Extweets for March 2024

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

Fri Mar 01 00:44 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 March 2024: Then: ~1857: Job Senior, the Wharfedale Hermit and a pioneering polyphonic overtone singer, dies at Burley in Wharfedale 1888: John Strange Winter, a military novelist from York, presents her husband with twins, to…
Fri Mar 01 07:32 Comment: @BrynleyHeaven Johan Vollenbroek & co in the Netherlands have tended to have success against such abuse through the courts, but perhaps judicial enforcement isn't an option here - lack of clear commitments etc
Fri Mar 01 11:02 Nice of him to rephrase the Jordan / Mediterranean thing
Fri Mar 01 11:09 Self-balancing infant? After several weeks inside at nursery, a moan re the girls' bitching about household affairs, then Sunday led us from Ilkley up to the moor & back, this week incessant activity & eating up till yesterday's chips & chess session at the pub, now passed out
Fri Mar 01 18:22 Free range. Hadn't seen the full Boswell before
Fri Mar 01 20:53 "Classic FM, the cult of the presenter, da da da," but maybe R3 could have mentioned that the BSO was also doing Brahms 2. R4 is better. (Annoying BBC interface -> scraper)
Fri Mar 01 22:00 The infant was curious about the making of Bagpuss, so she managed the camera & we did our first stop-motion
Sat Mar 02 00:23 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 March 2024: Then: 1665: A sighting of aurora borealis at Northowram recalls the eve of the civil war 1830: Leeds Corporation mounts a farcical prosecution for the fly-tipping of faeces in a Woodhouse Moor watercourse by its own waste…
Sun Mar 03 00:02 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 March 2024: Then: 1607: During a tithe case at Kirkbymoorside, George Hutton (82) recalls Roland Blyton hunting at Skiplam and Welburn before the Dissolution 70 years ago 1775: Edward Rookes Leedes sends miners to destroy new coal…
Sun Mar 03 13:45 - How was the party? - Jesus, mate, you dodged a bullet there. Soft play? Just say nay.
Sun Mar 03 16:48 Caganer explosiu
Mon Mar 04 02:38 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 March 2024: Then: 1869: Trains begin to pass through Leeds town centre on the North-Eastern Railway extension Now: Tonight: clear sky, temperature -1°C (31°F), wind south easterly 2mph, visibility good, pressure 1009mb, humidity 90%,…
Tue Mar 05 02:18 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 March 2024: Then: 1695: Abraham de la Pryme learns about self-adhesive steel, marble-staining, and Nottingham alabaster 1829: Henry Burton of Hotham tells a rowdy public meeting at Beverley to petition parliament against Catholic…
Tue Mar 05 13:16 Does the Apple antitrust ruling explain all the pro-Aldi advertising at Sainsbury's?
Tue Mar 05 20:38 Comment: @johnmilbank3 Methodism has traditionally been the answer
Wed Mar 06 01:58 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 March 2024: Then: 1684: The highwayman and racketeer John Nevison is captured at an alehouse near Sandal Castle, Wakefield Now: Tonight: fog, temperature 4°C (39°F), wind northerly 2mph, visibility very poor, pressure 1020mb,…
Wed Mar 06 07:05 It is a shame the car is obscured by the wall, because that would make this post-medieval retrofit a post-modern Gothic-revivalist containing arch. Glad the architect managed to keep the chimney on top
Wed Mar 06 07:13 Geoff Lofthouse (Lab, Pontefract & Castleford) vs Thatcher in the run-up to the 1984-1985 miners' strike. Is "callous & stubborn women" a ref to a particular incident?
Wed Mar 06 07:31 Comment: The infant enters, keen to discuss Dracula, & sees a photo of Lord Lofthouse: Daddy, is that a vampire?
Wed Mar 06 14:09 Lots of calculators out there telling you how the budget will affect your income & wealth, but none measuring the impact on your waistline of pro-obesity measures like the fuel duty freeze
Thu Mar 07 01:38 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 March 2024: Then: 1615: A great thaw begins in York, causing heavy flooding along the Ouse and Foss, followed by four months drought 1687: Governor John Reresby records a perjurious witch trial at the York assizes, and the absurd…
Thu Mar 07 09:30 The infant is applying Dutch back-formation to Monty Python: "No, daddy, it's The Knights Who Say Niet."
