Tweets for June 2023

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

Thu Jun 01 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 June 2023: Then: 1300: Margaret of France, Queen of England, goes into labour at Brotherton while hunting Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 9°C (49°F), wind northerly 7mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1029mb,…
Thu Jun 01 20:32 Last autumn's birthday featured a story that suddenly switched to a live cake abduction. One guest still has the prog on the kitchen table for daily reading, & the meme has now spread at nursery - spotters signal me from the windows, & on entrance the mob tries to rugby-tackle me
Thu Jun 01 20:40 Comment: @Transblawg I think it means one as designed by John Smith - Paul has kept maybe 80% of the original. But I haven't tried licking it.
Fri Jun 02 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 June 2023: Then: 1755: John Wesley ponders the cause of the huge landslip ("like many cannons, or loud and rolling thunder") of 25 March at Whitestone Cliff (Hambleton Hills) 1917: Olive Mallet and her lover Alfred Gorham are charged…
Sat Jun 03 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 June 2023: Then: 1648: Disguised as a furniture remover, John Morris takes Pontefract castle for the Stuarts (and for himself) Now: Weather for tonight: mist, temperature 6°C (42°F), wind northerly 4mph, visibility poor, pressure…
Sun Jun 04 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 June 2023: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: mist, temperature 6°C (42°F), wind northerly 4mph, visibility poor, pressure 1027mb, humidity 93%, UV risk 0/11, pollution low…
Sun Jun 04 20:28 Playing trombone at a party last night. Lots of interesting folks, knowledgeable about stuff I think about & write elsewhere, but my conversation is so deeply rooted in the world of a three-year-old that it's hard to adapt to the freedom
Mon Jun 05 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 June 2023: Then: 1696: The Great Recoinage brings a satellite of the Royal Mint to York and rioting to Ratsdale 1866: Crew members of the whaler Diana of Hull climb an Arctic hillside and leave a memento of home Now: Weather for…
Tue Jun 06 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 June 2023: Then: 1641: Under a waning gibbous moon, armed with a penknife and sticky-willy unguent, the shepherd castrates Henry Best's male lambs at Elmswell (Driffield) Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 10°C…
Tue Jun 06 09:40 Splendid stuff, & the first time I've heard anyone slip Gramsci into a critique of the Catalan (bourgeois) nationalist establishment
Tue Jun 06 12:38 The reductionist synthetic phonics dogma of the believers - who forget to consider why people might want to read in the first place - reminds me of a lovely bit in David Deutsch's Fabric of Reality
Tue Jun 06 12:39 Comment: Also
Tue Jun 06 12:48 A psychiatric nurse says that Rushdie's Haroun is good with 3-year-olds, but maybe the Arabian Nights should get a chance first
Tue Jun 06 19:38 Comment: @PaddyBriggs @lordbonkers Worth the price for just the title
Tue Jun 06 20:28 Tove Jansson Moomins and the Great Flood was always going to sell well, but Sort Of were still too mean to pay a proofreader
Wed Jun 07 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 June 2023: Then: 1703: A list of shares in ship-owning partnerships held by Samuel Pinder of Whitby on this date Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 9°C (48°F), wind north easterly 6mph, visibility good, pressure…
Thu Jun 08 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 June 2023: Then: 0793: Alcuin of York reflects in a poem on the devastation this day of Lindisfarne by Vikings 1561: 'Textile manufacturing has left York for the West Riding, where there is water power and the cost of living is low'…
Thu Jun 08 09:33 Brick + grille fortifications built to keep pigeons off green things, air rifle probably simpler
Fri Jun 09 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 June 2023: Then: 1758: Entry into law of the first dedicated railway enabling act, for Richard Humble and Charles Brandling's wagonway from Middleton Colliery to the Aire at Leeds Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature…
Fri Jun 09 10:21 Baa Baa Black Sheep OBVIOUSLY a parody of Matt 17 (Transfiguration of Jesus): "one for thee, & one for Moses, & one for Elias" - v rare formulation in English of the time. Elijah as the little boy down the lane makes sense, so was Moses transgender?
Fri Jun 09 10:24 Comment: Now it all makes COMPLETE sense: Peter, who is talking, is the rock upon which the church is built, just as wool was the bedrock of the English economy in the late Middle Ages
Fri Jun 09 10:25 Comment: Peter is a black sheep because he goes on to betray Jesus
Fri Jun 09 10:28 Comment: Heretics claim that this is post displacement of the Old by the New Testament & actually deals with the Trinity of Father, Holy Spirit & Son (I am mad)
Fri Jun 09 10:35 Comment: Moses was a woman! Yup.
