Tweets for July 2022

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

Fri Jul 01 07:48 Toddler twirling slowly on office chair in the morning hush prompts a brief moment of melancholy in those above. But: - Daddy, faster!
Fri Jul 01 21:18 If only there were an alternative in Leeds to Enterprise Car Club, which is quite appalling
Fri Jul 01 21:20 Comment: Cunning strategic sustainability planning by Leeds Council and the various universities led to 90,000 students moving house today, mostly by private car. If you want to change that, there needs to be an alternative.
Sat Jul 02 00:03 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 July 2022: Then: 1644: Henry Slingsby (York garrison) on the Royalist defeat at Marston Moor today, which ends Charles I's hopes in the north Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind southerly…
Sat Jul 02 12:13 2-bed, 2-bath flat for rent/sale in old convent in Barcelona harbour
Sat Jul 02 19:36 Pulling up acres of Galium aparine this afternoon, a rebrand for the Conservative Party springs to mind: Sticky Willy
Sat Jul 02 19:44 Ca. 1-foot trout observed in the stream below the horse bridge, probably larger upstream, so time to resurrect with the toddler the {stick + twine + Ulster bacon + shadow + patience} techniques learned from legendary Tyrone gold panner Jimmy Brennan
Sat Jul 02 22:01 Babylon's inspirational quote carousel seems to have stopped working, oh dear, never mind
Sun Jul 03 00:27 Comment: @DanielGalef So are book illustrators going to be out of a job?
Sun Jul 03 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 July 2022: Then: : The Royalists take Bradford but are warned off massacring the inhabitants by a ghost 1816: Emilia Monteiro (15) of Lisbon dies in the French refugee convent at Heath Old Hall, Wakefield, and…
Sun Jul 03 11:21 Rhubarb triangle over-production. Someone puts a couple of kilos of stalks + leaves outside their door. Shortly after, the stalks are gone, but the leaves remain. Not long after, the leaves are also gone, presumably mistaken for greens. Enough to give them kidney stones?
Sun Jul 03 11:22 Comment: Also: what to do with the rhubarb used to make rhubarb vodka? Side salade with pork kebabs?
Sun Jul 03 11:28 Oscar Peterson on the radio. I once had a modest jazz quartet for weddings etc, & one day had a dep pianist from Zwolle. Played like a bad, coked-up Oscar Peterson - several of the stylistic traits, the manic sociopathy - & I still have PTSD flashbacks.
Sun Jul 03 18:49 Age. The Koreans were talking about 리즈 시절, "Leeds period," heyday, & I thought, this has got to be Don Revie before he became England coach, but no, it's Alan Smith Jnr.'s failure at ManU
Sun Jul 03 18:55 Comment: Mrs has been on the receiving end of nastiness from Mrs South Asian Muslim PhD, who signed off her latest episode with a pretend kiss - a kind of suck-on-it gesture, which I wouldn't have associated with her origins
Mon Jul 04 06:52 Freecycle / Freegle full of (deranged) timewasters - guys who live too far away to collect (but enjoy a brief exchange of words), who don't really want to collect (but do want to tell you about their problems with the Home Office)...
Mon Jul 04 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 July 2022: Then: 1985: Publication of Blake Morrison's Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind south westerly 12mph, visibility good, pressure 1018mb, humidity 80%, UV risk…
Mon Jul 04 09:13 Oopma music
Mon Jul 04 09:50 Ca. 10 years after Barcelona?
Mon Jul 04 19:10 Is untrimmed privet an inflation hedge?
Tue Jul 05 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 July 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 10°C (51°F), wind westerly 10mph, visibility good, pressure 1021mb, humidity 84%, UV risk 0, pollution low…
Tue Jul 05 21:15 The Belasyse tomb carved 1603 by Thomas Browne at Coxwold is the most marvellous & massive thing
Tue Jul 05 21:17 Comment: Sensational day in N Yorks, but only close rival was the rickety wooden Aldwark toll bridge
Tue Jul 05 22:01 Letter from Laurence Sterne (Coxwold connection...) to Ignatius Sancho
Wed Jul 06 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 July 2022: Then: 1381: John de Erghom and others in service of the Beverley oligarchy murder William Haldane and throw him in a pit on Walker Lane. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 13°C (56°F), wind south westerly…
Wed Jul 06 20:04 Two bored teachers discussing the ease with which they could substitute Henry VIII by Johnson - mistresses, intellectual dependence on advisers, diplomatic/constitutional screw-ups...
