Extweets for June 2025

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

Sun Jun 01 09:05 RT @CuriosityHull: Why Are Drains In A Hull Street Being Disconnected From The Main Sewer? Concrete is out and natural flood remedies are…
Sun Jun 01 18:58 Infant riding bike into doors: "I'm the actor in a film I'm making called Dead People of Headingley. A boy keeps riding his bike into a TV because he thinks if he gets inside everyone will see him on their TVs. One day the impact kills him, and everyone sees him on their TVs.
Mon Jun 02 20:01 Infant relishing the Absurd Trolley Problems at
Tue Jun 03 09:40 Tremendous Handel from Hervé Niquet/Le Concert Spirituel
Tue Jun 03 09:46 No insects, no swallows, but plenty of crows & pigeons
Tue Jun 03 20:22 RT @JohnSimpsonNews: I watched this happen on the morning of 4 June 1989 in Chang’an Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, the morning after the n…
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Mon Jun 09 08:50 "I used to sit up drinking till half one, now I sit up till the same time reading detox books"
Wed Jun 11 06:31 Leeds, end of the track
Wed Jun 11 07:46 Unicode is extraordinary but eccentric: why's there a straightforward black sun character (☀), but Lilith contamination on the black moon (⚸)?
Wed Jun 11 08:59 Elderly guy over coffee in @whistle_shop, Headingley the other day: "Our problem is that our world has got smaller - dodgy knees etc - but the world we need to access has got bigger. Not saying I'd go back to the butcher, grocer, greengrocer etc that were opposite, but..."
Thu Jun 12 05:02 - There's a Chinese burglar in the garden! - It's the neighbour, climbing the willow to try rescue his cat.
Fri Jun 13 09:58 Yorkshire Water. Meanwhile, every time there's a drop of rain, sewage flows into Meanwood Beck from the Hollin Lane Farm CSO
Sat Jun 14 04:59 Really tasty fresh milk from Heron's Dairy, Bramhope Grove Farm
Sat Jun 14 06:51 Abigail Katung was (Labour) lord mayor of Leeds till last month & is still a councillor, so not much "ex" in her cut-price purchase with dubious funds of a massive house from a crook
Sat Jun 14 21:10 Perhaps influenced by Starmer's plan to have self-driving cars finish off us jaywalkers, the infant is transcribing "robot" as "road bot" - a million miles away from her encounter today with PH's gloriously humanist 1957 Chevy Bel Air and 1968 Mustang, out of the stables at last
Sun Jun 15 08:56 The infant appears to have moved on from lions, witches, and wardrobes to hobbits, which are much more amusing. She declined to watch versions of C.S. Lewis, & I hope we won't have to put up with Jackson CGI
Mon Jun 16 13:05 We may never know whether he had a cunning plan
Tue Jun 17 09:09 RT @OpenChiswickW4: “When will the cycle lobby in London just accept that restricting motor vehicles doesn’t work because nobody wants to c…
Tue Jun 17 09:58 Infant issuing divergent routes: "I'll go up this street, you take that one and turn right at the end, staying on the pavement, and we'll meet at the house with the pirate ship." My fear is not of strangers attacking her, but of some fool calling the police or the council.
Tue Jun 17 21:57 Big Brendel news. I might try it.
Wed Jun 18 08:20 Already battered poacher trilby now irretrievably stained with cherry juice, following on-shoulder scrumping by another infant in my care. Cherries ca three weeks early, but still a couple of weeks behind Šarq al-Ándalus
Wed Jun 18 08:39 Paul H's rescue trade in horses & cars is an echo of this, 125 years ago - I Walked by Night: Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers
Sat Jun 21 05:20 An old doubt as to whether KR's story for the NL authorities was based on Bashu, with some additional detail
Mon Jun 23 17:35 Post-school wander with the infant past Headingley stadium, and there's the ticket office: - She's quite curious about this cricket thing but probably won't last more than 5 minutes. How much would that be? - Full price, £42.50 each (I think he said).
Mon Jun 23 17:49 Comment: I suppose in return we could invoice them for the free parking provided for their customers around Headingley schools
Wed Jun 25 08:58 Comment: @AndrewHammel1 Sometimes war-torn isn't the right strategy - Iranians in the 1980s used to get into Canada with forged Greek passports until the Canadians put Greek speakers on immigration desks
Thu Jun 26 11:04 I thought manky was a Wessex chav echoing his Norman/Plantagenet lord's view of his work - manqué - but I hear it in Leeds, & since it appears in the C18th & sounds like Dutch mankeren, I'm guessing Middle French > Lowland written French > Dutch mispronunciation > marine English
Mon Jun 30 22:32 Come and see me on July 12th playing the trombone (King&I, Kirkstall Festival, Ruins Stage, 12:30) and the kazoo (Leeds Festival Chorus, St Edmund's Roundhay, 19:30)