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Organ-grinding tweets for December

Xmas &c.

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

The Russian folk song in the Coen brothers’ Raising Arizona

I thought it was a recent version of Stravinsky’s Petrushka theme, but it turns out that Pete Seeger is the intermediary. Plus an East End Jewish version of Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance.

When’s the cheapest time to make strawberry jam?

Average wholesale prices, May-September 2015-2019.

Andreu Solà i Vidal  (1863–1902), Las Fresas, source of the most terrible back and stomach problems.

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