Wed Jul 06 22:57 The end of Dutch (hand-made) wooden clogs I didn't get a pair from the local maker for my tranny act after manager Johnny O.-D. advised that mass-produced builder's clogs worked better against cold & slurry, & for fast get-aways on pushbike/foot
Thu Jul 07 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 July 2022: Then: 1819: Summer colds. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 12°C (54°F), wind westerly 14mph, visibility good, pressure 1024mb, humidity 84%, UV risk 0, pollution low (mid-Yorkshire)Sun: 04:42-21:36…
Thu Jul 07 20:56 A Redcar woman announces the alleged resignation to her fellow drinkers with a pleasing pun: "Ladies and gentlemen, to use a plumbing analogy, the turd is round the bend."
Thu Jul 07 21:00 Comment: But tho trad Labour-voting Teesside may have had enough of Johnson, there's no wish to return to the past. Reflects experience of posh LibDem canvassers drafted into Tiverton like C19th Xstian missionaries to the Congo - "We're not voting for that twat, but you can fuck off too."
Thu Jul 07 21:21 Comment: @davelostdave @jonburkeUK @evefrancisholt @MShiltonGodwin @bevcraig @WalkRideGM @AndyBurnhamGM @DameSarahStorey Leeds...
Fri Jul 08 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 July 2022: Then: 1940: Amidst rumours of German parachutists, Evelyn Cardwell of Aldborough disarms and arrests an enemy airman. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 13°C (56°F), wind westerly 11mph, visibility good,…
Fri Jul 08 17:52 Comment: @tombcn That's a good one - "fuck off" used to be a shibboleth distinguishing us from them, now the first or second thing they learn
Sat Jul 09 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 July 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind westerly 11mph, visibility good, pressure 1030mb, humidity 84%, UV risk 0, pollution low…
Sat Jul 09 21:13 Judging by the poo, it was the pigeons who stripped the blackcurrants completely in a couple of days. Now torn re next purchase: trail cam vs air rifle - they look pretty tasty
Sun Jul 10 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 July 2022: Then: 1869: The first prosecution under the Sea Birds Preservation Act results in a fine at Bridlington of £330 (2021) for killing 28 birds at Flamborough. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 12°C (54°F),…
Sun Jul 10 10:00 Comment: @jennitpk @bbcsml Tory Spice Girls
Sun Jul 10 10:58 Build it & they will come: large telly in holiday let, toddler figures out remote, & then: "Daddy, I love adverts." Like the car, the telly is a big stupid octopus
Sun Jul 10 19:39 Beautiful rock samples at Sandsend, but Saltburn beach ideal for recreating (with the help of razor clams) what one can remember of the Dutch Delta Works flood protection scheme
Mon Jul 11 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 July 2022: Then: 1787: Advertisement for The Commercial and Mathematical Academy, Hull. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind south easterly 5mph, visibility good, pressure 1024mb, humidity 89%, UV…
Mon Jul 11 20:24 Every other dish on Teesside is something parmo & now I know what that means & it's survivable
Mon Jul 11 20:39 Comment: @jennitpk Westferry + his attempts to protect developers from cladding bills would trigger a police corruption investigation in Spain. The view that Gove was doing an excellent job on housing may be tinted by what went on before.
Tue Jul 12 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 July 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 19°C (66°F), wind south westerly 8mph, visibility good, pressure 1020mb, humidity 72%, UV risk 0, pollution low…
Tue Jul 12 17:59 Comment: @DanielGalef Roughly two in three adults on Teesside are very large, but hey ho, the Mediterranean Diet
Tue Jul 12 18:26 Comment: Staithes's stench of ammonia from field slurry runoff recalls the rural Netherlands in this season
Tue Jul 12 20:30 Brilliant first home delivery from @Morrisons - Leeds Tesco were terrible
Tue Jul 12 21:43 It hadn't occurred to me that huge nettle & bramble thickets which you find, which I don't recall as much in the 20th century, might be down to reactive nitrogen pollution - solve by reducing/modifying traffic, construction, agriculture...