Thu Mar 07 09:33 It was ordained from on low that we walk to preschool on World (i.e. British Isles) Book Day dressed as Rossum's Universal Robots. A cat followed us all the way, but I can't remember one in Karel Čapek's play
Thu Mar 07 20:52 @nationalrailenq Hi, can you get on at a later station than booked with an off-peak single? Can't find the info anywhere. Thanks!
Thu Mar 07 21:08 Comment: @nationalrailenq Thank you!
Thu Mar 07 22:45 @northernassist Hi, with a Duo ticket, do you have to specify the train you're taking, or is it good for various trains on the day in question?
Fri Mar 08 01:16 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 March 2024: Then: 1768: William Evers, engineer-inventor at Swillington (Leeds), advertises his latest machine: a windmill for the threshing and grinding of grain Now: Tonight: drizzle, temperature 5°C (40°F), wind easterly 11mph,…
Fri Mar 08 10:35 Great portrait
Fri Mar 08 20:21 Evening, Leeds
Sat Mar 09 00:55 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 March 2024: Then: 1721: Thomas Brodrick tells Lord Middleton how John Aislabie, Ripon MP and Walpole's chancellor, was sent to the Tower for taking bribes from the South Sea Company 1761: The North Riding Militia - "the Hexham…
Sat Mar 09 20:32 Jonathan Barnes quite absurdly places J.B. Priestley's Western farce 'The Doomsday Men' between Sax Rohmer and Ian Fleming - Zane Grey (who JBP surely read) & Enrique Jardiel Poncela (a crazier kindred spirit) would be fairer
Sat Mar 09 20:39 Comment: I hadn't seen EJP's signature
Sat Mar 09 21:35 Comment: @GaryAkiens @lordbonkers You know about the petrol tanker crash in the 60s?
Sun Mar 10 00:32 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 March 2024: Then: 1665: Blizzards and Dutch attacks prolong Restoration-induced shortages of fodder and coal at Northowram (Halifax) 1863: William Allison (11) rides two miles on a donkey from Cundall to Brafferton to help celebrate…
Sun Mar 10 22:20 Has anyone tried to prepend (using different evidence) pre-1659 values to the Hadley Centre Central England Temperature (HadCET) dataset?
Mon Mar 11 00:10 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 March 2024: Then: 1730: News that John Barber, heir to Gawbert Hall (Lightcliffe), has married a servant 1864: An inhabitant of Bacon Island survives the Great Sheffield Flood Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 5°C (42°F), wind…
Tue Mar 12 02:46 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 March 2024: Then: 1837: Robert Southey (poet laureate, 62) sends Charlotte Brontë (governess, 20) some career advice Now: Tonight: light cloud, temperature 5°C (40°F), wind south easterly 5mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1010mb,…
Wed Mar 13 02:24 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 March 2024: Then: 1728: Wild daffodils in the hedges at Wickersley (Rotherham) 1853: Army veteran John Sykes takes a blunderbuss to Hiram Yeadon during a feud between Wesleyan and Reformer Methodists at Yeadon Now: Tonight: light…
Wed Mar 13 07:26 - Ooh, with a voice like that you should be on the radio. - Now stop it, I'm a married man.
Wed Mar 13 11:21 African care worker has blocked field gate with car & is having a kip in the back. Along comes farmer in huge tractor, blocks car in with monster bale. Negotiations commence.
Wed Mar 13 14:37 Frequent Chinese bot calls to the mobile: "Hello, immigration bureau, there is a problem with your visa."
Wed Mar 13 20:15 RT @dobraszczyk: Some of the unique, almost Japonisme, decoration inside Rochdale Town Hall
Thu Mar 14 02:02 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 March 2024: Then: ~1573: Archbishop Grindal intercedes on behalf of the commoners of Sutton-on-the-Forest against enclosure of part of the Forest of Galtres 1655: Mary Sharp of Little Horton, Bradford, writes to her son Sam at…
Thu Mar 14 11:23 He who loves his fellow man Must careful be, and agile For fellow men are very close And very, very fragile
Thu Mar 14 20:14 Lots of rats by the beck, taking chicken feed, so J waits by the fence in the morning with a spade & puts the corpses further up to distract Mr Fox. A terrier caught one fleeing flooding & tossed it in the air, but it fell into the fast-flowing beck rather than into her mouth
Fri Mar 15 01:42 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 March 2024: Then: 1586: Offered a jury acquittal, Margaret Clitherow of York, concealer of priests, chooses martyrdom and is crushed under her own front door 1715: Martha Railton and Roger Wrightson, frustrated lovers from Bowes…
Fri Mar 15 13:23 @HeadingleyHEART Hiya, on your website you give various role-based room hire rates, but afaik you don't define the qualifying conditions. What for example is the difference between a standard and a community booking? Ta!
