Tweets for September 2022

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Thu Sep 01 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 September 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 12°C (53°F), wind northerly 7mph, visibility good, pressure 1026mb, humidity 96%, UV risk 0, pollution low…
Thu Sep 01 08:45 Very satisfying to see great spotted woodpecker in Hyde Park, though someone else's gaze was focused on sticks
Thu Sep 01 09:20 Comment: @charlottelevene Smaller, smaller!
Thu Sep 01 20:42 Comment: @jennitpk Morrisons are pretty dominant in Leeds in what for you is probably the Tesco segment, & the price differential over more marginal brands like Sainsbury's is shocking. Screwed up their forward contracts, or just charging whatever they can get away with in uncertain times?
Thu Sep 01 20:45 Comment: @tombcn If only Peter the Great, amongst his borrowings from the Dutch, had adopted William of Orange's window tax
Thu Sep 01 20:51 Old E. says the plums are the best he's ever tasted & is now in front of the telly, snacking on them, and god help his guts
Thu Sep 01 21:35 Comment: @fourgreenis I hope he's not eating the pits, or I'll have the cops on the doorstep tomorrow
Fri Sep 02 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 September 2022: Then: 1686: Organization of the York garrison. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 12°C (53°F), wind northerly 6mph, visibility good, pressure 1019mb, humidity 93%, UV risk 0, pollution low…
Sat Sep 03 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 September 2022: Then: 1810: Mr. Jackson, Dewsbury druggist, gets drunk while visiting a prisoner at Rothwell, with terrible consequences. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 13°C (56°F), wind easterly 7mph,…
Sun Sep 04 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 September 2022: Then: 1764: Laurence Sterne, curate in Coxwold, is minded to sin in Scarborough. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 15°C (59°F), wind south easterly 11mph, visibility good, pressure 1011mb, humidity…
Sun Sep 04 21:51 Another great leap on the toddler's path to becoming a plumber: went to sleep last night having tucked in a plastic model toilet next to her
Mon Sep 05 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 September 2022: Then: 1914: Boycott professional football to get players to fight the Germans, says the ex-vicar of Oulton. Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 16°C (61°F), wind south easterly 10mph, visibility…
Mon Sep 05 09:37 Toddler now appreciating the value of marching up & down a train singing: a Pakistani girl of similar age & inclination gave her a Happy Meal smurf
Mon Sep 05 09:38 Comment: Also, the utility of a Sussex Police badge in extracting lollipops - with infant inspection looming, the brilliant Brighton Tattoo Collective stayed scrupulously & stylishly within the terms of their licence
Mon Sep 05 09:48 Flanders & Swann originated the (weird) pronunciation of "gnu" with a /ɡ/: @jomoulds
Mon Sep 05 15:01 The stupidity surely isn't an act for the faithful. How to reconcile it with her good CV?
Tue Sep 06 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 September 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 15°C (59°F), wind south easterly 8mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1013mb, humidity 93%, UV risk 0,…
Tue Sep 06 07:35 Comment: @FrPeterAnthony And fasces, obvs
Tue Sep 06 08:03 The notion that regular exposure to animal death helps small persons cope with human death
Tue Sep 06 08:06 Comment: @DanielGalef About 60 seconds in
Tue Sep 06 08:33 Comment: @MythicalIberia
Tue Sep 06 09:01 Red ant bites on both biceps forming an itchy symmetry
Tue Sep 06 10:35 Medio Pollico is on its way to Leeds
Tue Sep 06 10:53 Comment: @Transblawg That's an incredible deep cultural fact
Tue Sep 06 23:08 Anyone good at 18th century handwriting? Will freeing and providing for a slave-owner's daughter. I've had a bash, but brain & eyes failing
Wed Sep 07 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 September 2022: Then: 1837: Before being sent to the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Mary Frances Heaton is gaoled at Doncaster for a breach of the peace, which she later recounts in a sampler. 1874: A bell-ringing contest at All…
Wed Sep 07 09:39 Comment: @tombcn Perhaps folklore from the 84-85 NUM strike: miners reading the FT to discover their genuine prospects
Wed Sep 07 09:52 Comment: @tombcn I just avoid anything cultural & weekend supplements: Oxbridge halfwits promoting their mates
Thu Sep 08 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 September 2022: Then: 1485: Henry VII sells the wardship of Anne Salvain of Thorpe Salvin (Rotherham) to William Hussey, Lord Chief Justice, for 1050 marks (£419K in 2021). Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature…
Thu Sep 08 11:19 7/21 retail units unoccupied at Headingley Arndale. Wonder what it's like down North Lane - no. of cars means I never really go beyond junction with Bennett Rd
Thu Sep 08 11:22 For birthday purposes, toddler says that at nursery her best friends are 5 boys / 5 girls, nursery worker (f) says it's 2:5. Who's right?
