Extweets for June 2024

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

Sat Jun 01 20:08 On the train back from a tiring day in York, the table opposite is occupied by 4 hard-drinking lads, but I fall asleep anyway. When I wake up, just short of Arthington, they have aged 25 years and put on as many kilos - a reverse Rip van Winkle, presumably performed in Harrogate
Sat Jun 01 23:33 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 June 2024: Then: 1755: John Wesley ponders the cause of the huge landslip ("like many cannons, or loud and rolling thunder") of 25 March at Whitestone Cliff (Hambleton Hills) 1867: Dr Clifford Allbutt tells the Epidemiological…
Mon Jun 03 01:11 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 June 2024: Then: 1648: Disguised as a furniture remover, John Morris takes Pontefract castle for the Stuarts (and for himself) 1917: A mob wrecks and loots Jewish shops and houses in east-central Leeds Now: Tonight: partly cloudy,…
Mon Jun 03 06:19 Me: The slugs Nestor: At least you're not a Zambian peasant, crops trampled by elephants, who know they're protected & use their tusks to clear electric fencing M: Small mercies N: Briefly, for the Gulf Stream will fail, & then woolly mammoths will roam the allotments of Leeds
Mon Jun 03 21:38 - I worry about the child of the international students next door, which screams all night. The man works late for Uber Eats, &, since the curtains are closed all day, I wonder if the woman does too. - Abandoned children don't scream. I've seen the mother: children perplex her.
Mon Jun 03 22:31 Why I like Matty Long
Mon Jun 03 22:33 Comment:
Tue Jun 04 00:51 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 June 2024: Then: 1838: The low-church Leeds Library censors a high-church novel in which a shady young evangelical clergyman wins the affections of a wealthy young widow Now: Tonight: light cloud, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind…
Tue Jun 04 06:09 Has anyone else noticed the great similarity between the legends of the origins of the Lac de Lourdes and of Semerwater? I'm guessing the latter is a late C19th invention, inspired by a visit to Lourdes following Bernadette Soubirous's vision of the Virgin in 1858
Tue Jun 04 06:14 Comment: Mary Eyre in the early 1860s, which suggests I'm wrong about the Bernadette tourism
Tue Jun 04 06:17 Comment: Vito Carrassi didn't make my specific observation, but did a nice comparative on legends of flooded cities inc Lourdes & Semerwater
Tue Jun 04 10:26 Darkness at noon again - another slugfest. Don't recall liking Koestler's novel, but recently read Arrow in the Blue - autobio as good as György Faludy's Happy Days in Hell - 1920s Israeli Zionism & C European communism, & being an honest if quite unlikeable human in hard times
Wed Jun 05 00:28 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 June 2024: Then: 1696: The Great Recoinage brings a satellite of the Royal Mint to York and rioting to Rochdale 1866: Crew members of the whaler Diana (Hull) climb an Arctic hillside and leave a memento of home Now: Tonight: clear…
Wed Jun 05 05:57 Comment: Did the swamped city legend show for Lourdes or Semer Water before the 1840s?
Wed Jun 05 06:10 Speculation that the PCSO famous for avoiding action may be about to post on Instagram: observed tarrying in the woods to avoid the e-biked & masked premature recyclers of students' belongings, & taking a selfie on the Hill of Death
Wed Jun 05 13:24 Might typing El Niño without tilde - El Nino - save us from climate catastrophe?
Wed Jun 05 20:37 So what are you meant to do if you think that replacing FPTP with PR is paramount, but of the three national parties promising it the only one likely to deliver is Reform?
Thu Jun 06 00:07 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 June 2024: Then: 1641: Under a waning gibbous moon, armed with a penknife and sticky-willy unguent, a shepherd castrates Henry Best's lambs at Elmswell (Driffield) 1817: A government agent provocateur on his way to a meeting of…
Thu Jun 06 20:37 An elderly man is lying on the grass next to his potatoes. - Hi, how's it going? - Just having a little rest. Some folk spend a hundred a month on a gym, but I get all that exercise here for free, and I've never felt better. - To be fair, I did think you were dead when I saw you.
