Extweets for May 2024

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

Wed May 01 00:00 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 May 2024: Then: 1734: "The forwardest spring that ever was known in the memory of man" 1878: The Mercury quotes T. Clifford Allbutt (Leeds Infirmary) on the commendable beastliness of northerners Now: Tonight: mist, temperature 9°C…
Wed May 01 23:39 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 May 2024: Then: 1817: Public unrest at Leeds regarding the efficacy of the smallpox vaccine 1844: The Bradford Observer reports a 10% increase in two years in the borough's population Now: Tonight: mist, temperature 9°C (49°F), wind…
Thu May 02 13:15 Can only think of reasons NOT to vote for any of the parties in contention today
Thu May 02 23:17 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 May 2024: Then: 1343: Short of cash for his French wars, Edward III asks what the effect on his rental income will be of January storms and coastal erosion at Ravenser Odd (Holderness) 1641: On the day of the discovery of the True…
Fri May 03 03:42 Hopes high this AM: On a May morning, on Malvern Hills, Me befell a marvel, of fairy methought. I was weary forwandered, and went me to rest Under a broad bank by a burn-side. And as I lay and leaned and looked on the waters, I slumbered into a sleeping, it sang so merry.
Sat May 04 01:54 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 May 2024: Then: 1643: The Royalists take Rotherham and begin a search for the preacher John Shawe 1698: In intense cold and lacking fodder, farmers at Halifax feed gorse to their livestock 1807: Lord Milton welcomes 10,000 to his…
Sun May 05 01:33 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 May 2024: Then: 1546: Sir Henry Savile invites William Plumpton to a cockfight at Sheffield between Derbyshire, Lancashire and ... Hallamshire 1601: Margaret Hoby of Hackness (Scarborough) spends the day praising the Creator and…
Mon May 06 01:12 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 May 2024: Then: 1744: John Nelson, one of the first Methodist preachers, finds the welcome from gaoler James Barber at Leeds prison superior to the accommodation 1800: A bread riot at Leeds market, during Napoleon's blockade of…
Mon May 06 18:58 Inspector on the Brum-Leeds train this afty to the guy behind: "You're on the wrong train, but I won't charge you this time as long as you promise to support nationalisation when Labour win."
Mon May 06 19:05 RT @JewishLeeds: Leeds Jewish Representative Councils has today written to the co-leaders of the Green Party regarding Councillor Mothin Al…
Tue May 07 00:50 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 May 2024: Then: 1698: Eel-fishing in the River Went near Doncaster 1818: London merchant Abraham Dixon writes to the Prince Regent requesting a royal warrant for Leeds manufacturer William Hirst's superfine cloth Now: Tonight: thick…
Tue May 07 04:29 £20M levelling-up for Malvern Theatres, benefitting the most affluent residents of one of the most affluent constituencies in the country, &, say locals, a bribe (inc the damehood) to prevent Harriett Baldwin (Con) from retiring. The state of Tories
Wed May 08 00:28 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 May 2024: Then: 1154: The wooden bridge over the Ouse collapses under the crowd welcoming Archbishop William of York back from Rome 1849: Amid revelations of fraud at the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, Richard Nicholson,…
Wed May 08 10:45 Looking forward to the #PeterMitchell exhibition at @LeedsArtGallery
Wed May 08 12:08 Comment: @ConnectingLeeds @Child_Leeds How about stopping drivers parking on pavements?
