Extweets for April 2024

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

Mon Apr 01 23:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 April 2024: Then: 1683: A domestic dispute at the Heywoods' in Northowram (Halifax) Now: Tonight: mist, temperature 4°C (40°F), wind north westerly 3mph, visibility poor, pressure 997mb, humidity 95%, UV risk 0/11, pollution lowSun:…
Wed Apr 03 01:54 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 April 2024: Then: 1732: Mr Spencer's great ox is killed at Barnsley 1797: A sporting flyer with some unsporting spelling 1852: Brickfield workers in Wortley (Leeds) discover and bring to Henry Denny, curator of the Leeds Museum, some…
Thu Apr 04 03:32 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 April 2024: Then: 1825: A Leeds jury has some sympathy for Job Robinson, a London fashion designer who lost his job with Hardwick's of Briggate through alcohol and cricket Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 7°C (44°F), wind south…
Fri Apr 05 00:14 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 April 2024: Then: 1674: An anonymous message to a preacher 1676: The Lord saves a Presbyterian from his horse in Craven Now: Tonight: heavy rain, temperature 6°C (43°F), wind southerly 14mph, visibility poor, pressure 997mb, humidity…
Fri Apr 05 07:19 The Yorkshire Almanac hadn't realised that the Feast of the Annunciation is movable. Another PHP twiddle.
Fri Apr 05 19:54 Infant too busy quoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail to eat her tea, so the full screenplay's on its way
Fri Apr 05 23:54 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 April 2024: Then: 1821: At the opening of the hall of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, the surgeon Charles Turner Thackrah bids the town repay its debt to knowledge Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 12°C (54°F), wind…
Sat Apr 06 10:03 Infant's latest stop motion: Duplo People on Holiday
Sat Apr 06 11:37 Comment: @petersymon She wants to do the Black Knight scene from The Holy Grail. I'm not King Arthur, apparently.
Sat Apr 06 20:36 Struggling to find a symbolic shriek of the machine in the Yorkshire garden on a par with Leo Marx's (overstated) interpretation of the locomotive intruding on Nathaniel Hawthorne at Sleepy Hollow
Sat Apr 06 23:31 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 April 2024: Then: 1679: Catholic missionary Nicholas Postgate (80) speaks words of hope before being hanged, disembowelled and quartered at York on the evidence of Titus Oates 1687: James II's declaration of freedom of conscience…
Sun Apr 07 23:10 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 April 2024: Then: 1946: Yorkshire miners' president Joe Hall threatens strike action if Labour starts opencast mining in Lord Fitzwilliam's gardens at Wentworth Woodhouse (Rotherham) Now: Tonight: drizzle, temperature 9°C (49°F),…
Mon Apr 08 22:04 Cf Tyndale Mansions, Upper Street - once free, now £5K/month for a three-bed
Tue Apr 09 01:47 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 April 2024: Then: 1833: Messrs. Verdon Brittain & Co. claim before a Sheffield court that razor-maker William Harrison of Sims Croft has plagiarised the mark granted them by the Cutlers' Company 1938: Huge crowds witness air-raid…
Wed Apr 10 01:27 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 April 2024: Then: 1877: Echoing Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, John Collier tells a meeting at Walkley (Sheffield) of an initial local separation between Normans and Anglo-Saxons Now: Tonight: clear sky, temperature 5°C (40°F), wind south…
Wed Apr 10 10:26 Social media algorithm: Open Extwitter; view a couple of posts; block the first ad merchant, triggering a subscription invitation; switch to Bsky; die of boredom.
Wed Apr 10 13:45 Enjoyed Chris Nickson's Dark Briggate Blues last night, but fearing for local fiction when 95% of the population has outsourced its sense of place to machines, & people can get lost on Ilkley Moor even when their machine is telling them the way
Wed Apr 10 16:44 A merry, smoky time at the dawn service at Edward's Cambridge on Easter Sunday, but I didn't know this
Wed Apr 10 21:42 The infant is proud of her latest Lego model. - What's that? - A hydrothermal vent. - Eh?! - [Sigh] A waterspout. This has to be Octonauts, which has become a bit of a cult, along with The Holy Grail, whose screenplay we're now studying - first use as a literacy aid?
