Tweets for March 2023

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

Wed Mar 01 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 March 2023: Then: ~1857: Job Senior, the Wharfedale Hermit and a pioneering polyphonic overtone singer, dies at Burley in Wharfedale. 1888: John Strange Winter, the military novelist from York, presents her husband with twins, to…
Wed Mar 01 10:26 Couture 1. So the guy I offered to buy clothes sleeps in a decent flat 2. Another quite well-dressed guy actually sleeps behind a church 3. It has been said that I look like I have been mauled by a bear, & I don't sleep at all
Wed Mar 01 21:03 Hoping someone handed in the tiny rucksack left at Headingley library while pursuing the infant out of the door
Wed Mar 01 21:23 GP practice with at least 4 CRM systems: the NHS app, a private one addressing the same database cos the NHS one is dodgy, two other lightweight systems apparently hitting different DBs cos the private app is also pretty crap
Thu Mar 02 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 March 2023: Then: 1665: A sighting of aurora borealis at Northowram recalls the eve of the civil war. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 4°C (39°F), wind north easterly 8mph, visibility good, pressure 1028mb, humidity…
Thu Mar 02 22:51 Leuke plekken om Indisch te eten in Delft? Reisje eind april...
Fri Mar 03 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 March 2023: Then: 1775: Edward Rookes Leedes sends miners to destroy new coal workings leased by Abraham Balmes to Nathan Jowett. 1913: Winifred Stansfield is born tongue-tied and unable to breastfeed at Balby, Doncaster. Now:…
Fri Mar 03 20:28 We found some lettuce for ourselves today, so the plan to get sheep & goats to manage green space on Headingley Hill has been deärchived
Fri Mar 03 20:54 Kazoos correctly played distract & quieten distressed babies (further proof today) or your money back! (Also tend to work on dangerous dogs, muggers, politicians.)
Sat Mar 04 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 March 2023: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 0°C (32°F), wind north westerly 6mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1032mb, humidity 91%, UV risk 0/11, pollution…
Sat Mar 04 11:46 Happiness can be found in most places, but 10 years ago the weather was better
Sat Mar 04 13:09 Frösche: the fross his whiche were free and complayned that they had none lorde - Caxton, Reynart )
Sat Mar 04 13:37 Ah, beer yeast in pizza dough
Sat Mar 04 21:03 Comment: @ourellen Did she keep a diary or tell you stuff? Loads of C20th (working class) journals floating around, but unusable because can't trace rights-holders - orphan works. Lucky with Winifred yesterday - autobio copyright Doncaster Libraries, who were v helpful
Sat Mar 04 22:41 Only getting thru 20-25kg of white/wholemeal/00 a quarter, but buy 16kg bags for the cost-saving & dump it when it turns bad?
Sat Mar 04 23:58 Comment: Kazakh rapper using a heavy bit of steel borrowed from a bridge as pizza stone in his oven
Sun Mar 05 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 March 2023: Then: 1695: Abraham de la Pryme learns about self-adhesive steel, marble-staining, and Nottingham alabaster. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 3°C (37°F), wind westerly 5mph, visibility good, pressure…
Sun Mar 05 20:21 Comment: @ourellen I hope you're going to find a way to inflict your WhatsApp archive on the next generation
Sun Mar 05 20:22 On infant lips, boomerang -> poo meringue, presumably a thrown stool
Sun Mar 05 21:30 Why does @ShiptonMill market high-protein (13.0-14.5%) white flour as "Italian Type 00"? Italian legislation defines 00 as 9.0-11.0%, & typical high street value is 9.5%
Sun Mar 05 21:44 Comment: Before we moved I got v cheap Italian-produced 00 at ca. 10% from Tesco, which worked pretty well in combo with Canadian-type high-protein. Is the high protein thing American influence - bready pizzas with the trendy but misleading keyword?
