Extweets for May 2025

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

Fri May 02 07:42 Americans are sometimes a bit silly: "1⅔ cups, scooped and leveled, minus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour" aka 200g
Fri May 02 21:15 Nice that a hotel named for Mercury, god of commerce & messaging, has been allotted to the Afghan Deliveroo drivers the nation so desperately needs
Fri May 02 21:24 If 10K people die annually by euthanasia in the Netherlands, why is UK gov's estimate for assisted dying in year 10 only 4,559?
Sat May 03 06:04 The loss of the gas hob feels anti-Promethean & dehumanising. If one of the motives is air pollution, why is everyone & their auntie getting a wood-burner?
Sat May 03 06:14 Maybe Yorkshire Water will in return stop funnelling poo into Meanwood Beck
Sat May 03 16:42 Comment: @YorkshireWater Yeah, but there's no end to the poo, is there
Sat May 03 16:43 Bank queries every payment except the one where a bloke overcharges me £700 for a leg of lamb
Sat May 03 18:34 We thought of asking the council for permission to plant trees outside, but they might just grow there spontaneously
Sat May 03 20:22 Comment: @DanielGalef Miss Muriel Tottle? The guy who fat-fingered the 7 called me 'sir' a lot, so could have brazened it out
Sat May 03 21:31 - Are you mad with the school for telling the infant that Mr G was Miss G? - No, because it teaches her that her nearest & dearest may lie to her out of fear or greed or confusion, & so forth, & that anyone may err when they don't use the OAK methodology™: observe-analyse-kazoo
Tue May 06 19:24 5½-year-old not convinced that losing her first tooth is less momentous than teaching her mum to play chess
Wed May 07 07:55 Comment: - What fairy story do you want to prepare yourself for the tooth fairy's visit? - Fungus the Bogeyman. But the fairyland coup de grâce, with irresistible cadence, is Tennyson's Blow, Bugle, Blow, from the Faber Child's Garland, inscribed 'Pat, Xmas 1944, With all my love, Mummy'
Wed May 07 08:03 Comment: Jane Carton's 1942 Child's Garland for Faber is a great & suitably patriotic anthology, and includes half a dozen poems by Walter de la Mare, a marvellous poet whose explanation of death I found convincing as a child. Lived on the same road in Twickenham as Tennyson
Wed May 07 08:08 Comment: @LeedsCivicTrust @LeedsCC_News A tripe boutique?
Wed May 07 08:24 Truanting & confused Levantine lad snapping the horse in the greybelt field across from the Woodland Dye Works. - City Academy? - Leeds International [some kind of Sri Lankan franchise], but I was at Notre Dame. - You won't feed the horse, will you. - Do you come here every day?
Wed May 07 21:39 Singing Ligeti -> Clytus Gottwald -> his Mahler choral arrangements
Wed May 07 21:56 The tooth fairy is Count Dracula's alter ego
Sat May 10 05:53 Infant's introduction to arbitrage: the cleaner employs a cleaner for her flat
Sat May 10 14:24 Victoria the place
Sat May 10 17:25 - Look, a pair of bullfinches. - They're the most beautiful native bird I've seen! - They just stripped the buds off the rose. - Shoot them.
Sat May 10 17:33 Vintage brass reception desk bell and two bullets: Fawlty Towers, surely
Sun May 11 05:41 Infant in distinctly Shakespearean mood recently, though the whining is all mine, & probably needs to disappear - talking to cats & observing the effects of the drought is closer to the spirit of the national curriculum than staring at a whiteboard
Tue May 13 20:49 RT @chriskeating: this is possibly the best restaurant review I have ever seen well done @ManchesterMill
Wed May 14 05:37
Wed May 14 08:22 Yup
Wed May 14 08:30 If you ask the infant about school, the journey hence probably wins over the destination - the Bob Rauschenberg gate, human & animal acquaintances, whodunnit detection in the dust - so who cares if it's slow
Thu May 15 20:50 The Richard Feynman ant experiments send the infant off to sleep in five minutes. Next soporific: Konrad Lorenz
Mon May 19 04:07 Comment: @PolemicTMM @Keir_Starmer
Thu May 22 04:57 RT @NoContextBrits: Ahead of his time.
Thu May 22 05:51 Mini dust devils at the allotments - not what Pablo promised
Thu May 22 09:33 Proposal to rename the infant Little West Riding Hood
Thu May 22 11:59 Comment: @tomranson1 I absolutely adore his stuff
Fri May 23 18:17 RT @BBCSouthNews: First nationalised train will be replacement bus
Sat May 24 18:04 RT @kortizart: If you cannot run your business by following simple laws, you don’t have a business, you have a racket.
Sun May 25 19:45 A dozen swallows over the millpond last Thursday, also the impression that there are half as many as there were even say 25 years ago. One factor I never see mentioned in their decline is the loss of a bit of urban infrastructure: telephone wires
Tue May 27 21:35 Two-hour bedtime - infant determined not to fall asleep until Mr Tumnus was liberated & The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe brought to a (Christian) conclusion. I didn't appreciate as a child the musicality of C.S. Lewis' writing - a joy to read aloud
Thu May 29 07:05 Male chaffinch in a terrible state of distress outside the box tree containing the nest. One fears something has got Mrs & he is checking the ground for survivors. Something killed off the long-tailed tit nest too, but I don't suspect a cat, & the fox is keeping the rats in order
Thu May 29 07:13 Ligeti's English translation in Éjszaka és Reggel / Night & Morning is sub early Björk lyrics
Thu May 29 07:20 RT @Scott_Wortley: Holyrood in action
Thu May 29 07:22 Have those surnamed Liddell transferred the stress to the second syllable since the advent of Lidl?
Fri May 30 09:17 So far today in half-term role-play: School For Dogs, The Night Before Christmas, Narnia Wardrobe
Sat May 31 04:28 Good news for fast walkers
Sat May 31 15:01 Grateful they didn't call it PCRN HUB