Tag: london

My top 10 boxing songs

All-star bill featuring Dan Mendoza aka the fighting Jew, manly Victorians, Joe Louis and the Dixieaires at the Battle of Jericho, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, Rocky Graziano aka the Maharishi Yoghurt, Bob Dylan and Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Muhammad Ali and over-reliance on computer technology, Rich Hall and the George Foreman Grill, Wesley Willis and Batman, and Ivor Cutler.

Richard Humphries' second blocks a crucial blow from Daniel Mendoza in the 1788 bout.

Rebranding Babel

The London Borough of Newham is looking for a Professional Tutor: Our client is a single sex secondary school based in the heart of East London. […] The school is a specialist Language school and they currently offer an unrivalled range of languages taught on the curriculum and in lunchtime clubs: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French,…

East London justification of the greengrocer’s apostrophe

Walking home through Hackney this evening, I met a charity shop with a sign that read, “Donation’s welcome.” “Are you sure about that?” I asked the proprietor. “Donation is welcome,” he explained. So “Apple’s £2 / kilo” means “Apple is two pounds a kilo,” there’s obviously a dialect singular / plural thing going on, and…

I changed my name

“Barcelona, Londres y Tilligte” no cabía en la tarjeta de visita. / “Barcelona, London and Tilligte” didn’t fit on my business card.

Migración del mosquitero común: amarillo = verano, azul = invierno. / Chiffchaff migration: yellow = summer, blue = winter.

Los hilos telegráficos como pentagrama para enseñar música desde el tren

Albert Smith escribe (Illustrated London News (1848), vía Futility Closet, otro gran emporio de serendipias): El medio de instrucción será los hilos del telégrafo eléctrico. En estos, siendo cinco, las notas se fijarán con materiales no conductores, y los alumnos las tocarán ya viajando. Los movimientos andante se tocarán cerca de las estaciones, donde el…
February birds. Hay gaitistas que usan pautas de 3 líneas.