A walk from Leeds-Bradford Airport via Horsforth Station to Headingley
Out through customs, and a couple of minutes later you’re standing in a field with half a dozen skittish Friesian heifers and a peaceful Hereford bull.
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The mysterious terracotta “Baronet” relief on Ye Racehorse Inne, 212 Elm Grove, Brighton
I suggest that it is the iconisation of the Stubbs portrait of George (later the) IV’s most successful horse, ridden in a distinctive flying gallop by his favourite jockey, Old Sam Chifney; and that the depiction of boots and reins without a rider symbolises George’s disgust at the termination of Chifney’s career by the Jockey Club following a race-rigging scandal.
John Gay’s Fable 40: The Two Monkeys
They are shocked by their reception on attending Southwark fair: Men laugh at apes, they men contemn; / For what are we, but Apes to them?
May tweets
Lots of Ramsgate photos, plus the usual nonsense.
April tweets
Just the usual load of nonsense.
March tweets
More Czechs, Spike Jones, Brexit, burning Guy, Child Ballads, copyright, Robin Hood’s two pricks, and so on.
Organ-grinding tweets for February
More untruths & idle opinions.
January tweets
For drone-hunters, a walk westward from Gatwick airport to Ockley station
Dedicated to those at Gatwick considering tracking down and killing the source of their stasis. Features two good drinking establishments, the villages of Charlwood and Capel and the River Mole.
The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for September
A rubbish heap in which a Ukrainian nuclear fireman finds romance with Willie Nelson.
