@elorganillero
Bio: Kazoo Academy & Barrel Organ Disco/Yorkshire Almanac/translator Romance & Germanic languages & Russian/old-style jazz trombone & vocals/brass bands/allotmenteer
- Fri Dec 01 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 November 2023: Then: 1668: A Calverley boy dies in his father's church Now: Weather for tonight: sleet, temperature -1°C (31°F), wind northerly 7mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1006mb, humidity 92%, UV risk 0/11, pollution low…
- Fri Dec 01 10:40 Big waste truck from B&M Waste @bandmwaste emblazoned Carbon Neutral Waste Management parked outside with engine running for at least the last hour while the driver checks his mobile is OK
- Fri Dec 01 22:32 Mercedes Capsir is one Barcelona soprano I hadn't heard - ancient Neapolitan belcanto as developed in Spain - tremendous stuff
- Sat Dec 02 06:56 British musicals (& the curse of ALW)
- Sat Dec 02 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 December 2023: Then: 1773: 2½ days after leaving London, legal clerk Foster Powell walks into York, rests briefly, and starts back 1843: Unappetising conditions in the police cells and the old lock-up at Halifax 1851: John (65) and…
- Sat Dec 02 17:33 Comment: @VisitWhitby @DecadentDrawing I'm a bit worried about the date: St Nicholas' feast is December 6th, so shouldn't the run be on the 9th this year?
- Sat Dec 02 17:34 RT @VisitWhitby: We hope you've been good this year because Krampus is coming to town! This weekend the #KrampusRun and parade take over #W…
- Sun Dec 03 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 December 2023: Then: 1726: The Rev Hopkins of Kirkheaton castrates himself to prevent further mischief 1985: Philip Larkin dies as he had lived Now: Weather for tonight: mist, temperature -4°C (25°F), wind north westerly 3mph,…
- Sun Dec 03 14:08 RT @fietsprofessor: Selling social isolation as freedom to people was one of the most impressive marketing stunts of the 20th century. (ac…
- Sun Dec 03 14:33 Not a song about Hull
- Sun Dec 03 20:03 -1ºC, light snow, two Turks having a barbecue. Ankara is different.
- Sun Dec 03 21:44 The friend of a friend does PR for a water company. She's known as the effluencer.
- Sun Dec 03 23:13 Violet McNeal's Four White Horses and a Brass Band is incredibly entertaining & may contain some truth
- Sun Dec 03 23:19 Is the apparent madness of people putting up Christmas trees soon after Guy Fawkes actually down to their being secret adherents to the Catholic Ambrosian or Mozarabic rites, which start Advent a couple of weeks earlier?
- Mon Dec 04 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 December 2023: Then: 1816: A revolutionary bread riot is averted at Sheffield Now: Weather for tonight: light snow, temperature -1°C (30°F), wind south easterly 9mph, visibility poor, pressure 1012mb, humidity 96%, UV risk 0/11,…
- Mon Dec 04 12:28 @DoncasterRaces Is there any way of predicting the exact date of the St Leger? I'd like to get the date at least two years in advance. Thanks!
- Mon Dec 04 20:13 Someone whose snot bears the colours of Ras Tafari should probably be at home
- Mon Dec 04 20:51 RT @DrJACameron: This giant traceried window is the staircase light of Cliffe Castle at Keighley, with glazing originally by Powell Bros of…
- Mon Dec 04 23:51 An amusing anecdote re an economically disastrous Tory govt 50 years ago
- Tue Dec 05 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 December 2023: Then: 1841: The York Herald tells of an almost omnivorous sheep 1843: The Tory MP for Knaresborough recounts the death in poverty of an old woman at Harden Beck, Bingley Now: Weather for tonight: sleet, temperature 1°C…
- Tue Dec 05 11:22 On my suggestion, my new best friend, a Singapore Chinese lady who came here in 1980, is off to Oxfam to buy reducible children's Xmas jumpers for her doggies. Let us see what the quid-pro-quo is.
- Tue Dec 05 11:23 Comment: I had long had a eye on her as a rival scavenger, but we bonded when I carried a tree trunk home for her & she gave me chard: "Someone once gave me a packet which I scattered in the garden, but it's too earthy. Take as much as you want, but don't touch my Russian kale."
