Ted! You've left your signed copy of Trixie Pickle in Decathlon after seeing @ofalafel.bsky.social in Brighton today. It's in their lost property now.

I was hoping to do some things with these but found out that it only covers about 6% of recorded baby names and also seems massively skewed toward the 'higher' end of the NS-SEC classes compared to expected Census distribution. Unless they're the only ones who can afford to have children now

In situ

Received what is definitely the best present ever for my wedding anniversary. A family portrait commissioned from @petefowlerart.bsky.social in the style of his cover for Herman ❤️s Pauline. Really couldn't be happier. Just look at it! Amazing!

Nice Easter egg for me in yesterday's Connections. Nancy and the Boys were always the scourge of my ego searching though

I can't be the only person working with local authority data that gets this image in their head when dealing with Babergh (Babergh!)

Schrödinger's arcade

Have to admire the chutzpah of this sheepskin shop offering a tour of a tannery as a selling point. In terms of putting people off it's not quite up there with a tour of the pork pie factory followed by the cafe, but maybe Kiwi tanneries are much nicer than those found anywhere else?

Unexpectedly, 13 out of the top 20 areas by population are around Merseyside, with Netherley being far out in front of anywhere else - 55 exemptions in a population of c.6,700

It's also an issue shared across the deprivation range (using Indices of Multiple Deprivation data), with a slight bias towards less deprived areas

First post on here, and I've made a map of schools affected by RAAC as it was hard to tell from the government data what areas were most affected. Spoiler - it's Essex, by a long way (57 out of 174) pinea.app.carto.com/map/ac955984...