But was any of the Kentish art worth saving? The collection sounds a bit like ones mounted by local authorities in the Netherlands in the late 20th century, which, in order to keep down the unemployment figures, paid local artists for rubbish and stored it in cellars.

If Starmer had read his Yorkshire Almanac, he'd have found the solution to the sheep shearers crisis in The Saga of Otis and Silica, Part the Sixth, and could have avoided yet another #EweTurn

Beating Amazon on packaging, if not always price

I'm thinking more in the range 20-50 quid

First Yorkshire Almanac off to the Isles

Unfortunately I'm singing, not playing: www.leedsfestivalchorus.co.uk/performances...

Young people spending 30 quid a month on a gym subscription but too weak to walk to the shops or live in a flat without a lift

Infant off with the customary winter respiratory, so we're building the Toby ApSimon Memorial Railway up onto the dining table and across to, and perhaps out of, the window. Alas, no Hornby clockworks.

Nice detail re the end of Gunner's bank in Bishops Waltham - L.S. Pressnell, Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution (1956)

I'd prefer to watch Lord of the Flies than get a mobile that does emojis

Sadly I think the government will listen to the lobbyists and some MP's will look at potential job offers. 😕

A stranger today in Aldi: Excuse me, aren't you Pete?! Me: No, but some people think I look like him.

Infant earns money, wants to do something with it apart from buy Wotsits, but it appears to be impossible for her to get a savings account. Perhaps she should apply to the regulator for a banking licence.

A green door is going onto the old Humbl café on Monk Bridge Road, leading to speculation www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BnP...

Infant declined to go to British Isles Book Day at skule as the protagonist of her revenge thriller, in which The Pencil pursues the rubber which tried to rub her out. My old pink wig was also cancelled, tho this is the English event closest to carnival, apart from the Otley Run.

Often see the Connexions 781 bus from Meanwood to Otley at the Green Road stand for extended periods in the morning, but there's probably a rule against the driver using the time to put up a timetable in the shelter

Peregrine falcon just took a couple of fly-by pecks at a crow seated in a tree in Meanwood Park

Boner (Wright, English Dialect Dictionary)

The Guardian revives the use of 'vulnerable' as an auto-antonym for a story about pupils beating up SEND transport staff

What kind of HP can we expect for the waterwheel project?

A modal filter for Grove Rd twixt Monk Bridge & Grove Ln! Are council transport planners 1) Dumb? Pavement driving on this school walk was 100% predictable. 2) Machiavellian snails, plotting death by 1,000 cuts over the next 100 years for Leeds, Motorway City of the 70s?

Delivered more Yorkshire Almanacs today, & got invited to tea at one house, thus learning about the flea circus on Woodhouse Moor & Jake Thackray, who I suspect was the origin of a friend's performance style

£10/glass at a run-of-the-mill pizzeria

Twilight of the mussels. See also muricidus, mouse-killer.

The infant seems to have figured out apostrophes, so let's not abolish them yet.

The pleasing notion that snowdrops were introduced to England to provide early-season pollinator support (bumblebee queen observed...) & kickstart food crops. Crocuses, another essential link in the early-season flower sequence, are also non-native, but let's stop there.

We're back to Masada and Cyrus - Bernard Lewis grinning somewhere

The inevitable twat gets out his camera & starts filming

"Fix the pavement parking." I am wrong to think of it as a recent phenomenon, although obviously far more serious now - 12-13 million motor vehicles in 1969 vs 43 million now, total tonnage perhaps 20 vs 90 million.

If libraries don't have an issue with crazy shouty blokes, perhaps mental hospitals should make quiet spaces with books available for people who want to work

Trying to persuade the infant to do a proverb costume instead of the anonymous Matilda for UK & Ireland Book Day

Curious that no one seems to have investigated the relationship between Thomas Carlyle and Theodor Fontane - writing in the same period about Friedrich II / Frederick the Great & Brandenburg & Prussia

A friend has lost the power of speech and must now type words into a phone TTS app. Awaiting pronouncements is very Belshazzar's Feast.

The infant has made more than expected with her custom inside-front-cover art for the Yorkshire Almanac, and must now invest it, not fritter it on bludy Wotsits

"In the Industrial Revolution, every big city in the north had a local champion newspaper." @tomforth.co.uk thinks cities like Leeds deserves one again. 👑

Calling a pantomime horse Trotsky creates certain expectations

Disappointed that the complete David Oistrakh EMI recordings don't have him doing the Bach double with Igor (can't remember who he did that incredible recording for) but now I've found Kreisler doing it with Efrem Zimbalist & a quartet - mind-bending rubato & what a name

My mum told me Prince Andrew should be arrested when I was about 8

The Yorkshire Almanac daily legacy email is displacing legacy media: "I’m enjoying the daily news items from your Almanac - filling a gap since I’ve cancelled the Guardian as a cost-cutting exercise."

A cleric has been busy: "The problem with AI isn't that it isn't good enough, but that it isn't bad enough. I wasted all Saturday trying to devise a prompt that would generate someone as ugly as me."

"People think they need cars cos government built roads (Leeds, Motorway City of the 70s/urban sprawl) & enabled cars. Remove the cars & people will adapt." Does Dutch experience bear that out? Impression that cycling & walking are under pressure there. in-fuze.org.uk/the-attitude...

The infant still insists that it's Kevin & Hobbes. Can't think of an Early Modern philosopher called Kevin - a terrible omission given the House of Stuart's religious sympathies

The Schleswig-Holstein Answer, obvs

Who can tell me more about Leslie Smith, biographer in 1964 of Harold Wilson? elorganillero.com/yorkshire_al...

A neighbour's cat sat on my lap the other day & I was ill for 12 hours. Thinking of posing with a rat. No shortage of rats at the allotments.

Pretty transversal theme

Partial explanation of why so few UK politicians are done for corruption - to the great surprise of their southern European colleagues

80 ghits for "kazoo" vs 21 for "trombone" in the Epstein files so far released, presumably because Trump is a trombone lover

At the rate SpaceX's ambitions are receding, by 2030 they'll be promising to put a supertram service in Leeds