Tweets for November 2022

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Tue Nov 01 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 November 2022: Then: 1643: Sam Priestley of Soyland saves a Royalist enemy from drowning in Hebden Water at the Battle of Heptonstall, and dies later of pneumonia. 1664: News of the Tadcaster boy-giant. Now: Weather for tonight:…
Tue Nov 01 21:32 Rom Boys trailer
Tue Nov 01 21:32 Comment: Via
Tue Nov 01 21:35 Which is the best Brel bio (fr/en)?
Wed Nov 02 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 November 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 7°C (45°F), wind south westerly 15mph, visibility good, pressure 1007mb, humidity 85%, UV risk 0/11,…
Wed Nov 02 10:12 £7 billion buttplug in the Times
Thu Nov 03 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 November 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 8°C (47°F), wind southerly 15mph, visibility very good, pressure 1000mb, humidity 81%, UV risk 0/11, pollution…
Thu Nov 03 10:22 A future vision of 70 million mobility scooters
Thu Nov 03 19:22 Bedtime reading: Elsbeth Etty's great bio of Willem Wilmink - one corner of a familiar social space re the other - but wouldn't dare ask what (Twentse) others in the room think
Thu Nov 03 19:25 Comment: A transport planner from Kemal's capital (pretty good public transport) wonders how he ended up studying in a city with such a chaotic setup
Thu Nov 03 19:49 Staggering through Babylon this morning, a black woman hails me joyfully: how are you, how is everyone, lovely to see you. I don't get out much, but no idea who she is: how's your family, haven't seen you for a bit, Wakefield, how's that. Five minutes.
Thu Nov 03 19:52 Comment: Staggering along yesterday a great cheery lesbian gives me an incredible smile, but then I realise it's the WFMU t-shirt showing someone like a very camp Kenny Everett flying on an improbable bird
Thu Nov 03 22:30 The infant has been discouraged from telling Japanese ladies that her favourite vehicle is the road roller
Fri Nov 04 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 November 2022: Then: 1857: Completion of the White Horse of Kilburn (Hambleton Hills). 1992: Glasgow Rangers seal victory in the Champions League's Battle of Britain in the return at Elland Road. Now: Weather for tonight: partly…
Fri Nov 04 19:46 Infant walks into new setting, examines & rejects thugs living out an action thriller in a multi-storey petrol station, ditto princesses rearranging interior furnishings, goes & sits with boys industriously drawing spiders
Fri Nov 04 19:48 "Great canteen, but it was always curious that an opera company dedicated to productions in the vernacular was located where no one spoke it"
Sat Nov 05 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 November 2022: Then: 1841: The over-provision of cottage-style housing in Sheffield by speculative builders. 1888: A Sheffield Guy Fawkes rhyme. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 7°C (45°F), wind south westerly 8mph,…
Sat Nov 05 20:59 Would Willem Wilmink have grown up if he hadn't been moved up a year in school?
Sun Nov 06 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 November 2022: Then: 1786: William Butterworth of Leeds witnesses the 'grand pageant' celebrating the demise in July of Duke Ephraim, Efik king of Old Calabar. 1830: Bodysnatchers strike at Fulford, York. Now: Weather for tonight:…
Sun Nov 06 17:47 #CiderWithRosie fermentation down to about 80 BPM from ca 120 a couple of days ago, should have left more headspace, much lighter but still quite frightening. More apples today from right of the gate at the Meanwood Institute - old tree, small apples, exciting taste
Sun Nov 06 17:52 Comment: Mainly v enjoyable, but cash saving in all of this? Ca. 35 kg apples @ notional £2/kg = £70, 30 kg plums at £3 = £90, enough blackberries to last us till next summer plus jars of jam for friends (eg 15 branded pots for infant's birthday guests)... Supermarket spend down this year
Mon Nov 07 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 November 2022: Then: 1959: The last tram scheduled in Leeds, no. 181 or 187, runs from Cross Gates to Kirkgate or Swinegate. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 8°C (46°F), wind southerly 12mph, visibility good,…
Mon Nov 07 18:48 Egypt climate summit: the great pyramid in which world leaders and billionaires will take shelter @elmundotoday
Mon Nov 07 19:10 It may be that early verbal fluency enables infants to deal better with (emotional) crises, but the coin's reverse is hours and hours of incredibly fluent though nonsequitous bollocks
Mon Nov 07 19:14 Comment: Golden hysteria at Hyde Park playground: the two infants are laughing away at the kicked-up-the-bum-by-a-swing-he-thought-he-could-trust gag, when suddenly baby B joins in
Mon Nov 07 20:30 Story of my life
Tue Nov 08 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 November 2022: Then: 1817: Anne Lister's uncle Joseph dies, and her aunt Lister recounts her premonitory vision. Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 11°C (52°F), wind southerly 21mph, visibility good, pressure…
Tue Nov 08 09:23 Comment: @LeedsMuseums What, the customer isn't king?!
