Nursery rhyme – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The great Victoria Park nursery rhyme schism of 2021

Retrograde Akira resolves a bitter “Row, row, row your boat” confrontation between Hackney and Tower Hamlets parents. Includes a Newfie joke.

The tune in question from <a href='https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23960'>Round</a> in Grove.

Singing Organ-Grinder tweets for April

Cranking it up along the River Lea.

On preparing an anthology of English-language nursery rhymes for a Pyrenean baby

Dead space is a newish horror survival game set on board a stricken interstellar mining ship. You play an engineer fighting a polymorphic, viral infestation which turns humans into grotesque alien monsters. Reviewing it Seth Schiesel asks: When did fear become fun? I’ve been thinking about that a lot as I’ve played Dead Space, the…