Thu Jun 06 23:47 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 June 2024: Then: 1703: A list of shares in ship-owning partnerships held by Samuel Pinder of Whitby on this date 1767: Far from the metropolis, the Rev Laurence Sterne says he is happy at Coxwold Now: Tonight: partly cloudy,…
Fri Jun 07 23:26 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 June 2024: Then: 0793: Alcuin of York reflects in a poem on the devastation this day of Lindisfarne by Vikings 1561: A York official explains why textile manufacturing has left his city for the West Riding 1646: As the First English…
Sat Jun 08 09:25 - Daddy, do we have to go to the Methodists? They scare me. - That's the Congregationalists.
Sat Jun 08 09:49 Comment: @arthistorynews Predicted range for Headingley for the next fortnight: 6-20. The spuds should survive.
Sat Jun 08 17:12 A dual birthday party. - But I thought you said the little girl was your friend, and not the little boy?! - It's OK, I told him we didn't get him a present. - How did he take it? - He didn't care.
Sat Jun 08 23:05 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 June 2024: Then: 1758: Entry into law of the first dedicated railway enabling act, for Richard Humble and Charles Brandling's wagonway from Middleton Colliery to the Aire at Leeds Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 9°C (49°F),…
Sun Jun 09 20:36 RT @OSM_Photography: We've just launched a second community share offer to secure the Farmers Arms in Muker. If you'd like to join over 460…
Mon Jun 10 01:40 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 June 2024: Then: 1846: John Richard Walbran begins an antiquarian excavation of the Neolithic henge on Hutton Moor, Dishforth (Ripon) Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 9°C (47°F), wind north westerly 10mph, visibility moderate,…
Mon Jun 10 18:45 The disgraceful suggestion that politicians are leaping on the early years bandwagon because collapsing natality means it'll actually work out quite cheap
Tue Jun 11 01:20 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 June 2024: Then: 1681: A recent grainstorm near Leeds 1682: Let your charity be as great as your county, Yorkshiremen are told by one of their own at a Yorkshire Feast sermon in London Now: Tonight: light cloud, temperature 8°C…
Tue Jun 11 09:19 @DalesBus Can you tell me what will be happening to the 874 in Headingley on 23 June? The Leeds 10K 2024 will be starting from the university just before it is scheduled to pass through. Thanks!
Tue Jun 11 09:24 Comment: (Subsidiary point: does Leeds Council take public transport - in this case the only bus service of the day - into consideration when giving permission for road closures? A 10K race could easily have started at 10 to give even the slowest a chance to finish before lunch.)
Tue Jun 11 10:42 Comment: @DalesBus Thanks!
Tue Jun 11 12:10 Mama don't want no gin because it would make her sin
Tue Jun 11 17:31 Comment: @Acelliott79
Wed Jun 12 00:58 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 June 2024: Then: 1578: Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, cracks down on fun 1635: A prominent Puritan finds poor buildings but good beer for Archbishop Richard Neile at Bishopthorpe Palace (York) 1810: Curate Patrick Brontë…
Wed Jun 12 08:42 Doing a comparative on focaccia recipes from books. Amanda Booker "Sweet Italian Cookbook" doesn't bother to bake hers
Wed Jun 12 09:03 Infant on a teachers' pub day has demanded the Holy Grail soundtrack & is humming along with the Swedish title pastiche
Wed Jun 12 09:12 Comment: @GroomB The City (then quiet at weekends) & the East End of London
Thu Jun 13 00:39 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 June 2024: Then: 1635: A Puritan talks to the gardener at York of the notorious miser and swindler, Sir Arthur Ingram 1709: The population of Whitby are told when they may bury their dead 1876: Christopher Jackman (sculptor) and…
Fri Jun 14 00:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 June 2024: Then: 1773: Parliament belatedly awards John Harrison part of the prize due to him for inventing the marine chronometer 1876: Thomas Pridgin Teale's family encounters a rabid dog in Headingley Now: Tonight: drizzle,…
Fri Jun 14 05:54 I will vote for the Conservative candidate in Leeds Central and Headingley if he promises to fight for a truly conservative cause: the revival of the 1755 act prohibiting street parking in Leeds
Fri Jun 14 10:58 S kneeling solemnly on the edge of a large pit on his allotment, gazing to the heavens. He takes his hand fork, clearly preparing for a Brigantian seppuku, and I pick up a sharp spade, ready to act as his kaishaku. But he is merely planting out, hopeless though that may be.
Fri Jun 14 19:35 The infant demanding a cycle ride at 20:00 reminds one of the German gent who at 24:00 on his umpteenth wedding anniversary in deepest Westphalia sat down, banged the table, and demanded that the band play the overture to Tannhäuser. Attention, attention, attention.
