Getting Through the Days: Day 59 How to make Leaves

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Worked on another batch of masks this morning with the elastic that came yesterday. Sheila tells me they would like some more masks at Longmeadow Court. I may need to get some more elastic.

After lunch I had a spell up the ladder with the secateurs. I am using an old pair which are hard on the hands as the spring forcing them apart has gone. I think when I take Jasper for his constitutional I will pop into Arthur Johns and get another pair. While I was pulling at the creeper I must have knocked my personal alarm on the parapet because I alerted the system and I heard a voice booming out from the monitor "Are you all right, Mrs Grove" A reassured them that I was fine but omitted to say that I was up a ladder wrestling with creeper on my garage roof!

Mr Williams, the builder rang later and we discussed the gradient of my garage roof. He expects to come and do the job sometime next week. Fine.

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The NHS appeared to run out of its daily allocation of home testing kits within hours on Tuesday morning after Matt Hancock said anyone aged five and over with symptoms could get tested for coronavirus.

Those trying to order a home test kit were left disappointed as the NHS website said they were not available as early as 10am, while a recorded message on the government’s 119 line said: “We’re very sorry. The available allocation has already been issued at this time.”

The apparent shortage comes less than 24 hours after Hancock massively expanded the list of those eligible for a coronavirus test to include anyone with symptoms aged five or over in the UK.

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Here is a method of making fake foliage for stage sets etc. You will need green tissue or crepe paper, wire and candle wax, melted. a block of oasis.

Cut out leaf shapes in the paper and thread onto lengths of wire. Dip each leaf into the hot wax and stand in the oasis to dry. I used serrated scissors for a realistic effect.