec 14 11:59 At Victoria Park playground this morning a boy called Fox was trying to knap a handaxe out of a piece of flint he'd found & preparing to bind it to a stick: all very post-apocalypse
Mon Dec 14 14:05 Clockwork black swan
Tue Dec 15 00:04 Historia de Barcelona, 15/12: #otd * 1847: Acabada la reforma del teatro de Santa Cruz, ahora el Principal (16+26) * 1897: Abre el cine Lumière en el Paralelo (60) * 1959: Inauguración del Talgo entre Madrid y Barcelona (9h) (64+77/i) * 1986: Bombas de…
Tue Dec 15 08:43 Some domestic objections to one howling like a wolf outside houses instead of ringing the bell, but gets the resident kids off their screens & is Covid-safe
Tue Dec 15 13:28 RT @Transblawg: I will recognize him
Tue Dec 15 20:50 New-style fox-hunting witnessed in Victoria Park: big fat fox being pursued by three small dogs followed by children on scooters
Tue Dec 15 21:32 Comment: Fox-hunting is actually sorely needed in the park on health & safety grounds - all those infants dressed as bunnies, chicks need protection
Tue Dec 15 21:33 Comment: @petersymon Jesus, is the Edinburgh one at all serious?
Tue Dec 15 21:53 Busking as glorified begging?
Tue Dec 15 21:53 Comment: @petersymon @TurdHotel At least if Scots aren't allowed out then they won't have to look at it
Wed Dec 16 00:37 Historia de Barcelona, 16/12: #otd * 1470: Muere Juan II de Lorena, pretendiente a la Corona de Aragón (27) * 1795: El médico, físico y globista Francisco Salvá y Campillo lee en la Real Academia de Medicina de Barcelona su memoria titulada "La…
Wed Dec 16 08:15 Comment: @LondonRemains @HackneyYIMBY Amazing what you can fix with a nice bit of cladding
Wed Dec 16 15:27 If Mlle Toddler doesn't want her naps, fine, but I need mine
Thu Dec 17 00:35 Historia de Barcelona, 17/12: #otd * 1525: Sale para Francia la hermana del sequestrado Francisco I (28) * 1901: Muere el emprendedor religioso Josep Manyanet i Vives, fundador de los Hijos de la Sagrada Familia y promotor del templo de Gaudí (0+178) *…
Thu Dec 17 09:47 Coincided with neighbour, but he rushed back in, muttering what my ears wanted to hear as "flask".
Thu Dec 17 09:48 Comment: @tombcn Have you thought about leaving the church?
Thu Dec 17 09:50 @Transblawg
Thu Dec 17 12:41 #DoggerelOfTheDay
Thu Dec 17 19:28 Dingdong this afty with 7/8 black lads breaking into Sedgwick St block via fire access panel - same ones always around Homerton Station. Abuse sadly formulaic - "We're going to fuck you over" ... "bald bastard" - like me getting cross in French. Hope nowt bad happens to em ;)
Thu Dec 17 20:43 Comment: @petersymon They all used to wear masks before Covid, but less now
Fri Dec 18 00:30 Historia de Barcelona, 18/12: #otd * 1427: Jaume Rigolf puede administrar la Casa de Infants Orfes a pesar de ser casado (127) * 1471: Terremoto al amanecer (0) * 1848: Fiesta de Ntra Sra de la Esperanza, patrona de los corredores de comercio (47) *…
Fri Dec 18 19:38 People who criticise euthanasia without having tried it
Fri Dec 18 22:57 Amazed that fans haven't transcribed Ivor the Engine scripts & put them up on the web
Sat Dec 19 00:56 Historia de Barcelona, 19/12: #otd * 1827: Iluminación por gas en la Llotja (44) * 1840: Un artista romántico inglés, la puerta de la Paz (162) * ☼ 08:11-17:25, 09:14 horas; ☾ luna menguante, iluminación 49,38%, antigüedad 22 días * ✞ Eva, Urbano V…
Sat Dec 19 08:21 Moral dilemma: what to do when a shambolic solicitor forgets to add VAT to his bill?
Sat Dec 19 08:38 Comment: @petersymon I'm afraid he's not bright enough to be part of a fiendish HMRC entrapment exercise
Sat Dec 19 08:39 RT @EOCS_Official: Further to the announcement by @mhclg, please see our response below. We are glad the Govt recognises the need for fina…
Sat Dec 19 14:39 Apparently you can still visit people on Christmas day if you dress up as a DPD driver. A uniform has been ordered for the toddler, & she will be monstrously cute.
