Even Amazon gets lost

Easy to figure the syntax for epub downloads on the new Google Books using the PDF analogy (books.google.co.uk/books/downlo...), but why would they remove the links unless they were stupid & evil?

This is important for all people who live near airports that want to increase flights, especially at night

The suspicion that First drivers have an informal (& welcome) agreement amongst themselves not to charge youngish children - one today weighed up the chance of inspectors boarding. Will the loss be cancelled by more parents travelling?

Someone has had the bright idea of using my Yorkshire Almanac to teach English to my fellow-immigrants. Kind of compensates for the lack of a single nativity on this year's Christmas cards.

A column of Headingley rat-runners driving down the pavement of Grove Road from Alma Road to Grove Lane at school kick-out yesterday: "Stop fucking moaning, I'm not going to run over your fucking daughter. Do you think I'm fucking blind?"

Am I allowed to become a regionalist @tomclarke.bsky.social ?

Does ash dieback spell the end for Norse cosmology? Asking for Yggdrasil

I read a book on the northern music hall that is described as having an introduction by Ken Dodd. This is the introduction in its entirety.

Peter Cook - Radley - was 25 years older than Farage

- Those are some serious bandages. You slashed your wrists at the thought of another three weeks of Christmas? - I got back from the work do, made a hot water bottle that was too hot & too full, & woke up the next morning with burns on chest and forearms.

Infant reading Pandora Perfect: "Mary Poppins meets Megamind." All is lost.

Justification for Tchaikovsky's 1812: 'artillery' begins with 'art'

Infant reads herself to sleep with Gorebrah, which she found in the library. I vaguely thought Gorebrain, should I be investigating.

Recalls an Ulster conspiracy theorist, many years ago: If your PM converts to Catholicism & says he wants continental café culture (source?), you're going to get Neapolitan waste disposal.

Any doubts I had about the infant taking a day off school were quelled when she made me lunch.

All that work, and all people want is the infant's drawings elorganillero.com/product/york...

Why no one takes West Yorkshire Police's Operation Snap seriously road.cc/content/news...

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 s7usk.mjt.lu/nl3/zxOkmiDt...

Punning isn't a big deal in Anglo-Saxon, so how did dads get by?

Can't believe that Wormwood is left unaltered in the Spanish translation of Roald Dahl's Matilda when vermut (< wormwood) was there for the taking

A Cookridge woman knows in the early hours what the weather is doing without consulting forecasts or peeping out of the window: if the illegal night flights from Leeds Botox are incredibly loud, the wind is westerly & it will be warm & wet; if they are quieter, she adds a blanket

Lycra lightweight strikes again

Gwilym William on FB has "had enough of this A303 Stonehenge tunnel nonsense. Time for a proper solution"

The notion that horror vacui is a mental illness, & that Phil Spector should have been locked up when he came up with his Wall of Sound

Ah, Velké Pavlovice

Welcome to my first degree

Re Rub-a-dub-dub: literary Leeds has Alan Bennett (butcher), Tony Harrison (baker), but where in the tub is the son/daughter of the candlestick maker?

The infant has on her door her beloved Black Knight, so some place will be found for my Franciscan sisters from Denekamp's Nicolaasstichting

Completion of Leeds Town Hall renovation always seems to be two years away. Time for the council to fund its SEND taxi budget by adding ACV (music) status to the Grade 1 listing & selling it to Tim Martin for a MegaSpoons: concert hall, 90 en suites & a pub as big as Ramsgate

The latest theft of York stone paving is at the north end of Brookfield Road, opposite the house with the new extension: - Good riddance - it's a significant cause of injuries in the wet or cold. - It's easy to maintain. - What budget?

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?

"In politics all that ends well is soon forgotten" - a happy moment in the translation of Milovan Đilas's Conversations With Stalin (1961). I hadn't realised that the split between Belgrade & Moscow was in part due to the campaign of rape & pillage to which the Red Army subjected even its allies.

- The heating engineer did exactly what you said using the spare part you got from City Plumbing and we've got heat again. I said to him, I could kiss you! - Thank you, a kiss is never amiss. - No, I tried to kiss the plumber.

giallo/yellow explained

Never heard an explanation of the great similarity between yellow and its Italian cognate giallo, which unconvincingly is said to come from the French jalne (= jaune) rather than straight from Germanic dialect

That gas fires are harder to light in cold weather seems an essential design flaw

Tbf, a drop in support from 34% in the 2024 GE to ca 20% now doesn't leave a few supporters

- What do you want to do after school today? - Come home, make a Scratch film, and then do Lego. - And what do you want to do at school today? - Make models. There's a sense of direction.

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

One rather nice thing about the attempt to ban KPop Demon Hunters' neo-exorcist ditties is the name of the (state) school involved

Hoping for a Gerontius wave on the back of Alan Bennett's superbly concocted The Choral. But could we have a theatre version &/or get rid of the smoking mills CGI?

Bomb attack on local councillor & prominent critic of Rotterdam The Hague Airport, Dirk Breedveld www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

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?

Why hasn't a Leeds allotmenteer created a cultivar of Phaseolus coccineus called Otley Runner? #Headingley

A beautiful old fire alarm: heat curves a bimetallic strip, which causes mercury to shift from one end of its containing tube to the other, completing the alarm circuit. Mercury is magical stuff.

"The powers that be came by today to tell us that they're turning on Copilot. It's worse than useless for our line of research, so we just have to fine a way of ignoring it."

What to do when the grandad of a friend of the infant turns up at the front door with another 30kg of apples for cider? Not tell Mrs.