Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder
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SingingOrganGrinder.com: Author of the Yorkshire Almanac/trad jazz trombone & vocals/brass & kazoo bands/allotmenteer/registered childminder/Romance & Germanic languages & Russian
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The Yorkshire Almanac 2026, Sheep Flavour, by Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder (paperback) – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder
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All that work, and all people want is the infant's drawings elorganillero.com/product/york...
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I love this country and its traditions, perhaps none more so than how Smithfield butchers are treated like rock stars on Xmas Eve
December 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I love this country and its traditions, perhaps none more so than how Smithfield butchers are treated like rock stars on Xmas Eve
Even Amazon gets lost
December 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Even Amazon gets lost
Easy to figure the syntax for epub downloads on the new Google Books using the PDF analogy (books.google.co.uk/books/downlo...), but why would they remove the links unless they were stupid & evil?
books.google.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Easy to figure the syntax for epub downloads on the new Google Books using the PDF analogy (books.google.co.uk/books/downlo...), but why would they remove the links unless they were stupid & evil?
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This is important for all people who live near airports that want to increase flights, especially at night
What noise lessons can be learnt from London City Airport?
The airport wants a shallower approach for new aircraft, claiming they're quieter than current models. AEF research found it's not so clear cut.
See our report below:
www.aef.org.uk/2025/12/19/n...
The airport wants a shallower approach for new aircraft, claiming they're quieter than current models. AEF research found it's not so clear cut.
See our report below:
www.aef.org.uk/2025/12/19/n...
Noise Lessons for London City Airport - Aviation Environment Federation
AEF recently produced a report for HACAN East, a campaign group for residents affected by London City Airport noise, on the noise impact of introducing the Airbus A320neo at the …
www.aef.org.uk
December 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is important for all people who live near airports that want to increase flights, especially at night
The suspicion that First drivers have an informal (& welcome) agreement amongst themselves not to charge youngish children - one today weighed up the chance of inspectors boarding. Will the loss be cancelled by more parents travelling?
December 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The suspicion that First drivers have an informal (& welcome) agreement amongst themselves not to charge youngish children - one today weighed up the chance of inspectors boarding. Will the loss be cancelled by more parents travelling?
Someone has had the bright idea of using my Yorkshire Almanac to teach English to my fellow-immigrants. Kind of compensates for the lack of a single nativity on this year's Christmas cards.
December 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Someone has had the bright idea of using my Yorkshire Almanac to teach English to my fellow-immigrants. Kind of compensates for the lack of a single nativity on this year's Christmas cards.
A column of Headingley rat-runners driving down the pavement of Grove Road from Alma Road to Grove Lane at school kick-out yesterday: "Stop fucking moaning, I'm not going to run over your fucking daughter. Do you think I'm fucking blind?"
December 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A column of Headingley rat-runners driving down the pavement of Grove Road from Alma Road to Grove Lane at school kick-out yesterday: "Stop fucking moaning, I'm not going to run over your fucking daughter. Do you think I'm fucking blind?"
Am I allowed to become a regionalist @tomclarke.bsky.social ?
Remember when HS2 to Leeds was cancelled by the NIC's shitty maths and fundamental lack of expertise, and Leeds was thrown the bone of "you'll get trams" and I said those would never be delivered?
Yeah, as I was saying...
Yeah, as I was saying...
December 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Am I allowed to become a regionalist @tomclarke.bsky.social ?
Does ash dieback spell the end for Norse cosmology? Asking for Yggdrasil
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Does ash dieback spell the end for Norse cosmology? Asking for Yggdrasil
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I read a book on the northern music hall that is described as having an introduction by Ken Dodd. This is the introduction in its entirety.
December 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I read a book on the northern music hall that is described as having an introduction by Ken Dodd. This is the introduction in its entirety.
Peter Cook - Radley - was 25 years older than Farage
December 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Peter Cook - Radley - was 25 years older than Farage
- Those are some serious bandages. You slashed your wrists at the thought of another three weeks of Christmas?
