Day 43 Books

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A really lazy Sunday today. Spent most of the morning playing Scrabble and chatting online. 

Jasper found a dead rat on the garden path. He got very excited but left it alone when I told him to. I covered it with a bucket for Vince, the rat man when he comes on Tuesday.

Had a good chat with Joni when she rang me. She tried to persuade me that Netflix was a good idea. But no. I shan't be getting Netflix. We then talked about books. She is going to read Anne of Green Gables which surprised me, but I think she will enjoy it. I loved it when I was young. I recommended Little Women and the sequels: Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys. All favourites of mine. I was always a bit disappointed that none of my grandchildren had ever been keen to read my Enid Blyton books. The Famous Five and the Adventure series which I had collected and saved since I was seven. I know that EB is rather discredited these days but she got me reading at an early age and for that I have always been grateful. I have a selection of Just William too and named one of my dogs - Jumble - who features in the books. Anyone want anything to read?

No work today on the allotment although we walked past to check on growing progress. Something has been digging holes in one of the raised beds!! We found a broken Dunnock's egg in the other.

A little Boogie Woogie practice and some knitting done while watching Van de Valk tonight. The stories take place in Amsterdam and I enjoy spotting familiar scenes.

Snippet from the News

Inquests into coronavirus deaths among NHS workers should avoid examining systemic failures in provision of personal protective equipment (PPE), coroners have been told, in a move described by Labour as “very worrying”.

The chief coroner for England and Wales, Mark Lucraft QC, has issued guidance that “an inquest would not be a satisfactory means of deciding whether adequate general policies and arrangements were in place for provision of PPE to healthcare workers”.

Lucraft said that “if there were reason to suspect that some human failure contributed to the person being infected with the virus”, an inquest may be required. The coroner “may need to consider whether any failures of precautions in a particular workplace caused the deceased to contract the virus and so contributed to death”. OUTRAGEOUS!

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I'm wondering if this tally includes any of those in the post, now returned and counted previously.

Quote I don't consider myself bald. I'm simply taller than my hair. Tom Sharp

Random Photo

This is a head of a horse about 18inches high which Jim bought for my birthday one year. As I don't have room for it in my patio garden it lives at Graig Fach where I can see it whenever I visit.