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Organ-grinding tweets for February

More untruths & idle opinions.

Rook.

January tweets

Who took this photo?

Organ-grinding tweets for December

Xmas &c.

If any would not work neither should he eat: Walthamstow workhouse.

July tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

Cornwall, pleased to see someone.

From the lexical underground, “rapport”

Symmetries in textiles, architecture and music.

Spider Monkeys by Vincent Desjardins is smarter than most tessellations.

Leave your city burnin like Gamera

Stamina, blaze up your space, plus I got it on camera. Lower Clapton’s wildlife and some audiovisual plans.

Early photography by the Organ-Grinder, from Carnaval in Denekamp, Twente, Overijssel, Netherlands in 1989. I can't remember whether the scene was proverbial or topical. Maybe no one knew.

Organ-grinding tweets for March 2018

The latest barrel organ news from Hackney, London.

Section of London-Harwich in 1675, crossing the River Lea at Bow.

Organ-grinder tweets for December 2017

More inanity from the Hackney organity.

Boy not looking at fairground organ.

London organ-grinder tweets for September 2017

Barrel/street organ stuff.

Napoleon as Harlequin, tumbler, fraudster, monkey (?): Come, come, honest gents, have you ever seen a comedy like that!

From Charles Trenet, two musical De Gaulle anecdotes

Re the songs, L’âme des poètes and Douce France.

The lyrics to L'âme des poètes on a Narbonne wall.

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