Wed Jul 13 07:10 Comment: @lordbonkers The charming notion that a system inherently disfunctional & prone to abuse, whether by heads-of-state-in-waiting on the take or by sociopathic politicos, can simply be reset
Wed Jul 13 07:15 Habemus lock-up, which might serve for portraits of ancient & melancholy Presbyterians, but also for a decent kip on nights of invasive toddlers
Wed Jul 13 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 July 2022: Then: 1820: Hannah Yeadon, a disabled woman of Yeadon, is "insulted and assaulted". 1858: A visit to an alum works near Whitby. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 15°C (59°F), wind westerly 9mph,…
Wed Jul 13 07:23 Comment: @tombcn Jesus. And then in a few years she'll be coming back drunk. Normally I'm pretty delighted by any new aspect to my tremendous good fortune, but a buggered Achilles means I'm not doing the normal daily rounds which are my lifeblood, & how the lock-up was acquired
Wed Jul 13 21:05 An Amanda cover
Wed Jul 13 21:09 "Corproation" is Dilbert
Wed Jul 13 21:11 Comment: @Npton_Adviser @lordbonkers In Bradford there's a similar guy, with a horse & wagon
Wed Jul 13 21:44 Comment: @Npton_Adviser @lordbonkers I fear the Home Office will get to him first
Thu Jul 14 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 July 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 12°C (54°F), wind westerly 7mph, visibility very good, pressure 1022mb, humidity 85%, UV risk 0, pollution low…
Thu Jul 14 10:52 Comment: @tombcn Mamar, du bist die liebste auf der ganze Welt...
Fri Jul 15 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 July 2022: Then: 1855: At Sevastopol in the Crimea, boatswain's mate John Sheppard tries to row through enemy lines on an improvised explosive punt to blow up a Russian warship, winning a VC. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud,…
Sat Jul 16 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 July 2022: Then: 1858: Walter White meets two families from Middlesborough on Roseberry Topping. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 11°C (52°F), wind westerly 8mph, visibility good, pressure 1024mb, humidity 87%,…
Sat Jul 16 13:44 Pushing the buggy on the road on Wood Lane, Headingley (pavement blocked by cars & wheelie bins, as per Leeds Council's anti-pedestrian strategy), an Uber/Just Eat scooter roars past, hooting away. Green voter(?) walking the other way: "Mate, I'm so, so sorry for how things are."
Sat Jul 16 13:49 Comment: Difficult in our context to think of a more environmentally & socially destructive industry than home-delivered fast food, though once worked for a software co whose prison management ware included death-row & electric chair management for TN, known jocularly as "abuse of power"
Sat Jul 16 14:47 Surely ever thus, & the performing arts are generally speaking unaffordable for the poor anyway
Sun Jul 17 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 July 2022: Then: 1785: Mr. Strother, a York draper's assistant, finds that diarizing is not for common folk, and stops. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 14°C (57°F), wind south westerly 5mph, visibility very good,…
Sun Jul 17 13:55 Sunflower up two inches overnight, rumbustious runners now redirected to nearby conifer via some twine, named after our favour author of horticultural horror, Beryl Bean-bridge
Sun Jul 17 19:57 Comment: @tombcn You're still ahead of Leeds, & ours are in the greenhouse
Mon Jul 18 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 July 2022: Then: 1784: Wesley finds children "restrained from open sin" at one of the first Sunday schools, at Bingley. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 17°C (63°F), wind southerly 6mph, visibility good, pressure…
Mon Jul 18 20:19 The committee hoping to convert the old bowling green & clubhouse at Woodhouse Moor/Hyde Park to a vandal-/drugs-free children's playground & café wonders wonders if, in homage to a local diarist & allotment enthusiast, @thoresbysoc would support it being called The Pounder Shop
Mon Jul 18 20:20 Comment: Someone gave me Robert Pounder's notebooks & they're brilliant However, I tried to start a Wikipedia article & was rejected - not prominent enough!
