Day 72 Experience?

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Started on the trousers today. Tricky sorting out the backs from the fronts. The sewing machines are a dream. Here is the chaos of my working table. 

And below, the finished items from all the volunteers ready to go out. A call went out this afternoon for help with some tops with 'issues' and therefore not ready to be dispatched. Experienced sewers were needed to rectify the problems. Was I experienced I asked myself? 

I started sewing by hand aged seven and then progressed to my mother's hand Singer machine starting with simple clothes. When first married Jim treated me to a Bernina which I used for my own clothes, then the children's and sometimes shirts and ties for Jim. I gave that machine to Matthew when he did Fashion at college and bought myself a New Home which had an overlocking function as well as straight stitching. That machine did sterling work with all the costumes I made for CADS from 1972 until last year. 73 years of sewing. I think that counts as experience.

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Many of the 18,000 contact tracers recruited to find new cases of coronavirus are “not fully occupied”, the government’s testing chief has admitted, although he insisted people were reacting positively to being asked to isolate for 14 days.

Prof John Newton, who is coordinating the testing programme, said the new system was “working well”, despite numerous reports from the newly recruited contact tracers that they had nothing to do.

He said there was “a lot of capacity” and “many of them are not fully occupied” but he highlighted the fact that the number of new daily cases was coming down.

Speaking alongside Newton at No 10’s daily press conference, Matt Hancock, the health secretary, said the test-and-trace system was “up and running”.

“It’s successful, I’m very glad to report that those who are asked to isolate by the contact tracers are expressing the willingness to do so and we track that very carefully.”

He added: “The level of incidence of disease has come down and so actually we have more capacity than we need; this is a good thing.

“I think to err on the side of having too many contact tracers is the right side to err on. I’d rather have too many people trained and ready to go.”

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This was my orange bathroom in Eastgate. Orange is my favourite colour. The fittings and tiling were all white. The pictures are works by the family. My present bathroom is also orange and white. Very cheerful.

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