Extweets for August 2024

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

Thu Aug 01 01:21 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 August 2024: Then: 1813: The 51st Foot wear bay leaves, not white roses, on Minden (now Yorkshire) Day, as they drive the French back over the Pyrenees 1833: At Kelfield (East Riding), Hannah Beedham fails to fulfil her prophecy of…
Thu Aug 01 20:01 RT @jk_rowling: Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogyni…
Thu Aug 01 20:51 All we need now from the council is a green bin
Thu Aug 01 20:54 Saw my first wrens' nest today - bored between the bristles of a round broom hung from the roof of a potting shed
Fri Aug 02 01:03 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 August 2024: Then: 1680: William Dolben, perhaps reluctantly, condemns Thomas Thwing to death at York for his part, without co-conspirators, in a fictitious conspiracy - the Popish Plot Now: Tonight: clear sky, temperature 14°C…
Fri Aug 02 20:53 Good to see attention for balaclavas in Sunderland, puzzling though that the rapid growth in their use in crime elsewhere over the last few years isn't reflected proportionately in the written corpus.
Fri Aug 02 21:46 Comment: @Transblawg Nah, "masked" drags in all kinds of people (those in burqas & rooster masks) beloved of the public. (Do evil wearers of balaclavas relish the scary Russianism?)
Sat Aug 03 00:42 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 August 2024: Then: 1846: Aged one month, Frances Jane Campbell becomes the latest Leeds victim of the opiate epidemic 1873: Eight years after the end of slavery in the United States, the Fisk Jubilee Singers reduce a crowded Hull…
Sat Aug 03 07:20 How to create grey belt from green
Sat Aug 03 09:21 Comment: @petersymon But they leave you cold in winter...
Sat Aug 03 09:54 Comment: @BrynleyHeaven So do you think HMG wants to abolish the green belt without formally doing so? I'm a novice in all this.
Sat Aug 03 10:05 Comment: @BrynleyHeaven Thanks!
Sat Aug 03 11:48 Paradox of allotmenteers, who tend to worry about things like runoff & flooding, opting to pave & greenhouse their patches because that's the only way forward in increasingly poor growing conditions (weather, bugs, weeds)
Sat Aug 03 20:24 Myles N, in selling me a nice leg of lamb, tells me that much of our national produce goes to Spanish supermarkets, which might explain why lamb in Barcelona tastes so little like that killed in fortuitous accidents in the high Pyrenees
Sat Aug 03 20:42 On the other hand, Le grand Meaulnes is now so easy to rediscover that I'm going to try the French e-book tonight
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Sat Aug 03 23:26 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 August 2024: Then: 1661: The tenant of St Robert's cave, Knaresborough, tells the parson-naturalist John Ray the legend of the saint and the cripple Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind westerly 6mph, visibility…
Sun Aug 04 10:39 RT @elsewhr: @BrynleyHeaven Just happened on this picture of Soweto, perhaps if we painted some spitfires on ours, to suit local tastes as…
Sun Aug 04 23:05 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 August 2024: Then: 1661: John Ray is told that a knocked-through lighting niche in the Anglo-Saxon crypt under Ripon minster is a chastity test device 1661: John Ray visits Copgrove (Harrogate), the pauper's spa 1685: John Thompson,…
Mon Aug 05 09:11 "Grendel's mother knows where you live"
Mon Aug 05 11:39 The infant demanded a reading of The Battle of Houseboat Bay from Swallows and Amazons this AM before breakfast: "He made a jolly good pirate," said Captain John. "It's a pity he's so old," said Roger. "He isn't so awfully old," said Titty.
Mon Aug 05 20:05 A good short voxpop piece from Rotherham by Georgia Oost (€) Brief impression is that the British media have lost their way
Mon Aug 05 21:04 Comment: "Titty" may seem a slightly unfortunate name now - it didn't in the 1920s - but the infant goes one worse & uses the popular modern diminutive, "Tits"
Tue Aug 06 01:43 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 August 2024: Then: 1861: Future prime minister H.H. Asquith (8) writes to his mother condemning Fulneck (Pudsey) and its Moravian school Now: Tonight: light cloud, temperature 16°C (61°F), wind south westerly 10mph, visibility…
Wed Aug 07 01:24 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 August 2024: Then: 1611: Jonas Poole's London whaler sinks in Forlandsundet (Spitsbergen), but Thomas Marmaduke is initially reluctant to take the survivors on board the Hopewell of Hull Now: Tonight: clear sky, temperature 13°C…
Wed Aug 07 06:24 Comment: @LeedsArtGallery Any chance that the exhibition programme will be published online? I don't think the ones in the gallery are intended as takeaways.
