Genealogy readers: Miles Jupp’s programme on Radio 4 at the moment is very entertaining. Features Nick @familyhistorysh – and turnips.

@emmajolly I promise no goats will be sacrificed!

Abandoning work this morning for an unexpected meeting on top of a hill fort. That’s how I roll. Or push me off the top: that’s how I roll.

@nelldarby (oops, should have said diolch yn fawr)

@nelldarby thanks! (For a book project of mine.) tricky with eg Flintshire which had an exclave. Whole UK county subject is maddening!

For example, Cwmbran: modern, Torfaen; ceremonial (preserved), Gwent; historic, Monmouthshire. Which do people think of first?

People of Wales! Do you favour the modern ‘principal areas’, ‘preserved counties’ (Powys etc) or ‘historic counties’? (Example follows)

In other news, @dariengs has a desk covered in stale cake.

Today I may have progressed my ambition to be an éminence grise. I’ve got the hair for it, at least.

@paulkingsnorth thanks for your excellent and thoughtful essay on England (and Real England was a wonderful book)