I have just noted that the Sandford area has now had 2 or less cases per week since 4 March. No area in North Somerset has more than 3. Great news, the rate per 100000 is 5 (BBC). Bristol has gone up slightly to 16 and rising slightly.
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
FOREIGN AID
WEATHER
Is this really the middle of May? The wind was noisy last night and the rain has been driving in all morning. At least the water butts are full, actually they are overflowing! max temperature 11C again. All the plants in the greenhouse seem to be slowing down? But I am sure they will speed up again.
Northern Ireland
I know I have no right to comment on this by religious or geographical or basically any other reason. However that just puts me in the same position as the present government of incompetents. Watching Israel/Palestine with horror (I could not find a suitable adjective to add), I wonder how far we are away from a similar situation in Ulster?
Green Party
I feel like a teenager (actually I wish), but I am going to deliver Green Party leaflets in my local area – whilst Istill having yearning for a Labour Party! What I would really like is an election system which allowed people to be represented fairly. Like Scotland – their system. seems fair? And then the greens and labours would have to come to a consensus. So much better than tories and Lib Dems deciding who to shaft next.
VACCINES
Bad news. Vaccine supplies to poorer countries and the COVAX scheme are being cut as the worlds biggest supplier in India says it will not be exporting any doses of the AstraZenica vaccine until the end of the year. With possibly millions dying in Africa we should not criticise them too much.
GREAT BRITSH RAILWAYS
If only the government could be believed? They have already refused to reward a popular and profitable, nationalised East Coast Line. Now we have a rebranding, but is their any real subsidence to their plans?
Cooking – pizza bread
Experiment time! I have just made bread dough , let it rise overnight, and have added grated cheese, chopped and sweated red onion, a chopped garlic, quite a lot of pepper, and a good handful of greek basil. I will let it rise for and hour, then cook on the pizza stone as a sort of flattish roll. I reckon 12-15 minutes at 189C on the hot pizza stone.