- I got back from the work do, made a hot water bottle that was too hot & too full, & woke up the next morning with burns on chest and forearms.
- I got back from the work do, made a hot water bottle that was too hot & too full, & woke up the next morning with burns on chest and forearms.
December 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
- Those are some serious bandages. You slashed your wrists at the thought of another three weeks of Christmas?
- I got back from the work do, made a hot water bottle that was too hot & too full, & woke up the next morning with burns on chest and forearms.
- I got back from the work do, made a hot water bottle that was too hot & too full, & woke up the next morning with burns on chest and forearms.
Infant reading Pandora Perfect: "Mary Poppins meets Megamind." All is lost.
December 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Infant reading Pandora Perfect: "Mary Poppins meets Megamind." All is lost.
Justification for Tchaikovsky's 1812: 'artillery' begins with 'art'
December 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Justification for Tchaikovsky's 1812: 'artillery' begins with 'art'
Infant reads herself to sleep with Gorebrah, which she found in the library. I vaguely thought Gorebrain, should I be investigating.
December 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Infant reads herself to sleep with Gorebrah, which she found in the library. I vaguely thought Gorebrain, should I be investigating.
Recalls an Ulster conspiracy theorist, many years ago: If your PM converts to Catholicism & says he wants continental café culture (source?), you're going to get Neapolitan waste disposal.
Campania Regione or enforcement seem to be the two options. As of today, the British state is leaning heavily towards the Campania model
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Recalls an Ulster conspiracy theorist, many years ago: If your PM converts to Catholicism & says he wants continental café culture (source?), you're going to get Neapolitan waste disposal.
Any doubts I had about the infant taking a day off school were quelled when she made me lunch.
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Any doubts I had about the infant taking a day off school were quelled when she made me lunch.
All that work, and all people want is the infant's drawings elorganillero.com/product/york...
The Yorkshire Almanac 2026, Sheep Flavour, by Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder (paperback) – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder
elorganillero.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
All that work, and all people want is the infant's drawings elorganillero.com/product/york...
Why no one takes West Yorkshire Police's Operation Snap seriously road.cc/content/news...
"Hardly a deterrent at all": Cyclist left with injuries and broken bike after being hit by van driver denounces "disappointing" police action and conduct of insurance company
Despite the cyclist wearing lights and high-vis, the van driver didn’t give way – and was sent on a driver awareness course for the offence
road.cc
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Why no one takes West Yorkshire Police's Operation Snap seriously road.cc/content/news...
Calverley Library. Public buildings are a marker of civilization, but when the ability to generate a surplus declines, & central authority, shared ideology & collective identity are weak, you can pick em up cheap, & the best outcome is another Spoons
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December 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Calverley Library. Public buildings are a marker of civilization, but when the ability to generate a surplus declines, & central authority, shared ideology & collective identity are weak, you can pick em up cheap, & the best outcome is another Spoons
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Punning isn't a big deal in Anglo-Saxon, so how did dads get by?
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Punning isn't a big deal in Anglo-Saxon, so how did dads get by?
Can't believe that Wormwood is left unaltered in the Spanish translation of Roald Dahl's Matilda when vermut (< wormwood) was there for the taking
December 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Can't believe that Wormwood is left unaltered in the Spanish translation of Roald Dahl's Matilda when vermut (< wormwood) was there for the taking
A Cookridge woman knows in the early hours what the weather is doing without consulting forecasts or peeping out of the window: if the illegal night flights from Leeds Botox are incredibly loud, the wind is westerly & it will be warm & wet; if they are quieter, she adds a blanket
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A Cookridge woman knows in the early hours what the weather is doing without consulting forecasts or peeping out of the window: if the illegal night flights from Leeds Botox are incredibly loud, the wind is westerly & it will be warm & wet; if they are quieter, she adds a blanket
Lycra lightweight strikes again
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Lycra lightweight strikes again
Gwilym William on FB has "had enough of this A303 Stonehenge tunnel nonsense. Time for a proper solution"
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Gwilym William on FB has "had enough of this A303 Stonehenge tunnel nonsense. Time for a proper solution"