SingingOrganGrinder@elorganillero
Bio: Kazoo Academy & Barrel Organ Disco/Yorkshire Almanac/translator Romance & Germanic languages & Russian/old-style jazz trombone & vocals/brass bands/allotmenteer
- Fri Jul 04 20:43 Gate to the old pig farm at the beginning of the path from the stables up to St Oswald's Mission Chapel on Highbury Mount, 06:13 on 16/5/25. Always makes me think Robert Rauschenberg, except when I actually look at his art. Mr P hopes Labour will help him build houses here.
- Sun Jul 06 05:54 Comment: @NHPNA1 If you need a cup of tea we're usually around!
- Sun Jul 06 06:10 What next for allotments, with the traditional harvest show in decline? Root fights, perhaps in costume?
- Sun Jul 06 18:54 All we lack now is the actual author, unpaid & somehow saddled with an NDA
- Mon Jul 07 08:55 "I had 2 hours daily screen time as a child, & I'm OK" echoes the smoking/drinking/etc memes
- Tue Jul 08 12:57 Comment: @emmajaned0lan 50 under the stairs if you're into kazookestras!
- Tue Jul 08 19:59 RT @DarrenJohnson66: Fascinating reading the one-star reviews on Amazon for The Salt Path. Ordinary punters were calling out Raynor Winn's…
- Wed Jul 09 10:41 Mummy blackbird protesting loudly as the crow on the ridge eats her babies, daddy blackbird eating a large but confused moth #RedInToothAndClaw
- Fri Jul 11 04:50 Ah, Ildefons Cerdà's 1860 city plan for Barcelona. Oops, no, it's Major l'Enfant's 1791 plan for Washington DC
- Fri Jul 11 11:16 My route to becoming a councillor
- Sat Jul 12 06:25 "Off to the pet shop to buy a fish for the pool so I can fill it with a hosepipe. I'll bet Yorkshire Water's boss has his plumbed in, otherwise they'd have included swimming pools in the ban."
- Sun Jul 13 21:14 Trying to persuade a Central European father that streaking at the primary school sports day is an essential English tradition
- Sun Jul 13 21:33 The greenfinch "from the cottage-eaves / Pours forth his song in gushes," but I don't think anyone has versified its characteristic rising call, which had me puzzled - recording no 2 here:
- Sun Jul 13 22:09 A classic in the "pavement parking because street parking is illegal" genre - Uber 23666 and Veezu 22075 on Lovell Park Hill, Leeds in June 2024
- Mon Jul 14 11:36 Middle-aged Englishman: I have an uncle by marriage who briefly played for the West Indies & then managed them. Older Barbadian lady: As a child I looked after Wesley Hall's children, & I am related to Garfield Sobers.
- Mon Jul 14 21:17 But does the Japanese version of Agatha Christie's Murder of Roger Ackroyd (黒井戸殺し) feature marrows?
- Mon Jul 14 21:34 Steve C's White House is surely a Fitzcarraldo tribute
- Mon Jul 14 22:09 - So what kind of dining table do you want?
- Gradisca's
- Tue Jul 15 12:14 Come to Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club this weekend on Kirkstall Art Trail & check out Claire Hender's semi-abstract treescapes based on Woodhouse Ridge. The gelli printing workshop is great for kids, the 2nd XI are playing Saturday, and there's a bar!
- Tue Jul 15 15:38 All power to the hyphen
- Tue Jul 15 18:58 Gutted that the infant's end-of-year reception class report is all about emotional security and creativity and storywriting, with not a word about her progress towards the NVQ Level 2 Plumbing & Heating, which has to be the priority
- Wed Jul 16 11:29 Using tripe to virtue-signal was never going to work in Durham, which lacks Lancashire's tradition
- Thu Jul 17 04:50 Leeds Council proposes to allow developers to build on, among others, the Headingley Station Allotments & on what has effectively become a nature reserve - the old Tetley Brewery playing fields, off Weetwood Avenue, next to Meanwood Park
- Thu Jul 17 08:19 Quelle surprise
- Sat Jul 19 07:04 One thinks of the risk to children of bathing in Meanwood Beck as being mainly about sewage from Yorkshire Water, but how about fipronil & imidacloprid from the flea & tick treatments applied to the numerous dogs entering the water?
- Sat Jul 19 07:06 Comment: (The crayfish have gone because of crayfish plague - separate issue.)
- Sat Jul 19 19:28 Medieval Cistercian ridge-and-furrow in Beckett Park looking great thanks to the drought. In wetter periods I wondered if it wasn't a perspectival landscaping device, increasing the perception of depth to the grounds when viewed from Kirkstall Grange, but no doubt now.
- Sun Jul 20 05:57 Comment: @DanielGalef The infant loves Frère Jacques! I will ask her to send you some of the money she has stolen from me at supermarket checkouts.
- Sun Jul 20 05:57 RT @DanielGalef: Depending how pretentious you are, you might like one or the other of these, but probably not both: -a set of 8 songs tur…
- Sun Jul 20 06:09 Overheard: "Ooh, her, she's got mental health!" Like the C20th "She's mental/a loony," but with added financial benefits, to judge by comparison of the facilities of the new special school on Alma Road, Ormston School, with those of Shire Oak Primary on Wood Lane.
