Monty Python – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

April tweets

Just the usual load of nonsense.

Jimmy Brennan panning for gold in the Sperrins, Tyrone in 1983.

Organ-grinding tweets for December

Xmas &c.

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

Organ-grindish twitterings for November

Dominated by a sojourn in the Czech Republic.

A steam locomotive at Zaječí, Southern Moravia. In the background, the Hodonín express.

“Organ grinders to sleep in the wash house”

How a mass-produced 1960s joke sign for bars and pubs became evidence of historical authenticity before being censured as a hate crime against tinkers and thinkers (or organ-grinders, as we are often known).

June tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

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

Elegía definitiva a Grexorbitante / Definitive elegy to Grexorbitant

Lenny Kravitz, “It ain’t over till it’s over,” specially adapted for my good friend Mariano Rajoy.

Are you sure that parrot's alive? / ¿Seguro que está vivo el loro?

The exonymy wars: Generalidad de Cataluña and Comunitat de Madrid on Wikipedia

I was amused to note that there are massive flames on the Spanish Wikipedia re the (political) rectitude of using the Spanish equivalent of official Catalan toponyms and babylonyms (eg Generalidad de Cataluña instead of Generalitat de Catalunya), but that there is no corresponding bad-mouthing on the Catalan Wikipedia re the use of Catalan equivalents…

An early candidate for a Darwin Award

David Bar-David, the lemming messiah.