Extweets for July 2024

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

Mon Jul 01 00:06 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 July 2024: Then: 1718: The first issue of the Leeds Mercury consists of London news presided over by a woodcut of a fat postman in a wig 1788: Leeds textile workers celebrate the banning of exports of live sheep 1822: Sheffield…
Mon Jul 01 10:16 Comment: @BBCLeeds A lot of residents are pro or neutral. Our 4-yo loves the costumes & the gaiety, & it keeps a dozen business open along the road. The biggest danger along the road isn't vomit, but vehicle emissions & poor driving.
Mon Jul 01 18:57 Glastonbury Abbey rebuild
Mon Jul 01 18:59 Lose the tuba from Ravel Bolero
Mon Jul 01 19:09 Comment: @lordbonkers @MattCartoonist @Telegraph Oh dear.
Mon Jul 01 23:46 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 July 2024: Then: 1644: Henry Slingsby of the Royalist York garrison recounts Prince Rupert's defeat at Marston Moor today, which ends Charles I's hopes in the north 1829: An elderly postman and a one-legged Waterloo veteran set out…
Tue Jul 02 06:15 RT @Rainmaker1973: «To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion»
Tue Jul 02 20:34 Funny, but I don't recall the Mail rooting for Clegg's crap alternative to FPTP in the 2011 referendum
Tue Jul 02 23:27 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 July 2024: Then: 1643: The Royalists take Bradford after the Second Siege, but are warned off massacring the inhabitants by a ghost 1761: John Wesley visits an unjustly bankrupted Yarm liquor smuggler in York Castle 1769: Thomas…
Wed Jul 03 23:06 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 July 2024: Then: 1604: The daily timetable for Cicely Sandys' university at Ripon is approved today by Queen Anne of Denmark 1829: The first London buses commence service from the Yorkshire Stingo, New Road to Bank 1838: 26 girls and…
Thu Jul 04 10:12 Infant refused to enter polling station. Neither of us having seen any of the candidates, one concept had been to let her read as much as she could of the ballot paper and then cross her favourite word, reducing the list to parties with "Party" in their name.
Thu Jul 04 10:20 Meanwood Aldi/Waitrose walk already considerably more pleasant thanks to the ongoing redesign of what was a lethal junction
Thu Jul 04 10:24 Comment: @CatherineHarda3 @JohnDonoghue64 @matosman So not this Meanwood one, where they escaped
Fri Jul 05 01:41 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 July 2024: Then: 1603: In his will, William Clapham gives poor pupils at the Giggleswick free school something to celebrate on St Gregory's Day 1858: The view from the tower of Beverley Minster Now: Tonight: partly cloudy,…
Fri Jul 05 08:25 RT @jeuasommenulle: Crazy how much the electoral law matters : with a similar vote split among 3 main blocs, France will end up with a hung…
Fri Jul 05 08:30 RT @europebarguide: The wind is so strong in Leeds it is lifting the pub carpet in the Grove. For a moment I thought someone had slipped a…
Fri Jul 05 10:11 RT @markcurtis30: 20% of the electorate vote for a govt that will wield absolute power for the next 5 years, winning 63% of the seats with…
Sat Jul 06 01:21 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 July 2024: Then: 1381: John de Erghom and others in service of the Beverley oligarchy murder William Haldane and throw him in a pit on Walker Lane 1822: A journalist finds harmony in the fall of an elderly widow from York's city…
Sun Jul 07 01:00 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 July 2024: Then: 1641: Henry Best of Elmswell (Driffield) starts haymaking 1819: The Rev. Sydney Smith complains from Foston to the historian John Allen of summer colds Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 10°C (50°F), wind south…
Mon Jul 08 00:41 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 July 2024: Then: 1940: Amidst rumours of German parachutists, Evelyn Cardwell of Aldborough disarms and arrests an enemy airman Now: Tonight: clear sky, temperature 9°C (48°F), wind westerly 6mph, visibility good, pressure 1012mb,…
Tue Jul 09 00:20 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 July 2024: Then: 1680: The Protestant Robert Bolron says that William Battley of Leeds lied in saying that Bolron had falsely accused the Catholic Sir Thomas Gascoigne of treason, and was fussy about almanacs 1849: Suicide of a…
Tue Jul 09 09:26 Windows 11 has added an unwanted widget to the login screen which always reads "11ºC Heavier rain in about 1.5 hours." I think it's updating correctly.
Tue Jul 09 15:49 RT @RuthfulThe: The Japanese: a strange bunch of lads.
Tue Jul 09 22:32 Vote for St Mary's!