Mon Mar 06 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 March 2023: Then: 1684: The highwayman and racketeer John Nevison is captured at an alehouse near Sandal Castle, Wakefield. Now: Weather for tonight: sleet, temperature -1°C (31°F), wind south westerly 5mph, visibility moderate,…
Mon Mar 06 22:27 Blackberry brandy scheme in North Wales (Calvinists notwithstanding) - Sheffield Independent 13/12/1828 I hadn't realised that decent stills are freely available in this country
Tue Mar 07 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 March 2023: Then: 1615: A great thaw begins in York, causing heavy flooding along the Ouse and Foss, followed by four months drought. 1687: Governor John Reresby records a perjurious witch trial at the York assizes, and the absurd…
Tue Mar 07 09:48 Comment: @squeezyjohn @DanielGalef Children! Not sure about this model:
Tue Mar 07 09:54 A safeguarding sequel to the Pied Piper of Hamelin this AM at preschool dropoff: a smurf mob howls "Kazoo, kazoo!" & then kicks me out of the door
Tue Mar 07 10:30 Comment: Here's a sample page confirming that what @ShiptonMill sells as Italian type 00 is no such thing - typically 9% protein, W90-180 vs Shipton Mill's 13.0-14.5% protein W340, figures that are pretty high even for American-type 00
Tue Mar 07 10:50 Plod arresting a woman for sweetening arboricide with a toy trumpet. Kazooists, beware!
Tue Mar 07 12:01 "1 in 4 young people in Amsterdam cannot ride a bicycle" & other counters to the myth of the Netherlands as a cycling paradise - tho I imagine the Leeds figure is far higher
Tue Mar 07 13:14 27:55 for Ligety's Musica Ricercata IV - a waltz in barrel-organ style
Tue Mar 07 20:30 Can anyone in Headingley help find a decent temp/perm 2/3-bed flat/house rental for a really nice Central European academic family? DM me for more info
Wed Mar 08 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 March 2023: Then: 1768: William Evers, engineer-inventor at Swillington (Leeds), advertises his latest machine: a windmill for the threshing and grinding of grain. Now: Weather for tonight: clear sky, temperature -4°C (25°F), wind…
Wed Mar 08 11:36 Comment: On the other hand, cycling & walking infrastructure in England is pitiful & deteriorating - so maybe Holland's not heaven, but England's certainly hellish
Wed Mar 08 20:20 The permanent Bowie fan exhibit in the Leeds museum is most amusing - Bowie had no connection with the city
Thu Mar 09 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 March 2023: Then: 1721: John Aislabie, MP for Ripon and Walpole's chancellor, is expelled from the Commons and sent to the Tower for taking bribes from the South Sea Company. 1761: The North Riding Militia massacre 45…
Thu Mar 09 20:29 Infant's latest is a variety act, not an Ulster terror gang, called The Crazy Billies: Wait till I'm sitting peacefully on a sofa, climb up to sit on top of my head, cause me to fall so that she lands on said head.
Fri Mar 10 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 March 2023: Then: 1665: With fodder and coal scarce, blizzards prevent ploughing and seeding at Northowram. 1863: William Allison (11) rides two miles on a donkey from Cundall to Brafferton to help celebrate the marriage of the…
Fri Mar 10 20:15 Comment: @ourellen She demanded I erect it on top of my head
Fri Mar 10 20:17 "Just because I turn off your kettle, bin the teabag from your cup, & put your cup in the washing up doesn't mean I hate you."
Fri Mar 10 20:57 Toyosu looks an incredible fish market & at 5 you've got 2 hours before the B2C bit opens & then another couple before influencer scum wake up. Billingsgate at 4 was great, but this country doesn't take fish seriously - see Fielding Voyage to Lisbon
Fri Mar 10 21:31 Fairyland at Christmas time
Sat Mar 11 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 March 2023: Then: 1730: News that John Barber, heir to Gawbert Hall (Lightcliffe), has married a servant. 1864: An inhabitant of Bacon Island survives the Great Sheffield Flood. Now: Weather for tonight: clear sky, temperature -6°C…
Sat Mar 11 10:54 The notion that Lineker's salary should be reallocated to save the BBC Singers, & that BBC footie coverage henceforth should be limited to weekly video of them having a kick-around
Sun Mar 12 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 March 2023: Then: 1837: Robert Southey (Poet Laureate, 62) sends Charlotte Brontë (governess, 20) some career advice. Now: Weather for tonight: light rain, temperature 2°C (35°F), wind south easterly 13mph, visibility poor, pressure…
Sun Mar 12 17:47 It is said that lingering snow is like a one-night stand who stays for lunch
Sun Mar 12 17:54 Walking along quietly in bedraggled state with the infant when one of two smallish blond boys comes up & says to me, nota bene: "You are very cute." Cue a kazoo solo, for children must prepare for disappointment. Much merriment from an older man listening to Chopin on the radio
Mon Mar 13 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 March 2023: Then: 1728: Wild daffodils in the hedges at Wickersley (Rotherham). Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 11°C (53°F), wind south westerly 19mph, visibility good, pressure 983mb, humidity 90%, UV risk…
Mon Mar 13 19:53 Stories/role-play for the infant require a commedia dell'arte cast of stock voices - no drama without distance - but voices become tied to roles, & outrage ensues when Butterfly Baby (being bullied into using the big toilet) starts sounding like Kirkleatham Parrot ("Hello mate!")
