John Pullin

Only connect.

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/abbots-ripto...

My mum, born 1922, turned knitting into a job in the 1950s. She made the prototype garments for knitwear designers, amending their patterns to match the realities of wool and body shapes. She really enjoyed the 3D maths it involved.

Gary Lineker: A sorry end to a BBC career His years as a BBC host end in circumstances nobody would have wanted, but some might have predicted.

Pretty shameful piece from the BBC, but no longer surprising. For me, Lineker’s view is a reasoned and reasonable one, and his admission of a mistake was swift and proper. My respect for him has grown. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That's right. Thomas was named after his grandfather who was also a mason, but in Pickering.

It's lovely. His name was Thomas Brough and he is in the Grosmont burials register. His father was John Brough, a mason at Whitby: John is buried with his wife Elizabeth at Goathland nearby. They had at least four other children.

His father was a stone mason: perhaps he carved it himself.

The post is back to normal today. One seed catalogue, reminding me that spring is not far off. One invitation to plan my own cremation, reminding me that it really is the depths of winter. 🤷🏼‍♂️