Extweets for September 2024

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

Sun Sep 01 00:38 Yorkshire Almanac: 1 September 2024: Then: 1651: Robinson Kreutznaer sails from Hull, and soon wishes he hadn't Now: Tonight: thick cloud, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind north easterly 9mph, visibility good, pressure 1021mb, humidity 88%, UV risk 0/11,…
Sun Sep 01 13:56 Obviously the dream would be to play Heldenleben with Rattle and the Berlin Phil, but washing-up to it is also fine
Sun Sep 01 22:13 We've seen a few English auctions recently. Here's an old Dutch auction
Sun Sep 01 22:18 Comment: More faces
Mon Sep 02 00:15 Yorkshire Almanac: 2 September 2024: Then: 1686: John Reresby describes his organisation of the York garrison Now: Tonight: mist, temperature 15°C (59°F), wind northerly 6mph, visibility poor, pressure 1011mb, humidity 97%, UV risk 0/11, pollution…
Mon Sep 02 08:51 The witches' chant, corrupted in the mouths of infants: "Hubble, bubble, toilet trouble [FART]"
Mon Sep 02 09:13 Comment: So the first week at school is actually: Mon teacher "training day", Tue & Wed little ones, Thu & Fri half days. Reminiscent of the Russian boy who was really looking forward to primary aged 4 & was incredibly disappointed when he was actually allowed to start, aged 7
Mon Sep 02 20:39 Comment: I think she got it from Mrs Blackhat, but it's older than Chloë Inkpen - pops up in Time & Tide Vol 44 in 1963
Tue Sep 03 01:54 Yorkshire Almanac: 3 September 2024: Then: 1810: Mr Jackson, Dewsbury druggist, gets drunk while visiting a prisoner at Rothwell Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 13°C (56°F), wind westerly 7mph, visibility good, pressure 1010mb, humidity 87%, UV…
Tue Sep 03 19:36 Our local library has lost hours & a good professional librarian, & focus has shifted to providing other services. Yesterday a bit of a youth club feel, but me not librarians playing chess against the kids. The central library children's section no longer seems to be about books
Wed Sep 04 01:31 Yorkshire Almanac: 4 September 2024: Then: 1764: Laurence Sterne, curate at Coxwold, is minded to sin at Scarborough 1947: Conflicting hopes for the future of the nationalised coal industry, as a wildcat strike against increased hours at Grimethorpe…
Thu Sep 05 01:09 Yorkshire Almanac: 5 September 2024: Then: 1860: Friends of Elizabeth Mitchell (14), murdered by a fellow-servant at Upton (Pontefract), bear her to her grave at South Kirkby 1914: Boycott professional football to get players to fight the Germans, says…
Thu Sep 05 08:43 Having rejected a lifetime of sheep auctions, it's the infant's 1st day at school, preluded by a ritual circle with parents in the playground. Teacher: Now we'll go in, & your parents will give you a hug & a kiss at the door. Infant, quietly: Don't give me a hug & a kiss.
Thu Sep 05 08:47 RT @internetarchive: Internet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive "We are disappointed in today’s opinio…
Thu Sep 05 10:25 Comment: If Hügelkultur is a good idea, wouldn't Skipistekultur be better? Problem with hills is one side faces away from the sun, so surely build east-west walls and have all beds slope southwards, rather like mill skylights or PV installations. Or would there be moral objections?
Thu Sep 05 22:22 Re Jewish emancipation: what was "Mr Canning's Act"?