Wed Apr 10 22:54 Comment: @Steveplfc @JacquelineFBaro @GroomB Conwy, Ottawa, um
Thu Apr 11 00:09 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 April 2024: Then: 1667: A hubristic Sam Mitchell impersonates a gypsy in a Halifax pub, but nemesis follows 1827: York's medieval Company of Merchant Adventurers goes to court to try to shut down the pharmacy of a non-member Now:…
Thu Apr 11 23:48 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 April 2024: Then: 0627: In a triumph for his Kentish wife, Edwin of Northumbria is baptised on Easter Sunday by Paulinus, in the latter's wooden oratory on the site of York Minster 1706: The first four-day stage coaches from York to…
Fri Apr 12 19:59 An introduction into the offline world of her elders for the infant: 3 decade-older girls on a neighbouring swing discussing their lusts in detail, the politest bit being the description by one of warming her hands during the last cold snap by shoving them in her bra
Fri Apr 12 20:00 Comment: Painter Arie S gave art classes to girls at a Dutch sec mod before being signed up by the art college: "They used to sit there shouting obscenities with their feet on the tables, & the smell of fanny was overpowering. I had a nervous breakdown after a fortnight."
Fri Apr 12 20:54 I haven't seen any of the Resnais adaptations of Ayckbourn, but this from Paul Allen's bio
Fri Apr 12 21:14 RT @XiaoXMaVictoria: But I still want to tweet…Today, Leeds Tree Care levelled two trees at St Mark’s Avenue. The staff was kind and felt s…
Fri Apr 12 23:24 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 April 2024: Then: 1915: During the wartime Serbian typhus epidemic, Clifford Allbutt recalls the open-air treatment he used during the 1865-66 outbreak in Leeds Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 11°C (52°F), wind south…
Sat Apr 13 10:46 Great spotted woodpecker at eye level performing a vulturine inspection of the ailing horse chestnut outside
Sat Apr 13 20:38 Comment: @BBCLeeds No one in favour? Contrary to what Mr Lewis says, it's not "the people at the bottom that tend to suffer most" from parking charges (correlation poverty/lack of car access: , & some might prioritise eg libraries over free parking for the better off
Sat Apr 13 23:02 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 April 2024: Then: 1792: The ballad of Spence Broughton, hung this day at the York Tyburn for robbing the Sheffield and Rotherham mail 1843: John Nicholson, "the Airedale Poet," "the Bingley Baron," dies after falling into the Aire…
Sun Apr 14 07:05 Comment: @LeedsCivicTrust Your info link returns an error!
Mon Apr 15 01:39 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 April 2024: Then: 1729: John Hobson of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), pessimist, believes he is about to die 1779: The actor John Kemble is hounded at York by the North Riding Militia for asking a society girl to be quiet during a death…
Mon Apr 15 09:02 The elderly lady, now feeding the ducks, was not observed approaching along the bank, and we conclude that she must have emerged from the water. When I tell her this, she laughs like a duck.
Tue Apr 16 00:19 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 April 2024: Then: 1883: General Booth rebuts the Bishop of Oxford's claim that the Salvation Army organises darkroom orgies called "Crawling for Jesus" at York Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 7°C (44°F), wind north westerly…
Tue Apr 16 11:22 Ulrich Wickert's Neugier und Übermut unexpectedly enjoyable - much more than his father's son. Good bit re Werner Finck, famous line: "There are people who claim I was against the Nazis. That is slander. What I obviously must admit is something else: the Nazis were against me."
Tue Apr 16 20:13 Got the primary we wanted, thanks to a huge drop in pupil numbers & a corresponding increase in admissions radius - numbers below for Meanwood, Weetwood & Shire Oak. Now just hoping they don't get upset in September that she can already read & write.