Sat Dec 19 16:27 RT @cordial: @PolemicTMM no, tier 5 is eating cats and dogs.
Sat Dec 19 17:15 Christmas chic(k) from the East.
Sat Dec 19 19:56
Sat Dec 19 20:24 Comment: @charlottelevene @fairycakes The neighbours are having a Christmas party tonight if you're interested
Sat Dec 19 20:35 RT @sammeoch: In Tier 4, you are allowed to drink wine in public, so long as it's served with a transubstantial meal. #Lockdown3 #CorpusChr…
Sat Dec 19 23:46 The Northern Heights between Hampstead & Ally Pally, marking the southern limit of Pleistocene glaciation (the famous Muswell Hill terminal moraine...) & the northern limit of the modern Thames valley. Nothing should be read into the rainbow, & all else is impermanent too
Sun Dec 20 00:50 Historia de Barcelona, 20/12: #otd * 1782: La Santa Inquisición prohibe La Armonía del Parnás del Rector de Vallfogona (40+19) * 1799: Gran nevada (0) * 1840: La Audiencia Real, la Catedral, los jardines de la Ciudadela, los pavos, las murallas (1155+74)…
Sun Dec 20 14:35 Acknowledgement of "total regulatory system failure + a construction culture that is rotten to the core" would suggest that govt will inter alia indemnify leaseholders & aggressively pursue developers, but those commitments are nowhere to find
Sun Dec 20 19:56 Rather good vero/verde pun from Memoirs of a Booklegger by Jack Kahane, Romanian-Mancunian-Parisian publisher of Tropic of Cancer, Lady Chat & other smut, & alleged secret agent. Available from Andrew Rickard's Obolus Press
Sun Dec 20 22:16 DA, BJ & CH at Walthamstow Wetlands at dusk
Mon Dec 21 00:44 Historia de Barcelona, 21/12: #otd * 1470: Entierro de Juan II de Lorena, llamado Príncipe de Gerona por la Generalidad, que murió supuestamente envenenado (26+23) * 1842: La feria de Barcelona (223/i) * 1844: Tormenta e inundación (265) * 1848: Feria de…
Mon Dec 21 08:30 RT @_F_B_G_: Was asked to produce a Christmas quiz for a church magazine and (with apologies to Sellar and Yeatman) decided to make it as s…
Mon Dec 21 10:08 What's the point in a daughter if you can't spend a rainy hour trying on hats?
Mon Dec 21 22:38 It is said that councils can no longer afford to employ monsters with megaphones as park enforcers
Tue Dec 22 00:39 Historia de Barcelona, 22/12: #otd * 1472: Juan II de Aragón jura los fueros después de tomar Barcelona (424) * 1673: José Oriol, bachiller en teología (15) * 1848: Feria de Barcelona (8) * 1889: Descripción del espectáculo "Buffalo Bill's Wild West",…
Tue Dec 22 16:59 Why Spanish, French, Catalan etc should be abolished
Tue Dec 22 20:11 1/3 Cabbie & neighbourhood guardian angel M. (Dublin 1939) survives corona, but is then felled by a cold that gets into his lungs. Early Sat the registrar calls son A.: "We want to send your dad home, his organs are going & there's a 10% chance he'll live out the day."
Tue Dec 22 20:11 Comment: 2/3 A.: "You're not doing that. Throw everything you've got at him & he'll be fine. My dad's different." Late PM the hospital calls: Your dad's a changed man, sitting up in bed eating yogurt. A.: "Now you've got me worried. He hates yogurt."
Tue Dec 22 20:12 Comment: 3/3 Pneumonia killing where covid fails recalls an AMA Merseyside George Formby-ism: "It was the cough that carried him off!" The Wigan Nightingale's original: "It's not the cough that carries you off – it's the coffin they carries you off in!"