Fri Jun 14 19:36 Comment: @petersymon I considered burying him on my patch, but some branches my predecessor composted are still more or less intact, so someone would twig
Fri Jun 14 19:48 Either the library service's buyer is a polylingual polymath, or they make decisions using darts. Chanced on Laura Rangoni's Cucina Bolognese while the infant was distracted: an eye opener & a joy, re the most civilised city in the world pre the euro & cheap money
Fri Jun 14 23:55 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 June 2024: Then: 1635: The administration of warrants by the Puritan Thomas Posthumous Hoby, "the best JP in the land" 1795: An advert on a chimney sweep's door at Easingwold 1876: Henry Taylor, a builder, appears before the Leeds…
Sat Jun 15 10:55 Get a cat & you'll never go on holiday again. Get an allotment & the slugs will look after themselves. @steve_guy
Sat Jun 15 11:06 Comment: Rangoni, Cucina Bolognese, ghits for burro 628, olio 518 (extravergine 190): does Bologna cook with butter because they prefer it or because olive trees don't grow there?
Sat Jun 15 15:58 Call to my mobile: "Hello, do you do headstones for graveyards?" I don't think it was a threat.
Sat Jun 15 19:34 German Loch Ness tribute - a lesser-known Heino number
Sat Jun 15 19:53 Comment: Yet another remarkable Heino fact is the low content correlation between his numerous greatest hits albums
Sat Jun 15 23:33 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 June 2024: Then: 1644: Parliament and the Scots breach York's walls and destroy monastic records with a mine next to St Mary’s Tower 1863: William Allison (12) travels from Coxwold to the circus at Easingwold, hoping to see Tom…
Sun Jun 16 23:11 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 June 2024: Then: 1685: In the House of Commons, John Reresby says that London deserves higher taxes because its very existence is a tax on the rest of England 1830: Prophet John Wroe exorcises the epileptic daughter of a Bradford…
Mon Jun 17 12:19 Not sure the public will convert to the clean air cause where festival beer costs £5 a can
Mon Jun 17 19:19 Infant happy to join the trawl thru the source material for Monty Python's Holy Grail, but unimpressed by Bergman's Seventh Seal, so back we go to Errol Flynn as Robin Hood
Mon Jun 17 19:22 Baba Yaga in Leeds
Tue Jun 18 01:46 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 June 2024: Then: 1664: Jane Thompson of Craven, "a swinish drunkard," dies of a barely-treated compound fracture 1753: John Alcock becomes rector of Burnsall, Craven, initiating several amusing decades 1847: A local historian tells…
Tue Jun 18 19:27 The neighbours could do with a hand
Tue Jun 18 21:16 Come and see some incredible arboreal art in the pavilion at Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club on the weekend of 20-21 July - part of Kirkstall Art Trail, 2nd 11 playing Saturday, excellent bar!
Wed Jun 19 01:24 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 June 2024: Then: 1892: The Liberal politician Viscount Morley attends morning service at York Minster 1984: On the day after the Battle of Orgreave, the Labour MP for Doncaster North contrasts police behaviour towards striking…
Wed Jun 19 06:16 RT @Harmony_Holiday: Monk eating an apple while his wife Nellie counts money
Wed Jun 19 15:16 Doggerel from Poor Robin: I wonder, then, what we’re the better, If Whig or if Tory should reign? When both of ’em, true to the letter, Tax us over and over again.
Wed Jun 19 17:03 New take on "hebban olla vogala": "the scribe deliberately used the similarity between dialects of late Old English and Old Dutch to produce a rhyming verse text that was intelligible in both languages" via
Wed Jun 19 19:15 RT @britcultarchive: Vicki Couchman is a photographer based in London. These images are a selection of her Dad’s photographs taken between…
Wed Jun 19 19:49 While allotmenteers bet on the potato, wheat farmers want to bring back the Corn Laws
Thu Jun 20 01:05 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 June 2024: Then: 1633: The Corporation of Hull issues the technical and commercial specifications for the construction of its new 'Council House' 1681: A Leeds court discusses the kidnapping by Barbary pirates of the son of Alderman…
Thu Jun 20 06:04 Environmental explanations for Parkinson's via
Thu Jun 20 06:18 The monkey continually has to remind the organ-grinder that this is the case
Thu Jun 20 11:11 Comment: @cleanairdayuk Is there any way of predicting which day you're going to name, along the lines of '3rd Thursday of June'?