Tue Nov 08 11:13 Alongside the shopping list, I need an unshopping list of overpurchases
Tue Nov 08 19:34 The toddlers enjoyed meeting @srleeds_ occupying Esther Simpson this lunchtime, hoping to be back Thursday! But have you got any good songs?
Tue Nov 08 20:23 Apparently it is no longer considered acceptable to sleep under one's desk, either in the afternoon or at night
Tue Nov 08 20:37 I did NOT know that Annie Proulx is a cider expert #goddess
Tue Nov 08 20:39 Now alleged that Gavin Williamson doesn't even know the meaning of "refute"
Wed Nov 09 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 November 2022: Then: 1840: The railways and the end of the horse trade at the Leeds winter fair. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 9°C (48°F), wind southerly 13mph, visibility good, pressure 995mb, humidity 90%, UV…
Wed Nov 09 19:21 The infant's conundrous bedtime catchphrase, 100% Strine: "Thanks, mate, for a lovely day!" Hasn't met any Australians during her phonological development, so I'm blaming the Redcar parrot - parrots always try to sound Antipodean
Wed Nov 09 19:33 The state's just a teensy bit rotten, isn't it
Wed Nov 09 21:47 The C12th Byzantine John Tzetzes has an intriguing take on our Channel migrant boats
Thu Nov 10 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 November 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 12°C (53°F), wind south westerly 16mph, visibility good, pressure 1009mb, humidity 83%, UV risk 0/11, pollution…
Thu Nov 10 08:55 Comment: @srleeds_ I notice there's now an unhappy security guy on the fire exit. Are you incomunicado, or does the normal door still work?
Fri Nov 11 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 November 2022: Then: 1696: On communicating with Nathaniel Johnston, hidden historian of Yorkshire. 1918: George Ellison of Richmond Hill, Leeds, is the last British soldier to be killed in action in the First World War. Now:…
Fri Nov 11 09:51 Comment: @DanielGalef They're everywhere, the buggers
Fri Nov 11 20:01 If next year is as hot, will the fruit bonanza repeat? This year's crop has been pretty bug-free, but might we then get plagues as they catch up?
Sat Nov 12 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 November 2022: Then: 1819: The first, nocturnal vision of Prophet Wroe in one of his fields at Tong Street, Bradford following his near-fatal fever. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 10°C (51°F), wind southerly…
Sat Nov 12 09:14 The emaciated, ragged guy who, at dawn each morning, just after the female tawny has gone to bed, rushes down the road from wherever he sleeps, towing his belongings in an orange box. If students were awake, perhaps they'd wonder why he doesn't take an Uber, and what is so urgent
Sat Nov 12 10:31 Terrible Flemish from Jacques Brel in Marieke in his Oeuvre Intégrale - I guess that despite his West Flanders associations he was illiterate in it, & either no one in his circle thought to help him, or it was viewed as a marketing plus
Sat Nov 12 10:32 Comment: Source:
Sat Nov 12 19:23 Comment: @Rainmaker1973 Ditto Mediterranean (evergreen) oaks?
Sat Nov 12 19:25 Admirable 4-year-old generously programmed classic party entertainment for guests in one room, allowing him to celebrate his birthday in another as he preferred: sitting under a table with snacks & books
Sat Nov 12 19:47 @stroat Sander?
Sun Nov 13 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 November 2022: Then: 1478: Edward IV orders the London merchant adventurers to allow their Yorkshire colleagues fair access to Low Countries markets for their woollen cloth. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 8°C…
Sun Nov 13 21:11 - My dear, I'm glad you enjoyed my focaccia! For someone who has only just celebrated her third birthday, you have an estimable appreciation of both quality and quantity. - And leaves.