Wed May 08 19:34 During the flash flood on Monday the water level in Meanwood Beck at Meanwood reached 1.93m, 0.3m higher than the previous record. Our allotment draining better than some, perhaps because stratigraphical analysis reveals - below the plastic shite - a layer of pot shards etc
Thu May 09 00:09 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 May 2024: Then: 1622: Leeds corporation legislates against Sunday street life 1641: Sheepwashing preparatory to shearing at Elmswell (Driffield) 1757: John Wesley rides into Huddersfield in the Wild West Riding Now: Tonight: partly…
Thu May 09 06:07 Trying to recall/invent name for meteorological phenomenon where cold wind drives dense fog against a ridge, but all is bright & warm on the lee - nice instance last Sat around 06:00 on the Malvern ridge, with confused ultra race runners on the wrong side peering at their devices
Thu May 09 08:53 Comment: @GellAndy Brilliant! Mental note to self of the Foehn/Föhn effect - Dutch/German for hairdryer. It was such a brilliant illustration - straight ridge, wind perpendicular, very small scale (max elevation 425m)
Thu May 09 19:15 A startling image of flooding at Meanwood I don't understand why this suburb of Lusaka is called Meanwood Ndeke - "bird"
Thu May 09 19:59 Thread, which reminds me of Stanley, fatally hit two years ago on a zebra by a woman from round the corner, who lost 6 points and £450, but said that, while it was very sad, she had found the experience therapeutic
Fri May 10 06:00 Comment: @OwusuSamG Ah, how lazy of me!
Fri May 10 12:13 Comment: @johnmilbank3 Examples?
Fri May 10 12:35 Thread in progress re the Meanwood (Ndeke) neighbourhood just north of Lusaka airport in Zambia: Garth Myers says the land was part of Galounia Farms (usual spelling Galaunia) owned by Abraham Galoun (usually Galaun)
Fri May 10 12:38 Comment: Nelly Mwale says Abe Galaun was a Jew who arrived in Zambia just before the outbreak of World War II & became a dominant force in the country’s meat and dairy business. Where did he come from? Why was the development land marketed as Meanwood?
Fri May 10 12:43 Comment: K.T. Hansen says that at independence butcher Galaun sold his land at Ngombe - nearer central Lusaka than Meanwood - and moved out of town. Was Meanwood part of that sale?
Fri May 10 13:33 Comment: Hugh Macmillan's An African Trading Empire has more on Lithuanian-Jewish refugee Abe Galaun (1913-2003), but still no reason why a Lusaka plot was marketed as "Meanwood." Did a friend migrate to Yorkshire? Was Meanwood, Leeds known for its beauty in the western Russian Empire?
Fri May 10 15:25 F in some distress last week: I can't stand the cold & wet any more. I'm selling up and going to live in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. F today: I can't stand the heat any more. I'm looking for a Buddhist monastery in Scotland.
Sat May 11 18:02 Comment: @tombcn Was that good? Perpignan/Girona/Barcelona with the infant 21-28
Sat May 11 18:03 Comment: @TheLeedsCyclist And then stand there with a red flag to persuade the buggers to stop at it
Sat May 11 19:50 Comment: @tombcn Excellent advice, thanks!
Sun May 12 17:49 I was just talking to a bagpiper who was looking for a drummer, & where could we practise without getting arrested, & then I bumped into Tom:
Sun May 12 20:36 The infant has started referring to Muttley Races
Sun May 12 21:12 Leeds City Council PR: no takeaways near schools, no engine idling near schools Leeds reality: an ice cream van pumping out diesel fumes next to every playground in the city The air at Meanwood Park playground was like a lorry park this afternoon - three beers to recover my voice
Mon May 13 09:06 Comment: @ActuaryByDay Maybe they're calculating that pension age will be increased
Mon May 13 09:35 Hi @LeedsCC_Help & @LeedsParks, given the council's commitment to reducing obesity and improving air quality for children, why are diesel-powered ice cream vans licensed/tolerated (which?) next to playgrounds in Meanwood & other Leeds parks? @MeanwoodCe @Child_Leeds @LeedsPlay
Mon May 13 21:42 Most depressing spreadsheet ever: optimizing bag size in order to fly Ryanair for the first time in five years
Tue May 14 01:21 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 May 2024: Then: 1673: Long after the longbow's demobilization, the Scorton Archers agree to shoot annually for a silver arrow 1760: Bishop Pococke finds Richmondshire's Kirklevington shorthorns in better condition than its fish and…
Tue May 14 06:27 Respect for Z, observed at a party on Saturday lying on his back chanting, "I hate unicorns."
