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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 1h

Two mums on their 6-year-old boys' marriage of the doctrine of toilet hands to their natural aversion to water: - He lifts the seat with his elbow and wees all over the place because he doesn't want to touch his willy. - Mine wears gloves.

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 23h

This was yesterday, but what a great move from the West Somerset Railway! #HeritageRailway www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/2659432...

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A358 closed after crash as Somerset railway offers free travel

Free public transport is being offered after an incident on a key route into Taunton.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's a tangible rural past - take the Hampshire Bowman at Dundridge before it was turned into a restaurant

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Strategically moving bins into the gutter of a road with heavy, fast-moving traffic - Monk Bridge Road - in order to allow schoolchildren to walk along the narrow pavement, one wonders why councils don't simply forbid bins on pavements & thus begin to displace some parked cars

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The depths of my ignorance: I'd never heard Andrea Chénier, which is tremendous. The 1955 version from La Scala with Callas (on YouTube) has partially converted me to crowd noise.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are lots of roads in the Dales which would benefit from this. Access restricted to permit holders and emergency vehicles to showcase the beauty of the area without the hazard presented by motorists.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After school the infant whispers, "X from Reception just came up to me and said, 'So where's the fucking ladybird then?' I know all those words, but I never say them, unlike you."

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The importation of Saxon/Angle/Jute mercenaries by British rulers to fill the gap left by the Roman army & the subsequent takeover presents an interesting challenge for Reform/Restore

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it still true that to be on the BBC you simply need to buy a house in Highgate? www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthe... I was only on Midweek because a researcher met me quite near Highgate

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The Third at 80 – a brief history of the unexpected

Weird and wonderful highlights from the early years of BBC Radio 3’s celebrated forerunner The Third Programme

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If Jacques Brel loved Marieke so, then why didn't he learn how to pronounce her name? youtu.be/wfGDpzL9H7Y

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Jacques Brel - Marieke

YouTube video by alenaapril

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tempted to interpret floods of tears from a 6-year-old boy on being unable to get a 2nd slice of orange, almond and polenta cake as evidence that one is at last a Proper Cook, but his mum thinks it was the Cointreau in the syrup

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Monstrous house spiders could stay put if only they were more discreet

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Overheard the infant (Y2) making reading suggestions to girls in Y5

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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“It’s not about pitting one mode of travel against another. No one is declaring war on this or that. And you definitely won’t find me leading a charge of the Lycra brigade. I simply want to give people greater choice in their lives,” transport secretary Heidi Alexander said today

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“The equivalent of upgrading a single A-road junction”: National Cycle Network set for £104m investment as transport secretary promises to go “hell for leather on active travel” – but campaigners are ...

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander has pledged to go “hell for leather on active travel”, as the government announced that it will invest £104 million in the National Cycle Network (NCN) over the nex...

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One wanders mistakenly up Bradford's Thornton Road, past mills awaiting a redevelopment fire, and meets a junkie: - Excuse me, can you tell me the way to the university? - [With a wild look and a dramatic toss of the arm:] It's them buildings up on the hill, but don't go there!

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another epic day out with a bunch of friends in Upper Wharfedale (Kilnsey - Conistone Dib - Barras - lead mining - Bronze Age / Iron Age detritus - Grassington) thanks to @dalesbus.bsky.social 874, marred only by a failed attempt to sing the Hallelujah Chorus on passing the Bolton Abbey arch

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Impressions of Woodhouse Ridge trees at today's Meanwood Arts Collective show, 10-4 at the Institute. Also: "Everyone's talking about the sunflowers."

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1925: smoking concert to raise funds for a cancer charity. Anyone seen the cartoon?

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Old enough to recall the last "automated annihilation that would allow no room for individual heroism or stoicism, just a sudden extinction" (Rod Liddle). But maybe we have already been extinguished by the smartphone & just don't realise.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What kind of swine steals a children's bike trailer? Last night, Quarry Mount, Leeds.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Explanation: he's addicted to satnav, and has absolutely no idea where he is

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Argument against political and religious uniforms

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One's enthusiasm for banning all facial coverings is increased by the suspicion that all the Muslim women will turn out to be male Monty Python fans

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

With authenticity a key element in AfD's branding, it's curious that it does rallies with an AI music merchant youtu.be/GgWxKEjL10w A great poem: Es schienen so golden die Sterne, / Am Fenster ich einsam stand / Und hörte aus weiter Ferne / Ein Posthorn im stillen Land.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Suspicions that the infant has been colonised by a LLM: - So tomorrow we're going to have a good look at an Olympic-size smelter flue. - I know all about that! - Really? Tell me more. - Have you got half an hour?

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Unable now to go to Ilkley without thinking of I's Twelve Opossums up on the moor

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Didn't see Klaus Bednarz's 1994 Reise durch Ostpreussen in the days when I'd cycle that way. The decapitated statues of the Prussian kings at Königsberg/Kaliningrad in part 2 recall the shamefully faceless Goethe in Leeds's Tiled Café youtu.be/UBOUlH5Ozws

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Reise durch Ostpreußen - Königsberg und Kurische Nehrung (1994)

YouTube video by Retro Channel

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The notion that a diet based around allotment produce is like that of the infant: seasonal gluts, but it all balances out in the end.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Venice by train would be impossible without the Deutsche Bahn planner

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Evidence for the belief that Leeds Highways dept is evil rather than merely stupid: the A660/Otley Rd redesign in Headingley didn't kill the right turn onto Alma Rd, so ratrunners still do 40 past Shire Oak Primary & then drive on the pavement on Grove Rd past children walking to & from school

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Curious: Emissaries of the Dutch Republic addressing the Commons in French. Had they sent Francophones because of Charles-in-Oxford's French connections?

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

2nd car of the year on the final holi-day: geology of Robin Hood's Bay obvs sensational, but educationally the joint in the limestone pavement next to the Middle-Earth beech at Hetchell won. Also steam, demons & breakfast bombs at Pickering + a cheeky late one at the Legion.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My vision of devolution is Yorkshire being run from Oxford instead of London

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

- Your mum said you took the kids to Devon. How was it? - We actually went to Wales - the bottom bit, that's the south I suppose. Very nice! - Great! Where? - Ilfracombe.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The other day the infant snuck off with a home-made sign, a girlfriend, & umbrellas to flog calcite crystals on the street & door-to-door. No cash sales, but a number of quid pro quos, including - sadly, anonymously - the lovely book by Christopher Goddard on the West Yorks Moors

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My nearest emergency department moved away from my large densely populated, not very well-off, low car access town to the fringe of a small, wealthy, high car access town to provide copious cheap parking. I was admitted for two days & I paid over £100 in cabs & no one cares. Parking is £6.20/day.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Gutted that Windyridge by Methodist romancer Willie Riley ends with the termination of his only appealing character: Miss Terry, the performing dog

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Another fan of Urquhart's Rabelais www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-...

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Life would have been easier had I read Norman Ellis's Instrumentation and Arranging for the Radio and Dance Orchestra instead of Walter Piston

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Gender is too complicated, but even sex isn't that simple

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Infant back from a long trek through the Craven limestone belt with a bag of crystals to sell to the hippies. Birefringence observed, but homo cernensis says calcite, not quartz, & the hippy gods aren't believed to be fussy about provenance.

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The infant is resisting A Little Princess at bedtime & embracing the irresistible rhythm of Tennyson's Charge

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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder @organgrinder.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I've never seen anything like as many young frogs as this year. Different practices at the allotment / in the garden, or some echo of the ecological chain reaction of the Plagues of Egypt, where one mishap creates the conditions for the next?

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