Fri Jun 09 21:23 Infant still keen on the hospitality sector - her own hotel (the z/s confusion is from a similarly named girl in her group, the missing h perhaps down to French) and something about tea which I can't fathom
Sat Jun 10 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 June 2023: Then: 1846: John Richard Walbran begins an antiquarian excavation of the Neolithic Hutton Moor Henge, Dishforth (Ripon) Now: Weather for tonight: mist, temperature 9°C (48°F), wind northerly 7mph, visibility moderate,…
Sat Jun 10 09:18 Comment: @ourellen She won't tell. I thought Tea Sorub was a Tea Boris dog whistle
Sat Jun 10 21:12 From F.W. Moorman's 1916 (neo-)traditional Yorkshire Dialect Poems, but the second sounds like Napoleon. What's going on?
Sun Jun 11 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 June 2023: Then: 1681: A recent grainstorm near Leeds 1682: Your charity should be as great as your county, Yorkshiremen are told by one of their number at a Yorkshire Feast sermon in London Now: Weather for tonight: clear sky,…
Mon Jun 12 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 June 2023: Then: 1578: Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, cracks down on lords of misrule, Morris dancers, pedlars, drinkers, etc. 1635: A prominent Puritan finds poor buildings but good beer for Archbishop Richard Neile at…
Mon Jun 12 22:07 Hacked the Capture Digital Learning Journal to enable download of high-res nursery images of the infant without paying a tenner a pop. Why are they using that instead of e.g. the excellent Tapestry? I guess they get a cut.
Tue Jun 13 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 June 2023: Then: 1635: A Puritan talks to the gardener at York of the notorious miser and swindler, Sir Arthur Ingram 1709: The population of Whitby are ordered henceforth to bury their dead at three in the afternoon Now: Weather…
Tue Jun 13 10:27 Comment: @ourellen Ooooohhh! I think it may disappear quite soon - clunky programming, much effort wasted on preventing parents from downloading images without paying an unanticipated extra cost, + iCapture Ltd seem heavily mortgaged & to have stopped submitting accounts
Tue Jun 13 11:13 Comment: @LeedsTours Among various style crimes at Leeds Uni, "Smokefree" used to cause brief, intense pain, but a cynic attributes the cap to the word being used in a privileged sense, including cigarette but excluding 35 tonnes CO2 etc from the onsite gas-fired generating station
Tue Jun 13 19:24 Comment: @LeedsTours The Dutch "rookvrij" doesn't seem to have caused disaster, so bring on the unhyphenated world, and let's get rid of the apostrophe (though the Dutch, who have very complicated rules for its use, might not agree)
Tue Jun 13 19:25 Comment: @Transblawg I will send you a couple of mad ones
Tue Jun 13 20:53 Comment: @LeedsTours That's a nice one
Wed Jun 14 06:56 Long-haired girls rising from the grass adorned with pink-white horse chestnut flowers, but also with pigeon poo
Wed Jun 14 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 June 2023: Then: 1773: Parliament belatedly awards John Harrison part of the prize due to him for discovery of the marine chronometer Now: Weather for tonight: clear sky, temperature 10°C (50°F), wind northerly 6mph, visibility…
Wed Jun 14 20:06 "OK, now let's do a word starting with 'o'." She thinks for a split-second "Otley Run." #OtleyRun: 1) Monument to the nonconformists' failure to destroy carnival! 2) Low-carbon backbone of the retail economy! 3) Literacy aid! #FancyDress #Leeds #Headingley
Wed Jun 14 20:07 Comment: (Just discovered: Vic Jane Clarke's Chartist pub-crawl )
Thu Jun 15 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 June 2023: Then: 1635: The administration of warrants by the Puritan Thomas Posthumous Hoby, 'the best JP in the land' 1795: Written on the door of a chimney sweep's house at Easingwold, 15th June, 1795 Now: Weather for tonight:…
Thu Jun 15 14:53 So is the Woodhouse Moor/Hyde Park {Duke of Wellington with a cone on his head} a copy of the Glaswegian one which inspired Banksy ?
Thu Jun 15 14:54 Comment: Re the Leeds one: the infant (who has written a song about him) says she likes his sunglasses, but wishes his garb would reflect the weather even more closely
Thu Jun 15 22:24 Comment: Banksy in Margate now
Thu Jun 15 22:48 Someone doesn't want to go to bed, so an evening stroll: "Look, everything's going to sleep. The blackberry flowers are closing, the roses smell less, the blue-tits have stopped their chatter, SHUT UP, OWL."