Tue May 14 20:41 Very large BROWN (ie colour of female blackbird) carrion crow, dumpster diving on Headingley Hill
Wed May 15 01:01 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 May 2024: Then: 1841: Patience Kershaw (17) tells the Children's Employment Commission (Mines) about her work at Joseph Stocks' Booth Town Pit, Halifax 1890: A Liverpudlian company - now ruined - finds on appeal that the consent of…
Wed May 15 05:29 The Cain and Abel sequence from Manuel Summers' extraordinary La Biblia en Pasta (1984) Anyone got the whole thing?
Wed May 15 05:37 Comment: Well, obviously,
Wed May 15 06:40 Comment: @petersymon I hope someone has written a book pointing out that - a cine friki pioneer - it's a crucial part of post-Franco cultural change, but that by using then colloquial language it's also about cultural continuity - Francoist theocracy as an aberration
Wed May 15 06:41 Fighting off slugs as big as mice, perhaps because they've eaten the mice
Wed May 15 09:21 Comment: Little sun, so even the runners can't grow faster than the sluggish hordes can slog. Strong argument for following the Irish & focussing on Rooster potatoes.
Thu May 16 00:41 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 May 2024: Then: 1687: John Reresby goes to Rotherham to receive an ancestral rent of one penny and the use of an inn room 1881: J. Gill (72) of Sugden & Briggs, wool spinners, Bradford, dies of pulmonary anthrax, and his successor,…
Thu May 16 12:18 Maybe the cops, instead of shining torches in the faces of honest householders in the middle of the night, would consider buying a map or asking Amazon for one. Or maybe the cop who shambles along every day, trying hard not to notice any crime, would like to make one himself.
Thu May 16 19:28 Comment: @GroomB And their position on the use of periods in e.g. "St Mary's St"?
Thu May 16 20:17 Buckler anecdote from Karel Vuursteen in NRC
Fri May 17 00:22 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 May 2024: Then: 1321: Isabella Dayvill, apostate nun, is banished to suffer silence, hunger and punishment at Handale Priory (North Riding) 1602: Michael Steele of Skelton (York) complains to Star Chamber about the following comic…
Fri May 17 11:09 Comment: @GellAndy A friend used to maintain one at Twenthe & you can now rent his shed
Fri May 17 23:59 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 May 2024: Then: 1732: The burial of George Crooks of Barnsley, who died of camping 1734: The epitaph on the tombstone of the prolific William Strutton of Patrington, buried this day Now: Tonight: light cloud, temperature 12°C…
Sat May 18 08:01 Tiktok arboricide craze? Primary kids girdled a lovely copper beech at 16 North Hill Road last Saturday, on Thursday encountered 3 lads from City Academy setting fire along the path between the Goit & Grove Lane, yesterday more primary children stripping more bark from the beech
Sat May 18 21:23 A glorious gay courtroom farce in 1876 Leeds - librettist sought
Sat May 18 23:37 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 May 2024: Then: 1804: A woman is sold for the second time at Leeds market 1812: An Anglican Whit walk encounters a Nonconformist one at "Briarfield" (Birstall), amid Luddites and wars with France and the US, in the imagination of…
Sun May 19 16:18 Doing the rounds of the allotments. Infant: There's a man in your fruit cage. Lady: It's the only way I can keep them, darling.
Sun May 19 17:28 Comment: @lordbonkers @DrBeachcombing Geordie mermaids don't seem to mind the cold
Sun May 19 20:50 Les Dawson might have disagreed with the great Canon Purvis' translation of "fere" in the now generally accepted version of the York Mystery Plays. ("I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.")