- Wed Dec 06 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 December 2023: Then: 1832: James Benson (19) and his little sister, Irish strikebreakers, are set upon by a mob between Farsley and Stanningley 1911: Thomas Stewart, analytical chemist, and John Gott, author of Rib-ticklers for…
- Thu Dec 07 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 December 2023: Then: 1811: Sydney Smith to John Murray on "the privileges of the North" 1853: The Rev. Heslop of Forcett (Richmondshire) writes in the old style to his protégé John Pick Allison regarding the death of the latter's…
- Thu Dec 07 11:35 Two small elderly rain-swept Irish nuns walk into Aldi and head for the middle-aisle chocolates. Says one to the other, "Cherry lickers." When I help them find the Medjool dates, it seems as if a celebration is in prospect, but the flowers purchased at checkout suggest not.
- Fri Dec 08 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 December 2023: Then: 1703: Abraham Sharp writes to John Flamsteed of the difficulties of observing Jupiter from Little Horton, Bradford Now: Weather for tonight: light rain, temperature 2°C (36°F), wind south easterly 15mph,…
- Sat Dec 09 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 December 2023: Then: 1770: The Rev Henry Venn finds he must move from polluted Huddersfield to a Cambridge village for the sake of his heart and lungs Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 4°C (39°F), wind south…
- Sat Dec 09 11:43 Hours spent worrying about the infant's diet, and then her colleague's mum drops him off at nursery with a bacon butty and an apple juice from Greggs in lieu of breakfast
- Sat Dec 09 14:14 Several more BlueSky invites available
- Sat Dec 09 22:59 Historia de Barcelona, 9/12: * 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…
- Sun Dec 10 01:57 Historia de Barcelona, 10/12: * 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…
- Sun Dec 10 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 December 2023: Then: 1932: The Jewish Chronicle mulls the Yorkshire Fascist Table Tennis Club's decision to leave the Leeds league Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 5°C (41°F), wind southerly 11mph, visibility…
- Sun Dec 10 11:34 Comment: I know why this is posted a day late by - a fix will probably follow soon
- Mon Dec 11 01:35 Historia de Barcelona, 11/12: * 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…
- Mon Dec 11 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 December 2023: Then: 1673: The Rev. Heywood prays for more death and destruction in the new year 1710: A Whitby puppeteer tries to stab a delinquent spectator, but kills the wrong man 1769: Part of the northern ballad about Bill…
- Tue Dec 12 01:00 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 December 2023: Then: 1641: John Sugden causes panic in Bradford and Pudsey with news of the imminent arrival of genocidal Irish Catholic rebels Now: Tonight: heavy rain, temperature 3°C (37°F), wind easterly 8mph, visibility…
- Tue Dec 12 01:14 Historia de Barcelona, 12/12: * 1728: Empieza construcción del nuevo convento de San Agustín (23) * ☼ 08:06-17:23, 09:17 horas; ☾ luna menguante, iluminación 49,38%, antigüedad 22 días * ✞ Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Amonaria, Corentino, …
- Tue Dec 12 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 December 2023: Then: 1680: The Great Comet is seen at Halifax as a natural event, in London - amid Popish Plot hysteria - as a portent Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 6°C (43°F), wind westerly 12mph, visibility moderate,…
- Tue Dec 12 10:43 RT @NHPNA1: Apparently Woodhouse ridge is blocked coz a landowner on the Meanwood Rd dug into the escarpment, which destabilised the ground…
- Tue Dec 12 10:48 Comment: @modacitylife @NHPNA1
- Tue Dec 12 14:25 Austrian St Nick 1934
- Tue Dec 12 22:36 Harry James's embouchure, Dave Robbins on trombone