Mon Jul 18 20:28 S is in the meat business & has started fertilizing his garden with take away blood. E, who has experience in obstacle removal in Greater Persia, comments that it smells and looks like a suicide bomber in a supermarket
Mon Jul 18 20:29 Comment: @tombcn I always confuse them with the University and College Union
Tue Jul 19 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 July 2022: Then: 1849: As William Clarke's All-England Eleven begins a three-day match against a Hull twenty-two, the Hull Packet notes the failure of seaports to produce good players. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy,…
Tue Jul 19 20:57 Personal (not climatic) apocalyptic moment at ca 16:15: pushing the buggy west along Wood Lane at ca 38ºC into a hot westerly blizzard (ok, 20 mph) of dead leaves & dust, toddler: "Hurry up, daddy, or they'll have sold all the ice lollies." & @shireoakce had indeed bought the lot
Tue Jul 19 21:27 Comment: Memories of a forgotten hot 'un -1994- when some pillock decided to ride a 3-speed grandad bike from Oldenzaal to Bagdad, wearing Lou Bleyberg's pink Ugly Sister ballgown, & bearing in the panniers inflatable pigs called Space & Time 1/4
Tue Jul 19 21:27 Comment: Very warm over Berlin, Breslau, Brünn (Wilhelminian maps, ca 1900, used for research purposes), Bratislava, with pressure similar to this week in the region - blocking high somewhere to the east 2/4
Tue Jul 19 21:28 Comment: But then something snapped & the 150km along the N bank of the Danube to Štúrovo for the Maria-Valeria Bridge to Esztergom was into an appalling easterly, temperatures in the late 30s & no cover 3/4
Tue Jul 19 21:28 Comment: Arrive at Štúrovo, no bridge: blown up in 1919 & again in 1944, but this obviously invisible on a 1900 map. Ferry reserved for Slovaks & Hungarians, official unbribeable, land crossing at Szob screwed, so back to Komárno in about half an hour 4/4
Tue Jul 19 22:09 Pastor Douglas says she is 84
Tue Jul 19 23:27 Insulation works both ways, but why do EPCs only deal with heat loss from the building rather than also looking at heat gain, e.g. at what point does ambient temperature make loft conversions unviable?
Wed Jul 20 00:14 Comment: @tombcn How were the sheep & goats received?
Wed Jul 20 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 July 2022: Then: 1858: Haymaking with the Quakers of Bainbridge, Wensleydale. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 19°C (67°F), wind north westerly 6mph, visibility good, pressure 1010mb, humidity 68%, UV risk 0,…
Wed Jul 20 09:48 The notion that York stone is being taken from Headingley pavements, not for resale to posh home-owners, but for reburial by radical depavers
Wed Jul 20 21:51 Collecting the toddler, one is assailed by a mob of giggling 2-year-old girls, sticking out their tongues, bellowing "Silly daddy", and mocking one's imperceptible neurodivergence in other quite unacceptable ways. But if it makes her popular...
Wed Jul 20 21:57 A Spanish ex-shepherd has been recruited to advise on decarbonising University of Leeds grounds (inc houses on Headingley Hill) and Woodhouse Moor by replacing mowers and strimmers across with a modest flock of sheep & goats and a couple of dogs
Wed Jul 20 21:58 Comment: Now hoping to sign the marvellous guy with border collie who lives opposite the @ChemicTavern
Wed Jul 20 22:02 Comment: Twitter thread on the latest Barcelona trial on the Collserola range Another guy who I used to know & did the northern end near Montcada gave up I think about a decade ago, citing the refusal of the council to subsidise fire prevention...
Wed Jul 20 22:03 Comment: One of the major challenges is prevented staff ending up on kebab stands
Wed Jul 20 22:13 Comment: @Transblawg The move-to-Southall gambit seems to be backfiring, as it were
Wed Jul 20 22:16 The Headingley Gallimaufrians: a (projected) brass band of the weird and wonderful
Wed Jul 20 22:21 Comment: @Transblawg I wish I could find which of your streams that's on
Thu Jul 21 07:09 Comment: @ibexsalad the next 6 weeks are mafia vs muffia
Thu Jul 21 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 July 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: thick cloud, temperature 16°C (61°F), wind northerly 6mph, visibility good, pressure 1021mb, humidity 87%, UV risk 0, pollution low…
Thu Jul 21 08:53 Comment: @tombcn For family reasons currently a tapas chef. But still looks more like a shepherd.
Thu Jul 21 08:56 Comment: @Transblawg A photojournalist can always park!
Thu Jul 21 10:21 Comment: @Transblawg Perhaps a frivolous thought, but would it save money to have light-blue, instead of blue-light, vehicles? Glad to hear your work is undiminished.