Thu Jun 20 13:19 I use about one kilo each of wholemeal and strong white flour per week, & I'd like to buy max 10 kg packs to avoid getting into use-by problems, but there seems to be nothing between 1.5 & 16 kg. Why is that?
Thu Jun 20 20:38 A really good obit
Fri Jun 21 00:42 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 June 2024: Then: 1703: A whirlwind at Hatfield, Doncaster 1891: A sonnet by Charles Forshaw about a sermon about light preached at Bulmer (Castle Howard) by the Rev. James Gabb this summer solstice evening Now: Tonight: clear sky,…
Sat Jun 22 06:06 The hunt is on for Tom Treddlehoyle's son's Song of Solomon in Barnsley dialect
Sat Jun 22 19:31 Shame the FT didn't find someone who could spell Lansdown. Shame also that the LibDems don't seem to have national policy on LTNs, despite their popularity. Impression in NW Leeds that the LDs worship the car & are Tories for those whose shibbolethics prohibit them from voting so
Tue Jun 25 18:11 - Daddy, when can I have a tablet? - In about 16 years time. - But I only want to use it to play games! - That'll make you lonely, and Evan Davis just interviewed someone who said that if you're lonely you're 50% more likely to have a stroke, or something.
Tue Jun 25 18:26 A bit rough Sunday AM, and halfway up a hill body strength starts to ebb. Liver & lights good, so sensible to proceed & at worst die with views of Upper Wharfedale & nearest & dearest, instead of in a Bradford meat-wagon with someone checking Tiktok. Result: virus, 39C, no beer
Tue Jun 25 20:45 Caption from the Guardian. Slovenia, Slovakia, bladibla: a quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing
Tue Jun 25 21:42 Sandra Smets @nrc re Małgorzata Mirga-Tas's Roma nationalist display at the 2022 Venice Biennale, now in Maastricht: "The Roma didn't come from Egypt! Away with the myth!" [Gypsy < Egyptian.] The Roma when they arrived in Paris in 1427: "We are oppressed Christians from Egypt!"
Tue Jun 25 21:43 Comment: The translation of this great episode from one of the greatest of medieval diaries, Le Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, is Janet Shirley's from 1968
Tue Jun 25 21:45 Comment: @petersymon All well now, but woke up in the middle of the (warm) night & realised that the curious noise that had woken me was my teeth chattering with cold
Tue Jun 25 21:46 Comment: Smets' article is
Wed Jun 26 06:00 RT @GenealogyBeech: This article courtesy of York Museums Trust about the 80th anniversary of the Castle Museum, York is a few years old n…
Wed Jun 26 09:01 Comment: @lordbonkers "All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song."
Fri Jun 28 19:34 1st sensible response to Biden-Trump
Fri Jun 28 20:02 How to get hairy gooseberries - Abel Bywater, The Sheffield Dialect (1834)
Fri Jun 28 20:22 Comment: @DanielGalef I loved torture shell. I've only just started reading the mid-century dialect writers & am looking for the Sheffield version of Song of Solomon, which he wrote after a visit from Napoleon's nephew
Sat Jun 29 00:50 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 June 2024: Then: 1817: Pending legislation guaranteeing savings bank deposits held in government bonds, the York Saving Bank issues an ambiguous flyer 1876: Uplifted, Harrogate parish church awaits the monstrous £1,800 Schulze organ…
Sat Jun 29 06:51 Guy at the back: How are you going to stay in tune without a pitchfork?
Sat Jun 29 09:00 Comment: @BrynleyHeaven Here's another bass tuning fork
Sat Jun 29 09:10 Supermarket beggar still unsure whether Starmer wants his change or is offering more
Sat Jun 29 20:06 "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown." Just watched (for the first time) with the infanta, who liked the train and the parrot. Read my dad's copies as a child: one day I would flee primary school miseries for S&A, slightly worried about the age differential
Sun Jun 30 00:29 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 June 2024: Then: 1828: A toddler encounters her father's opium in their home on Chapel Lane, Hull 1866: The crew of the Diana of Hull kill and process two right whales worth £200K (2023) in Melville Bay, off northwestern Greenland…
Sun Jun 30 20:11 An old friend in Philly, right-wing Republican, Trump in '16 & '20: "Trump's cognitive decline is stark too. I wouldn't vote for him now, but I obviously can't vote for a wreck with IQ 40 whose team just want 6 more months luxury & the nation be damned. I'd back Josh Shapiro."