Wed Aug 07 12:33 Comment: Could be worse: infant abbreviates "sister" as "cyst"
Thu Aug 08 01:04 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 August 2024: Then: 1514: Sir Thomas Wortley's death inaugurates the memorial he has built for himself at Wharncliffe 1863: The police are invited to an illegal cricket match on Woodhouse Moor (Leeds), designed to test the byelaws…
Thu Aug 08 07:43 An elderly Dutch lady once told me of eating camps following liberation in 1945 - children sent en masse to the country to fix malnourishment & reintroduce normal eating/cleanliness/etc. Can't find exactly that, but this re Dutch kids in England is close
Thu Aug 08 07:46 Comment: But which cathedral school did Jan Sintemaartensdijk attend?
Thu Aug 08 09:13 First batch of blackberry jam coming up. Early this year, & very tart. Did slightly less than usual last year & gave away too much.
Thu Aug 08 19:57 Comment: @NHPNA1 Aren't they doing a floating bus stop at Wetherspoons? OK if done well. All outbound stops between Hyde Park Cnr & Richmond Ave (Cumberland Rd/North Hill Rd/North Grange Rd) already shut - drivers refuse to stop in case someone is hit by a 30mph e-bike -> 750m without a bus stop!
Thu Aug 08 22:40 Infant asked to walk the 2 miles to swimming pool today - hope for humanity
Fri Aug 09 00:44 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 August 2024: Then: 1661: John Ray encounters kelp-makers on the coast between Scarborough and Whitby 1805: Joseph Locke, who made the railways pay, is born under indifferent auspices at Attercliffe (Sheffield) 1845: Young George…
Sat Aug 10 00:21 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 August 2024: Then: 1766: John Wesley crowd-counts 20,000 at Daw Green, Dewsbury 1870: The foundation stone of Bradford Town Hall is laid today, but not by ex-mayor Edward West, godfather of the project Now: Tonight: partly cloudy,…
Sat Aug 10 14:22 Comment: @NHPNA1 @Jonathan_Pryor Now 900m Hyde Park Corner-Richmond Ave, 750m HPC-the proposed stop at the Golden Beam in a densely populated area, London range is 300-400m In this case more bikes means less public transport
Sat Aug 10 14:25 Comment: @NHPNA1 @Jonathan_Pryor The floating bus stops are badly designed - sudden bends just before & after stops - using the road probably safer for cyclists. (All this supposes that the final plan - which doesn't seem to be public domain - is the same as the consultation. Was the latter symbolic?)
Sat Aug 10 14:28 Comment: @NHPNA1 @Jonathan_Pryor If you want a decent stretch of road for pedestrians/cyclists/bus users, you need to remove most of the motor vehicles rather than making non-drivers fight among themselves
Sat Aug 10 16:43 Talking to a culturally Hindu lady whose parents were driven out of East Africa by black socialist nationalism & out of Dewsbury by brown religious nationalism of a Muslim persuasion, & who herself is less than chuffed by recent outbreaks of white alcoholic nationalism
Sun Aug 11 00:00 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 August 2024: Then: 1823: The Hull Packet publishes a selection of cross-column typographical serendipities 1863: A painful scene at the burial of Adam Watson at Worsbrough Dale (Barnsley) 1875: The Whitby town crier's unique act for…
Sun Aug 11 20:31 Kamala Harris is a Gertrude Stein tribute act and I endorse her
Sun Aug 11 20:47 Local band believes Oye Cómo Va is in Portuguese
Sun Aug 11 23:42 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 August 2024: Then: 1439: Joan Cantcliffe, widow, buys a pension and a lifetime lease on a basement flat in the hall of the Mistry of Mercers, York 1772: Writing to George Selwyn, Horace Walpole contemplates a living death at Castle…
Mon Aug 12 23:19 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 August 2024: Then: 1788: Emigrating from Grenada to England, the parrots of William Butterworth of Leeds survive a Caribbean hurricane 1821: The laments of Ann Barber, adulterous poisoner, on the scaffold at York 1877: For want of a…
Tue Aug 13 19:45 - I work in Headingley but commute from Tong because prices here have gone up so much. - That's the fault of immigrants like us, isn't it. - I don't mind as long as you're improving the area. - We do our best.
Tue Aug 13 22:10 Comment: @ianpacemain Grendel's mum knows where you live, mate.