Fri Mar 15 13:30 Comment: I also notice that your list of venues here isn't the same as the one here
Fri Mar 15 19:46 After a long hiatus, good to see the tokenistic segregated bike lane on Headingley Lane nearing opening. Anyone would think that local elections were near - kills off speculation that it was being held back for Starmer's re-election
Fri Mar 15 19:51 How representative of Derbyshire/Peaks is Buxton's accent in Dougal and the Blue Cat? Is there a cunning purpose behind the Barnsley reference?#MagicRoundabout
Sat Mar 16 01:21 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 March 2024: Then: 1676: Charles Chauncy of Bridlington tells a court what he found when he went to confiscate horses and firearms from the Catholic John Constable 1931: "Mary Ann Harvey (Lady Sadler) goes to an early grave because…
Sat Mar 16 23:18 Noah calling
Sun Mar 17 00:58 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 March 2024: Then: 1190: Jewish survivors of preceding massacres and overnight suicides plead from York castle walls to be allowed to convert to Christianity 1854: Samuel Jackson of Green Hammerton (Harrogate) writes to his…
Sun Mar 17 09:34 RT @elorganillero: Yorkshire Almanac: 17 March 2024: Then: 1190: Jewish survivors of preceding massacres and overnight suicides plead from…
Sun Mar 17 21:39 Comment: @lordbonkers "I’ve noticed a sharp rise in the cost of risotto rice, ... but no sign it’s in short supply"
Sun Mar 17 22:33 Infant on a tandem swing with E, belting out Twinkle Twinkle & Baa Baa Black Sheep alternately to prevent parental contributions. Swing when you sing.
Mon Mar 18 00:36 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 March 2024: Then: 1647: Penistone Puritans request the Committee for Plundered Ministers to remove their vicar, Christopher Dickinson, "a man of scandalous life and conversation" 1650: Dorothy Rodes of Bowling (Bradford) blames…
Mon Mar 18 11:43 Jardiel Poncela's claimed Sephardi roots vs his grotesque antisemitism - El naufragio del Mistinguett (1938) is a Hitlerian parable
Mon Mar 18 20:35 Energy performance filters on the leading Dutch & UK residential property websites
Tue Mar 19 00:15 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 March 2024: Then: 1734: The dying son of a gypsy is baptised at Carlton in Cleveland 1866: Corn-merchant J.R. Mortimer of Driffield opens a prehistoric burial mound on the Wolds and suggests a link to ancient Greek descriptions of…
Wed Mar 20 02:52 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 March 2024: Then: 1649: Judge and Yorkshireman Francis Thorpe justifies to the grand jury at York the recent execution of Charles I 1695: Why there are more sheep than foxes 1840: A judge finds that Charles Brown (52) feigned…
Wed Mar 20 16:50 Poulson, verb: John Foers to Garfield Rawnsley: "I don't want to Poulson you, but if this application gets through there will be a bob or two in it for yourself."
Wed Mar 20 23:39 Leeds Libraries haven't got the Rising Damp scripts
Thu Mar 21 01:34 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 March 2024: Then: 1880: The surgeon Thomas Pridgin Teale tells Leeds fathers to participate from birth in the upbringing of their children 1890: Following a miners' strike, an anonymous Yorkshire vicar says that only parliamentary…
Thu Mar 21 21:13 Recalls the gent who used to run drunkenly over Porsches echoing Neil Armstrong on exiting the hatch to the platform during the first moon landing: "Okay, Houston, I'm on the porch."
Thu Mar 21 21:17 The infant, tearing the limbs off the last gingerbread man of this batch: "It's like The Holy Grail." EJP: "La muerte es fundamentalmente seria. Tomándola a broma la haremos huir, hasta el día en que no tengamos fuerzas físicas para reírnos de ella."
Fri Mar 22 01:11 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 March 2024: Then: 1731: "Vegetable caterpillars" amid the artichokes at Dodworth (Barnsley) Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 7°C (45°F), wind westerly 13mph, visibility good, pressure 1016mb, humidity 84%, UV risk 0/11,…
Fri Mar 22 11:59 Certain rat, dans un composteur/ Établi, comme un vrai frater,/ S’y traitait si bien que sa allure/ Eût fait envie au gros Luther. But no more, thanks to a spade & grandad's instruction in trench warfare.