Fri Sep 06 00:49 Yorkshire Almanac: 6 September 2024: Then: 1785: A Times reader calls for a royal pension for Betty Jackson, a Hull washerwoman 1823: A list of tithes included in, and excluded from, future Tory MP Richard Fountayne Wilson's offer to pay the vicar of…
Sat Sep 07 00:28 Yorkshire Almanac: 7 September 2024: Then: 1837: Mary Frances Heaton is gaoled at Doncaster for a breach of the peace and later sent to the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum 1874: A bell-ringing contest at All Saints Church, Wath upon Dearne prompts an…
Sat Sep 07 06:28 B: Shoulder-rides felt like they were making me stronger till she was four, when I realised they were destroying me. I think I may have lost a centimetre
Sat Sep 07 20:24 This PM singing "The harvest now is over, the summer days are gone, and yet no power cometh to help us," written by a Jewish convert to Christianity, outside on the square supporters of the two camps of October 7th howling at each other
Sun Sep 08 00:08 Yorkshire Almanac: 8 September 2024: Then: 1485: At York, Henry VII sells the wardship of Anne Salvain of Thorpe Salvin (Rotherham) to William Hussey, Lord Chief Justice Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 15°C (60°F), wind north easterly 6mph,…
Sun Sep 08 18:31 Worried about the infant's commercial instincts. Sells me a hot dog, & then sends a llama to steal it back for resale. Scans & pays for all the shopping at the supermarket, but retains a % of the cash, saving, she says, to buy a pussen (= puss + kitten)
Sun Sep 08 20:23 RT @GrimArtGroup: 1/6 A lucky stumble whilst looking for some local #IndustrialArt - Herman Heijenbrock (1871-1948), a Dutch artist and wri…
Sun Sep 08 23:47 Yorkshire Almanac: 9 September 2024: Then: 1835: Princess Victoria attends Handel's Messiah at York Minster 2014: A Home Office researcher (2000-02) recalls police harassment following her documentation of child sexual abuse and institutional…
Mon Sep 09 06:37 Elderly lady at the outward bus stop opposite North Hill Rd, Headingley. Me: You know buses don't stop here anymore, & there's 900m between the stops at Hyde Park Corner and Richmond Avenue. Her: Nonetheless they must, as I am a customer.
Mon Sep 09 06:38 Comment: Good to hear "nonetheless," which is diminishing in the corpus. Not to be confused with "nonethelesser" - the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Mon Sep 09 18:38 Comment: @Justin08rien @lewis_baston @StuartWilksHeeg @ProfTimBale Very cheerful ladies producing some quite horrible food.
Mon Sep 09 23:25 Yorkshire Almanac: 10 September 2024: Then: 1855: Leeds celebrates the fall of Sevastopol during the Crimean War Now: Tonight: light rain, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind south westerly 15mph, visibility moderate, pressure 1007mb, humidity 83%, UV risk…
Tue Sep 10 23:04 Yorkshire Almanac: 11 September 2024: Then: 1666: Nine days after the start of the Great Fire, Margaret Hodgson of Richmond tells a York court that a beggar told her yesterday of a plot to burn London 1780: Having paid £1.5M (modern) in bribes to voters,…
Wed Sep 11 19:20 RT @aa42john: Please retweet and come to my talk at 11am on Saturday 21st September. It's about Primitive Methodist education and our 1840s…
Thu Sep 12 00:40 Yorkshire Almanac: 12 September 2024: Then: 1680: Francis and Mary Huntrodes are buried together at St. Mary's, Whitby with a poetic epitaph 1687: Installation of a bell at St Leonard's, Thrybergh 1731: Edward Garner of Dodworth dies, perhaps the victim…
Thu Sep 12 08:39 Stuff the infant wouldn't have encountered if we hadn't walked to school this AM included a shivering squirrel (shock/head injury from beech tree fall/fever?), a Lyalvale 12 shotgun cartridge (never found a zombie knife) & an asterial traveller
Fri Sep 13 00:15 Yorkshire Almanac: 13 September 2024: Then: 1816: The greatness of Great Britain 1893: A local inquest jury struggles with the death of James Gibbs, a miner shot by Staffordshire troops amid rioting at Samuel Lister Jr.'s mine at Pontefract 1894: J.B.…
Fri Sep 13 05:55 Bradford says "get a car"
Fri Sep 13 20:08 - Daddy, the teacher says that anyone who says a bad word twice gets a recorded warning. - Wtf is that? - [Not listening:] Daddy, how do you write "poohead", "willy", and "fartypants"?
Fri Sep 13 20:11 Visca Cataloria!