Fri Sep 09 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 September 2022: Then: 1835: Princess Victoria finds Handel's Messiah at York Minster 'heavy and tiresome'. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 12°C (53°F), wind northerly 8mph, visibility good, pressure 1004mb,…
Fri Sep 09 09:24 Comment: @tombcn Man wants to sell his books via the remarkably undiverse British media
Fri Sep 09 09:26 Comment: @MrDanielBuck Also, no one talks much about how suspensions end up causing extreme hassle in park playgrounds for parents without all the security backup available in schools
Fri Sep 09 09:58 1/4 The official position of the Society of December 10 (Section of Literati, Organ-grinders and Rag-pickers), is of respect for British domestic arrangements, while pointing out that a multi- rather than a unipolar kleptocracy...
Fri Sep 09 09:58 Comment: 2/4 would have facilitated the rehabilitation of a youthful artist, who, seeking merely to get back part of what he put in, was lightened of several bottles of wine on leaving the palace of St. Paul's Dingleberry, and never reëmployed.
Fri Sep 09 09:59 Comment: 3/4 (S.H. was: locked in a corridor in one wing by his fellow musicians, last heard howling like a dog, and never seen again.)
Fri Sep 09 09:59 Comment: 4/4 Refs:
Sat Sep 10 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 September 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: drizzle, temperature 14°C (58°F), wind north westerly 12mph, visibility good, pressure 1013mb, humidity 92%, UV risk 0, pollution low…
Sat Sep 10 12:22 Comment: @ibexsalad Not just Canada - only 7 wreaths observed outside Leeds Civil Hall (pop 800K) by yesterday COB
Sat Sep 10 19:50 Literary arithmetic - Thomas Ward's "England's Reformation" - says he knew Nicholas Postgate
Sat Sep 10 22:29 Physio: Okay, I'm also right-footed, and I've got from football the same as you've got from walking: Achilles tendonitis in the right heel, and in the left, plantar fasciitis... Patient: Is that a militant vegan? Penance: 90 slow step-downs a day.
Sat Sep 10 22:31 I guess dead people don't pose
Sat Sep 10 23:28 Comment: @Transblawg Maybe I can be tethered from a tree - the small one rather likes balloons
Sat Sep 10 23:49 Comment: @ibexsalad Apparently they were all council ones. One at the war memorial, again Friday COB.
Sun Sep 11 00:18 Barrel organ in the parish church at Kilvington (Thirsk) in the 1850s - William Allison, the sporting journalist
Sun Sep 11 00:22 Comment:
Sun Sep 11 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 September 2022: Then: 1666: Margaret Hodgson of Richmond tells a York court that a beggar called John Fawcett visited her yesterday and informed her of a plot to burn London. 1780: Having paid £1.5M (modern) in bribes to voters,…
Sun Sep 11 21:40 Toddler liked Amarcord, particularly "Voglio una donna" & the booby suffocation scene
Mon Sep 12 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 September 2022: Then: 1680: Francis and Mary Huntrodes are buried together at St. Mary's, Whitby with a poetic epitaph. 1687: Installation of a bell at St Leonard's, Thrybergh. 1731: Edward Garner of Dodworth dies, perhaps the…
Tue Sep 13 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 September 2022: Then: 1894: J.B. Priestley descends on a cloud to the West Riding of Yorkshire. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 9°C (48°F), wind westerly 9mph, visibility good, pressure 1012mb, humidity 90%, UV…
Tue Sep 13 10:09 Lord Justice Lopes
Wed Sep 14 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 September 2022: Then: 1864: In the last of his seven races, Blair Athol, one of the greatest of horses, triumphs in monsoon conditions in the St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster over his great rival, General Peel. Now: Weather for…
Wed Sep 14 18:55 Heart last week. A large NHS manager departing a fun day drives her huge SUV (no visibility) over a planter. - Oi!!! - You didn't think I was going to run off, did you? Goes in to reception, pretends to leave details. Out comes P. - That'll be one-and-a-half million! Drives off.
