Mascarpone, macadamia and sour cherry cookies, Triple chocolate cookies and Apple, allspice and oat cookies. Here
COVID STATS
First day of lockdown. The statistics table is on next page. After 2 weeks we should see a reduction in cases if the lockdown is working. Now would be the time to bring students home from university. Negligently he missed the opportunity to extend half term and shut schools (which may still be a major factor).
I will add a couple of places to stats from Wales, Scotland and N.I.
COVID STATS
AMERICAN ELECTION
NOT WORKING
It seems so obvious. With the R number being above 1 or even 2 and the number of cases rising just about everywhere something is not working! Are masks and social distancing not enough, or are people not observing the basic rules? What research is being done into how the virus is spreading so fast at the moment?
MIGRANTS
COVID -19
Politicians and papers chose which countries to compare. This from the FT looks good.
AMAZON
The world’s greatest river, and one without a road bridge. Stop it – not that Amazon! The company that has destroyed the High Street and hundred of thousands of jobs. OK so it has created lots too (minimum wage and poor labour conditions and no trade unions. This last bit is the killer for a tory government who have a pathological hatred of workers rights versus wealth creation. It is easy to sort it out.
ARCTIC WARNING
Arctic sea ice is not reforming as early as it has in previous years. Forget Covid – 19 which may hang around for a couple of years, climate change is so much more important, Read
THE JET STREAM
It is a high altitude (10km), high speed (180kmph+), wind caused by the differences in temperature between the tropics and the polar regions (Well our jet stream is – I am trying to keep it simple). The polar jet stream (ours) loops around the upper part of the northern hemisphere in a variable path. Sometimes it is fairly straight and therefore faster, other times it meanders around lots.