Getting Through the Days: Day 63 Cummings and Goings?

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Went down to Llantwit this morning to collect my scrubs for sewing. I have all the instructions and thread including cones for the overlocker. Walked Jasper after lunch and then settled down to make a start on the overlocking. Firstly the bulb went in the machine so I couldn't see the needle properly to thread it up. I rigged up a lamp. But I still couldn't see to do it. I tried with the needle in the machine and with the needle out. No luck. I searched for the instruction book to see if I was doing it properly - it is a while since I used the overlocker. Couldn't find that so bought one online .95p. No help. Finally I managed to thread the needle but when I started a sample run the needle broke! Something out of alignment. I oiled the machine but couldn't find out how to fix the problem, except - I went back to the computer found a local stockist and ordered my new Bernina sewing machine AND a new Bernina overlocker. I hope to get them next Tuesday! Happy! And as a thank you to Marks and Spencer (see yesterday's post) I bought some new bras and knickers. That's enough fun for today!

Snippets from the News

A huge outpouring of anger, frustration and sadness appeared across social media on Saturday after government ministers sought to defend Dominic Cummings’s breach of lockdown rules.

The prime minister’s senior adviser drove his family 260 miles from their home while infected with coronavirus, apparently to seek the support of his relatives.

As cabinet ministers claimed that this showed Cummings’s compassion, many people who have been forced to endure hardship and tragedy while separated from family during lockdown shared their feelings in response.

After the health secretary, Matt Hancock, tweeted that it was “entirely right” for Cummings to drive from London to his parents’ house in Durham, Jenny Dee, the director of the Chipping Norton literary festival, wrote in response: “My mum and I accepted that we couldn’t have a funeral for my dad, we accepted that at 86 and newly widowed she must spend months alone – we followed your rules, we were entirely right. Cummings’s actions and your defence of them is entirely wrong.”

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As you can see this is a snap from an old production of CADS - Wind of Heaven by Emlyn Williams and is described as "A parable about healing the wounds inflicted by a national trauma" very apt. It was the first play that I was involved with and I made two Victorian ladies outfits - one worn by Enid Nelmes far right.

I wonder what happened to the Glamorgan Gazette?

And here's a bit of nonsense.