A statement on the Labour leadership.

Is it déjà vu all over again?

Apparently early reports of higher turnout were completely justified.

Usual stories of high turnout - I'll believe it when the real votes are counted.

Nice to know, but I'm not sure my friends, family and former work colleagues would agree.

The real face of Anne Boleyn or a load of old phooey?

I believe there is a technical term for a political system in which you don't change the head of government - Dictatorship.

My friends and family will know that I'm a dedicated follower of fashion.

"The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse." Ernest Hemmingway. (Selected Letters, ed. by Carlos Baker, 1981)

For our occasional #TelephoneboxTuesday 📞 Caged in Stratford. (LB Newham) By the Old Town Hall and not far the magistrates court. Just rounded up. No trial. No (known) appeal. Support the Telephone box three today.

This April 19th (1919), HMS Tilbury visited her adopted home town, Tilbury. The ‘S-Class Destroyer’ was open to visitors between 2.30 and 4.00pm. Hundreds came to visit. HMS Tilbury was described as super destroyer with many ‘cruiser’ like features. It was scrapped in 1931.

Creggan, where my ancestors came from.

ChatGPT doesn't do maps very well and doesn't know what the Dutch House looked like, but apart from that, quite a good graphic.

Apparently Sir Keir Starmer has decided to alienate even more voters by allowing Brussels to decide what we can and can't call the food we eat.

The Carnegie library in Grays was knocked down to make way for the Thameside complex.

Some great stuff - most parts of the country seem to have some coverage.

PR has its pros and cons.

At the London Festival of Railway Modelling this morning, it's an early start, but worth it to see the smile on the little man's face when he sees all the trains!

The work of Christopher Shiner ARIBA in Thurrock.

This used to be called the King's Head. It has become King's House. It was used by Arthur Young while investigating farming in Essex.

When Space Barbie met Ken ✨ “An astrophysicist breaks down the science of Project Hail Mary FEATURING RYAN GOSLING” video coming very soon! 🤯🥳🫠 yes I’m still freaking out about this! And I got to go the London Premiere - what a surreal few days! #projecthailmary

Excellent talk by Janet Few on 20th century sources this afternoon.

The aftermath of the Louth Flood on Pathe (Lincolnshire not Ireland, despite Pathe description) - www.britishpathe.com/asset/48089/

FamilySearch reckons I'm descended from a 15th century knight. Unfortunately, there is good DNA evidence that one of the FamilySearch links is not correct.😒

In 'The Master and His Emissary' (p. 9), Gilchrist says 'it has been estimated that there are more connections within the human brain than there are particles in the known universe'. All connections in the brain contain particles. Thus the statement is false. It has survived 16 years and 2 editions.

No WSL games this week or next - but if you want to see Spurs win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, tickets are still available for #SpursWomen vs Everton on 15 March. If you haven’t watched them this season, you absolutely should - let’s fill the stadium! Get tickets: shorturl.at/fN6Hv

This small medieval church is all that remains of a village that was wiped out by the plague in the 14th century.

Another year; another pancake day.

‪Ellie‬‪@ellieatwhl.co.uk‬ Election in St Martins?

I've just been called 'AI slop man'. I don't think it was intended as a complement.

Please be aware that I do not access chat, so if you have attempted to chat with me I will not respond.

Do not meddle in the affairs of economists for they are slow witted, but quick to argue.

The end of a era. When we moved here more than 40 years ago, there were about half a dozen local shops - butchers, bakers greengrocers. The last of them closed today, unable to cope with increased costs and competition from national supermarkets.

I wallowed in nostalgia for a couple of hours yesterday. I may go back to the Great Underground Empire again today.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxxN... "Thanks for listening to Sabine's Monday morning rant. Now go and do something useful with your day."

Latest forecast for Gorton & Denton from Electoral Calculus.

A confused census form. The surname of my gg grandmother has been misrecorded - it's Forscutt not Fortescue. The relation to head of household should be 'Head' not 'Mother'. (The change of street number plus \\ marking show a new household.) Consequently, the Ancestry indexing is a mess!

A rather nice graphic from NotebookLM illustrating the conflicting evidence of paternity.