Mon Mar 13 19:55 Comment: I now realise this is a quote widely attributed to Seamus Heaney - 'I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment'
Mon Mar 13 20:01 A classic of energy illiteracy - as if the sieve-like gas network will fare better with far more explosive hydrogen In general, everyone has known for at least 30 years that no energy transition is possible if you keep (building) uninsulated houses, but the UK doesn't do strategy
Mon Mar 13 20:06 I hope that this is mirror image & I'm not spelling out something disgusting
Mon Mar 13 21:31 Someone is painting speedy miniatures
Mon Mar 13 21:59 Supermarket apples are pretty much inedible - I'm fine with scrumping on old trees round the neighbourhood & then moving on to something else when the year's supply runs out
Mon Mar 13 23:15 If the World Book Day books looked better, one might trudge with one's voucher to Waterstones
Tue Mar 14 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 March 2023: Then: ~1573: Archbishop Grindal intercedes on behalf of the the commoners of Sutton-on-the-Forest against enclosure of part of the Forest of Galtres. 1655: Mary Sharp of Little Horton, Bradford, writes to her son Sam at…
Tue Mar 14 10:14 Comment: @ourellen @DanielGalef Aaaaahhh. I'm afraid my knowledge is limited to the Catalan vs Spanish sign language problem.
Tue Mar 14 10:21 Comment: @DanielGalef I'll bet you obambulate a fair bit
Tue Mar 14 21:00 Comment: @HuddExposed Heading south after escaping the gibbet at Hartlepool
Wed Mar 15 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 March 2023: Then: 1586: Offered a jury acquittal, Margaret Clitherow of York, concealer of priests, chooses martyrdom by being crushed under her own front door. 1715: Martha Railton and Roger Wrightson of Bowes die of love for one…
Wed Mar 15 12:03 Typical of the Mail to blight an impeccable piece of research: it's couscous, darlings
Wed Mar 15 13:10 Is it fair to say that tidal constants (eg vis-à-vis Dover) are sometimes not at all constant?
Wed Mar 15 20:48 Comment: @jennitpk As usual, I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'll buy the compilation when published
Wed Mar 15 20:52 The smart guy's got the goldfinch
Wed Mar 15 21:51 Comment: Ah, harmonic constants are more useful than they sound
Thu Mar 16 06:52 Slightly amazed that the differential progression of the Atlantic tide along GB's east & west coasts (west gets to the N of Scotland first) hasn't been anthropomorphised for a children's book. But children's books are egregious in technical depiction of the natural world
Thu Mar 16 06:54 Comment: Bethan W's Rapunzel is a shocker that stays in mind - the exit-from-the-tower bit just doesn't work. One enduring joy of Postgate/Firmin eg Bagpuss is that everything makes physical sense
Thu Mar 16 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 March 2023: Then: 1676: Charles Chauncy of Bridlington tells a court how he went to confiscate horses and firearms from the Catholic John Constable and found a priest. 1931: "Mary Ann Harvey (Lady Sadler) goes to an early grave…
Thu Mar 16 08:30 Taylors' faecal product recalls the smell of poo & coffee in a Potsdam police station where one was held overnight for being drunk in charge of a bicycle
Thu Mar 16 08:33 Of course Hunt's childcare scheme wasn't intended simply as a semi-funded poison chalice for the incoming Labour govt
Thu Mar 16 08:39 A minor celebrity among 3-year-olds on the street after reading a couple of stories at preschool on World Book Day: "Mummy, there's X's daddy!" * 2 yesterday
Thu Mar 16 08:42 Comment: Recalls L's period as keyboardist with a top-40 band managed by a coke-fuelled molester, playing village/small town discos & festivals in La Mancha, Spain in the 90s: on arrival the minibus would be greeted by crowds anxious to see a Michael Jackson impersonator in real life
Thu Mar 16 21:15 Yeah, but what about the wolf, the duck, and the mouse?
