Census

 It was bitterly cold this morning. We left Ellie to sleep until 7:30 but then got everyone on the move. Her breakfast was made, her school lunchbox was provisioned, her second breakfast was made (she never eats the first one and then asks for something different), and eventually she went upstairs to get washed and dressed. We all had to wrap up warm for the short walk this morning.

Back home, we grabbed some breakfast and had barely finished by the time that Ocado arrived. This was good. It meant that we could clear all the shopping fairly early and get back from Sainsbury's at a sensible time.

The Silver Vixen retired to her sewing room, and the Gorse Fox to his study.

Today was the day. It was the day that the 1921 Census was released online. Despite his fears, the infrastructure seemed to cope well and he found no problems accessing the index or individual pages. There were two key pages that he was after. The first was for the Silver Vixen's great grandmother, Ellen Louisa or Annie Louisa... would she revert to Ellen,  or remain Annie in 1921? Neither! She was now recorded as Louisa A. That was no help. really. The second page was for the Silver Vixen's grandmother. Where was she? Liverpool or Southgate? Was she known as Linda, Lydia, Lilly, or Lillian? The answer was simple - she remains an enigma. The Gorse Fox cannot find her in the 1921 Census despite a couple of hours of trying every permutation and combination of search terms he could think of. He gave up when it was time to collect Ellie, but will return to this quest when he gets a chance.

What about all of the other family and their entries in the Census? Well, there is no hurry for them because, in most cases, the Gorse Fox knows who they are and where they were in 1921. His first priority for the Census is solving mysteries.

We collected Ellie from school and while the Silver Vixen did some reading with her, the Gorse Fox prepared a roast chicken for our dinner. Just as we were finishing, Urban-Cub arrived to collect Ellie and take her home.