Sun May 19 21:59 Comment: Peter Meredith says this came up in 1970s Leeds
Sun May 19 23:15 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 May 2024: Then: 1606: The courtier John Lepton rides from London to York in one day, and repeats the feat on the following four Now: Tonight: light cloud, temperature 11°C (51°F), wind northerly 7mph, visibility good, pressure…
Tue May 21 01:50 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 May 2024: Then: 1108: Archbishop Gerald of York dies reading Roman astrology 1641: Six corn-wains from villages east of Driffield pass slowly through Elmswell on their way to Malton 1643: Thomas Fairfax takes two "true prisoners" at…
Wed May 22 01:30 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 May 2024: Then: 1711: Leeds's first white-cloth hall is opened on Kirkgate, replacing the outdoor market on Briggate, and competing with Wakefield's 1710 building Now: Tonight: heavy rain, temperature 12°C (54°F), wind northerly…
Thu May 23 01:08 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 May 2024: Then: 1793: The 14th Foot, predecessor of the West Yorkshire Regiment, chant a French Revolutionary song as they storm enemy trenches at Famars (Valenciennes) 1889: The poet Edward Carpenter writes of walking into the…
Fri May 24 00:45 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 May 2024: Then: 1669: Abraham Sharp (16), later mathematician and astronomer, undertakes not to fornicate for the next eight years and is apprenticed to a York textile merchant Now: Tonight: thick cloud, temperature 11°C (52°F),…
Sat May 25 00:22 Yorkshire Almanac: 25 May 2024: Then: 1728: King Jessop, the fighting rector of Treeton (Rotherham), is buried at Sheffield, and remembered for his punch and his parody 1870: An Ascension Eve performance for tourists of the Whitby Penny Hedge ritual Now:…
Sun May 26 00:00 Yorkshire Almanac: 26 May 2024: Then: 1335: Edward III imposes foreign exchange controls at Hull and various other ports to stop bad (Flemish) money driving out good 1808: The first Ascension Day on which is generally contemplated the notion that…
Sun May 26 23:39 Yorkshire Almanac: 27 May 2024: Then: 1576: The Elizabethan Ecclesiastical Commission at York prohibits performance of a Corpus Christi play at Wakefield 1730: John Hobson writes off two thirds of a £48 debt because the debtor has fled to Crayke…
Mon May 27 23:18 Yorkshire Almanac: 28 May 2024: Then: 1574: William Ireland fails to become Rector of Harthill (South Yorkshire) because of his abysmal ignorance Now: Tonight: clear sky, temperature 8°C (47°F), wind south westerly 4mph, visibility good, pressure 1013mb,…
Wed May 29 01:53 Yorkshire Almanac: 29 May 2024: Then: 1405: On Shipton Moor, the Earl of Westmorland tricks the Archbishop of York and the Duke of Norfolk, rebellious defenders of York's rights and purses, into disbanding 1732: Old William Lindley of Dodworth tells…
Wed May 29 19:40 Comment: @XiaoXMaVictoria The girlfriend was hit by a French pigeon yesterday. You're surely not saying?
Wed May 29 20:46 Infant rulebook: Why eat something today when it can be consigned to the tupper never-never.
Thu May 30 01:32 Yorkshire Almanac: 30 May 2024: Then: 1415: A native God creates the first Yorkshireman and -woman in the York mystery plays 1705: Gloves, scarves and money are distributed liberally among attendees of the funeral of Waide Calverley 1809: Death of Samuel…
Thu May 30 21:39 Back from Barcelona to the Leeds allotment, which, with June round the corner, is still dark, flooded, cold, overrun by huge slugs. Would it be cheaper to commute weekly to a veg patch in Spain?
Fri May 31 00:15 Yorkshire Almanac: 31 May 2024: Then: 1526: Properties for the Corpus Christi performance of the (moribund) mystery play of York's Mistry of Mercers 1844: Mrs Haslegrave is savaged by her brother-in-law's bear at his pleasure garden in Wakefield Now:…
Fri May 31 21:26 Talking with the infant about Monty Python's Black Knight led to Simon Carmiggelt's story about the auto-cannibal who knocks on a friend's door in the middle of the night, requesting help with the removal of his last limb
Fri May 31 21:30 Comment: The realization that most of the shorts I can remember are by Carmiggelt, that when I learnt them verbally from Arie S, Jet v/d S etc, their characters seemed tangible, & that SC's true heroism lay in his rejection of the Germanic/Nazi Heldenepos in favour of the brief anecdote
Fri May 31 23:54 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 June 2024: Then: 1300: Margaret of France, Queen of England, goes into labour at Brotherton while hunting 1318: Archbishop Melton of York tells the Ripon bailiff to ensure that everyone pays their proper share of the protection money…