Thu Mar 16 21:55 Two male voice octets: Chop Suey & the Blowjobs (Enschede, rehearsing in the Kasbah, Hengelo - where's the rest?) & MäNü (Gay Men's Chorus of Nuremberg)
Thu Mar 16 22:16 Comment: Not a new problem: cf Erich Gürtzig's transexual duck
Fri Mar 17 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 March 2023: Then: 1190: Massacre and suicide of York's Jews during the Third Crusade. 1914: Months before murdering his lover, the painter John Currie lectures at Leeds University and has a late-night heart-to-heart with its…
Fri Mar 17 20:39 Playing table football this afternoon with several infants chez the apprentice ambulance chasers, who haven't figured that GPT4 means that for many barista is more probable than barrister, & that they'd be better off learning to spin the rods
Fri Mar 17 20:40 Comment: But then it seems (wealthy?) students are still signing up for stuff like this
Fri Mar 17 20:43 Comment: Oh, and Aldi now pays more (& up to 50% more) than agency nursery workers make
Fri Mar 17 21:20 Sea surface water temperature is a key climate change indicator, so curious that only UK Environment Agency data set I can find terminates is 2007. Hoping that Brussels still has something...
Fri Mar 17 21:25 Comment: This site appears to use NOAA data - I guess it's public domain - without explicit credit , but unsure of their precise source
Fri Mar 17 21:29 Comment: Sorry, they do credit
Fri Mar 17 22:54 Comment: Wow
Sat Mar 18 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 March 2023: Then: 1647: Penistone Puritans call on the Committee for Plundered Ministers to remove their vicar, Christopher Dickinson, 'a man of scandalous life and conversation'. 1650: Dorothy Rodes of Bowling (Bradford) blames…
Sat Mar 18 08:34 Comment: @Transblawg Just trying to imagine the first class & chat about employability
Sat Mar 18 10:16 Animal anthropomorphization: the early C20th American nature-fakers controversy is tremendous. Footprint-tracking with the infant in snow - gross predominance of humans & latterly dogs - one suspects that contemporary domestication of wildlife (foxes) will be projected back
Sat Mar 18 10:20 Great (Dutch) vid of non-confrontation between farmers & a certain ecologist Johan - as implacably pleasant as brother Frans - re the Dutch nitrogen crisis: the state's attempts to say one thing in Brussels & do something else at home
Sat Mar 18 10:27 Comment: Cf evasion of eg airport emissions commitments NL actually doing *relatively* well on NOx per cap - comparable to UK
Sat Mar 18 20:02 Another 3 yo apparently does the washing up. This one is applying for an Arts Council England grant for its interpretive sweeping routine
Sun Mar 19 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 March 2023: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: drizzle, temperature 6°C (42°F), wind westerly 10mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1009mb, humidity 87%, UV risk 0/11, pollution low…
Sun Mar 19 15:42 Richard Braithwait, Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England: That paltry patcher is a bald translator, Whose awl bores at the words but not the matter: But this translator makes good use of leather, By stitching rhyme and reason both together.
Sun Mar 19 17:43 Wondering whether the horrible salty doughy cake acquired as focaccia yesterday at M. market is actually some older vernacular bread relabelled
Sun Mar 19 17:45 Comment: Some names, all unfamiliar: scufflers, stotties, stotty cakes, flatties, barm cakes
Sun Mar 19 21:04 Comment: @Transblawg Looks a bit like it. No pease, but one bit had a dry tomato on it, so totally Med diet
Sun Mar 19 21:05 Hong Kong mum in the playground this AM insisting, despite Anglo ice-cream protests, that princess syndrome is a purely Chinese thing
Sun Mar 19 21:29 Comment: @Transblawg I've told it your address.
Mon Mar 20 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 March 2023: Then: 1649: Judge and Yorkshireman Francis Thorpe justifies to the grand jury at York the recent execution of Charles I. 1695: Why there are more sheep than foxes. 1840: Charles Brown (52) feigns deafness to try to evade…
Mon Mar 20 20:11 Two black-swathed lads on a scooter with a 689 cc Yamaha's plates - WV66 TWJ - checking out bikes for a bit of angle grinding this PM on Leeds University campus. Security are far more efficient than West Yorks Police, but with little secure storage attrition must be pretty high
Mon Mar 20 20:36 I just wrote PHP to calculate Chinese New Year where GPT4 failed, &, cheered on by the infant, scored 12 in the apartment scenario of Snake. Please will someone pay me 100K
Mon Mar 20 20:39 Comment: @twlldun
Mon Mar 20 21:07 Studying recent Dutch music for April return to Delft/Oldenzaal. Goldband (pronunciation?) is sometimes very silly
Tue Mar 21 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 March 2023: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: light rain, temperature 9°C (49°F), wind southerly 11mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1005mb, humidity 94%, UV risk 0/11, pollution low…
Tue Mar 21 10:28 Diabled is from the French endiabler, possess by a demon, facked up e.g. ascenseur endiablé
Tue Mar 21 10:41 Comment: This explains Sterne's "diabled" in the Sentimental Journey when Yorick & a prostitute try to gain entrance to his room - he is & isn't facked up, as it were - permanent ambiguity re sex. (Other "diables" also euphemise "fack" eg "What's wrong now?-Diable!-a rope's broke!")
