Thank you for playing #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen this frosty evening! There were some grand tales tonight about how cold it needs to be before the heating is switched on. But if you tell the kids of today these yarns, they won't believe you. A thousand doffed caps to @calendargirlbot.bsky.social

Me g-gran always said that the Brontes never switched on their heating up at t' parsonage in Haworth, and it never did them any harm, she opined. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

#HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen Me dad would give me a good beating when he got back from the pub but on a winter's night he would always pee into me hot water bottle to keep me trembling broken feet warm through the night. Magic.

#HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen We used to heat ourselves up with warm lard from the chip pan. Handfuls at a time, loved it.

We had icebergs the size of mountains coming out of the hot water tap. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

#HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen Warm Croissants...WARM CROISSANTS!?...in my day we were lucky to get a bit of dry wall dabbed in used motoroil

#HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen If ya played your cards right Mum would rub grease on your chest and set you out as bait for the dogs ...a great dane could hold us until summer for Dachsund season

Dad had to use his flame-thrower to break the ice on the outside toilet when somebody had to spend a penny. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

Clogs! You had clogs! Tsk! We had to burn all of the family's clogs to get some heat! #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

#HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen If it got cold out mum would set us on fire and dad would beat the flames out with a cricket bat...tell kids that theses days they wont believe you

#HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen 'Twen I was a youngn they set you out on the front step at night with two sticks. One stick if it rained. no sense in getting two sticks wet

There's no need for boilers now, as climate change heats the mill and house. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

Ma found a Greenland Shark in the bathtub once... it were shivering, too. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

#HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen Heating why in my day we took an Ice Cube to bed and thanked god there weren't any polar bears . You had a bed?...

#HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen Scented candles? The nearest we got to scented candles was a squirt of me Mum's Tweed onto a Rizla paper pre soaked in Grandad's ear wax, and we were thankful for it! Kept us going through Christmas.

Nay, we were only ever allowed to see pictures of heat in local art gallery. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

It's the exact same rule for mill and house... if folk stay active and keep moving, there's no need to put t' fire on. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

#HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen candle ya say? We had to do with lightin dog poo

Me old Dad only ever switched on t' heating when t' whippet put in a special request in writing... he loved and spoiled that dog, he did... bless him! #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

It were the sight of polar explorers and ice-breaking ships in the kitchen for our family... once we saw Amundsden, Peary and Scott huddled together around the stove, we knew then it twere time to switch on't heating. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

Heating's been turned off since last ice age... a special thermostat switch will automatically kick in when the next ice age arrives... the gas lad fitted it as a special deal 'homer'. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

Only when polar bears, penguins and Arctic foxes visited the kitchen and complained in writing about the cold, were we permitted to switch on't boiler. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

We had to wake at sunrise, traipse 20 miles to Ilkley Moor, capture a dozen dragons, drag the surly beasts back to town, then feed them super strong mints so that their fiery breath would ignite t' furnaces and heat t'house. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen

Only when we could see our breath over stove in't kitchen, were we allowed to switch the heating on - and only for a second or two, mind. #HeatingTheFourYorkshiremen #games #game #PopUpGame #HashtagGame #HashtagGames

Hi All, am planning to run a #game tonight (Friday) at 10pm (UK time), if the 10pm slot is available. #games #HashtagGame #HashtagGames

Thank you for playing #ShakespeareAtHalloween! The dark firmament glowed with tweets of rare wit and erudition, as we shared craic with Shakespeare at our seance. Tis late, and our witching hour ends - so time to furl. (Exits, followed by lemures.) Follow @calendargirlbot.bsky.social for #games.

Fiends, gloamings, countrymen! #ShakespeareAtHalloween

God shall be my hope, my stay, my guise and Jack O' Lantern to my feet... #ShakespeareAtHalloween

#ShakespeareAtHalloween Twelfth Nightmare on Elm Street

Twelfth Night of the Living Dead #ShakespeareAtHalloween

#ShakespeareAtHalloween To tricketh or to treateth, that is the question. #HashtagGame

Henry VIII: Portrait of a Serial Wife Killer #ShakespeareAtHalloween

If you trick us, do we not bleed? #ShakespeareAtHalloween

Othelloween #ShakespeareAtHalloween

... It is a tale Told by an eidolon, full of sound and Furies, Signifying nothing. #ShakespeareAtHalloween

#ShakespeareAtHalloween making the beast with two sacks

Love spooks not with the guise, but with the mind... #ShakespeareAtHalloween

Ghoul, phantom, guise - thy doppelganger fries... #ShakespeareAtHalloween

The Revenant of Venice #ShakespeareAtHalloween

The Flaming of the Shrew #ShakespeareAtHalloween

The Boo! Gentlemen of Transylvania #ShakespeareAtHalloween

A Midwinter Wight's Scream #ShakespeareAtHalloween

The seven ages of manes... #ShakespeareAtHalloween

The Merry Witches of Windsor #ShakespeareAtHalloween

What hoo be, or not hoo be... That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and garters of a sexy costume... - Owlliam Shakespeare🦉 #ShakespeareAtHalloween #ATagWithGrant #HashtagGame

#ShakespeareAtHalloween Romeo, Romeo, Werewolf Art Though Romeo

#ShakespeareAtHalloween To Boo or not to boo

Come not between the dragon and his wraith... [i.e. always speak politely to an enraged dragon] #ShakespeareAtHalloween

The ghoul doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a ghoul. #ShakespeareAtHalloween

Duppy, or not duppy, that is the guising... #ShakespeareAtHalloween