Interesting morning with the Secretary of State for Transport and the Rail minister coming to Bournemouth Traincare Depot to celebrate the first trains under GBR from Sunday.

Mayor Making in Poole tonight - outgoing Mayor Pete Miles did a great job. Incoming Mayor Mark Howell has big shoes to fill, but I'm sure will be excellent. The 777th mayor of Poole, quite a portentous number.

The playbook of the mock populist, transferring wealth to the already wealthy open.substack.com/pub/uglypoli...

Chanced upon this wonderful website celebrating the decorative tiles of Carters Tiles, later Poole Pottery www.pooleimages.co.uk/carters-tiles Have been seeking out treasure for the Poole Museum, and a really interesting development last night. As a Councillor, a rare good news moment. More soon

Oh we seem to have a lot more drivers making up their own rules since the pandemic in the UK too

Flooding on the River Stour at Iford Bridge. Great multi-agency working, teams from @bcpcouncil.bsky.social Social Care, Private Housing, FCERM, electrician, and partners #WiltsdorsetFRS and #EnvironmentAgency working seamlessly together. Many residents stoic about moving out, some staying put.

As a Physicist, I find this a great simple explainer.

Bit of snow, and everything seems to grind to a halt, but I was out there being interviewed in it by ITN about a storm 200 years ago, and it's relevance to planned flood protection on the Poole West Quays.

Disturbed last night, told by friends that CoVID was just flu. Where did this bending of history and medicine come from ? Not gullible GB News or Daily Fail fans as far as I know. fullfact.org/health/covid...