Tue Mar 21 11:15 Is there a calendar-based explanation for vagueness re Holi celebration?
Wed Mar 22 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 March 2023: Then: 1731: "Vegetable caterpillars" amidst the artichokes at Dodworth (Barnsley). Now: Weather for tonight: light rain, temperature 10°C (49°F), wind southerly 19mph, visibility moderate, pressure 992mb, humidity 87%,…
Wed Mar 22 10:36 @HalifaxBank, why can you only change your address online if you have a smartphone?
Wed Mar 22 11:10 Comment: @HalifaxBank Is the fact that you're making less functionality available for non-smartphone online use a sign that you're phasing out desktop support?
Wed Mar 22 13:22 The Yorkshire Almanac is my way of saying sorry to the past
Wed Mar 22 13:24 Comment: Holi seems to exist as a religious celebration, where astronomy matters, & as a custom, where it doesn't
Wed Mar 22 19:59 Comment: @HalifaxBank Excellent news, particularly for your older customers, so when are you releasing the functionality for desktop?
Wed Mar 22 20:47 Comment: @djjmilner @jonburkeUK I think you could park on the Delft market till around 2002 - exception was market day when everyone was welcome. Till halfway through the 90s you'd even see buses bumping over a couple of the tiny hump bridges over the canals
Thu Mar 23 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 March 2023: Then: 0867: Viking mercenaries draw Ælla of Northumbria's Anglo-Saxons into the streets of York and slaughter them. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 7°C (44°F), wind south westerly 18mph, visibility…
Thu Mar 23 10:02 Into M&S at 8.15 to buy some pants, Russophone lady loudly discussing how she's changed bra size since swapping model, fled
Thu Mar 23 10:23 Ubiquitous childminder doesn't take kids to Hyde Park because of proximity to remand home: "They kick them out all day & there's nowhere else to go. I was looking back because I thought one was following me."
Thu Mar 23 19:06 Comment: @sebranchett But don't venture beyond the city limits!
Thu Mar 23 19:08 Comment: Ah, she meant a hostel for released offenders
Thu Mar 23 19:41 Comment: @livingstreets How are kids meant to walk to school as long as Brabin etc are afraid to deal with cars, bins etc on pavements?
Thu Mar 23 19:58 At the hair salon: - Where's your boyfriend from? - Hampshire - Likes ham, does he?
Fri Mar 24 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 March 2023: Then: 1703: Abraham Sharp is surprised by aurora borealis at Little Horton, Bradford. 1733: John Hobson reports a rush to get married while licences are still in Latin (but what's wrong with English?). 1896: Jessie…
Fri Mar 24 10:20 Oldenzaal/Twente 22-27 April, Amsterdam 27, Delft/Zuid-Holland 27-30: very excited
Sat Mar 25 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 March 2023: Then: 1667: Burials henceforth to be in wool, in order to support woollen manufacturers and reduce linen imports. 1685: The York apprentices ask John Reresby to lead their new militia troop. 1831: Esther Dyson of…
Sun Mar 26 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 March 2023: Then: 1662: Leeds corporation appoints a cook, Thomas Gorst. Now: Weather for tonight: thick cloud, temperature 3°C (38°F), wind north easterly 10mph, visibility good, pressure 1004mb, humidity 85%, UV risk 0/11,…
Sun Mar 26 19:45 Why no "Lasciate ogni speranza" disclaimer above the door of every softplay?
Mon Mar 27 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 March 2023: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: clear sky, temperature -1°C (31°F), wind north westerly 8mph, visibility good, pressure 1024mb, humidity 76%, UV risk 0/11, pollution low…
Mon Mar 27 09:41 So can I perform a citizen's arrest on the main local traffickers of NOx, car drivers?
