Pigeon – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

London organ-grinder tweets for September 2017

Barrel/street organ stuff.

Napoleon as Harlequin, tumbler, fraudster, monkey (?): Come, come, honest gents, have you ever seen a comedy like that!

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.

Elogio de la casta y de lo casto

Con una canción, una receta, y palabras sabias de J.M. Aznar etc.

'Je veille pour la nation': diseño original ca. 1792, Nevers (Champfleury, <em><a href='http://books.google.com/books?id=YDwGAAAAQAAJ'>Histoire des Faïences Patriotiques sous la Révolution</a></em> (1867))

Loft of gipsy homing pigeons painted in the colours of Spain and Andalusia

Snapped by SG on a lovely clear day last week on a variation of this Barcelona city walk. The birds belong to three tired-looking gents who one would have said were hippophiles pertaining to the kingdom of Dionysus, so we didn’t enquire as to the whys and wherefores. Birds are often painted for ceremonial or…

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Elogio de la casta y de lo casto

Loft of gipsy homing pigeons painted in the colours of Spain and Andalusia