Gypsy – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October

More rubbish.

Organ-grinder in courtyard - Bruno Schulz illustration to his story Księga, The Book, 1937.

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for September

A rubbish heap in which a Ukrainian nuclear fireman finds romance with Willie Nelson.

In the footsteps of Spartacus

A self-guided walk from Ciampino Airport to Rome along the Appian Way.

A remarkable gravestone in Waltham Forest Muslim cemetery

If tears could build a stairway / And memories a lane, / We’d walk right up to heaven / And bring you home again.

Organ-grinder tweets for November 2017

More monkey mess from the peripatetic Homerton/Hackney barrel organ.

Rats/mice bearing the cat to his grave in Tarragona, anticipating Russian prints of the scene.

Seniorita’s sauna and massage parlour, Chatsworth Road, Clapton, London

Google Brain is rounding off this blog’s already manifest redundancy, so let’s treasure the linguistic ineptitude of Seniorita’s while we may: Seniorita’s is of course advertised on pimpsites as a brothel (grab). This supposed punter lacks the apostrophes to make it in the grocery trade: Senioritas At 2 chatsworth rd london E5 you will find…

Morons, Zamorans and the Galician Obama

Like all good liberal democrats (no caps) we want to imagine that everyone else shares our condition, but it don’t always work.

Spanish RC church in unexpected contribution to Romanian Orthodox dress code?

Plus a query re Balkan gypsy Pentecostalism.

Ordination of Bishop Edson Damian (with tucum's ring), Amazonas, Brazil

So is this gypsy witch getting the shop girl to stick the egg in her chichi or what?

Conoci una gitana muy simpatica en mi tienda, a pesar de que nunca las he tragado, congeniamos. Le hice un descuento y se ofreció a leer mis manos gratis. Me dijo que me habian hecho un mal. (Cosa que me han dicho un par de veces. Sé quien fue y sus motivos, se que era…

Sinn Fein-IRA joke

You heard it here first – unless you’re familiar with the early 20th century Spanish gypsy repertoire.