Tue Jul 09 23:15 RT @RichardHanania: I put into ChatGPT a quote from Bismarck about the horrors of traveling with children and it gave me this picture. http…
Wed Jul 10 00:00 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 July 2024: Then: 1869: Bridlington sees the first prosecution under the Sea Birds Preservation Act Now: Tonight: light cloud, temperature 15°C (59°F), wind south westerly 6mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1006mb, humidity 96%, UV…
Wed Jul 10 09:02 Spotted by a local childminder walking to the checkout with a £10 10-pack of Moretti. - Ooh, do you think you'll be celebrating tonight? - No, that's my lunch. The thought hadn't occurred, though I think NL will squeak it.
Wed Jul 10 13:16 RT @fietsprofessor: Systematic study of the effects of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities: 🚗⬇️ 23% in nr. of road crashes ⚰️⬇️ 37% nr.…
Wed Jul 10 16:17 Wind turbines as gay conversion therapy
Wed Jul 10 16:23 Comment: All flows from research for my scheme to include a windmill in the replacement of the Little Sisters of the Poor care home on Mount St Joseph / St Michael's Mount, Shire Oak Road, Headingley
Wed Jul 10 16:30 Comment: The nearest surviving windmill is on Potternewton Mount, behind Sugar Well Hill. Here it is at school kicking out time, with parents parking on the pavement so the traffic warden won't ticket them for being on the yellow zigzag lines
Wed Jul 10 17:41 "We've got a rather curious piano upstairs." A Broadwood square - what a pleasure.
Wed Jul 10 23:38 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 July 2024: Then: 1787: Advertisement for The Commercial and Mathematical Academy, Hull 1829: A Leeds Mercury subscriber asks why Christians do not seek to refute the claims of the Rev. Robert Taylor and Richard Carlile's "infidel…
Thu Jul 11 15:54 Comment: @Transblawg Most people even know the 'German blood' line. Crazy.
Thu Jul 11 19:32 Longish Covid, so, "Daddy, when you die, can I have your wallet?"
Thu Jul 11 20:04 Come and see Claire Hender's mixed-media paintings & photo transfer monoprints inspired by the trees of #WoodhouseRidge #Headingley at Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club on 20-21 July - part of #KirkstallArtTrail, 2nd 11 playing Saturday, excellent bar!
Thu Jul 11 23:18 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 July 2024: Then: 1692: Philip Wharton finances the annual donation of large numbers of English bibles and catechisms to poor children in York 1770: William Hickington, the Pocklington Poet, writes a verse-will Now: Tonight: light…
Fri Jul 12 10:10 RT @elmundotoday: Biden envía 40.000 millones de dólares, 200 misiles y 500 antimisiles a Rusia tras confundirla con Ucrania:
Fri Jul 12 13:03 Effective corruption legislation? Only needed for those devious southern Europeans!
Fri Jul 12 19:48 A great book (& a corrective to the view, promoted by influencers, of the Netherlands as a paradise for cyclists/children)
Fri Jul 12 21:28 The revolutionary socialist Norman Harding (1929-2013) says in Staying Red that Lord Haw-Haw announced one evening that the Nazis were going to make Leeds's Quarry Hill flats their northern headquarters. Any evidence for this?
Sat Jul 13 01:53 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 July 2024: Then: 1503: On her way to marry James IV of Scotland, Margaret Tudor (13) is met between Sirowsby and Doncaster by a euphonious sheriff 1626: Charles I gives the borough of Leeds its first municipal charter, reflecting…
Sat Jul 13 19:31 The infant's introduction to applied surrealism continues with Carmen Miranda and her Tutti-Frutti hat Bonus: lots of monkeys and organ-grinders
Sat Jul 13 19:47 The allotment beds slope, giving run-off, so considering rotating 90º to contour-hug, & even of building top-down irrigation like in the Pyrenees. But I can't understand why ridge and furrow also aligns with slopes - unless, like Thomas Tusser, you always put peas at the bottom
Sun Jul 14 00:36 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 July 2024: Then: 1663: Leeds borough returns for the hearth tax, designed to pay for the household of Charles II 1969: Mr Whale, a Leeds butcher, buys his first car Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 12°C (53°F), wind westerly…
Sun Jul 14 12:25 Early reactions: - Ear, ear. - No, no: MB took the ears off a horse with his glider, and no one shot him, though the animal was clearly presidential material.
Mon Jul 15 00:13 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 July 2024: Then: 1802: In the Hambleton Hills, Dorothy and William Wordsworth visit Rievaulx and see Scottish cattle travelling to London 1855: At Sevastopol in the Crimea, boatswain's mate John Sheppard of Hull wins a VC trying to…
Mon Jul 15 06:27 So PR without compulsory voting means poor areas losing any voice they had?
