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January tweets

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Musical objects found in the Damrak and Rokin Amstel-bed excavations

A treasure trove from the tunnel bores for Amsterdam’s controversial North-South metro line.

17th-century-ish hurdy-gurdy crank.

June tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

More barrel organ news from Hackney. Includes first posts from Top 10 Russian Football Song series.

Franchi and Johnsons are rivals.

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Shop Selection

  • Kazoo (punning inscription in Spanish) £3.00
  • This Simian World, by Clarence Day (Kindle .mobi) £3.00

Resources

  • My Castilian-Andalusian dialect translator is popular with Spanish novelists of the Andalusian vernacular Traductor castellano-andaluz
  • Hackney Brook restoration scheme Shark jumping Wick Road
  • Town & country strolls, inc. a walk from Petersfield over the South Downs to Bishops WalthamOld Winchester Hill
  • Top 10 Russian football songs, often about their love for the English; I've been translating Russian since 2017 Whiteman the Blacksoul
  • On-this-day Barcelona news from my historical almanac Barcelona almanaque histórico
  • The organ-grinder's family history: Wales, Merseyside, Cornwall, London... Simon Jones, Bala
  • Das Kitschin' Kabinet des Dr Kaleboel: favourite blogs
  • Even more nonsense Simon Jones, Bala

Posted today

Posts from previous years on today's month and day:

  • 2015
    • Protected: Seniorita’s sauna and massage parlour, Chatsworth Road, Clapton, London (This post started elsewhere as a bit of linguistic jokery about George Formby, Al Jolson and Balkan turbo-folk, but unhappily became a focus for daft, drunk men looking for prostitutes. To read it please enter the German version of the first name of the translator of the Bible into Middle English)
  • 2014
    • Statistically speaking I’ve got my drinking about right
    • Why does the Chartres cathedral renovation have to be so damn cautious?
  • 2011
    • Interchangeability of nominative and genitive forms of Spanish patronymics?
  • 2008
    • Servicios / Tualet
    • Good bar in Puerto de Santa María
    • Bank of Spain introduces inflation-proof €500 banknotes
    • Mattress sales down
    • Pig foot gypsy charm
  • 2006
    • Culinary value of whipped pig and baited bull
    • Barcelona is…
  • 2005
    • Beercelona 2
    • Th'Estatut
    • Beercelona
  • 2004
    • Nasty neighbours
    • Last call for tomorrow night
    • PP + Irak = Madrid
    • I’m a teapot, almost
    • Get a feed!
    • Paradox
  • 2003
    • on s'aparca la grua municipal?
    • Parasitical beatles and snails get their just desserts
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