Fri Sep 13 23:52 Yorkshire Almanac: 14 September 2024: Then: 1864: In his last race, the legendary Blair Athol faces his great rival, General Peel, in monsoon conditions in the St Leger Stakes (Doncaster) 1868: Clifford Allbutt welcomes George Eliot to his house and new…
Sat Sep 14 20:05 Epic afternoon for a bunch of small people - snail races, mud baths, bathing in the beck. Cucumbers devastated by frost. End of the summer!
Sat Sep 14 23:28 Yorkshire Almanac: 15 September 2024: Then: 1679: The election at York for the Exclusion Bill Parliament is dissolved to more convenient locations 1872: Death of "York's last Waterloo hero" Now: Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind south…
Sun Sep 15 05:38 Comment: D reminds me of Tom Lehrer: Be prepared That's the Boy Scouts' marching song Be prepared As through life you march along Be prepared to hold your liquor pretty well Don't write naughty words on walls if you can't spell Etc etc
Sun Sep 15 06:22 The Dork Herald The OCR on the British Library's newspaper collection is ancient & shameful - they've got the scans, so surely wouldn't cost that much to redo the exercise
Sun Sep 15 23:03 Yorkshire Almanac: 16 September 2024: Then: 1641: Henry Best of Elmswell (Driffield) begins to harvest peas, and describes the technique required 1821: The Rev Sydney Smith tells Lady Grey how the harvest was saved at Foston (Ryedale) 1858: Augustus…
Mon Sep 16 09:13 Two roofers: - MORNING, DARLING! - Headphones.
Mon Sep 16 10:04 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after gapless playback in VLC 4.0
Mon Sep 16 10:10 Re blokes in expensive suits in Westminster
Mon Sep 16 10:11 - Ours didn't want to go in today. Another 13 years. - Neither did ours, till he saw yours.
Mon Sep 16 11:18 Comment: @ConnectingLeeds 99% of pavement-parkers know perfectly well what they're doing, & that pedestrians and politicians are scared of them. If you're serious, then why not ban it? Swindon seem to think they can:
Mon Sep 16 11:46 Comment: @mbatey @ConnectingLeeds Ah, but it makes naive non-drivers think the council cares, so you get their votes plus the votes of the pavement parkers.
Mon Sep 16 21:43 Kicked out of Headingley library with the infant at 5 today - cuts in opening hours. Could the service be subcontracted to Wetherspoons at the Golden Beam? Also no trained librarians, but opens late & has better air - current site gets a lot of vehicle emissions back & front
Tue Sep 17 01:37 Yorkshire Almanac: 17 September 2024: Then: 1963: As RAF Fylingdales' early warning systems go live, Tory minister (and Czech agent) Ray Mawby claims that carrier pigeons will not be confused Now: Tonight: mist, temperature 8°C (46°F), wind south…
Wed Sep 18 01:12 Yorkshire Almanac: 18 September 2024: Then: 1831: William Wallett, an unemployed Hull clown, sets out to walk from Tickhill to Doncaster in home-made clothes 1858: The Spectator is bowled over by the choral singing in the Messiah at the new secular Leeds…
Wed Sep 18 08:42 Has anyone ever managed to customize the Mailchimp "Social media: Auto-tweet campaign" feature? Put what you like in the field, output is the same. Lack of Bluesky integration suggests that the whole biz is low priority
Wed Sep 18 09:27 Crow chasing off two kites. Death in the air.
Wed Sep 18 20:26 Comment: People will lament the booze and fags, but merriment counts for something, & long fingers made to tease joy out of the piano also look good with a cigarette Vesti la giubba e la faccia infarina
Thu Sep 19 01:51 Yorkshire Almanac: 19 September 2024: Then: 1835: The Leeds Mercury attacks property valuations under the recent Municipal Corporations Act, which facilitate the political careers of men from the centre of town 1854: A multifarious railway accident in…
Fri Sep 20 01:27 Yorkshire Almanac: 20 September 2024: Then: 1319: During the Anglo-Scottish wars, seasoned raiders slaughter an improvised Yorkshire home guard of clergy, peasants and officials at Myton-on-Swale 1598: Tenterhooks are prohibited north of the Trent to…
Fri Sep 20 08:50 The infant has become friends with a bigger girl on the playground. BG: So are your daddy & mummy going to buy grandpa and grandma's house? I: No, they decided not to. BG: Oh, I'm glad, their neighbours' dog barks all the time.