Sun Nov 13 21:28 The tragic tale of a pair of Roundhay swans, whose spring chicks are now said all to have died of avian flu, and who sit on the nest, heads bowed Boxer C. meanwhile confident that netting his chicken run will keep them alive AND satisfy regs - recalls the smoking ban shacks
Mon Nov 14 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 November 2022: Then: 1879: Prince Alemayehu of Ethiopia dies at the home of Professor Ransome in Headingley, and is later buried at Windsor Castle. Now: Weather for tonight: mist, temperature 8°C (46°F), wind south easterly 8mph,…
Mon Nov 14 09:09 Someone has reminded me of it, so here again is grandad's Armistice:
Mon Nov 14 11:12 So the absence of light at old S&N's is due, not to their having died, but to a (rational) fear of the utility bills - well wrapped up indoors, & N worried about another hospital trip, where last time she awoke alone in an annexe "as cold as a mortuary"
Mon Nov 14 19:44 Comment: @petersymon We are briefly all in the same boat in being able to remember how old we are
Tue Nov 15 07:50 A few Dutch loanwords in English Middle Scots poets like William Dunbar suddenly sounded & sensed better when I had acquired a smattering of Germanic coastal dialects. Still trying to piece together in my dozy head how this all relates to Yorkshire & other east coast tongues
Tue Nov 15 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 November 2022: Then: 1444: A survey of the boundaries of York. 1745: Nanna Rann Dann dies at Easingwold, leaving a curious epitaph. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 8°C (47°F), wind south easterly 12mph, visibility…
Wed Nov 16 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 November 2022: Then: 1771: Rescue boats are brought overland from Stockton to Yarm, flooded by ice melt and heavy rain from Teesdale. 1814: The blacksmith Samuel Hick mimes and tells to Wesleyans at Selby the abolitionist dream that…
Wed Nov 16 10:47 Annie Proulx/Lew Nichols, "Cider: Making, Using, & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider" is brilliant - most enjoyed the stuff on spirit production thru fractional crystallization by freezing outside - though winter here probably never cold enough again
Wed Nov 16 19:15 Leeds' most linguistic choir, The Headingley Homophonic 'Horus, welcomes new members (SATB) for the Christmas season, during which we will once again sing from door to door classics like "Shingle hells," "O, ladle down off Bath lay him," and "Sigh, lint knight"
Wed Nov 16 19:18 Comment: Lovely Hungarian lady to infant: - So, what do you like to eat? - I eat tables. Hungarian lady's brain at 100% capacity, trying to figure out the homophone, receives coup de grâce: - I also like chairs. Doors. Cupboards.
Wed Nov 16 20:22 12:45 15/11: Car travelling fast makes the almost customary illegal right turn from Headingley Lane into Hyde Park Road, miraculously not hitting any of the pedestrians crossing on green, where a student was killed in similar circumstances last year
Wed Nov 16 20:24 Comment: Despite there apparently being CCTV at the junction, @WestYorksPolice have previously said that they will only contemplate investigation if you anticipate the offence and film it yourself Silver lining: chat with electronics student escapee about signal processing (filtration)
Wed Nov 16 20:35 Comment: I think their willingness to risk the lives of pedestrians is a perverse consequence of the (unenforced) right-turn ban: if they stop and wait, either in their own lane or the opposing one, they get hassle from legal motorists, whereas pedestrians just make a thud and a groan
Wed Nov 16 21:23 There's no basis in English law for class action against motorists for the damage (knowingly) inflicted on their environment and fellow-citizens, but here's a curiosity - 1960s New York contemplating something similar
Thu Nov 17 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 November 2022: Then: 1812: A doggerel inscription at St. George's, Doncaster, commemorates two sons of ringing master Robert Smith, the first of whom died by his father's bells. 1839: Excise officers entrap Leeds barbers acting as…
Thu Nov 17 09:18 Anyone got Vlex? I need the Midland Railway (Otley and Ilkley Extension) Act 1861 (Why isn't English legislation freely available?)
Thu Nov 17 19:38 A classic of improved walking & cycling facilities where councillors & cool visitors hang out, while the rest of the city quietly deteriorates
Thu Nov 17 20:49 In 1829, when a Leeds newspaper published on Saturday refers to a lightning strike near Hepstonstall on "Thursday last", I wonder whether "last" actually refers to the most recent Thursday for which they might reasonably be expected to have out-of-town news, i.e. 9 days previous
Thu Nov 17 20:59 Comment: @jennitpk But did even such sensational news from Thursday travel fast enough to cover the 30-odd miles to Leeds by press time on Friday/Saturday night? Of course, the Leeds Mercury may have simply made it up
Fri Nov 18 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 November 2022: Then: 1237: Robin Hood isn't actually bled to death by the nuns of Kirklees Priory. Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 9°C (48°F), wind westerly 15mph, visibility good, pressure 986mb, humidity…
Fri Nov 18 10:29 Comment: @DanielGalef That's convinced me.