- Sun Jul 20 06:19 Comment: Ngram from the official world (poor vs good?). Headingley had become something of a hub, even before Owen Lawrence.
Psalm 143:7: Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
- Sun Jul 20 06:37 "P. komarovii on I. parviflora first recorded in Europe in Kiev, Ukraine in 1921" but the variety being used against Himalayan balsam in Yorkshire is pretty new Great news if no cons
- Sun Jul 20 10:11 Comment: The result of WWI practice manoeuvres?
- Tue Jul 22 05:22 The infant has discovered adult Scrabble (=language & maths) & MMA playfighting, so maybe the terracotta army of dolls ready for year 1 & the dozen written roleplay scenarios can be quietly forgotten these holidays
- Tue Jul 22 05:24
- Tue Jul 22 08:23 (Pakistani) Uber obstructing the pavement next to Busy Bees, Grove Road: - You can't park here, children need to get past. - I'm picking up someone. The (pinkish English) ride emerges from the neighbouring house: - You're just 2 angry white men. Wait till I tell the neighbours.
- Tue Jul 22 08:24 Comment: I haven't thought of myself racially since being identified as Irish at primary school, but the house has a Palestinian flag, so peak North Headingley
- Wed Jul 23 15:43 The protagonist of Percival Everett's novel Erasure (2001) on race:
- Wed Jul 23 15:58 The thing about Mr Woolley's chicken tile is that some decorators don't see the motif & install the poor beasts upside down
- Wed Jul 23 20:30 Infant puzzled that the author of Swallows and Amazons - Headingley's own Arthur Ransome - also wrote Old Peter's Russian Tales, including a new favourite, Baba Yaga. Wait till she hears about the study of Oscar Wilde.
- Wed Jul 23 21:12 Doesn't everyone drink red wine with chicken?
- Thu Jul 24 05:44 Resurrected slugs are ignoring the upthrusting traditional courgettes & attacking the grounded globes, so the latter are to be trained up the now 8-foot sunflowers with as coup de grâce more allotment beer sessions
- Thu Jul 24 06:24 Comment: Stop liking this, get a glass of whatever, & read my post about slugs & courgettes
- Thu Jul 24 06:26 Comment: Cela est bien dit, répondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin
- Thu Jul 24 18:23 RT @bhargreaves: There are too many dogs in American cities. Not just in parks, but in grocery stores, restaurants, and strollers. The ur…
- Fri Jul 25 05:39 Our confrontation with a sociopathic bigot the other day regarding pavement parking appears to have radicalised my friend, who has spent his working life doing objectively Good Things in the Middle East:
- Sat Jul 26 05:49 The train to Hengelo
- Sat Jul 26 05:52 Tove Jansson's Summer Book beckons the infant. One enduring image of this summer: HRH sitting nattering away on the sideline at sports day, surrounded by laughing girlfriends
- Sun Jul 27 20:37 Discovered "Songs by Tom Lehrer" as a child amongst my mum's records, told not to play it when ancient GP grandad was around (drugs refs), songs on my lips ever since
- Mon Jul 28 05:50 Talking to the son of a Pakistani farmer the other day. His dad had 14 sons and 3 daughters - the rest of the latter killed at birth. The sons weeded fields until their teens & were then put onto a flight to England. Guys son & daughter-in-law are having just the one.
- Tue Jul 29 05:08 Comment: Silent E
- Tue Jul 29 05:29 Proper educationalist: "DfE is on course to bin synthetic phonics before the end of the decade." I don't know the bigger picture, but what little I've seen suggests a cult with unimpressive results.
- Tue Jul 29 07:27 Looking for a nice walking route from Headingley/Weetwood to LBA that avoids Scotland Lane
- Tue Jul 29 09:07 RT @PrivateEyeNews: The Yorkshire (lack of) water region: some affected places From the latest Private Eye, out now.
- Wed Jul 30 06:07 I was stopped last week as I carried my Kalashnikov back from the allotments, but I explained that I needed it to protect my opium crop, and he settled for 15%. (Source: Soviet-Afghan folklore.)
- Wed Jul 30 21:39 The Himalayan Garden at Harewood House must be the only place within 20 miles without Himalayan balsam
- Thu Jul 31 08:27 Aficionados of blood sports may want to come and watch an organ-grinder on his old school trombone trying to keep up with Mr Duffy on sax at 4 pm on Saturday at Seven Arts
- Thu Jul 31 16:35 Off to see whether hot chilli powder will keep the rats off the sweet corn
- Thu Jul 31 20:01 Comment: The infant can now reliably play several notes in 1st position & may dep for me on Saturday Getting a new water key cork has helped - the valve was leaking like Yorkshire Water
- Thu Jul 31 20:13 As well as the usual hordes of junkies, central Leeds heaving with street vendors of cigarettes & vapes this afternoon - perhaps due to pressure on retail
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