Tue Apr 16 23:58 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 April 2024: Then: 1687: The Duke of Buckingham, rakish ex-favourite of Charles II, writes from his hovel deathbed in Kirkbymoorside (Ryedale), begging a ticket to heaven Now: Tonight: clear sky, temperature 3°C (38°F), wind north…
Wed Apr 17 10:38 Nice sangria
Wed Apr 17 10:47 14-yo Eric the dog's owner is drifting along in the sun: "Ooh, you caught me there. I've been in Wakefield, looking after my grandchildren, and I was just dreaming that I was sitting on a desert island, surrounded by cocktails." I think she's coming to help on the allotment.
Wed Apr 17 12:56 Woman will say anything to try to persuade people to vote Labour
Wed Apr 17 23:37 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 April 2024: Then: 1812: Dressed as a country lass, George Butler recites the West Riding dialect tragicomedy of Richard and Betty at the Theatre Royal, Ripon 1906: Easter trippers to Shipley Glen cause fires on Ilkley Moor,…
Thu Apr 18 11:07 Comment: @HedgehogCycling Given what he says, are there any sure signs the other lot will be better? Leeds has been Labour since the Ark, & they're not exactly big fans of 20 mph signs or enforcement
Thu Apr 18 23:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 April 2024: Then: 1747: The Methodist John Nelson is attacked by an affluent mob while preaching at Heworth Moor and Acomb (York) on Easter Sunday Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 8°C (47°F), wind westerly 16mph, visibility…
Fri Apr 19 19:09 The infant sometimes parrotizes "Polly want a cracker," often said to debut in 1848, but present, with childish spelling, in 1801 in the patriotic "Jefferson and Liberty." But if parrots learnt it from children, who taught it to the infant's informant, an 8-yo East Anglian girl?
Sat Apr 20 01:53 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 April 2024: Then: 1631: Quoting Elizabeth I's 1572 Vagabonds Act, Thirsk JPs order a crackdown on a variety of vagabonds 1835: A teetotallers' tea-party at the first, great, Wilsden Temperance Festival Now: Tonight: clear sky,…
Sat Apr 20 13:33 The Great Escape -> Chicken Run -> Harborough Holidays
Sat Apr 20 13:37 Not sure eating one's children's Easter eggs to save them from the dentist is on a par with taking a bullet from an infanticidal terrorist
Sat Apr 20 14:05 Unable to tell from someone's use of "they" whether Mrs is expecting twins or whether PC guidelines are in play
Sat Apr 20 17:19 Comment: @barbmilne Was "free use of burgesses" intended to exclude the inhabitants of Newcastle-under-Lyme?
Sun Apr 21 01:31 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 April 2024: Then: 1821: John Cockin, Holmfirth minister, describes the remains of Richard Frankland's late 17th century dissenting academy at Rathmell, Craven 1883: Peter Inchbald observes nightingales in Harrogate for the first…
Sun Apr 21 06:15 No reason why the infant's recited repertoire shouldn't include "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and "The elephant is a pretty bird,/ It swings from bough to bough,/ It makes its nest in the rhubarb tree,/ And whistles like a cow."
Sun Apr 21 19:49 The infant is invited ad hoc to a meeting of a silvan society. A worm is rescued with pride from a groundsheet, but left close by, & I notice later that it has been squashed. We hold hands, sing of eternal brotherhood, & depart. The infant: It was me trod on the worm.
Sun Apr 21 19:49 Comment: For a group whose old songbook included Ernst Busch's Komsomol Song & whose founder wrote a eugenicist treatise called The Child and the Race, they're curiously shy of discussing their historical connections with Russian and German totalitarianism.
Mon Apr 22 00:12 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 April 2024: Then: 1339: During a crackdown on unregulated yeast-related activity, Wooldale (Holmfirth) is fined for hiding Alice del Bothe, its unofficial alehouse-keeper 1771: The Leeds and Liverpool Canal appeals the prices…
Mon Apr 22 11:38 Permission from Mr Tiramisu to store tools in "the grey shed just along from you." Done, but yesterday there's a Marple-like lady weeding the plot, & another grey shed further along. Confess & risk scandal? I fear even now she's waiting in ambush in the shed, clutching my shears.
