Chronica majora – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Long live the prickly pear!

Death to the cochineal beetle and doom to the ecologists!

If the Guardian really cared about the North and manufacturing, it would never have left Manchester

You want constitutional reform for the UK? Kalebeul has something for everyone, except mad thieving bastards.

Have you climbed London’s 33 summits?

Nice, and the take-aways are better than in the Himalayas. An alternative list.

Cómo recuperar tu saldo de Orbitel (España) tras su adquisición por Lebara

Ponían aquí (copia local): Asimismo, en caso de que, una vez pasadas las 24:00:00 horas del próximo día 09 de Agosto de 2014, quedara saldo en tu Tarjeta SIM perteneciente al servicio ORBITEL MOVIL, ponte en contacto con nosotros para que dicho saldo te sea devuelto o compensado llamando al 901020840 o escribiendo un correo…

Down with free-range chickens! Up with free-range eggs!

You will soon pay much less for much more liberated eggs, all thanks to experiments currently underway in Kalebeul labs.

A snail-fuelled footwear cooling and lubrication system

The other day, with in temperatures in the mid-30s, some folks dragged me out of retirement to go walking on a bunch of limestone. I was in sandals, but my feet were still pretty warm, and the fine dust gradually started creating fissures in my naturally dry skin. But then, eureka. Snails like limestone, whether…

The Guardian: Ukraine may rescue Co-op Bank

Here. But is that a Scots Nationalist gh in haemorraghing?

In which I chew up a live snail

I knew there was still some of my tortilla de patatas lurking on the unlit fringes of a garden party, grabbed a small dark piece, popped it in, and crunched. I must have got its lung and probably its dick, but I kind of feel I missed its arse. I’m glad I didn’t take one…

Pirates in the Church of England

One of the churches – maybe Freshford – inspected during a sodden stroll around Bath the other day had been completely redecorated in pirate stylee, so that one almost expected to find Captain Morgan and His Magnificent Organ in the loft. Izabella Kaminska might spin this as an attempt to regulate Satanic forces which, in…

Friends, Milanese, countrymen

Why does the great city of Bonn not trumpet Quintus Petilius Secundus’ monstrous monkey ears?