Tue Dec 22 22:48 For sale: the first instalment of ca 500 #archaeology books from Arthur ApSimon's library
Wed Dec 23 00:35 Historia de Barcelona, 23/12: #otd * 1511: Terremoto (21+15) * 1836: Instálase la sociedad de Fomento de la Ilustración (0) * 1848: Feria de Barcelona (5) * 1918: Pla: Ara que dins de l’aire flota aquesta cosa indescriptible, humanament tendra, íntima,…
Wed Dec 23 08:34 #DoggerelOfTheDay
Wed Dec 23 08:38 Hambledon Hill - Howard Phipps channelling Eric Ravilious
Wed Dec 23 10:08 RT @voiceofthe_soul:
Wed Dec 23 10:42 Toddler went on the rampage with the Nokia 100, may need to upgrade to the 105
Thu Dec 24 00:34 Historia de Barcelona, 24/12: #otd * 1639: Salen más soldados para Salses en Rosellón; galanterías entre sitiadores y defensores; destrozos españoles en Narbona; terminos de la rendición; gran mobilización en Barcelona para asegurarla (1676) * 1708: La…
Thu Dec 24 04:48 Disappointed that the pointy-eared man on Well Street Common the other day didn't bear an elven sword, even if Peter Jackson invented the pointy-ear bit
Thu Dec 24 06:10 Armstrong & Inglis' Short Spins Round London (North of the Thames) (1907) - a cycling classic - with lamp-lighting tables!
Thu Dec 24 10:55 Sorry Tesco, but a sweet easy peeler is a corrupt copper. Those are clementines
Thu Dec 24 10:57 Comment: @thisisyogic Have you seen the Neapolitan nativity in St Peter's, Saffron Hill?
Thu Dec 24 19:53 Comment: @thisisyogic @MarkMorreau But it has to be seen live. Switch just to the left, I believe. Happy!
Fri Dec 25 00:31 Historia de Barcelona, 25/12: #otd * 0393: Es ordenado a fuerzas San Paulino de Nola, sin que lo sepa su mujer, a cuyos brazos vuelve después (46+561) * 1274: Alfonso el Sabio pasa la Navidad con Jaime el Conquistador (32/i) * 1333: Un fraile carmelita…
Fri Dec 25 07:31 Comment: @MarkMorreau @thisisyogic No no no, that's the temporary one. To get to the Neapolitans, turn right along the aisle and turn on the light switch next to the glass case.
Fri Dec 25 07:36 Mum viewed King's Cambridge as a maw spewing paedophile choirmasters, but always listened to the Festival of Carols while peeling potatoes, perhaps because she knew that one day it would feature some of the carols I know: "Hello, my name is Carol Murphy & I play the spoons."
Fri Dec 25 12:22 Still waiting for the first "pouring"
Fri Dec 25 13:13 I gave him his first theatrical role, and now he's growing avocados
Sat Dec 26 00:24 Historia de Barcelona, 26/12: #otd * 1379: Un incendio destroza Santa María del Mar (17) * 1452: Menú para la fiesta de San Esteban al monasterio de Santa Ana (34+38) * 1710: Luis XV de Francia y los franceses están en Cataluña (78) * 1848: Restos de…
Sat Dec 26 07:08 Jon Pertwee, The Runaway Train
Sat Dec 26 07:40 Comment: At last
Sat Dec 26 20:43 Googled "Hackney weather" and it says 25ºC, sunny, gentle breeze, oh, no, that's "Hockney weather"
Sat Dec 26 20:44 Comment: @petersymon No Pete we are the planet
Sat Dec 26 20:45 Comment: @tombcn I don't think it's going below that in London for the rest of the month, wimps
Sat Dec 26 20:55 The only way we can see to get out of inventing favourable comments to a dud Xmas present it to burn down the place
Sat Dec 26 20:57 Comment: @tombcn Regency England is Vanity Fair. There must be a good version of that
Sat Dec 26 22:01 Great industrial photography by the Liverpudlian Stewart Bale studio in the official programme for the launch of the QE in 1938
Sat Dec 26 23:18 So grandad (ambitious tea & biscuits Tory) must have known Oliver Postgate (relaxed champagne socialist) in the Finchley Home Guard - utterly bizarre idea
Sun Dec 27 00:20 Historia de Barcelona, 27/12: #otd * 1848: Vispera de Inocentes (47) * 1918: Pla: Acompanyo Roldós a Palamós * 1920: Suspensión de pagos del Banco de Barcelona (378+75) * 1923: Muere Doménech y Montaner (50) * 1951: La Vanguardia pide la libertad de…
Sun Dec 27 07:42 Tremendous photo of Menuhin & Furtwängler
Sun Dec 27 09:52 Comment: @DrFrancisYoung @FrPhilipMurray There's a curious sense in E London of some churches being grateful for any opportunity to have less to do with their parishioners
Sun Dec 27 10:15 One exciting thing about the previous lockdown was getting to help tear down the previous one after the previous storm without a H&S assessment. They didn't learn & get a stronger model.
