A young gent is proud of having climbed Ilkley Moor: "Mum, we walked all the way to the Twelve Possums." Someone with no bowel management plan discovered bilberries. All returned safely.

Who is this Tomas ApSimon person?

Not sure I want to explain to the infant the relationship between Tom & Jerry's Missing Mouse (1953) and Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · yesterday

Today everyone — EVERYONE — should take a moment and read Ray Bradbury's four-page short story from 1950.

Every winebar should have a harmonium

Stop the Doris-hate

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3d ago

Of course Farage's 'policy' doesn’t work. It isn't intended to work. It's meant to cause a splash in the unthinking press (and GMB) and thereby get Doris at Number 33 Lambert Road, Peterborough to go 'Ooh at last someone is trying to do something about these awful boat crossings.' That's it.

Evening, Leeds

Dutch Cycling Embassy@dutchcycling.nl · 3d ago

Paris continues to raise the bar for cycling infrastructure. The 1,200-space bike parking at Gare du Nord draws on Dutch expertise to create a seamless connection between cycling and rail travel. With direct access from the cycle network, smart wayfinding and a user-friendly design: buff.ly/uP5S5g5

Gutted that the Stanza/Simon Armitage poem postbox on Ilkley Moor is gone.

Brasher

sam !@sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 3d ago

a $20 boot lasts a month but a $200 boot lasts 50 years but the company that makes the $200 boot got bought out by private equity and changed factories to the same one that makes the $20 boot so now it only lasts a year but another company bought the original factory and is selling boots for $400

Infant cock-a-hoop at prospect of Scratch 3 + micro:bit, absolute killer would be an Asterix & Obelix project

John McWhorter has certainly moved on since, from a passing interest in Papiamento, I read his work on (Spanish) creoles, but my favourite para from Woke Racism takes me back. Also, Arday in Florida, in pure Mail house style.

ffs

In Meanwood Park the drought has revealed the carriage circle in front of the Oates family's Meanwoodside, demolished with the old Whalley house to the right in 1954. 1: view towards porch, climbing yew to left. 2: G Satellite + 1906 OS 25 inch. 3: headingleyleeds. com. 4: Leodis

"David describes how on a bitterly cold Scottish Shabbat afternoon, the shabbos goy failed to turn up. Silas's children pleaded to be allowed to turn on the electric fire, and eventually he relented with the call to his father Hayim sleeping at Hill Top Cemetery to forgive them."

Plenty of music at Michael Meadowcroft's funeral yesterday, but I missed any mention of how he got into it

Bardem & Yeoh's dozen cats wander the hood, killing everything from shrews to magpies, & lethal action is ruled out by their GPS devices (+ cameras?). But when Mrs breaks down a fence in the middle of the night in search of a mewing monster, then self-defence can't be ruled out.

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- The infant tells me she wants to go to Pizza Express because my pizzas are terrible. - She tells everyone at school that they're the best in the world. Confronted, a blush: - It's true.

Visitor: Why don't you get a proper TV? Asks to watch Anita on Countryfile. Us: That's why.

Great piece of work from Samuel Bancroft. Possibly unrelated. Why is project planning & execution of pedestrian/cycling schemes worse in Headingley than in the centre? Focus on visiting Instagrammers or on bureaucrats who live elsewhere & care mainly about their station-office-Nero run?

The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

Quite pleasant dream, in which I discovered Ken Alford, the March King, in his study arranging Mahler I for military band.

A watering can disappeared for a couple of days - climate change means they have to fly further north every year in search of refills. A local can with defective satnav was recently observed at Waterybutts in Perthshire. Sadly, it was shot, fried and eaten by the locals.

Circumstantial evidence in debate whether Hollin Lane Farm was home farm for Meanwoodside: comparison of the OS 6" shows between 1847 & 1906 demolition of the tannery & construction of the barn & front bit of the farmhouse (the back bit, commonly regarded as ancient, is ca 1979)

An allotment diary from deep in the 20th century is on its way down the A660 for potential use in the Yorkshire Almanac, but will it be a work of dazzling detail like Henry Best's 1641 Rural Economy of Yorkshire, or will it be page after page of "Bloody slugs"?

Moses & Aaron: the shy entomologist & the blithering populariser, & the infant who chose the former. Also: the Victorians were not 1720s-1920s, a harmonium is not a piano, & if something looks like a serpent & is so labelled, it probably is one, & not a shady relative of the tuba

Argentine friend for lunch yesterday. Infant, theatrically: "You are the enemy!" Meanwhile, zoologists have found the missing link between penguins and orangutans.

Local politicians like Mr Wray who think Leeds gained city status 400 years ago may have been paying more attention to TikTok than to the council's interminable renovation of the 1858 *town* hall

The welfare of the people vs the will of the people at the 1795 trial of Henry Redhead Yorke following his speech in Sheffield

The infant can't get enough of the Tower of Londinium gag in the classic Bell/Hockridge Asterix in Britain. (How would you translate that series in an age when demographic change has killed off the kind of national stereotype employed by Goscinny & Uderzo?)

Personal rant: the ubiquitous installation of dropped kerbs (instead of bollards) on junction corners, making it even easier to drive on the pavement. In Headingley, Grove Road/Monk Bridge Road is quite appalling.

The Ranty Highwayman@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 3w ago

In the summer edition of Highways Magazine, I get back to basics and look at getting vehicle crossings right. Too many highway authorities are not doing their job right here. Digital issue available online (signup needed). www.highwaysmagazine.co.uk

Mr R loves Xi's 100 year plan for F: "Everything's a 5th of the price so you don't have to work hard, population is concentrated so great public services, get any food cru/cuit brought in half an hour so don't have to garden (no land anyway) or go out in July temperatures of 40."