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.

Perhaps a good click bait image for my latest genealogy project.

YouGov Scottish poll gives Green a chance of two constituency seats at Holyrood according to 'The National'.

A small crack has just appeared in a 60-year old genealogical brick wall. I don't want to raise my hopes too high, but ...

The Labour NEC just turned the Gorton and Denton by-election into a two horse race - Reform vs Green. Without a star candidate who might win, I think many Labour voters will vote tactically for Green. If I were a betting man (which thank the Lord I'm not sir) my money would be on a Green victory.

Electoral Calculus is currently predicting a Green Part win in Gorton and Denton, but with a majority of under 100 (assuming reduced turnout in a by-election). This does allow for tactical voting, but makes no allowance for the impact of a well known candidate such as Andy Burnham.

#Thurrock #LocalHistory #MilitaryHistory

50 years of presenting to audiences all over the world. Delighted that my daughter has picked up the baton.

What has happened to BlueSky? Suddenly my feed is full of posts from people I don't follow and have never heard of.

On the 16th January 1940, the lightship no. 38 (the Gull) was hit by the Ernani. www.thurrock-history.org.uk/Gull.htm