Mon Mar 27 19:13 Paul's nursery
Tue Mar 28 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 March 2023: Then: 1692: On Easter Monday Francis Pemberton, Vicar of Bradford, sits all day in a Haworth pub, collecting his Easter dues, while Oliver Heywood preaches for next to nothing. 1730: John Hobson pays his Easter dues to…
Tue Mar 28 09:10 RT @GeoffRimington: Things I love about being up north (an occasional series): (1) the man who ordered Eggs Benedict with a side of black p…
Tue Mar 28 09:43 Pictorial graves in Spennithorne & Harmby Cemetery: 1) vehicles: car, truck, truck, bike (tragically terminated how?)
Tue Mar 28 09:44 Comment: Pictorial graves in Spennithorne & Harmby Cemetery: 2) animals & scrabble:
Tue Mar 28 12:19 2 more gravestones, at The Forbidden Corner, Leyburn - Hispanophone, traditionally memetic & spurious: "Tomás Juvenales, 1808-1896. A memento from all your children (except for Ricardo, who didn't give anything)" & "Now you're with Our Lord. LORD, keep an eye on your wallet!"
Tue Mar 28 15:29 The infant can write her own name clearly & is busy dashing off art & signing it. Price per piece £40 - also her tariff for a carrot, a dance, & most other stuff
Tue Mar 28 16:15 Very pleasing page design from Bryan Hoggarth
Tue Mar 28 17:26 Bentley Mount, Meanwood has surrendered to the Russians
Tue Mar 28 19:25 Comment: @Transblawg Jeez.
Tue Mar 28 19:25 Comment: @Transblawg Too scared to get on my bike in lovely Leeds!
Wed Mar 29 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 March 2023: Then: 1461: The Wharfe runs red as the Yorkists destroy the Lancastrians at Towton (Tadcaster), whereupon Edward IV deposes Henry VI and secures the English throne. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature…
Wed Mar 29 11:55 A home of your own
Wed Mar 29 12:42 Has any one got a handy list of names of Leeds ginnels? (Are they named?) I could do with a dozen good ones, for a song.
Wed Mar 29 19:41 After preschool: "What do you want to do now?" "Go to the pub." Beats me at chess at Head of Steam - worse than the Dutch club circuit. To Sainsbury's, where she gets a wheelie basket and takes charge. To an assistant: "Excuse me madame, can you tell me where the cheese is?"
Wed Mar 29 20:07 Not many EVs about at the moment, but when they approach from behind eg along Headingley Lane their noise recalls the all-smothering tyre sound of Dutch caravans overtaking one's bike in France years ago - the Dutch tended to take all their food with them
Wed Mar 29 21:31 Dracula is surely set in 1889 rather than the 1890s: there was a full moon in Whitby on August 11th that year - though the local press report none of the other events described by Bram Stoker
Wed Mar 29 21:53 Comment: Sorry, Stoker's full moon is for the night of 10-11, not 11-12. Pretty sure it's fiction
Thu Mar 30 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 March 2023: Then: 1834: Anne Lister seals a surreptitious mock marriage with fellow-landowner Ann Walker during the Easter Sunday service at Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York. 1850: The Sheffield Independent quotes revolting…
Thu Mar 30 10:26 Comment: @HuddExposed First Group bus screens that show the official timetable mixed in with often correct live data
Thu Mar 30 10:52 One of the good things about life: calls from people who say, Wanna listen to my organ?
Thu Mar 30 19:40 3 genders at Oakley
Fri Mar 31 07:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 31 March 2023: Then: 1856: William Allison, a nervous 4-year-old port-drinker, hears what he believes to be Russian gunfire while building sandcastles on Redcar beach. Now: Weather for tonight: light rain, temperature 9°C (47°F), wind…
Fri Mar 31 08:14 - The real reason I want to ban cars? People will have lots of extra cash, which they'll spend on barrel organ music. - Nah, it'll all go on kebabs, the price will go up, & you'll starve to death.
Fri Mar 31 08:42 Walking past poet laureate Alfred Austin's front gate on Headingley Lane this morning singing Charles Trenet to the infant above the traffic - but for obvious reasons his songs no longer run through the streets, tho Mrs Billiards has the complete oeuvre
Fri Mar 31 08:43 Comment: Obligatory link to the Yorkshire Almanac
Fri Mar 31 08:44 Comment: (Alfred Austin's songs no longer run thru the streets, sorry, sleepy)
Fri Mar 31 20:10 Periodic reminder that in German the last Trump is often the last trombone e.g. Denn es wird die Posaune schallen und die Toten werden auferstehen unverweslich, und wir werden verwandelt werden.