Thu Jul 21 10:23 Alain Trudel Blue Bells of Scotland is just silly
Thu Jul 21 21:18 Comment: @petersymon I hope you're practising the trombone as well as the harpsichord
Fri Jul 22 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 July 2022: Then: 1932: Bradford officials are taxed mercilessly by French customs en route to making the composer Frederick Delius a freeman of the city. Now: Weather for tonight: thick cloud, temperature 14°C (57°F), wind easterly…
Fri Jul 22 19:56 S has written a memoir of the time he prevented a frustrated Central Line customer from going postal during a stoppage of some nature. It is entitled "Four hours at Mile End."
Sat Jul 23 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 July 2022: Then: 1955: Philip Larkin tells his "bun" that he doesn't fancy Beverley's "rabbit". Now: Weather for tonight: light rain, temperature 13°C (56°F), wind south easterly 8mph, visibility good, pressure 1018mb, humidity 89%,…
Sat Jul 23 20:03 Bright medic at toddler picnic explains that he still likes Johnson because he's colourful, if untrustworthy. Why is the bar so much lower for politicians than for medics, bus drivers, or anyone except beggars?
Sun Jul 24 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 July 2022: Then: 1771: Actor-manager Tate Wilkinson opens Puritan Leeds' first proper theatre with comic impressions of leading Methodists. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 18°C (64°F), wind southerly 14mph,…
Sun Jul 24 20:34 Mother: "We thought the toddler might like this little furry pink unicorn-themed notebook." 9-year-old son: "I found it in the bin." Mother, hastily: "The paper bin."
Sun Jul 24 20:44 Commerce & I do not meet much, so Tong Garden Centre was a shock - mounds of rock quarried to imitate the latest makeover fad, the bird-feeding industry, Chinese-manufactured driftwood - comprehensive commoditization, giving meaning to some & taking it from the rest of us
Sun Jul 24 20:52 Comment: Potentially so many good things about Tong -
Sun Jul 24 21:14 Comment: @HDTHeadingley @NHPNA1 To be fair, they do slow the traffic down a bit
Mon Jul 25 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 July 2022: Then: 1603: Sir Richard Wortley, persecutor of his neighbours, dies, and is zoomorphized as the protagonist of the ballad of the Dragon of Wantley. 1730: John Hobson encounters two outlandish, free-living men at Thirsk.…
Mon Jul 25 08:16 Someone who puts their kids in front American cartoons for 10 years really shouldn't get cross to find their ears full of Americanisms. You are what you eat.
Mon Jul 25 20:41 Sunak, fricatized
Mon Jul 25 20:42 Comment:
Tue Jul 26 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 July 2022: Then: 1699: Doncaster magistrates hear that Dr. Greene, mountebank, assaulted those who sought to prevent his show. 1802: Dorothy Wordsworth travels with brother William from Scarborough across the Wolds to Beverley and…
Tue Jul 26 22:19 Personal reflections aside, the arrangement is marvellous There's a live version somewhere where the tolling bells are trumpets
Wed Jul 27 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 July 2022: Then: 1612: Jennet Preston of Craven, the only Yorkshirewoman among the Pendle witches, is condemned to death at York Assizes. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 11°C (52°F), wind southerly 6mph,…
Wed Jul 27 08:19 Comment: @Mr_D_W_R Once walked into it from the back by mistake & was pleasantly surprised
Wed Jul 27 20:42 Comment: @tombcn Sleep in the bins outside.
Wed Jul 27 20:49 P: We need a speedbump, just one, on North Hill Road, Headingley to stop Amazon/JustEat/Uber drivers doing 50mph in a 20 zone. But really you need one every 20 yards, & they're not paid for by Amazon/JustEat/Uber.
Wed Jul 27 21:11 Comment: @tombcn There's gold in them thar bones
Wed Jul 27 22:20 Wikipedia appears to want us to think that a domestic dispute is bound to be violent, and that marital discord is marital breakdown
Wed Jul 27 22:23 Comment: All well here, but unsure how to tag the unhappy Heywoods
Thu Jul 28 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 July 2022: Then: 1809: Captains Samuel Walker of the 3rd Foot Guards and Richard Beckett of the Coldstream Guards fall against Napoleon at Talavera, Toledo, Spain. Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 14°C…
Thu Jul 28 07:18 Does it make sense to block every account whose tweets are promoted into my feed?