Fri Mar 22 11:59 Comment: Many moons ago, as the Cameron Cockroach academy went tits up, one longed for fresh air & applied for the post of ratcatcher to the Regge & Dinkel Water Board. They said no - insufficient swimming skills - but destiny doesn't forget.
Fri Mar 22 12:25 RT @fietsprofessor: 🚨BREAKING🚨 @AmsterdamNL on target for repurposing 10.000 parking spots. 🚗 7.108 parking spots removed (size of 21 socc…
Fri Mar 22 22:20 Ha
Fri Mar 22 22:37 Comment: @Transblawg Are they in your local?
Sat Mar 23 00:49 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 March 2024: Then: 0867: Viking mercenaries draw the Anglo-Saxons of Ælla of Northumbria into the streets of York and slaughter them 1743: His monstrous penis today having terminated its earthly mission, Lancelot Blackburne,…
Sun Mar 24 00:28 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 March 2024: Then: 1703: Abraham Sharp is surprised by aurora borealis at Little Horton, Bradford 1733: People rush to get married while licences are still in Latin 1896: Christ meets Cheops on the pyramid tomb at Sharow, Ripon under…
Sun Mar 24 08:18 E, for reasons quite unclear, says that Bohemia in the Winter's Tale - with seacoast and desert - is South Tees Development Corporation
Mon Mar 25 00:07 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 March 2024: Then: 1667: Burials must henceforth be in wool, in order to support woollen manufacturers and reduce linen imports 1685: The York apprentices ask John Reresby to lead their new militia troop 1831: Esther Dyson of…
Mon Mar 25 07:37 Machine-generated product in Google Books
Mon Mar 25 20:57 Can't believe that there's not a lunchroom with a wardrobe for a door, a man in a lion suit waiting to serve you, & a sign outside reading Sarnia
Tue Mar 26 02:44 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 March 2024: Then: 1662: The Leeds corporation appoints a cook, Thomas Gorst 1870: Henry Madden is sentenced to six months with hard labour at Leeds despite the judge accepting that he had not mugged Daniel Hawksworth Now: Tonight:…
Tue Mar 26 11:16 Feminine opinion divided re recommended hat-wearing at St Botolph's on Sunday - the younger generation is for
Tue Mar 26 11:22 S at the allotment reminiscing about Leeds jazz in the 70s & 80s, but paid gigs are now rare, & one might as well grow cabbage for the slugs
Tue Mar 26 22:35 RT @harrietgrant: I've written a piece about what's gone wrong for our children - we know they are unhappy - look around the streets you li…
Wed Mar 27 01:26 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 March 2024: Then: 1634: In commercial Gothic urban legend, John Bartendale, a piper, is hung and buried at York, but awakes, is rescued and pardoned, and returns to the music business 1690: At the première of an ode celebrating the…
Thu Mar 28 01:05 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 March 2024: Then: 1692: On Easter Monday Francis Pemberton, Vicar of Bradford, sits all day in a Haworth pub, collecting his Easter dues, while Oliver Heywood preaches for next to nothing 1730: John Hobson pays his Easter dues to…
Thu Mar 28 15:53 Not sure the infant should have gone swimming in Meanwood Beck...
Fri Mar 29 00:43 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 March 2024: Then: 1461: The Wharfe runs red as the Yorkists destroy the Lancastrians at Towton (Tadcaster), whereupon Edward IV deposes Henry VI and secures the English throne Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 5°C (41°F),…
Sat Mar 30 00:22 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 March 2024: Then: 1834: Anne Lister seals a surreptitious mock marriage with fellow-landowner Ann Walker during the Easter Sunday service at Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York 1850: The Independent quotes from a public health report on…
Sat Mar 30 07:27 Off to Cambridge, but a terrible longing to see the Boston Stump on the way
Sun Mar 31 02:58 Yorkshire Almanac: 31 March 2024: Then: 1851: The Leeds abolitionist Wilson Armistead submits his census return, including the names of two lodgers - the escaped American slaves, William and Ellen Craft 1856: William Allison, a nervous 4-year-old…
Sun Mar 31 23:38 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 April 2024: Then: 1641: Henry Best of Elmswell (Driffield) weighs his wool for a purchaser from Beverley 1641: Tips on bringing ewes and lambs to market in the East Riding today, Easter Monday 1689: Miraculous extinction of a roof…