Your welcome is likely to be less than you deserve. What ever has driven you from your homes and loved ones I hope you find success here.
WEATHER
Well it’s hot! 9am and 25C indoors. My Best Buy of the year has been a fan – amazing. Even if for just a few days a year, worth every penny of £46.99. With solar panels no running costs. yesterday it was on for 8 hours. I have not needed it at night yet as I opened the windows wide and only partially pulled the curtains – my plants preserve my privacy, and hopefully safety (big rose bush by bedroom window!). Looks like the same for next few days
DISHONEST
COVID
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF JOHNSON IS LYING? ………HIS LIPS ARE MOVING.
157 minutes to reverse into a U turn, but after Jenrick had added to lies by listing organisations that were part of the workplace pilot scheme – although some knew nothing about it.
HERBARIA
I want one! Just saw this in the Observer Magazine during my busy Sunday! I did water the garden, greenhouse and house plants between 5.15 and 6.30 this morning!.
Obviously it needs something like a conservatory or a wall with plenty of light. But how good would a wall be with 20 to 30 herbs and flowers giving both a vibrant vista and a fragrant scent. If I get rid of the radiator in the conservatory and replace with an electric storage heater I would have a wall that at the moment has a rather brilliant Ceropegia woodii. Maybe I could move the furniture a bit and plan properly for once. But already thinking of Corsican mint, chocolate mint, creeping thyme, greek basil, parsley.
JOINED UP THINKING
LEVELLING UP – AN OXYMORON?
Just sayin’
IT IS NOT DIFFICULT!!!
Sajid Javid tests positive; so all who were in close proximity to him need to weld isolate under government rules. With lockdown chaos day tomorrow, now, more than ever, we. need clear action by Ministers. But what do we get? Normal dithering and whilst they try to work out which lies they can most likely get away with.
Patel make claim for this weeks worst Minister prize. Lying to parliament about consultations with the Police Federation which they deny. Lying seems to be competing with incompetence as the most necessary attribute for Government Positions. Williamson missing in inaction – schools exasperated by lack of guidance with over 800000 self isolating last week – it seems all responsibility for anything has been passed to schools. he is probably now drafting statements blaming schools and teachers for the exam result debacle next month. France was removed from the list freeing people from quarantine restrictions on return. It was said to be due to the prevalence of the Beta variant – Johnson (former foreign secretary) obviously did not know that under the French Constitution Reunion and Mayotte in the Indian Ocean are deemed to be part of France by their government. And the Foreign Aid cut goes through to appease the populist bigots on the right of the nasty party.
The government is continuing with its plan to increase the UK’s nuclear arsenal by 40% – that will make us all sleep better tonight! Oh how I hate tories!
The police continue to try and get in on the act. Violence and dishonesty at the Met’s main training centre at Hendon (Is this why Dick got a gong?) Police raid a 12 year old to ensure she is self-isolating; Police in Bristol raid a 21 year old with 4 male officers and handcuff her wearing not a lot for 20 minutes despite it obviously being the wrong person – ad no reprimand for any of them.
Oh, and masks reduce infection rates by between 10-25%.
A reminder that Richard Branson pays no UK tax and has sued the NHS for £200 million. Nice bloke!
FOOD
Back in the news, especially with newspaper editors not knowing the difference between good and bad news! The Guardian/Felicity Cloake (and I absolutely love her book), printed what “Easy ways to cut down on sugar and salt”. Which is OK but a bit over the top in my opinion. There are treats like ice cream which should be encouraged “as a treat”, I love cheese, but have cut down massively on meat; ketchup can make a bean based stew delicious; smoked salmon is too expensive not to be a luxury – but is lovely; I have and will continue to see how low I can get the sugar recipe in cookies and cakes. And I love a packet of crisps once a week or so, no Felicity crackers (unless with a mature cheddar), rice- or oatcakes or unsalted nuts are just not the thing.