Fri Nov 18 10:34 If Suella Braverman ever feels unloved, she could do worse than visit local services, where Afghans enthusiastically (mis?)quote Home Office info on their benefit and social housing rights. Unfortunately it's apparently 2 years for a council/HA flat.
Fri Nov 18 10:49 Comment: @HuddExposed Is Heckmondwike local enough?
Fri Nov 18 18:46 Comment: @HDFHS01 @HuddExposed Perhaps not as beautiful as Batley, but apparently they got a couple of grand off Carnegie
Fri Nov 18 18:53 Heading to the library, we find old S smoking outside a licensed premise: "Warm spaces? Fack off, we've got William Hill!" Free coffee & heat at the library is perhaps too popular, though warmth mitigated by an unwelcome open door policy. WD40? "Door's too expensive for that."
Sat Nov 19 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 November 2022: Then: 1715: Abraham Sharp hopes that the Battle of Preston has put an end to prospects of a Jacobite invasion and uprising. Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 6°C (43°F), wind north westerly…
Sat Nov 19 20:40 Comment: @Captain_Bionic @sunday_sea The only way the infant can get hers to work is by stamping on it, which probably sends the wrong message
Sun Nov 20 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 November 2022: Then: 1697: Smooth-leaved holly as winter fodder for Pennine sheep. Now: Weather for tonight: heavy rain, temperature 6°C (42°F), wind south easterly 12mph, visibility good, pressure 1007mb, humidity 93%, UV risk…
Sun Nov 20 20:25 Toilet warnings before walking to a playground 2km away. On arrival: - Daddy, I desperately need a poo. - But ... OK, let's go to Waitrose. - No, mummy said we're not allowed to have a poo there. We rush back: - Well, have a poo then. - I don't need one. Can I watch Peppa Pig?
Sun Nov 20 20:27 Comment: The Pig is boycotted. At least Masha & the Bear has dramatic intensity & decent scores, & doesn't present its offering like crack to a halfwit.
Sun Nov 20 21:32 Comment: Peppa packaging is amusing
Sun Nov 20 21:33 Comment: @tombcn Lots of people say B is good, & I managed to sleep thru it at someone else's
Mon Nov 21 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 November 2022: Then: 1727: The funeral of Cornelius Wood of Barnsley, who died that rabbits might live slightly longer. 1855: Catherine Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army, writes from Dewsbury of her hope that her unborn child…
Tue Nov 22 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 November 2022: Then: Sorry, nothing yet for today. Make a suggestion! Now: Weather for tonight: light rain showers, temperature 6°C (43°F), wind northerly 13mph, visibility good, pressure 985mb, humidity 95%, UV risk 0/11, pollution…
Wed Nov 23 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 November 2022: Then: 1843: James Byram of Gildersome is ruinously fined for selling used tea as new. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 3°C (37°F), wind south easterly 11mph, visibility moderate, pressure 988mb,…
Thu Nov 24 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 November 2022: Then: 1839: Betsy Sawyer, a freed Antiguan slave, and family servant to the Rev. Thomas Murray, dies at Yeadon. Now: Weather for tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 5°C (42°F), wind southerly 12mph, visibility good,…
Thu Nov 24 10:18 Late-middle-aged man resents the paradox of being a homeless nativist (but wears a USA cap): banned yesterday from the district book barn, now staying warm in Merrion
Thu Nov 24 10:24 Before today's visit to the mouth mason one's buccal architecture felt a bit like the overgrown Coliseum visited in the 1850s by Headingley's poet-laureate-to-be, Alfred Austin. Dodgy verse, but I rather like the autobio, though little on Leeds
Thu Nov 24 10:39 Meeting new Chinese roaring around in SUVs: would banning cars make the UK an undesirable emigration destination? (Chatting last night re municipal bans (e.g. reducing speed limits to 0, apparently within authorities' powers), but how to fund public transport to fill the hole?)
Thu Nov 24 10:40 Comment: Might at least deflect the oncoming Wegovy wave
Fri Nov 25 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 November 2022: Then: 1698: A scholar must also pursue a modern scoundrel like Dugdale the demoniac. 1978: A Leeds wedding. Now: Weather for tonight: drizzle, temperature 7°C (45°F), wind south westerly 16mph, visibility good,…
Sat Nov 26 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 November 2022: Then: 1851: One of Hull's largest shippers' exports to foreign ports for the year to date. Now: Weather for tonight: light cloud, temperature 7°C (45°F), wind south easterly 11mph, visibility good, pressure 1020mb,…
Sat Nov 26 20:58 - Daddy, why's there a long crack down this road? - Hmm, I guess the builders poured 30m of concrete drive in winter between concrete constraints without leaving room for expansion. - Wrong! It was the Iron Man, walking through Headingley! Dum, dum, dum...
