Day 25 Fruit Pickers

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Finished the dozen 'Mask Angels that I had been working on and posted them off. I will happily do more if they are wanted.

It's a useful way of using up yarn and buttons from my stash.

Sheila and I (keeping 2m apart) went to the allotment to check things out. I seems that Sheila may have persuaded someone who lives in the sheltered flat complex with her to take on the third raised bed. That's good, although I suspect that we may have to give her a helping hand with it. We certainly have the time for that. Sheila has been making a lot of individual effort with our beds - going there most days and watering the plants and the plum tree whereas I have employed myself playing Scrabble. 

Anyway, I bought some more Fuschias today on the walk which I will put in the floral bed.

Snippet from the News

Eastern European farm workers are being flown to the UK on charter flights to pick fruit and vegetable crops.

Air Charter Service has told the BBC that the first flight will land on Thursday in Stansted carrying 150 Romanian farm workers.

The firm told the BBC that the plane is the first of up to six set to operate between mid-April and the end of June.

British farmers recently warned that crops could be left to rot in the field because of a shortage of seasonal workers from Eastern Europe. Travel restrictions due to the coronavirus lockdown have meant most workers have stayed at home.

Several UK growers have launched a recruitment drive, calling for local workers to join the harvest to prevent millions of tonnes of fruit and vegetables going to waste. However concerns remain that they won't be able to fulfil the demand on farms.

While a major hiring drive to ‘Feed the Nation’ during the coronavirus crisis has had more than 27,000 applicants, only around 4,300 of them have taken up the offer of an interview so far."

Comment: So it seems we do need immigrants  after all!

Snippet from Facebook 1.

2. A friend of mine posted this today;
"I'm back in work today. Masked up, gloves, aprons. Most residents in their rooms, five in the lounge, subdued, four critical with Covid-19, six are heading that way, and, the most awful part, there are six bedrooms taped up with signs on the doors telling us not to enter until the end of the month. These are the six rooms of the residents who have died of the virus in the last three weeks.

I'm going to cry when I get home. I can't do it now because I won't be able to stop."

Snippet from Twitter

Quote

Middle age is when your age begins to show around your  middle. Bob Hop

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Random Photo

This is the second piece of creative woodwork by my nephew David. It is a bird table made from bamboo which we had growing plentifully in Moulin du Clout. I was sad to have to leave it behind when we left.

TOT ZIENS! Drink Beer! Sleep Well!