Mon Apr 22 19:37 A large gent dressed as a gangster walks into the knowledge centre looking for tech literature, leading some to wonder whether the local hashshāshīn are about to upgrade from machetes
Mon Apr 22 23:52 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 April 2024: Then: 1605: Debauched and ruined, Walter Calverley murders his first son at Calverley Hall (Bradford), and is later dramatised by Thomas Middleton 1642: Having promised parliament to safeguard for it Hull's crucial…
Tue Apr 23 23:31 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 April 2024: Then: 1688: At Pontefract, the new Catholic and Dissenting members of the judiciary send James II thanks for permitting freedom of conscience, leading him to believe it has popular support 1979: On the brink of power,…
Wed Apr 24 11:13 RT @yiihya: Wait until you read Çelebi's account of the annual witch fight between the Circassian and Abkhazian vampires:
Wed Apr 24 20:17 RT @PhilipArdagh: 1/4 My favourite Alison Uttley story comes from Gwyn Headley regarding Miss Uttley's one and only 'meet the author' event…
Wed Apr 24 23:10 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 April 2024: Then: 1641: The mole-hunting season begins in the Yorkshire Wolds 1668: Susannah Eyre rewards curious neighbours in her will Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 4°C (40°F), wind south westerly 9mph, visibility good,…
Thu Apr 25 09:05 Near miss on Wood Lane, Headingley at school dropoff time this morning. A boy cycling to @shireoakce came off Ridge Terrace and onto Wood Ln, where he was almost hit by a car travelling at ca 30 mph in the opposite direction on the wrong side - cars parked on the other side
Thu Apr 25 09:06 Comment: Zero enforcement of the 20 mph zone & infrequent checks on illegal/dangerous parking. The danger at Woodland Park Rd/Wood Lane would be greatly reduced if Wood Lane were filtered between Belmont House and Woodland Park Rd, where it only serves delivery drivers
Thu Apr 25 11:54 SMLNG CHNLNK?
Thu Apr 25 21:46 If Yorkshire is so close to God, why can't I think of a single serious messiah claimant from these parts?
Fri Apr 26 01:47 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 April 2024: Then: 1543: Robert Rawson, warder for the crown of the misses Levening, suggests to their mother at Acklam that she may wish to purchase them from him 1867: In a requiem to Hull's whaling industry, the Diana bears the…
Fri Apr 26 17:11 What's the best Gene Autry film? Has any living person seen them all?
Sat Apr 27 01:25 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 April 2024: Then: 1703: Ralph Thoresby of Leeds sends a list of "local" dialect words to the naturalist and linguist John Ray (an alphabet of favourites) 1888: Edwin Wild (6 months) of Sheffield is attacked for his milk by a ratting…
Sat Apr 27 06:17 A million miles away
Sat Apr 27 06:21 Comment: @BrynleyHeaven Nothing to do with Lincolnshire, of course
Sun Apr 28 01:05 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 April 2024: Then: 1489: Yorkshire tax rebels kill Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, at South Kilvington (Thirsk), giving rise to almost £900K expenses (2022) for his Beverley Minster funeral 1730: John Hobson meets a…
Mon Apr 29 00:42 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 April 2024: Then: ~1969: Jimmy Savile sexually assaults a 15-year-old girl at Staincliffe Hospital (later Dewsbury and District Hospital), to the amusement of bystanders Now: Tonight: light rain showers, temperature 6°C (42°F), wind…
Mon Apr 29 21:13 Dosser's Place, Driffield, on a mid-19th century town plan. I guess the developer was called Dossor & the slang meaning hadn't penetrated to the East Riding
Tue Apr 30 00:22 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 April 2024: Then: 1704: Whitby's Church of England parish register records a wedding celebrated, perhaps illegally, at the Quakers Meeting 1733: John Hobson sacks his maidservant for alcohol abuse 1872: MPs discuss drink, proverbial…
Tue Apr 30 03:55 RT @george_szirtes: These short lines of life don’t add up to very much, like odd crumbs of bread the jackdaw pecks at on the station pla…
Tue Apr 30 05:11 Types of English Peasantry - John Little Green, Allotments and Small Holdings (1896)