Wed Sep 14 19:00 Comment: This week. P: We're checking CCTV. I reckon two million. Me: Sorry, I had a grumpy-old-man fit. I don't like how the playground has been converted to a carpark. It's bad for your lungs. P lights up.
Wed Sep 14 19:27 A mayor not far away is said to be encouraged by the enthusiasm for hereditary titles: "His son is thick as pigshit & lazy." Arguments for are the same as for the Windsors: stability, cheaper than elections, less corrupt, more trust, blah blah.
Wed Sep 14 22:47 Alma(k)nackered
Thu Sep 15 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 September 2022: Then: 1679: Election at York for the Exclusion Bill Parliament. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 10°C (51°F), wind north westerly 7mph, visibility good, pressure 1011mb, humidity 92%, UV risk 0,…
Thu Sep 15 18:34 Builders doing dull villa -> flat conversion & build on Headingley Lane opposite Cumberland / Grosvenor have put up a flagpole in order to be able to hang a flag at half-mast
Thu Sep 15 18:37 Comment: On a par with Palestinian untouchables sewing Israeli flags so they can be burnt
Thu Sep 15 18:55 An Indian mum of a four-year-old comes & sits in on the library reading session. - We don't have any of this back home. Waiting for the freaking invite.
Thu Sep 15 18:59 Comment: A senior bumbrusher lurks at the back, observing the toddler's interactions. Afterwards, questions for her, where interest in the answers lies in process, not product - like a good GP, waiting for patients in the corridor, assessing by the time they reach the door their chances
Fri Sep 16 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 September 2022: Then: 1821: How a wet harvest was saved at Foston. 1858: Augustus Duncombe, dean of York, reopens St. Helen's, Stonegate, York following its thoroughly Victorian restoration. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy,…
Fri Sep 16 20:37 Visiting toddler with a novel salad escape strategy: when the green poison was carried in, she became short of breath and went purple and cold
Fri Sep 16 20:40 Comment: - Bad bronchial cough, so no secret as to issue - 999: "Get a car & bring her in, or phone the local emergency number and they may send someone out" - Local emergency number (!) always engaged, no indication whether there's a queuing system - Recovered on her own
Fri Sep 16 20:42 Comment: @birder_bee I've never actually seen them eat blackberries, but the bushes are the stuff of Sleeping Beauty, so no danger of running out
Fri Sep 16 20:46 Comment: @lordbonkers Mum is Chinese, so probably used to her lettuce fried
Fri Sep 16 21:16 Comment: @RosieP4 And most people think that half-ripe blackberries are raspberries, so you'd think they'd be well up for it
Fri Sep 16 21:45 With mum absent, toddler took charge: "Daddy, let me clear up everything. I have noticed that you are not very good at fixing things." Also long chat, worthy of someone twice her age, about anger, inc: "I think you get too cross at bedtime." Untrue.
Sat Sep 17 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 September 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 6°C (43°F), wind north westerly 9mph, visibility good, pressure 1022mb, humidity 77%, UV risk 0, pollution…
Sat Sep 17 16:36 Toddler precociously taken, at great length, with Ted Hughes' Iron Man. Brilliant illustrations by Chris Mould Embarrassing incident at the Dissenters' this morning. Nice lady, sotto voce: Just had a lovely chat with your daughter, very articulate, but why is she so small?
Sat Sep 17 16:44 Obviously HMG couldn't implement a even semi-competent plan to replace the Queue, because otherwise they'd have to explain why, in contrast, planning for the pandemic was so 1914 - national myth-making of improvisation & togetherness to help excuse Johnson, Hancock et al
Sat Sep 17 16:46 Comment: Someone comments: Given the current food shortages, if you'd taken her into Waitrose and pretended she was an aubergine, you'd have had medics all over you
Sat Sep 17 16:57 Comment: @ibexsalad Olive-garch is good.
Sat Sep 17 21:10 Comment: @petersymon No, we're soldiers in the war on intelligence Conceptual leap: do you know about the Belfast SE Asian restaurant called ThaiTanic?
Sat Sep 17 21:26 If phonics is so cool, how come there's no German Wikipedia page?
Sun Sep 18 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 September 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 9°C (49°F), wind westerly 10mph, visibility very good, pressure 1020mb, humidity 80%, UV risk 0, pollution low…
Mon Sep 19 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 September 2022: Then: 1854: A multifarious railway accident in the Bramhope Tunnel. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 10°C (49°F), wind north westerly 5mph, visibility good, pressure 1024mb, humidity 89%, UV risk 0,…
Mon Sep 19 10:19 Comment: @c_massaccesi Where in the British Museum do you live? I have been in a Chinese stone teapot for the past six months but am considering moving.
