The weather has been warm and sunny today and I have spent most of it outside. This morning I watered and weeded the front garden. Then I pruned the long new shoots off the Medlar. I have to keep it trimmed otherwise it will get too large for the position it is in.
This afternoon Sheila and I took Jasper to the allotment as usual to water the growing plants and put in the courgettes. I also took along my spare broad beans and some courgettes for a neighbouring plot.
Later I prepared the back garden for the arrival of Mr Williams and his team to work on my garage roof. I don't know which day they are coming. I hope it's not tomorrow as that is getting crowded with other things and I need to spend some more effort on the Montana.
In between all the activity in the garden I spent time online keeping abreast of developments re Dominic Cummings. It is getting ridiculous as the snippets below will testify. I hope that after today the only other news I will have to mention is that he has gone!
I emailed Alun Cairns to express my disgust. It won't do much good, I know, but has to be done.
When Joni phoned this morning I discussed with her my plan to visit with them on the anniversary of Jim's death on 30th June. That is five weeks away so I think that it might be possible to travel then.
Nice phone call from Stan, my Wednesday bridge partner. He and his family are well.
P.S. There is nothing wrong with my eyesight!
Snippet from the News
Boris Johnson has sought to move on from the bank holiday weekend’s biggest news story, the behaviour of Downing Street aide Dominic Cummings during the lockdown.
Whatever your thoughts on the prime minister’s chief adviser going to Durham to ensure he had childcare help, Johnson trying to shift the news agenda onto schools reopening in June shows that the government still has plenty of issues to deal with.
No doubt teachers, unions and parents will still have questions about the government moving ahead with the start of its plan and things will go back and forth between them and ministers during the next week.
Johnson said of Cummings that he had acted “responsibly, legally and with integrity” during his brush with coronavirus “in every respect” and he is pushing on with the same line about how the government has dealt with the pandemic.
The phased opening of schools like this is the first major test of the next phase of the government’s plan. Johnson has spoken about the need to maintain progress and that things will be taken as slowly as they need to.
Snippets from Facebook
Snippets from Twitter
Random Photo
This is a picture of Jasper wearing antlers one Christmas. He was not impressed. He knows he looks silly.
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