Yes! (although Richard Scarry certainly has eg rubbish trucks and their workers, and Playmobil toddler range includes a garbage collector, as well as a litter picker in the older range!)

a complete sidebar but have you visited the Museum of the Home since the redesign? One of the new houses is a Jewish tenement flat with the seamstress set up in the front window so she can watch her children play outside and it’s wonderful.

lol I knew it

(It’s the Playmobil approach because it’s a focus on labour that only understands jobs as something a Playmobil model might do. Although to be honest there probably is a Playmobil office worker set.)

And of course @hallierubenhold.bsky.social really shifted the popular approach to how to tell the Ripper story by focusing on the women, not the murders — and she’s podcasted about it here!

I didn’t make the petition and I’m not going to not post it because of that

That’s because @maddypelling.bsky.social and Anthony Delaney are really good historians!

(It’s not just the oldest children’s hospice in Newham, it’s the oldest children’s hospice in London — and it serves some of the most deprived areas of the city, helping families with some of the hardest things I can imagine.)

There’s a BBC article here about the difficulties the hospice is facing. There are so many things where I think surely the government should be funding this thing — that instead have to rely on charity — and hospices, especially children’s hospices, are top of that list.

There is also a donations page here. Richard House provides respite care for families with children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, as well as the truly incredible work of paediatric palliative care. All hospices should be government funded but especially this one.