Mon Sep 19 10:26 Paweł Pawlak's Oscar Seeks a Friend is a very beautiful book & a rare good story by an illustrator - the 2-year-old saw the plot fail in Bethan Woollvin's Rapunzel. Chinese printing is so cheap that illustrators rule, but I preferred authors who drew a bit
Mon Sep 19 10:28 Comment: ( Not this Paweł Pawlak: )
Mon Sep 19 11:36 Comment: @tombcn Can let you know my rates for trombone + barrel organ + gorilla if you like
Mon Sep 19 18:09 The notion that constitutional monarchs are like town criers - employed to shout the state's shit in public, tend to get above themselves, drink too much - & that the massive difference in salary would be narrowed if town criers could establish hereditary transmission of the role
Mon Sep 19 19:09 When did playing piano in a pub become a way of communicating one's mental frailties? Beard-man not impressing
Mon Sep 19 19:48 Comment: @tombcn Presumably her fault that all the pianos in Barcelona's gentrified old bars had their insides ripped out
Tue Sep 20 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 September 2022: Then: 1066: Battle of Fulford. 1598: Tenterhooks are prohibited north of the Trent to arrest a decline in the quality and reputation of woollen cloth. 1726: Dodworth (Barnsley) gets its first window glass. 1819:…
Tue Sep 20 20:48 Freshers (Frösche?) practising colouring-in at Headingley Library. A cloud of perfume hangs over the hill, and the streets are full of them, pretending to be interested in each other
Wed Sep 21 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 September 2022: Then: 1549: The leaders of the egalitarian, republican rebellion against the Edwardian reformation at Seamer (Scarborough) are hung at York. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 9°C (47°F), wind…
Wed Sep 21 19:25 Woodhouse Lane between Morrisons & Wetherspoon is very much Gin Lane P.M. - drunken chaos & undress - so puzzled to have a sober but religious (?) West Indian woman come shouting after us, "Stop! I have seen your daughter's panties! Please cover her up!" X-ray eyes?
Wed Sep 21 19:32 Why spend a couple of weeks writing a PHP moon times script when resource exploitation is going to make it lighter?
Wed Sep 21 20:08 So the guy at Thackray says you'd need 1100 leeches to extract a life-threatening quantity of blood. But they use blood thinners (as well as anaesthetic, obvs), so wouldn't you bleed to death if a much smaller number were attached & then detached?
Wed Sep 21 20:51 Comment: @chgodwaldt @goldenmulletman @adamtranter So the community isn't car-free: "In de nabijgelegen parkeergarage is een eigen parkeerplaats."
Thu Sep 22 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 September 2022: Then: 1465: Gluttonous feast menu for the enthronement at Cawood Castle of George Neville as Archbishop of York. 1674: A shotgun wedding ends in tragedy for young Mr. Robinson of Sowerby. 1731: Death of a mad…
Fri Sep 23 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 September 2022: Then: 1846: Wilkie Collins' Captain Wragge, an amiable rogue, walks out into York. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 9°C (48°F), wind north westerly 5mph, visibility good, pressure 1016mb, humidity…
Fri Sep 23 19:12 Comment: @tombcn Insurance scam
Fri Sep 23 19:16 Several years ago a guy at the Anchor & Hope heard out my drunken death-to-flags rant & gave me an England flag, which went to the sock drawer. Today, in races the 2-yo, red cross on white ground streaming from her shoulders: - Daddy, I'm an empire! I'm going to drink your blood!
Fri Sep 23 19:18 Comment: Ah, yes, but on Wednesday we met a bowl of leeches, & I told her the story of Dracula. Vampire, not empire. (Recalls the attacks on red fire engines when introduced in colonial East Africa)
Fri Sep 23 19:21 Comment: @jonburkeUK Isn't she basically still a LibDem - says whatever she wants, because none of it will be implemented?
Fri Sep 23 19:27 Chatting with a Persian mum & kid in the library. - So what are doing this weekend? - Well, maybe my husband will get a job at Oxford, or on Tuesday we will go to live in Australia. No hijab, but didn't appear keen on Frockodile, which, tbf, is preachy
Fri Sep 23 19:34 Comment: Other geopolitical story: yet to encounter a Russian family with a Zinc scooter
Fri Sep 23 21:57 PRC academics from CCP historical romances: - Grandad #1 was a big landlord, lost it all, cool with that. #2 got rich working hard for the people. - My childhood friend's dad almost starved in 1960, & told him never to say he was Cantonese. - He must have been on the other side.
