How fascinating. Because they started this s*** in August. And suddenly, within a week, they deactivate it.
Quite the sign of how experts don't actually use Grammarly and thus hadn't noticed until last week? And how stressed Grammarly is about potential law suits now that we do realise.
For him, it did. He had a wealthy patron (local landowner who he'd also worked for).
Oooh that's a nice legible one!
Later on, sure, but John Clare was born in 1793. His doctor blamed his madness on being a poet
Nope, he worked in the pub near his house, in the manner of teenagers everywhere
she was dead by the time John was baptised 4 weeks later.
SO... yeah
Identical twins often experience twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, where one twin essentially nicks all the juice out of the placenta and the other starves in utero. But this twin was allegedly a SISTER, so no chance of them being identical. It IS harder to feed twins but if this sister existed...
OR, and hear me out here, syphillis
Not much else to do in Spalding tbf
I don't honestly even know if they had beer pumps in 1810!
Seems to be an English name, a nickname of a butcher. Most non-name surnames in England derive from nicknames.
I don't think they were using cleaning fluids in the 1810s
I am writing about Helpston and reading an absolutely BIZARRE biography of John Clare from 1901, which blames his later mental illness on:
- Being a twin
- His mother's milk being RUINOUS TO HEALTH
- Lack of fibre in his diet
- Working in the pub
Woodcroft has always been more lethal, from a numerical point of view, but none of those crossings are 'good'.
I am totally writing it into my railway talk, but it made ME jumpy whenever we had to drive over it to visit Tom's parents!
I am deeply invested in the railway crossings between the Nene and Lolham and frankly, it is a miracle nobody was killed.
What in the EIGHTEEN FIFTIES is this???
@rwldproject.bsky.social
The RAIB report is out on Helpston crossing failure.
Mfer lifted the gates manually because he forgot a third train was coming through.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
At least that starts with the same letter!
Dead. Good.
I have now finished cataloguing all the SUPER OLD inquests that aren't actually that old in the grand scheme of the office but are tatty as all hell. I am covered in bits of wax and muck and dust.
Oh nobody will care, it's just one of those things that IMMEDIATELY marks you out as A Local
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Another example would be virtually the whole of Norfolk!
Ooh that’s a bit deep for this time of the morning. But this is my biggest issue with AI: it cannot meaningfully synthesise knowledge because it does not know anything
They don’t know naming cultures full stop and that’s one of the key elements in tracking down ancestors!
Now a computer can only work with what you feed it. An AI might look for a place in Lincs that is spelled similar to Olbidge but they are not going to find Holbeach phonetically
Because they can’t fucking think
And you can
But I have lived on the fens my whole life, and that’s how people from Holbeach say it, even now
Sure enough, found her baptismal record at Holbeach church
