Day 56 Revolution!

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A busy day today. I got up early to go to the Farmer's Market in the hope of getting another tomato plant to replace the one that's looking a bit sick. It might recover - I think I should have hardened it off a bit more. Anyway, I couldn't get another so bought two cauliflower plants instead. I shall have to read up on those as I haven't a clue and Jim never had any luck with them. 

Later I made 4 jars of Rose Petal Jelly. Here they are - just waiting for them to set and then I can put the labels on the jars. I have promised one to Sheila.

Sheila has had some requests for me to supply some more masks mostly from people living in her block of flats. I can let her have six more tomorrow but then I have to wait for my order of elastic to arrive.

Apart from the one tomato plant, everything is looking okay down at the allotment. I put in the cauliflowers and added more compost around the plum tree while Sheila did the watering. Our little picnics have now become a feature of our visits in good weather and today we enjoyed Portuguese Tarts as well as the cuppa!

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Boris Johnson was hit by a growing revolt over his strategy for easing Covid-19 lockdown last night as council leaders across the north of England joined unions in vowing to resist plans to re-open schools on 1 June.

Signs of disunity spread as a new opinion poll for the Observer showed approval ratings for the government over its handling of the crisis had plummeted since the prime minister dropped the “stay at home” message and eased restrictions a week ago.

In a further sign of discord and bad feeling, the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, writing in today’s Observer, says no one thought to tell the leaders of the biggest towns and cities outside London in advance of the prime minister’s decision to encourage people back to work last Monday.

“In Greater Manchester, we had no real notice of the measures. On the eve of a new working week, the PM was on TV ‘actively encouraging’ a return to work. Even though that would clearly put more cars on roads and people on trams, no one in government thought it important to tell the cities who’d have to cope with that.”

Pointing the finger at Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings, the mayor adds: “Far from a planned, safety-led approach, this looked like another exercise in Cummings’s chaos theory.”

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This is another of my cake-making efforts for one of Joni's birthdays. The design is out of a book by Jane Asher. The bath is a cake hollowed out and iced. The girl, soap, sponge and duck are marzipan and the soapy water effect created with whisked egg white. The balsa wood taps created, of course, by Jim.

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