Mon Jul 15 11:58 Perhaps faith in democracy, in the form of turnout, would have been higher than 45% in Leeds Central and Headingley if Leeds City Council had not used a grossly inaccurate map on the polling cards issued for the station at James Baillie Park
Mon Jul 15 12:17 Comment: P says it's about equity - everyone gets some high ground and some low
Mon Jul 15 20:51 - Daddy, can we leave lousy old Leeds [dunno where she got that] and go and live in Barcelona? - Why? - They've got proper ice cream. We've got 13ºC, heavy rain, and a gentle breeze
Mon Jul 15 23:57 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 July 2024: Then: 1638: Henry Best and several other well-off citizens of Elmswell (Driffield) are taxed to help relieve plague-stricken Hull 1858: Walter White meets two Middlesbrough families on Roseberry Topping Now: Tonight:…
Tue Jul 16 09:47 I know someone who knows the next VP. Unfortunately he is very discreet. I am still nobody.
Tue Jul 16 23:41 I don't believe a source exists for the claim that there is a Suffolk version of the Lowlands of Holland (Roud 484) containing the following lines re the Battle of Minden: My love across the ocean Wears a scarlet coat so fair, With a musket at his shoulder And roses in his hair.
Wed Jul 17 01:36 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 July 2024: Then: 1785: Mr Strother, a York draper's assistant, finds that diarising is not for common folk 1815: John Dunhill and William Bewell stand trial for their lives shortly after Waterloo, accused of the riotous demolition…
Wed Jul 17 08:51 No end yet for Headingley Christmas, the season when our future leaders fly-tip their houses onto the streets & go home in mummy's SUV. Yesterday, an unusual find: a £50 balance bike, whose previous owner didn't realise that you can raise the handlebars & saddle
Wed Jul 17 11:23 If Starmer isn't going to legalise pavement parking in Islington, why's he not going to ban it in Headingley?
Wed Jul 17 12:21 The sun is out at the Headingley lights, & absentmindedly I start to quietly sing "A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces/ An airline ticket to romantic places/ & still my heart has wings." Ladies on either side look up, smiling. "I like a man who whistles, too," says one.
Wed Jul 17 12:37 Comment: The twin curses of phones and cars have killed human street noise, both individual & institutional (marching bands). Even roofers no longer shout sexist abuse. What a world.
Wed Jul 17 18:13 She probably got some important things wrong, but I'm still a fan Safier on the other hand...
Wed Jul 17 19:45 RT @livingstreets: We're sending the new Transport Secretary @LouHaigh a greeting card to congratulate her on her appointment, and ask for…
Wed Jul 17 20:40 Gathering support for the notion that a the new care home projected for St Michael's Mount (aka Mount St Joseph), Shire Oak Rd, Headingley, might incorporate in its design a functional windmill styled after the whirling wings of the archangel
Thu Jul 18 00:18 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 July 2024: Then: 1784: Wesley finds children "restrained from open sin" at one of the first Sunday schools, at Bingley 1848: The sanitation committee of Bradford Council experience the use of iron(III) chloride and iron(II) sulphate…
Thu Jul 18 06:29 Comment: @HedgehogCycling & I guess construction emissions are about to rise
Thu Jul 18 23:56 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 July 2024: Then: 1761: John Wesley speaks at the first love-feast at Birstall 1849: As William Clarke's All-England Eleven begins a match against a Hull 22, the local paper notes the failure of seaports to produce good cricketers…
Fri Jul 19 10:12 Witnessed the oily column of smoke rising from the bus burning in Harehills yesterday evening from the east window of the tower of St Chad's, Far Headingley. But the assembled mathematicians were puzzling whether Bristol Surprise works before Percy's Tea Strainer, or some such
Fri Jul 19 10:14 Comment: AD 793 Lindisfarne flunkey: I see Vikings approaching from the east. Monks: Please don't bother us now, we think we've found a new problem with the Easter date calculation determined by the Synod of Whitby
Fri Jul 19 23:33 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 July 2024: Then: 1849: Jane Carlyle tells husband Thomas how she rebelled against the brutal hydrotherapy meted out by Dr William Macleod at Ben Rhydding spa, Ilkley 1858: Haymaking with the Quakers of Bainbridge, Wensleydale 1858:…
Sat Jul 20 20:09 Comment: @GroomB Use it or lose it?
Sat Jul 20 23:11 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 July 2024: Then: 1666: A white ghost army is seen by the Don near Sheffield Now: Tonight: thundery showers, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind westerly 11mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1005mb, humidity 83%, UV risk 2/11, pollution…
Sun Jul 21 20:23 RT @lordbonkers: Liberal England: It's time we had a talk about the birds and the bees
Sun Jul 21 21:04 RT @BrynleyHeaven: Well-written Middlesbrough to Scarborough reopening dream
Sun Jul 21 21:59 Uber paying the restaurant 50% of the cost of a takeaway is a rare case of the elderly & wealthy subsidising the younger & poorer. Won't last.