Thu Jun 15 23:17 Among features exposed by the drought on North Hill Road, Headingley: foundations of (red) boundary wall to the south of Rosemount & west of the stable block, but what is the (blue) gulley just south? Excavations elsewhere reveal a cache of corroded 19th century ironwork, fun
Fri Jun 16 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 June 2023: Then: 1644: Parliament breaches York's walls and destroys monastic records with a mine next to St Mary’s Tower, but loses 300 men in the ensuing fighting 1863: William Allison (12) travels from Coxwold to the circus at…
Fri Jun 16 16:15 PM brightened by the itinerant freeman who paints all of BT's phone boxes signal red (BS 537) - 1 region at a time, 2 months a year, & then off he flies to India. Finishing two next to Henry Moore, & at first I took his project as freelance comment on HM's artistic failure
Fri Jun 16 17:48 I expected Leeds Libraries to have some Dutch-language materials (eg kid's fiction), but, unlike Chinese, the demographic's not there, so nix. All feels a bit random - eg 3 copies of the Catalan translation of Kate Pankhurst Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
Fri Jun 16 17:52 Comment: So local donations of Dutch children's books welcome!
Fri Jun 16 21:40 German rearmament from Dr Yes Unfortunately Graf Yorck von Wartenburg was from Prussia, not our East Riding
Sat Jun 17 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 June 2023: Then: 1685: 'London deserves extra taxes because its very existence is a tax on the rest of England' 1830: Prophet John Wroe exorcises the epileptic daughter of a Bradford wool-sorter Now: Weather for tonight: clear sky,…
Sat Jun 17 22:59 Infant wakes after 3 hours. - Daddy, what did the wolf do next?
Sun Jun 18 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 June 2023: Then: 1664: Jane Thompson of Craven, "a swinish drunkard," dies of a barely-treated compound fracture 1753: The humorist John Alcock becomes rector of Burnsall, Craven, licensing us to post various undated anecdotes 1847:…
Sun Jun 18 18:53 Comment: The monsoon has now commenced, so ex-walls at Rosemount, North Hill Rd, Headingley (top of image, stables right) will be less obvious. But I'd have said that 4 metres or so north of, & parallel with, the E-W boundary wall is the old back wall of a south-facing glass house
Sun Jun 18 18:54 Comment: But the image confuses me
Sun Jun 18 20:40 I normally avoid Moor Road, like North Lane & dozens of others in (Far) Headingley, because of car mayhem, so today's Clean Air closure of a stretch (rerouting everthing via Cottage Rd) was a revelation. But shameful that the political courage isn't there to do more, permanently
Mon Jun 19 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 June 2023: Then: 1892: The Liberal politician Viscount Morley attends morning service at York Minster Now: Weather for tonight: light rain, temperature 15°C (59°F), wind south westerly 9mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1006mb,…
Mon Jun 19 11:34 Comment: @living_leeds Are you being sarcastic? It's ubiquitous in new-build Leeds, because even if pavement is mandated, it's built and used as parking or bin storage - too narrow, dropped kerbs, no indications to the contrary. E.g. Victoria Gardens & Tetley Gate:
Mon Jun 19 18:23 Comment: @john_sour @living_leeds Such applications continue to be approved, so unwalkable neighbourhoods is clearly Labour / Council policy. How can this be a surprise to @living_leeds ?
Mon Jun 19 21:44 What an amazing find
Tue Jun 20 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 June 2023: Then: 1633: The Corporation of Hull issues the technical and commercial specifications for the construction of its new 'Council House' 1681: A Leeds court orders a public collection to be made to ransom the son of an…
Tue Jun 20 09:36 Get rid of the car & you've got five grand extra, non?
Tue Jun 20 10:55 1/2 Infant's patience often tested by street chats with strangers, who may not want to tell all anyway. So: lady from Horn of Africa(?) works as cleaner & very proud that, following maths coaching at 270/month, daughter is going to the grammar in September
Tue Jun 20 10:55 Comment: 2/2 - Eh, what grammar? - In [a town to the south] But that's 90 min by public transport, and that's fee-paying, and you're working as a cleaner. But the infant has spotted an apple tree, and off we go.
Tue Jun 20 19:43 Comment: @YorkshireLid Do you hate Johnson because he's been known to cycle or because the stuff everyone hates him for? Not trolling, simply curious.
Tue Jun 20 21:19
Tue Jun 20 21:21 Comment: @Captain_Bionic How did this get promoted into my tl?