Thu Jul 28 07:33 Nightmarish flashback: waiting in torrential rain for her majesty's carriage, HM in full twilight-of-the-west flow endeavouring to show me on her mobile the latest net migration stats, in the block of flats behind her a naked couple grappling in some new & hellish embrace
Thu Jul 28 07:39 Comment: Local sawbones: Everyone is Whiggish now on immigration: Tories because increases competition for the land they own, Labour because still embrace the racist child-of-nature narrative (-> no prospect of black leadership)
Thu Jul 28 08:44 Baroja & the Civil War So someone has read El Cantor Vagabundo!
Thu Jul 28 18:29 Comment: Echoing Baroja's view of the Spanish Civil War, the notion, from a sustainable transport academic, that Leeds Council vs Leeds University is illiberal democracy vs liberal autocracy
Fri Jul 29 07:10 Comment: @tombcn A (Valencian) favorite when I used to sing in Gracia: El dilluns jo no treballo el dimarts a p(r)endre el sol el dimecres me preparo per a descansar dijous. El divendres trec els comptes pal dissabte anar a cobrar, i el diumenge, com es festa, leré jo no penso, leré, treballar &c
Fri Jul 29 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 July 2022: Then: 1822: An inquest at York finds that John Furnel of the Queen's Regiment of Foot died by flogging. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 13°C (56°F), wind south easterly 7mph, visibility good, pressure…
Fri Jul 29 19:14 Comment: @DanielGalef Gentrification is over when people are dumping Black & Decker
Fri Jul 29 20:41 Comment: @jennitpk A happy family separated by our heartless tax system
Fri Jul 29 20:46 Epic day - toddler holding her own with one then another girl, both 3 years older - but unsure at what point in a gallery lively behaviour becomes an entitled twat letting spoiled offspring run riot - memories of C20th Spanish ex-military museum attendants keeping order
Sat Jul 30 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 July 2022: Then: 1661: John Ray encounters the effigy of a tragic Inuit man in his canoe at Hull Trinity House. 1798: The returning Greenland whaler Blenheim fights off a Royal Navy press gang in Hull harbour, killing two boarders.…
Sat Jul 30 20:37 Floods of tears at Dumbo being parted from his mum in 1950, so empathy for elephants
Sun Jul 31 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 31 July 2022: Then: 1667: Thomas Danby, Leeds's first mayor, is stabbed to death in London late at night. 1846: Pudsey celebrates repeal of the Corn Laws with a monstrous imperial Free Trade plum pudding. 1881: A London cyclist…
Sun Jul 31 13:56 Comment: @theleedslibrary Admiring your foresight, wishing we'd had the same when it came to your open day, & hoping for a repeat!
Sun Jul 31 13:59 Comment: @DanielPhilips1 @jonburkeUK @Observer_Owl I love Herts, but I'm quite taken by the notion that all the carpeople will park & stay there, waiting for the Second Coming of Nicolaus Otto
Sun Jul 31 14:31 "Lionesses" on the Guardian front page despite the style guide
Sun Jul 31 14:35 Comment: I really struggle to be consistent, which is why this kind of thing gives me so much childish pleasure
Sun Jul 31 14:58 Comment: @NHPNA1 Please stop, you're causing me anxiety
Sun Jul 31 15:37 Re the scheme to (re)populate Headingley Hill with sheep & goats, decarbonising grounds maintenance & binning the leaf blowers: some think launch might be easier by simply getting a few & hiding them here and there, taking them for walks on leads
Sun Jul 31 19:25 - So, toddler, football or tennis? - I prefer Spiderman. Jigsaw action during the match, but then the cup is engraved: - Why are they tattooing someone?
Sun Jul 31 19:42 A poorly written motivational girl's book about Vivienne Westwood has her down as a life-long nonconformist, & now imagining her rejecting the cross after baptism
Sun Jul 31 22:41 RIP Esteban M, who imagined himself invisible because he cut the cables & then wore sunglasses in his darkened residence. Realizing his error, he hunted down Francis B (130kg) in 101, tried to strangle him, & was crushed, almost to death, in the mêlée
Sun Jul 31 23:27 Comment: @ibexsalad Ah, ! But I'm guessing he was referencing The Invisible Man