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SingingOrganGrinder.com: Far Headingley, Leeds/Kazoo Academy & Barrel Organ Disco/Yorkshire Almanac/translator Romance & Germanic languages & Russian/trad jazz trombone & vocals/brass bands/allotmenteer/childminder. Elorganillero at the other place.
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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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"
Ah, Velké Pavlovice
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Ah, Velké Pavlovice
The infant has on her door her beloved Black Knight, so some place will be found for my Franciscan sisters from Denekamp's Nicolaasstichting
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The infant has on her door her beloved Black Knight, so some place will be found for my Franciscan sisters from Denekamp's Nicolaasstichting
One way of quantifying the development lag between London & Leeds: A certain avocado-green bathroom suite was installed in Leeds in 1979, while Alan Coren says in 1979 that such things were typical in London in 1965. 14 years?
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
One way of quantifying the development lag between London & Leeds: A certain avocado-green bathroom suite was installed in Leeds in 1979, while Alan Coren says in 1979 that such things were typical in London in 1965. 14 years?
Tbf, a drop in support from 34% in the 2024 GE to ca 20% now doesn't leave a few supporters
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Tbf, a drop in support from 34% in the 2024 GE to ca 20% now doesn't leave a few supporters
Obvious metaphor for a Russian plot against Judi Dench
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Obvious metaphor for a Russian plot against Judi Dench
Guardian sub unable to resist pairing a headline featuring lingchi with a photo of someone of East Asian heritage, even though it was a South Asian who spoke the fatal words
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Guardian sub unable to resist pairing a headline featuring lingchi with a photo of someone of East Asian heritage, even though it was a South Asian who spoke the fatal words
One rather nice thing about the attempt to ban KPop Demon Hunters' neo-exorcist ditties is the name of the (state) school involved
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
One rather nice thing about the attempt to ban KPop Demon Hunters' neo-exorcist ditties is the name of the (state) school involved
Playing at numerous provincial golden weddings with bands like this, I always thought of trad jazz as old men's music, never that these guys were absolute sex symbols in the 1960s because pop hadn't arrived
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Playing at numerous provincial golden weddings with bands like this, I always thought of trad jazz as old men's music, never that these guys were absolute sex symbols in the 1960s because pop hadn't arrived
Does the mass customization of murder mysteries make a place like Otley more or less attractive to potential residents?
November 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Does the mass customization of murder mysteries make a place like Otley more or less attractive to potential residents?
Why hasn't a Leeds allotmenteer created a cultivar of Phaseolus coccineus called Otley Runner? #Headingley
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Why hasn't a Leeds allotmenteer created a cultivar of Phaseolus coccineus called Otley Runner? #Headingley
So is Hollin Lane a very ancient road connecting the Kirkstall monks' farm at New Grange aka Kirkstall Grange aka Beckett's Park to horticulture, tanning & quarries at Meanwood? (OS 1840s county layer)
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
So is Hollin Lane a very ancient road connecting the Kirkstall monks' farm at New Grange aka Kirkstall Grange aka Beckett's Park to horticulture, tanning & quarries at Meanwood? (OS 1840s county layer)
In favour of the DIY tunnels of terror in civic centres like El Coll, & on-street Seville orange fights, in Barcelona Halloween / Castanyada. Large explosions at 1 in the morning slightly less comforting, but at least no (dentist-sponsored?) trick-or-treating
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In favour of the DIY tunnels of terror in civic centres like El Coll, & on-street Seville orange fights, in Barcelona Halloween / Castanyada. Large explosions at 1 in the morning slightly less comforting, but at least no (dentist-sponsored?) trick-or-treating
However, Leeds Art Gallery continues to discriminate against the blind by displaying any 2D art at all
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
However, Leeds Art Gallery continues to discriminate against the blind by displaying any 2D art at all
Infant entranced by David Lean's 1946 Great Expectations - hopes of life after KPop Demon Hunters. I particularly liked the initial seascape, Joe Gargery's (custom-built) house & the (ditto) Ship Inn. No mention of Dickens on Portswood Primary's annual jaunt to St Mary's Bay.
October 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Infant entranced by David Lean's 1946 Great Expectations - hopes of life after KPop Demon Hunters. I particularly liked the initial seascape, Joe Gargery's (custom-built) house & the (ditto) Ship Inn. No mention of Dickens on Portswood Primary's annual jaunt to St Mary's Bay.
Didn't know about the role of Dutch economist Albert Winsemius in the rise of Singapore. Surprised the article on English WP - never shy of a cliché - doesn't include the item from the Dutch version that Winsemius started his working life as a cheese trader in Friesland.
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Didn't know about the role of Dutch economist Albert Winsemius in the rise of Singapore. Surprised the article on English WP - never shy of a cliché - doesn't include the item from the Dutch version that Winsemius started his working life as a cheese trader in Friesland.
Perfect Christmas present for the anti-communist reformer/brutal dictator among your friends: silver medals designed by Chilean sculptor Matías Vial in 1974 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Pinochet coup elorganillero.com/product-tag/...
October 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Perfect Christmas present for the anti-communist reformer/brutal dictator among your friends: silver medals designed by Chilean sculptor Matías Vial in 1974 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Pinochet coup elorganillero.com/product-tag/...
Perfect Christmas present for your anti-imperialist revolutionary/authoritarian nationalist pal: Colonel Gaddafi's Green Book, as removed from the Libyan People's Bureau on Prince's Gate during a squatters party in 1986 elorganillero.com/product/muam...
October 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Perfect Christmas present for your anti-imperialist revolutionary/authoritarian nationalist pal: Colonel Gaddafi's Green Book, as removed from the Libyan People's Bureau on Prince's Gate during a squatters party in 1986 elorganillero.com/product/muam...
Pleasant memories of the summer roadworks on Wood Lane, Headingley. A modal filter here would maintain vehicle access to Bray House and the boozy AirBnB, greatly improve safety for pupils walking/cycling to Shire Oak Primary School, and only inconvenience (customarily) speeding couriers.
October 4, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Pleasant memories of the summer roadworks on Wood Lane, Headingley. A modal filter here would maintain vehicle access to Bray House and the boozy AirBnB, greatly improve safety for pupils walking/cycling to Shire Oak Primary School, and only inconvenience (customarily) speeding couriers.
Ian McMillan on Tony Harrison (www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s... via Transblawg)
October 4, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Ian McMillan on Tony Harrison (www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s... via Transblawg)
Unbelievable that the unblockers of drains still don't incorporate Ophiuchus/Serpentarius in their branding
October 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Unbelievable that the unblockers of drains still don't incorporate Ophiuchus/Serpentarius in their branding
A walk from Leeds-Bradford Airport via Horsforth Station to Headingley: out through customs, and a couple of minutes later you’re standing in a field with half a dozen skittish Friesian heifers and a peaceful Hereford bull
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September 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A walk from Leeds-Bradford Airport via Horsforth Station to Headingley: out through customs, and a couple of minutes later you’re standing in a field with half a dozen skittish Friesian heifers and a peaceful Hereford bull
elorganillero.com/blog/2025/09...
elorganillero.com/blog/2025/09...
I came to High German through Low German, so I tend to mispronounce, though not as scarily as English singers. For various reasons, Brahms's texts speak to my heart in a way no comparable work in other languages does, particularly after a boozy lunch.
September 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I came to High German through Low German, so I tend to mispronounce, though not as scarily as English singers. For various reasons, Brahms's texts speak to my heart in a way no comparable work in other languages does, particularly after a boozy lunch.