Sat Sep 24 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 September 2022: Then: 1862: Having bet his shirt on blockade-running to the Confederates, mayor Zachariah Pearson of Hull files for bankruptcy, ruined by Lombard Street, Abraham Lincoln, and folly. Now: Weather for tonight: partly…
Sat Sep 24 23:30 Judas
Sun Sep 25 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 September 2022: Then: 1066: The slaughter at Stamford Bridge by Harold Godwinson's English of a Norwegian force led by Harald Hardrada and Tostig Godwinson symbolizes the end of the Viking Age. Now: Weather for tonight: partly…
Sun Sep 25 10:58 Joseph of Farnley is looking for twin five-year-old girls on Freegle
Sun Sep 25 11:26 The toddler is getting good at facial acting, and wants others to learn this vital skill: - Mummy, wink at that man!
Sun Sep 25 20:29 Why isn't there a simple Unicode symbol for market stall or shop? There's a department store emoji thing, but closest I can think of is £
Sun Sep 25 20:33 Comment: Nasty emoji shopping trolley, nah. Life is hard
Sun Sep 25 20:36 Comment: Scales is nice, bit complicated, bit legal
Sun Sep 25 21:13 AMA's "genteel sufficiency" appears to originate in John Pomfret (1667–1702)'s "To his Friend inclin'd to Marry": Do not aspire to Riches in excess; For that which makes our Lives delightful prove, Is a genteel Sufficiency, and Love.
Mon Sep 26 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 September 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 11°C (51°F), wind westerly 17mph, visibility good, pressure 1000mb, humidity 84%, UV risk 0/11,…
Tue Sep 27 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 September 2022: Then: 1680: Possible violating Calvinist precept, the Rev. Oliver Heywood weighs more than twice as much as his wife. ~1696: A proverbial Michaelmas rhyme and parade at Scarborough parodies rent collectors. Now:…
Tue Sep 27 08:10 Comment: @davidfirn @JulieOwenMoylan I too would like to see a coup with bearskins, but aren't they the rewilding strategy?
Tue Sep 27 09:40 Visigothic blonde called Mrs Melons arrives too late for Mr Johnson
Tue Sep 27 09:43 Comment: @petersymon Ah, but hasn't deprecation deprecated in real terms?
Tue Sep 27 21:00 Toddler speaks as of a friend of Robert Peel, Corn Law repealer, up on his plinth on Woodhouse Moor, commenting particularly in passing on his continued refusal to wear on his head the cone adopted by the Duke of Wellington at the other corner of the park
Tue Sep 27 21:02 Comment: The song she has made for Arthur Wellesley: The Duke of Wellington has got a cone on his head, A cone on his head, A cone on his head, The Duke of Wellington has got a cone on his head, (Shouted) And he looks very silly! Students without headphones find this very amusing
Tue Sep 27 21:07 Comment: A couple of weeks short of 3, moved up to pre-school today, looking pretty peaky. 13h pickup: "Yeah, she's had a great morning, very chatty, then complained of cold, made the big kids put her to bed & look after her." 38.1º
Tue Sep 27 23:03 Well, I didn't know about the Bourbons Naked, attrib. to the Bécquers
Wed Sep 28 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 September 2022: Then: 1827: The good life at Stapleton Park (Pontefract), country seat of Edward Robert Petre. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 6°C (43°F), wind north westerly 9mph, visibility good, pressure…
Thu Sep 29 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 September 2022: Then: 1319: In a key moment in the Anglo-Scottish wars, seasoned Scots slaughter an improvised force of clergy, peasants, and officials at Myton. 1513: Black humour from London re the arrival at York of the body of…
Fri Sep 30 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 September 2022: Then: 1859: Great popular enthusiasm for a village brass band contest at the Golden Lion, Loftus, North Riding. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 7°C (44°F), wind southerly 8mph, visibility poor,…
Fri Sep 30 21:00 - So the toddler's able & keen to start reading, but still at least 2 years till school, where they'll start again from scratch. - Ours has found that really discouraging - there's no support for early readers. Homeschool or flexischool her. How does that work in Leeds? - No idea