- Wed Dec 13 00:39 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 December 2023: Then: 1795: A smoking-hot meteorite weighing 25 kg imperils labourer John Shipley at Wold Cottage farm, Muston, East Riding 1847: The Rev. Hook of Leeds (49) tells a Coventry colleague of his popularity among his…
- Wed Dec 13 00:53 Historia de Barcelona, 13/12: * 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,…
- Wed Dec 13 12:25 First art historian I've seen using FileZilla
- Wed Dec 13 12:30 Nice pic of Andy Burnham
- Thu Dec 14 00:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 December 2023: Then: 1832: On election day following the Reform Act, Thomas Bosville, West Riding magistrate, has troops fire on radical rioters outside the Tontine Inn, Sheffield, killing five 1926: 11 days after Agatha Christie…
- Thu Dec 14 00:33 Historia de Barcelona, 14/12: * 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…
- Thu Dec 14 06:37 Comment: @BarnsleyMuseums @BBCSheffield @ChronOnline Nice one! I wonder who did the SATB arrangement - if it were Mr Godfrey you'd expect his name to be prominent in local musical circles
- Thu Dec 14 11:01 I only saw Leo Fuld once, on Dutch telly in the 90s - incredible man
- Fri Dec 15 00:12 Historia de Barcelona, 15/12: * 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…
- Fri Dec 15 00:58 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 December 2023: Then: 1824: Joseph Aspdin, bricklayer of Hunslet (Leeds), submits the process description for his patent for "artificial stone," which he calls "Portland cement" 1846: Charlotte Brontë tells Ellen Nussey of cold,…
- Fri Dec 15 10:42 Every Friday morning a driver from B&M Waste @bandmwaste ("Carbon Neutral Waste Management") sits on North Hill Road Headingley LS6 for 90 minutes with engine idling. Police aren't interested. Have they got council contracts? @al_garthwaite @Jonathan_Pryor
- Fri Dec 15 11:35 The infant has photographed what I think is the Krampus - worrying times
- Fri Dec 15 11:40 Comment: Though this video via @Transblawg shows straw men - payasos / pagliacci etc
- Fri Dec 15 11:47 Comment: @ianduhig Back-formation? Here it's "Gollum, the other reindeer"
- Fri Dec 15 11:52 Comment: @ChittiMarco Like Barcelona, where I always used to wonder what the effect was on rainwater drainage
- Fri Dec 15 20:11 The Alex B story reignites the old controversy: do the premium nutters choose the Pyrenees or their foothills?
- Fri Dec 15 21:12 Germany vs the Netherlands
- Fri Dec 15 23:53 Historia de Barcelona, 16/12: * 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…
- Sat Dec 16 00:37 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 December 2023: Then: 1722: Thomas Nettleton of Halifax recounts to James Jurin his success in inoculating against smallpox 1913: Michael Sadler, vice-chancellor of Leeds University, writes to his son about the successful use of…
- Sat Dec 16 19:40 Dean Clough in Halifax is hard to get to from the train station, because Motorway Town and Pedestrians Get Lost, and inside the signage is very poor, but we think it's all a metaphor for the presence somewhere inside of some Jeff Nuttall, a notably woolly gent
- Sat Dec 16 19:42 Comment: Room 214 is good
- Sat Dec 16 22:49 Archbishop Grindal is rooting out incompetents. Isn't the Latin "vestri humiles et obedientes" simply "your humble and obedient somethings", or is this a trick question?
- Sun Dec 17 01:31 Historia de Barcelona, 17/12: * 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) * ☼…
- Sun Dec 17 02:15 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 December 2023: Then: 1674: Michael Gilburn, a Halifax lawyer, terminates a drunken weekend in style 1688: Mass mobilization in Leeds on rumour of an imminent Celtic counteroffensive against the Glorious Revolution Now: Tonight:…
- Sun Dec 17 07:46 RT @ChristnNitemare: What a way to live…
- Sun Dec 17 08:05 "O nautae," dicit unus ex piratīs. "Dāte nobis omnia aura, aut vōs necābimus!" "Habēmus nullum aurum," Caecilius respondit. "Tum vōs moriēminī!" pirata clamat.