Sun Jul 21 22:07 Infant v confident on the balance bike found last week - no helmet, no errors - but yesterday on a steep path in Beckett Park she seems to lose control. I run my fastest 100m this century, shouting "Jump now," but as I overtake she gives a withering glance: "I'm fine!"
Mon Jul 22 01:48 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 July 2024: Then: 1932: Bradford Lord Mayor George Walker, on a jolly to France to make composer Frederick Delius a freeman, is taxed mercilessly by customs officials Now: Tonight: drizzle, temperature 13°C (56°F), wind southerly…
Tue Jul 23 01:27 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 July 2024: Then: 1838: Mary Morellee of Birstwith (Nidderdale) is killed in a stagecoach race on Lofthouse Hill 1955: Philip Larkin tells his "bun" that he doesn't fancy Beverley's "rabbit" Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature…
Wed Jul 24 00:10 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 July 2024: Then: 1761: Jonas Rushford (14) of Bradford tells a perhaps envious John Wesley how the Skipton magician Timothy Crowther helped him find a missing man 1766: Hats off for Jesus at Pateley Bridge 1771: Actor-manager Tate…
Wed Jul 24 08:35 Pitchers at an exhibition: - What's that meant to be? - If you can't draw, it's abstract. New cricket formats were meant to have improved script quality.
Wed Jul 24 23:48 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 July 2024: Then: 1603: Sir Richard Wortley, persecutor of his neighbours, dies, and is zoomorphised as the protagonist of the ballad of the Dragon of Wantley 1730: John Hobson encounters two outlandish, free-living men at Thirsk…
Thu Jul 25 07:22 There still are insects out there, just not very many in Headingley - even on the allotment. A large white butterfly tried to fly into my mouth the other day, but both of us survived.
Fri Jul 26 01:28 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 July 2024: Then: 1699: Doncaster magistrates hear how Dr. Greene, a mountebank, assaulted those who sought to cancel his show 1802: Dorothy Wordsworth travels with brother William from Scarborough across the Wolds to Beverley and…
Sat Jul 27 01:07 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 July 2024: Then: 1612: Jennet Preston, the only Yorkshirewoman among the Pendle witches, is found guilty at York of the murder of Thomas Lister of Westby Hall, Gisburn (Ribble Valley) 1822: An inquest at York finds that John Furnel…
Sun Jul 28 00:46 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 July 2024: Then: 1348: Archbishop Zouche writes from Cawood Palace to York ordering action against the great pestilence threatening England - the Black Death 1809: The Napoleonic career of Richard Beckett of the Coldstream Guards,…
Sun Jul 28 23:27 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 July 2024: Then: 1895: The Law Lords rule that Edward Pickles of Trooper's Farm may, even in malice, divert water under his property away from Bradford's Hewenden Reservoir Now: Tonight: clear sky, temperature 13°C (56°F), wind…
Mon Jul 29 19:49 Periodic reminder that, contrary to the claims of developers & estate agents, The Ellers by Ellers Bridge on the Leeds-Bradford road is NOT the house depicted by JMW Turner in his view of Kirkstall Lock (and Abbey)
Mon Jul 29 20:29 Last week pretty much written off by a covidish infection. One of the few pleasures: Lejos, by Rosa Ribas, set in a Spanish ghost-town after the last construction bust. Infant liked the bit questioning how, if the family were starving, did Hansel have enough bread to mark a path
Mon Jul 29 20:32 Comment: Apparently there's a pending English translation entitled Far, rather than eg Far Away or Far Off
Mon Jul 29 23:04 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 July 2024: Then: 1661: John Ray encounters the effigy of a tragic Inuit in his canoe at Hull Trinity House 1798: The homeward-bound Greenland whaler Blenheim fights off a Royal Navy press gang in Hull harbour, killing two boarders…
Tue Jul 30 19:41 Nice slide now at Leeds Central Library's children's section, but virtually all books & chairs gone. Not so keen either on the guy jacking up in the CCTV-free first aisle. But outside the infant played street chess with coaching from a curious gent, so life's rich tapestry, etc
Tue Jul 30 20:52 Met a small boy called Oliver today & now unable to get Russ Conway out of my head
Wed Jul 31 01:42 Yorkshire Almanac: 31 July 2024: Then: 1667: Thomas Danby, Leeds's first mayor, is stabbed to death late at night in London 1846: Pudsey celebrates repeal of the Corn Laws with a ca. 1725 kg free-trade plum pudding 1881: Underway to the Bicycle Touring…