Day 34 Chords

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Did some housework and washing today. Long overdue. Spent an hour down at the allotment with Sheila and Andrea, weeding, watering and making the bed for the raspberry canes. What we really need now is some rain, dare I say it.

Did a bit of chord practice on the keyboard. It is hard. I don't think I will book the Albert Hall just yet. I played some Boogie Woogie tunes on my computer. I wonder if the neighbours think it's me?

Snippet from the News

Ministers were warned last year the UK must have a robust plan to deal with a pandemic virus and its potentially catastrophic social and economic consequences in a confidential Cabinet Office briefing leaked to the Guardian.

The detailed document warned that even a mild pandemic could cost tens of thousands of lives, and set out the must-have “capability requirements” to mitigate the risks to the country, as well as the potential damage of not doing so.

It comes as the UK’s hospital death toll from coronavirus heads towards 20,000. Less than a month ago, the medical director at NHS England, Prof Stephen Powis, said the country would “have done very well” to stay below this grim milestone.

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Quote Wisdom doesn't always show up with age. Sometimes age shows up all by itself. Tom Wilson

Poem  “Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

Emily Dickinson

Random photo

Yes, me again. I'm the one on the left with a bathing cap on. My sister is the other one. We are both wearing hand knitted swim suits which did nothing for our modesty and were a bit disastrous when wet. The picture is taken in Bournemouth where we lived for a while, about 1948/9.

TOT ZIENS! Chocolate all gone! Eat bananas!