Tue Jun 20 21:37 The continuing belief that one could be transplanted into Die zweite Heimat
Tue Jun 20 22:27
Wed Jun 21 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 June 2023: Then: 1703: A whirlwind at Hatfield, Doncaster 1891: A sonnet by Charles Forshaw about a sermon about light preached at Bulmer (Castle Howard) by the Rev. James Gabb this summer solstice evening Now: Weather for tonight:…
Thu Jun 22 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 June 2023: Then: 1684: A secret Presbyterian assembly is discovered at York 1761: John Wesley is troubled by fish at Guisborough Now: Weather for tonight: clear sky, temperature 12°C (54°F), wind north westerly 4mph, visibility…
Thu Jun 22 08:13 Milk looks & tastes better served out of an old port bottle
Thu Jun 22 10:52 Comment: @PolemicTMM How much impact does staycationism have on GBP?
Thu Jun 22 11:00 Giants
Fri Jun 23 05:32 Mr Johnston's poetry anthology
Fri Jun 23 05:41 Amazing multiphonics from trombonist Phil Wilson
Fri Jun 23 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 June 2023: Then: 1413: Walking from York to Bridlington on a hot Midsummer's Eve, Margery Kempe's husband suggests they resume sexual relations 1674: Oliver Heywood attends the funeral of Martha Stansfield and her baby Now: Weather…
Fri Jun 23 08:01 The crossbar on the southernmost row of swings in the being-renovated playground in Hyde Park/Woodhouse Moor appears to slope from west to east, making it unusable. One of the workmen: "Everyone says that, and each time I check it with the laser level." Time will tell.
Fri Jun 23 09:29 No idea what bird's doing the 1-second rising tweet, but v pleasant ID page
Fri Jun 23 09:33 "Daddy walking upside down on the ceiling with his hat on," signature on this occasion correspondingly mirrored vertically but also horizontally, causing audience amazement. This paper is interesting.
Fri Jun 23 10:24 Comment: Sounds like a Eurasian nuthatch doing one-off upward glissandi
Sat Jun 24 06:34 Comment: @Transblawg Maybe I do need to get one of these pandora things & get modern
Sat Jun 24 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 June 2023: Then: 1679: The world's oldest wool carders? 1687: John Reresby, governor of York, protests James II's plans to turn his residence into a Catholic school 1761: A cat runs over a street congregation at Robin Hood's Bay…
Sat Jun 24 08:36 @kevinmousley Morning Kevin, Trevor from Fuze here, now in luvverly Leeds with GF & infant. Something weird has happened to a friend here, wondering if you might be able to give pointers as to whom she might talk - you're the only journalist I half know north of Watford! DMs open
Sun Jun 25 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 June 2023: Then: 1586: At a tithe tribunal, elderly ex-nuns recall hay-making at Moxby Priory before its dissolution in 1536 1753: The Moravian Brethren of Fulneck, Pudsey refuse to participate in the toll-bar riots 1808: Dr…
Sun Jun 25 09:14 Uber driver moaning about the Leeds station road changes, which seem to make it difficult to access by car or public transport: "But I had the director of planning in my car the other day, & she promised me that Leeds would never have a clean air zone like Ulez."
Sun Jun 25 21:34 In a 2003 interview Prigozhin says that this was the world of his childhood, & that the sequel will be heroic & take place "in the big world". Who's his agent?
Sun Jun 25 21:36 Comment:
Mon Jun 26 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 June 2023: Then: 1794: The editor of the Sheffield Register fires off a final broadside against Georgian despotism, and flees to the continent and thence to the United States Now: Weather for tonight: clear sky, temperature 14°C…
Mon Jun 26 08:12 Mr Tawny Owl stops blathering at 03:25, up starts Mr Blackbird. Are their algorithms based purely on the solar cycle etc, or is there some kind of bilateral deal to provide full night cover?
Mon Jun 26 09:24 Heroes
Mon Jun 26 09:58 Alf's old garden will now host Mavis's wake, & the slugs are not invited
Mon Jun 26 10:43 The notion that cooking for a few people might in any way be worse than paying a 100 quid to spend Sunday listening to the extractor fan of a "pub"
Mon Jun 26 21:46 Is Dieter Helm's Green and Prosperous Land designed to foment emigration?
Tue Jun 27 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 June 2023: Then: 1669: The vicar of Morley fails to persuade the local JP to prevent Oliver Heywood speaking from his pulpit 1743: Tom Brown of Kirkleatham's heroism against the French at Dettingen (Bavaria) leads George II to grant…
Tue Jun 27 09:09 1/3 Vague curiosity about how far shoplifters travel to work + the need for a brisk walk = a minor thrill. This AM after preschool drop a 40ish slim white guy with dark hair & black jacket rushes out of Headingley Sainsbury's with a coatful of "take one, get one free"
Tue Jun 27 09:09 Comment: 2/3 Across the road to estate agents Linley & Simpson, but instead of entering (joke) recrosses at Horrocks & off briskly down Alma Rd, right on Grove Rd, left on Wood Lane, Ridge Terrace, then on the ridge walk thru the woods. Ridge Rd, Meanwood Rd, & then the Servias?