Fri Sep 20 11:44 Late C19th Catholic antisemitic riots in Oldenzaal Are such events at the root of the Denekamp Passiontide songs?
Fri Sep 20 20:21 RT @fietsprofessor: 'Instead of banning cars that don't fit in a parking space, we say that victims should have worn a helmet. I miss the c…
Sat Sep 21 01:03 Yorkshire Almanac: 21 September 2024: Then: 1549: The hanging at York of the leaders of the egalitarian, republican, Catholic revolt against the Edwardian reformation which began at Seamer (Scarborough) 1874: Amidst urban railway tourists, the young of…
Sat Sep 21 20:17 - We've got half a dozen kids with us but fancy a beer. Any problems and we'll vacate immediately. - Oh no, we love you. But watch out from the people from the cricket in an hour. They're miserable gits.
Sun Sep 22 00:38 Yorkshire Almanac: 22 September 2024: Then: 1465: A (perhaps exaggerated) menu for the enthronement at Cawood Castle of George Neville as Archbishop of York 1674: A shotgun wedding ends in tragedy for young Mr Robinson of Sowerby 1731: Death of a mad…
Sun Sep 22 10:13 RT @DanNeidle: Offshore secrecy is a huge problem. It enables tax avoidance, sanctions-busting, dodgy PPE suppliers and drug cartels. We'…
Sun Sep 22 21:54 God: I am told that, during stay-and-play, you went into the class toilets and barked like a dog. This might alarm the nursery, which shares the toilets, and you should refrain from doing so. One: Barking is my customary way of communicating with the nursery.
Mon Sep 23 00:15 Yorkshire Almanac: 23 September 2024: Then: 1844: Early Geordie tourists depart for York in a special train 1846: Wilkie Collins' Captain Wragge, an amiable rogue, walks out into York Now: Tonight: heavy rain, temperature 13°C (55°F), wind northerly…
Mon Sep 23 20:03 The eyes. Someone sent me a slick campaign video for a children's election with the same glib insincerity.
Mon Sep 23 21:23 Leeds Civic Hall before grass & flowers gave way to concrete
Mon Sep 23 23:50 Yorkshire Almanac: 24 September 2024: Then: 1862: Having bet his shirt on blockade-running to the Confederates, Hull mayor Zachariah Pearson tells of his ruin by Lombard Street and Abraham Lincoln Now: Tonight: thick cloud, temperature 11°C (53°F), wind…
Tue Sep 24 06:53 Small boy no longer travelling to school by car so he can walk with the Infant
Tue Sep 24 20:43 Someone told me today re politics that Kurt Vonnegut said it's important to participate in lots of stuff even if all the participants are morons, but I can't find the quote
Tue Sep 24 22:14 Hoping to persuade the allotmenteers inter alia to institute an autumnal procession around the neighbourhood culminating in the ritual sacrifice & burial in the manure heap of an annually elected solar deity
Wed Sep 25 21:59 - We hope you join us. It would be good to have someone with a posh surname. - It's Welsh.
Thu Sep 26 12:39 Aha! so the yellow cucumber plant someone gave me, that grew and grew, and produced bitter fruit, must have been Phoona Kheera
Sat Sep 28 19:49 A couple who spent ca £20K on IVF moaning that the childminder wants £12/hr
Sat Sep 28 21:30 "To be quite honest, we don't need to heat our cellar, because the neighbours have an Aga in theirs. Feel the wall."
Sun Sep 29 06:13 RT @MrTimDunn: The @Moma released this haunting 1902 film of the Wuppertal Suspended Railway in Germany - but now it’s been colourised and…