Wed Aug 14 01:01 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 August 2024: Then: 1673: A retired coal miner, unable to live from carding wool, decides to return to a pit at Royds Hall (Bradford) Now: Tonight: heavy rain, temperature 13°C (56°F), wind northerly 8mph, visibility moderate,…
Thu Aug 15 00:40 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 August 2024: Then: 1677: John Thoresby writes from Leeds to his son Ralph in London recommending he keep a diary 1781: The ineffably peripatetic John Wesley discovers a movable pulpit in Sheffield 1805: The Sheffield volunteer…
Fri Aug 16 00:18 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 August 2024: Then: 1819: James Lees of Saddleworth attends a public meeting in favour of male suffrage at St Peter's Square, Manchester - Peterloo 1842: Lancastrian plug-drawing rioters invade Skipton in an attempt to halt the mills…
Sat Aug 17 01:58 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 August 2024: Then: 1561: William Strickland arrives at Flamborough and interviews witnesses of the northerly passage along the coast of Mary, Queen of Scots 1618: Walking from London to Edinburgh, Ben Jonson drives a parson and an…
Sun Aug 18 01:36 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 August 2024: Then: 1730: Elizabeth Hawksworth endeavours to mount a horse behind her husband 1812: Lady Ludd leads bread rioters through the streets of Leeds 1889: Eight survivors of prostate surgery present themselves to a meeting…
Mon Aug 19 01:15 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 August 2024: Then: 1641: Henry Best of Elmswell (Driffield) begins to harvest mixed grain, and gleaners wait in the wings 1728: An elderly gamekeeper at Pilley recalls the extrajudicial execution of a Dodworth man on the orders of…
Mon Aug 19 08:17 Rushed images of a bunch of sexton beetles (Nicrophorus vespilloides) visiting a dying shrew on the Cam High Road. No time to figure out whether they were extracting bits of it or calculating the logistics of dragging it pre or post mortem to the verge
Tue Aug 20 00:54 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 August 2024: Then: 1915: The final letter to his father of Private Charles Langrick, 1st/5th Bn., The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment 1919: Two months after the Treaty of Versailles, the Daily News reports the arrival in…
Wed Aug 21 00:32 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 August 2024: Then: 1774: Emanuel Bowes returns to Captain John Bolton's house in Bulmer before his master has finished disposing of his pregnant fellow-apprentice, Elizabeth Rainbow (16) 1880: Johnnie W. recounts a wildflower…
Wed Aug 21 08:30 One of the allotment committee fears that their abiding memory of this summer will be that of a man being pursued across the site by two small girls, clad only in mud suits & armed with mud pies. Next up:
Wed Aug 21 08:46 Diagnosis in the 1st of July's terrible Covids came at 3 AM when I found I had forgotten the inch-cm conversion factor &, worse, the 1st 12 places of π. I memorised ca 30 as a useless small boy, clutching at the straw that some cataclysm would make me the world's circle guru
Wed Aug 21 09:06 Comment: @eva_moreda I think Barea said somewhere that his childhood was an act of collective recollection, but "individual creation" might be closer - eg the 1903 Paris-Madrid race didn't actually get to Madrid. I love Baroja - 20 years older makes medieval depths tangible
Wed Aug 21 18:09 - The only day we've got free for a playdate with the Infanta is the Monday before term starts. - Great, I was going to take her to a livestock auction! Do you want to come along? - I've just looked & we can do the Wednesday.
Wed Aug 21 21:24 The infant is happy to be home in Leeds: "I liked Bath, but it's nice to be back in England."