Sun Dec 27 15:37 I identify with "obeserves"
Sun Dec 27 19:04 RT @petersymon: Asking for a friend : has the draft EU-UK Trade & Cooperation Agreement text, all 1,200+ pages of it, been translated into…
Sun Dec 27 23:27 Nice corona stats panel below the fold on
Mon Dec 28 00:48 Historia de Barcelona, 28/12: #otd * 1848: Día de Inocentes (661+643) * 1897: Exhibición de una "tribu de Aschantis" en el día de Inocentes (92) * ☼ 08:15-17:31, 09:15 horas; ☾ luna menguante, iluminación 49,38%, antigüedad 22 días * ✞ Santos…
Mon Dec 28 22:19 When Hackney Libraries banned Ivor the Engine Am I becoming obsessed (not with Hackney)?
Mon Dec 28 22:21 Comment: "The reason why our films are still fit to look at and enjoy is because we were excused the interference of educationalists, sociologists and other pseudo-scientists who get at things nowadays, which produces eventually a confection of formulae which have no integrity."
Tue Dec 29 00:44 Historia de Barcelona, 29/12: #otd * 1410: Blanca I de Navarra y la sucesión a la Corona de Aragón (41+9) * 1918: Pla: El «Glosari» d’avui, sobre Gluck, bé, com gairebé tots els «glosaris» de «La Vall de Josafat» * 1936: La Generalidad y la supuesta…
Tue Dec 29 07:15 Strangest estate agent line. Garage contains dozens of containers of paint & other chemicals, clearance won't touch them, neighbours banned from the tip or fearful of ANPR. "Let me take them all over to my aged mum's & we'll dripfeed them through her normal waste."
Tue Dec 29 09:43 RT @SocialHistoryOx: A contemporary lawyer’s view on Thomas Becket
Tue Dec 29 17:16 Comment: @ibexsalad Get 'em Charles! Unashamed corruption...
Tue Dec 29 20:01 #WakingWatchScam was a great job invention scheme for a recession, but perhaps the fire marshals sitting in a car along the street watching Netflix could now be usefully retrained as basic Covid nurses
Tue Dec 29 20:15 My Tesco mask twanged apart halfway round the shop, & I went from surprise at how many (including staff) weren't wearing masks to surprise at how many actually were
Tue Dec 29 20:59 The Thames Barrier is part of the wall the Home Counties are building round London
Tue Dec 29 21:48 Comment: @petersymon Looks brilliant - back in the day Readers' Union republished some great stuff for very modest prices. I don't get why given his early death (no copyright) it's not on Gutenberg.
Wed Dec 30 00:38 Historia de Barcelona, 30/12: #otd * 1568: Torneo en el Born para festejar a los Medinaceli (17) * 1710: La defensa de Barcelona (63) * 1848: Los verdaderos inocentes (31+1) * 1859: Inauguración de un faro en el nuevo muelle del puerto (162) * 1870:…
Wed Dec 30 19:45 Comment: @ibexsalad Go on, admit it's the name: illa < quilla < chiquilla
Thu Dec 31 01:11 Historia de Barcelona, 31/12: #otd * 1537: Entra Carlos I en posta (16/i) * 1822: Tropas francesas en la frontera "por fiebre amarilla en Barcelona" (46/i) * 1848: Fin de año (283) * 1918: Pla: Pluja i humitat * 1932: Carta de amor (con canción) de un…
Thu Dec 31 08:10 Bala Man comments: George Floyd was actually murdered by the Minnesota French because he was Welsh (< Llwyd) and they couldn't find Fluellen
Thu Dec 31 08:12 Now is well and all things aright And Christ is come as a true knight, For our brother is king of might, The fiend to fleme and all his. Thus the fiend is put to flight, And all his boast abated is. #DoggerelOfTheDay
Thu Dec 31 08:16 Yorkshire travel plans, sorted
Thu Dec 31 08:21 Comment: As a health service nationalist, I fully support inter-regional levelling up of this nature
Thu Dec 31 10:05 I keep saying to people that @UKLabour isn't behind leaseholders in the cladding scandal, but I think I'm wrong
Thu Dec 31 10:14 Hair products shop reporting brisk New Year's Eve sales - partly displaced demand from hair salons, but still
Thu Dec 31 11:06 RT @floodenheim: Sorry - too wordy for Twitter - a brief end-of-year announcement
Thu Dec 31 14:29 When will you pay me, Ring the bells at the Old Bailey.
Thu Dec 31 21:31 The Dresden Kreuzkirche's New Year's service on Brexit Eve concludes with Land of Hope & Glory
Thu Dec 31 21:33 Comment: (I know, furriners have a different & less clichéd appreciation of Elgar...)