- Sun Dec 17 16:52 The 4-year-old probably doesn't have the cultural background to enjoy The Life of Brian this Christmas, but Zadeson started at 11 and seems OK
- Mon Dec 18 01:09 Historia de Barcelona, 18/12: * 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) *…
- Mon Dec 18 01:56 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 December 2023: Then: 1642: "Bradford quarter" is given to a Royalist besieger during the First Siege 1673: A secure archive of charitable trusts is established in Leeds parish church 1802: A stereotypical comedy Yorkshireman - "heir…
- Mon Dec 18 17:23 Invites for the other place available
- Tue Dec 19 00:46 Historia de Barcelona, 19/12: * 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…
- Tue Dec 19 01:37 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 December 2023: Then: 1775: James Cook names a freezing south Pacific promontory after his native cathedral 1826: Charles Mathews, comedian, awaiting his fellow actors at York for the evening performance, receives some unwelcome news…
- Tue Dec 19 12:16 Imperfect analogy: legalise public firearms & then when someone by mistake almost shoots a mother & child, police, CPS & legislator turn round and say, "All's well that ends well."
- Tue Dec 19 12:17 Comment: Labour tight-lipped, but one's impression is that they will exacerbate the problem by focussing on conversion to electric, instead of, say, making everyone driving anything over 1 tonne get an HGV licence
- Wed Dec 20 00:20 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 December 2023: Then: 1697: Terrible flooding in the lower Don is caused by the failure of the colonist Cornelius Vermuyden's land reclamation scheme to cope with snow-melt 1868: The Leeds authorities try to make Eliza Thurkill…
- Wed Dec 20 00:25 Historia de Barcelona, 20/12: * 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)…
- Wed Dec 20 11:20 After swapping YouTube for FreeTube, a relief to be using DuckDuckGo instead of Google search
- Wed Dec 20 12:02 Comment: @BBCLookNorth Bad car!
- Thu Dec 21 00:04 Historia de Barcelona, 21/12: * 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…
- Thu Dec 21 02:54 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 December 2023: Then: 1852: Sarah Slater (19) insists that Alfred Waddington (21) had no moral right to murder her and behead their toddler Now: Tonight: drizzle, temperature 11°C (52°F), wind westerly 29mph, visibility good,…
- Thu Dec 21 20:14 - You know the cops all park on the double yellow next to Hyde Park station rather than walk a minute from the multistorey? Apparently the council ticketed them all the other day. - I heard they'd parked elsewhere for the day & shopped other folks competing for the double yellow.
- Thu Dec 21 23:42 Historia de Barcelona, 22/12: * 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",…
- Fri Dec 22 02:33 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 December 2023: Then: 1666: The borough of Leeds orders the return of records "public and pious" lost during the civil war Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 8°C (47°F), wind westerly 19mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1007mb,…
- Fri Dec 22 06:40 Two teachers in Waitrose: - X's father phoned him in sick this morning. - I'll bet he regretted that once the Calpol wore off. How bad was warm milk and gin for infants?
- Fri Dec 22 07:29 Tracy Brabin: Adding 500 bike spaces to Leeds Station by 2026 = going European. Rotterdam Central has similar passenger entries/exits, but even ignoring huge expansion of RCS' external capacity & ongoing internal expansion, the comparison is pathetic
- Fri Dec 22 10:15 Jambiya
- Fri Dec 22 13:50 The charm of the café trifásico lies in using density differentials to achieve the three layers - brandy + sugar, coffee, milk foam - rather than in the result, honest
- Fri Dec 22 16:33 Halifax, where the planners won. The concrete is Burdock Way, the iron North Bridge. Photos
- Sat Dec 23 02:13 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 December 2023: Then: 1689: A Danish soldier is beheaded at Beverley for killing a comrade in a duel, inspiring some doggerel 1838: Showman Old Jemmy Wild's body travels by caravan from Bradford to Huddersfield, followed by Billy the…
- Sun Dec 24 01:51 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 December 2023: Then: 1777: Christmas Eve at Wuthering Heights, as told by housekeeper Nelly Dean 1938: The Christmas Eve dream of Douglas Holmes, 10, in Seacroft Hospital, Leeds Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 12°C (53°F),…
- Sun Dec 24 17:40 Human progress was such that 300 years later mere students had achieved this level of comfort
- Sun Dec 24 23:26 So keen was the infant to get down to dreaming of sleigh bells in the snow that she accepted without demur Dylan Thomas's Child's Christmas in Wales as bedtime lit
- Mon Dec 25 01:29 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 December 2023: Then: 1066: With Archbishop Stigand of Canterbury excommunicated, Archbishop Ealdred of York crowns William the Conqueror at Westminster 1866: Starving amidst Arctic ice, and with Captain Gravill on his deathbed, the…
- Mon Dec 25 21:05 Thanks to N&V for György Faludy's My Happy Days in Hell - an incredible joy
- Mon Dec 25 21:41 Evelyn M: Lully, lulla, thow littell tine child, By by, lully, lullay Thow littell tyne child, By by, lully, lullay!