Thu Aug 22 00:12 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 August 2024: Then: 1138: King David of Scotland is overtaken near Northallerton by a furious local army in possession of a great standard: a Victorian view 1572: The head of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland and leader of the…
Thu Aug 22 16:01 In Otley's lovely library + 2 small girls, post sheep auction, & talking to ex-teacher from our local + 3 kids: Her: That book he has is one of a series written by AI - as long as it gets 'em into reading Me: Really?! Tho all the book ads on Kindle must be for AI-generated stuff
Thu Aug 22 20:37 RT @THEAGENTAPSLEY: When it's almost always Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky, hearing another's a good idea, but is Henry Wood's (1915)…
Thu Aug 22 22:10 Politics would be simpler to understand if all donations over £1000 had to be called bribes
Thu Aug 22 23:50 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 August 2024: Then: 1681: John Heywood's is ordained at John Hey's in Craven 1933: John Betjeman witnesses the opening of the Leeds Civic Hall Now: Tonight: heavy rain, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind southerly 17mph, visibility…
Fri Aug 23 19:51 A Rastaman in the library is pleased to note that his hat is bigger than mine but less pleased when he discovers we're reading Dr Seuss's Cat in the Hat
Fri Aug 23 21:12 Cf the argument that child benefit should only be paid from child no. 3
Fri Aug 23 23:29 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 August 2024: Then: 1832: The Rev Henry Nussey - St John Rivers in Jane Eyre - attends his church's Sunday School festival at Birstall 1870: Fakesong by an army captain about the sights of the St. Bartholomew's Fair today at Reeth,…
Sat Aug 24 23:07 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 August 2024: Then: 1662: Following Charles II's purge of Presbyterian ministers, Roundhead Captain John Hodgson of Coley Hall (Halifax) is again harassed as a suspected plotter 1840: Debating the teetotal vegetarian Frederic Lees at…
Mon Aug 26 01:43 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 August 2024: Then: 1600: Powerful local Catholics invade the Hackness (Scarborough) home of Sir Thomas Hoby, Puritan commissioner and newcomer, demanding bed and board 1693: Thomas Sharp, a Leeds nonconformist minister, finds some…
Mon Aug 26 21:39 Did the prospective parents of Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club's batter Warrick Rhode attend Old Trafford before the Warwick Road End was renamed after Brian Statham?
Tue Aug 27 01:21 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 August 2024: Then: 1673: John Holden fatally mugs his wife at Lightcliffe (Calderdale), but witnesses are fearful, and the jury sees only manslaughter Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 15°C (58°F), wind southerly 9mph,…
Tue Aug 27 07:03 I might have a metabolically independent incubation organ for breakfast
Tue Aug 27 08:20 I guess we thought NCT was an expensive & cultish social network, & that with a baby we'd get to know lots of people anyway
Tue Aug 27 08:23 What's the posh word for sheep-friend? Oviphile is pretty rare
Tue Aug 27 22:26 Infant sad that A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman is a PR film populated by self-congratulatory luvvies, instead of analysis of the company's stop-motion techniques. I am sad that "Aardman" isn't "earthman" < clay
Wed Aug 28 03:00 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 August 2024: Then: 1661: The York assizes hear of a fatal military brawl at a Malton inn, involving rouges (roundheads), Charles II's pardon for crimes during the interregnum, and flatulence Now: Tonight: light rain showers,…
Wed Aug 28 19:30 Bradford competing for public transport connectivity failure with Leeds, whose station is the only large one I've been to where there's no "Buses This Way" sign - because they're all over the place
Wed Aug 28 21:16 Infant FM's latest opening gag: I went on holiday to Bath, but I didn't have a bath.
Wed Aug 28 23:41 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 August 2024: Then: 1570: On arriving in Yorkshire, Archbishop Grindal begins his battle against bloody-minded folk-Catholicism 1914: The local newspaper reproves a Rothwell councillor who called for women not to sew for the troops…
Thu Aug 29 04:56 There's a Labour voter who seriously believes that a woman who just expanded City Airport from 6.5 to 9 million passengers, & who works for a chubby bloke in an SUV, will publish the Tory consultation & end #PavementParking
Thu Aug 29 05:22 The spread of squash plants over a patch as metaphor for their spread over the world - I don't think I'd eaten one till about 2000. Also Peter C. of the Caribbean's success in growing them on hillocks - not quite Hügelkultur - "Black magic!"
Thu Aug 29 23:19 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 August 2024: Then: 1766: "I will haf tish man, he gifs my pipes room for to shpeak": organ-builder John Snetzler selects an organist for Halifax parish church 1935: Praise for Leeds's slum clearance schemes Now: Tonight: clear sky,…
Fri Aug 30 21:23 A lovely day at the end of the infant's holiday, with fish & chips on a bench on the south side of St Oswald's, Filey - ecclesiastical highlight (+ Adel parish church) of the summer. Gent in the churchyard "promoted to glory", later joined by Mrs, "also promoted to glory"
Fri Aug 30 21:27 Comment:
Fri Aug 30 21:48 Consensus that "rascal" doesn't rhyme well enough with "castle", & that the king used a different word
Sat Aug 31 03:56 Yorkshire Almanac: 31 August 2024: Then: 1651: John Wilks (Thompson, Smith...), of Knaresborough gives a York court a glimpse of the life of a Catholic hedge priest 1785: The public intervene in the ascent by balloon of Joseph Decker at York Racecourse…