Tue Jun 27 09:09 Comment: 3/3 So, at least a couple of miles, & some happier than others. Horrible in particular for the nice lady at Sainsbury's, who knows the police won't come & who might wonder why her store pays security
Tue Jun 27 12:06 I think this - & his far superior maths - was why P was put a year ahead when he came here, despite being half the size of some of his peers
Tue Jun 27 12:36 1/4 An opportunity the other day to compare the bands of the white-ish secondary and the black-ish one: the former methodical, the latter (which some parents spend heaps of cash trying to avoid) inspirational
Tue Jun 27 12:36 Comment: 2/4 Recalls Kuhn's contrast between establishment science (steady extension of scope & precision, inability to deal with crisis) & revolutionaries able intuitively & creatively to resee data
Tue Jun 27 12:37 Comment: 3/4 A combined white-ish elementary ensemble confirmed the diagnosis - careful, thorough, bladibla, but denying the ability of children in music/language/etc to make great joyous leaps, whether during their periodic software upgrades or not
Tue Jun 27 12:37 Comment: 4/4 In the case of the latter school, does this approach transfer to other school domains? If not, why not?
Wed Jun 28 07:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 June 2023: Then: 1727: Gentlemen at Barnsley wear cockades in their hats to celebrate the proclamation of George II (but why red and orange?) 1995: The real Siegfred Farnon calls it a day Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud,…
Wed Jun 28 09:10 So sorry I never saw Forkbeard Fantasy's museum Their early village hall work was incredible
Wed Jun 28 09:11 Given that British sheep are very expensive to produce & very damaging to the uplands, is it unpatriotic to eat them?
Wed Jun 28 09:25 Comment:
Wed Jun 28 10:12 Comment: The thought that Yorkshire shepherdesses are there thanks to your taxes, & it would be more honest to pay them Arts Council subsidy
Wed Jun 28 11:46 What will 40% look like once water companies start being billed for abstraction?
Wed Jun 28 19:11 Comment: @LeedsTours The population wants to have its cake (instant home deliveries) & eat it (drive to the mall whenever it likes)
Wed Jun 28 20:58 But has Middleton got good schools?
Wed Jun 28 22:04 Comment: @ourellen Mind well boggled. Perhaps LCC said that burials could only take place on ground owned by them or some other appropriate entity. I think the price is pushing it.
Thu Jun 29 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 June 2023: Then: 1817: Flyer advertising the York Saving Bank, founded 1816 Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind north westerly 7mph, visibility good, pressure 1015mb, humidity 82%, UV risk 0/11,…
Thu Jun 29 09:27 "Als straatmuzikant mag u bij het maken van muziek geen geluidsapparatuur gebruiken." Maar op de foto ... geluidsapparatuur! @GemeenteDelft Hoe zit dat eigenlijk?
Thu Jun 29 10:38 I use reef knots for just about everything else, & no idea why school taught me granny for laces
Thu Jun 29 20:32 Brass bands' love of a Dr. is only equalled by Norn Iron Calvinists
Thu Jun 29 22:38 A sonnet by Nijmegen botanist Victor Westhoff about muck-spreading & the Catholic deity, of whom he was particularly critical. Ditto Twente: in the Noord-Deurningen convent the air was sometimes too acidic to breathe, particularly with a bellyful of beer from the night before
Thu Jun 29 22:38 Comment: Via Frits Abrahams
Fri Jun 30 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 June 2023: Then: 1866: The crew of the Diana of Hull kill and process two right whales worth £190K (2022) in Melville Bay, off northwestern Greenland 1880: Tom Palliser, a Kilvington drunk, denies to a York court that a half crown…
Fri Jun 30 09:06 Did this for a while in Frau Bleyberg's pink ballgown at doomed weddings & coked-up trailer parks, with kids spilling around, for whom, like one pretending to be a bear or a tree, the brief ambiguity was the fun - absent when they're meant to pretend for the rest of their lives
Fri Jun 30 20:11 Encountered two great observers of the here-and-now in recent days: the C19th epistolarian Jane Welsh Carlyle , who I think could have been a very fine novelist, & Juli Zeh (Zwischen Welten), who is one, & probably writes some monstrous letters too