Day 68 Day of Action

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A day of action! After my lessons with Youtube yesterday I threaded up the overlocker using the three reel design with relative ease and it worked perfectly first time. In a couple of hours I had overlocked all the edges.

During the morning the sewing machine arrived and I unpacked it. As I expected the 'walking foot' was not included so I emailed the supplier. She is looking into it.

I had planned to sew up the seams of the scrubs after lunch but I found I was too tired so I contented myself with reading the instruction book in preparation for tomorrow. Later, I had to go and water the beds at the allotment as Sheila was not available.

It would have been my sister Margaret's 78th birthday today. She was sadly knocked down and killed by a truck in Santa Ana, California nearly 20 years ago.

Snippit from the News
The government has been accused of panic-launching its corovirus test-and-trace system before it was ready in order to distract from the Dominic Cummings scandal rocking the Conservative Party.

The new contact-tracing scheme suffered from major technical problems on Thursday, with staff unable to even log in for most of the day and many only notified the night before that it was going live and that they would be needed.

Meanwhile the government’s track and trace tsar admitted to MPs that the whole system would not actually be “fully operational” until the end of next month – with still no date set for the launch of the supposedly “world-beating” app promised by the prime minister.

Contact-tracers working on the programme told The Independent that when they finally managed to log into the system at the end of the working day, they were presented with an empty page that contained no cases to review.

Snippet from Facebook

LONDON – An awkward question hangs over the COVID-19-shuttered world of Downing Street. At his daily morning meeting, Boris Johnson, back to full duties after suffering a serious bout of the virus, recently asked who was in charge of relaxing Britain’s lockdown plan, with all of the risks and uncertainties that entails for a government. "There was just silence,” an insider told the Sunday Times newspaper. "He looked over at Mark Sedwill (his top civil servant) and asked, ‘Is it you?’ The official replied, ‘No, I think it’s you, prime minister.’”

Sedwill was right. The United Kingdom’s leader enjoys some of the strongest centralised powers in Europe — and yet, paradoxically, the man who fought so hard to gain control of his party and Britain’s destiny is reluctant to take responsibility.

Before the crisis, Johnson ruled as a near-absolute monarch, often through his eccentric but effective adviser (and key Brexit strategist) Dominic Cummings. In a tale familiar to English court politics down the centuries, the arrogant outsider resented by lesser talents has himself become a hindrance to the man he serves. Cummings, one of the architects of Britain’s lockdown, bent the rules by driving his sick wife and child 400 km to his family’s northern home where he may or may not have breached self-isolation to walk in local beauty spots.
The new coronavirus has changed everything. It has seen Johnson dither over using his executive power to lay down the law. True, most democratic leaders find life-and-death decisions unnerving, but the prime minister has made too many missteps for Britain’s emergence as the "the sick man of Europe” to be seen as mere bad luck.
The U.K. has an unwelcome lead in the continent’s league table of fatalities, in part due to its role as a transport and business hub. But Johnson’s administration bears the blame for failing to lock down as quickly as Germany, for prematurely terminating track and tracing of the infected in March, and for allowing hospital patients to be discharged untested into care homes for the elderly.

Snippet from Twitter

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Random Photo

This is a view of my sitting room in Eastgate taken in the afternoon as you can tell by the sun flooding through the bay window. It is also Christmas time as the mantlepiece has the Festive cover on it. 

The two 1930's Begere chairs I bought on eBay for the set of Dangerous Corner. 

I stencilled the walls with my own design of oak leaves and the coffee table I painted with 'crackle glaze'. It has stood the test of time. I loved this room.

TOT ZIENS! Keep watering! Keep out of the sun!