Sat Nov 26 21:27 Crucifixion on skates
Sat Nov 26 21:39 Comment: @JoJohnsonCS @AlwynTurner Wellcome has been great at making available online historical books & images, most of which are censurable on the same basis. What are they going to do, shut down most of the website?
Sun Nov 27 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 November 2022: Then: 1833: Capt. Lewis Fenton, Huddersfield MP, falls to his death from his attic, apparently while checking that his cows have not entered a turnip patch, rather than by suicide. Now: Weather for tonight: light…
Sun Nov 27 20:56 Alfred Austin autobio vol 1: In an autobiography, however, as in private discourse, one does well, I think, not to dwell too much on one's sorrows and misfortunes, lest one's hearers should say to themselves, "Why does he tell us of things whereof we have had enough of our own?"
Mon Nov 28 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 November 2022: Then: 1730: A suicided chicken-thief is impaled at Rothwell. 1796: A Royal Navy recruiting ad promises Spanish gold to the seamen of Sculcoates, Cottingham and Little Weighton, East Riding. Now: Weather for tonight:…
Mon Nov 28 11:31 A couple of #FreeChina posters up at Leeds Uni this morning - interesting to see reaction from the PRC students, a 6th (?) of total nos. Are they insured against loss of students should folks like @srleeds_ decide to protest against institutional ties with Beijing?
Mon Nov 28 12:07 Comment: @LeedsArtGallery Another private function? It always seems to be closed at the moment.
Mon Nov 28 19:33 We get back laden down with yet more apples from WL, & a gardener wants to talk about this bumper fruit (and sycamore and everything else) year: "Everyone says that now it's going to be a really cold winter, but that's not how it works."
Mon Nov 28 19:35 Comment: Notices gone by lunchtime
Mon Nov 28 20:30 40% for "Only walk/cycle/public transport" "to address climate change" (vs 42% unrepentant drivers) is a pleasant surprise
Mon Nov 28 21:11 Fermentation finally over on #CiderWithRosie in the garage, too late to poison the Hungarians
Mon Nov 28 23:08 No prizes for mistakenly boasting that one is comfortable with 500 years of German blackface, instead of blackletter
Tue Nov 29 08:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 November 2022: Then: 1673: A verse warns Charles II against his brother James, six days after the latter's marriage to an Italian Catholic. Now: Weather for tonight: thick cloud, temperature 3°C (37°F), wind north westerly 4mph,…
Tue Nov 29 08:53 Consider poor Joseph, who received no invite for a party because the birthday girl insisted that she wanted Jovis, and that particular Roman deity could not be found
Tue Nov 29 08:54 Comment: A proper phonologist would have seen that one coming
Tue Nov 29 09:02 Infant pleased by figures looming out of the fog on Woodhouse Moor (Amarcord...), but air quality perilously poor (vehicle emissions) on Headingley Lane at Hyde Park Book Club. BBC Weather has us as low pollution today - surely untrue either in terms of emitted or accumulated
Tue Nov 29 09:04 Comment: Headingley Library is another pollution blackspot, partly because the front door doesn't work & has to be kept open, & the children's section of Leeds Central Library is also situated on a busy road
Tue Nov 29 09:32 In some notional afterlife an ex-91-year-old is today in a jealous grump because he has just been joined by his brother, an ex-92-year-old
Tue Nov 29 20:27 Comment: @GeorgesGnosall Hoping you're on the same schedule this year...
Tue Nov 29 20:37 Now the infant has worked out that fog is low cloud, she's started looking up to see if she can see Mary Poppins' bum and parrot brolly
Tue Nov 29 20:39 Comment: (Photo is retrofuturist - MP checking her satnav)
Wed Nov 30 08:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 November 2022: Then: 1668: A child of the vicar of Calverley is crushed to death by a church door. Now: Weather for tonight: thick cloud, temperature 4°C (39°F), wind south easterly 6mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1024mb,…
Wed Nov 30 20:08 Comment: @LeedsNews @LeedsCAMRA I still find it curious that some people in Headingley want to ban a mildly messy event which keeps local pubs open, generating local employment, while they remain indifferent to traffic down the Otley road, which is incredibly polluting and generates next to no local benefits