- Tue Dec 26 01:09 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 December 2023: Then: 1570: Edmund Grindal, Puritan archbishop of York, orders the removal of rood-lofts (and their superstitious images), and the erection of pulpits 1831: The London Zoological Society accepts the Yorkshire…
- Wed Dec 27 00:49 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 December 2023: Then: 1132: The foundation of Fountains Abbey by dissidents from St Mary's, York, retold by a Victorian antiquary using Cistercian chronicles 1745: A correspondent from Stokesley (Hambleton) recounts the destruction…
- Wed Dec 27 17:07 Storm Gerrit
- Thu Dec 28 00:28 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 December 2023: Then: 1642: Four months into the Civil War, the Puritan John Shawe of Rotherham preaches iconoclasm at St. Mary's, Beverley 1872: The tower of St Peter's, Earlsheaton (Dewsbury) rings a true peal of Kent treble bob…
- Thu Dec 28 08:21 Comment: @ewoudsanders @JoodsErfgoed Man, man, man, de vijfde! Maar wat een mooi ding!
- Thu Dec 28 08:24 Jewish muscat grape vendor in pre WWI Amsterdam uses the principal motif from Beethoven V
- Thu Dec 28 08:29 Comment: @ewoudsanders Maar als het goed genoteerd is, is het nogmaals merkwaardig omdat de laatste noot verkeerd is!
- Fri Dec 29 00:06 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 December 2023: Then: 1759: The manner of birth at Farnley Moor (Leeds) of Julius Caesar Ibbetson, future painter of pigs, determines his given names 1921: On the death of the Huddersfield-born Cambridge professor of pathology, G.S.…
- Fri Dec 29 21:33 Comment: @NHPNA1 @LeedsNews Plenty of B2B action at the nice quiet east end of Ridge Terrace...
- Fri Dec 29 22:17 I imagine what's left of the British Library & the BM will collapse quickly, curious to see how long the news takes to seep thru to Leodis
- Sat Dec 30 02:44 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 December 2023: Then: 1862: The Times reports how, on the eve of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Stonewall Jackson wishes above all to talk about York Minster and its splendid organ Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 4°C (40°F),…
- Sat Dec 30 14:01 Comment: @NHPNA1 @WYP_LeedsNW A few weeks ago there was an older lad there handing out packages from a big rucksack to some younger lads, who'll being doing the drops. 999 said 101, but I hadn't got time to wait 15 minutes for them to answer.
- Sat Dec 30 19:34 Comment: @NHPNA1 The gent in question's route & head-down approach have always seemed designed to avoid any criminal encounters. He used to come past in the PM, but when a couple of street dealers started selling to students at 5 PM, he went to AM, & campus security sorted it out
- Sun Dec 31 02:23 Yorkshire Almanac: 31 December 2023: Then: 1733: John Hobson reviews a pleasant but surprising December 1848: A fragment of the Richmond Hagmena song, performed this New Year's Eve by the town pinder Now: Tonight: heavy rain, temperature 6°C (43°F), wind…
- Sun Dec 31 10:59 The curious assumption that the Anglo mafia will not react in the same way as the Italian
- Sun Dec 31 11:01 My fondness for Central Europe sometimes spills over into overestimation, but György Faludy's My Happy Days in Hell is a great book
- Sun Dec 31 22:11 The infant has now enjoyed Amarcord twice - no Italian, but always some relatable stuff, inc the vivid seasonality: St Joe's end-of-winter fogazza of the Marian witch = the beginning of the fascist false dawn, the 2nd spring (exit of Miranda/Gradisca/Titta) = dawn of truth
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