Day 75 Quitting!

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Delivered the scrub trousers this morning and accepted another batch. We seems to be doing literally hundreds! Destined for care workers I understand. I think I might try and get to grips with the automatic buttonholer this time but I am not tackling them today, I need a rest from sewing.

Today I am having another go at the boxes of slides. I have thrown a lot out - mostly views and buildings of I know not where. Also snaps of people that no one will know who they are when I am not around to explain. There are a few that I think family might like to see so I am considering purchasing a slide scanner. It is not much use having hundreds of slides that nobody ever looks at and some of Jim's go back 50 years. Time they saw the light of day.

Mr Williams, the garage roof man rang this evening. He is planning next Tuesday, weather permitting.

Snippet from the News

A doctor is quitting the NHS in protest at Dominic Cummings’s refusal to resign despite allegedly flouting lockdown rules.

Dr Dominic Pimenta has decided to resign because he fears that the behaviour of Boris Johnson’s chief adviser could help trigger a second wave of coronavirus and is angered by the government’s handling of the pandemic.

Explaining his resignation in a statement shared exclusively with the Guardian, Pimenta said his decision was driven by the “laughable fairytale” explanation Cummings gave for his trip from London to Durham and nearby Barnard Castle, as well as by the adviser’s continued presence in Downing Street and cabinet ministers’ support of him.

Pimenta, a cardiology registrar at a major London teaching hospital, has been a high-profile critic of ministers’ attempts to get to grips with the Covid-19 crisis. Two weekends ago, amid the gathering row over Cummings’ behaviour, he vowed on Twitter that he would resign if the No 10 adviser did not.

The 32-year-old tweeted a photograph of himself wearing full personal protective equipment before returning to work in his hospital’s intensive care unit, where he has been working during the pandemic.

Snippet from Facebook

Snippets from Twitter

Poem

Don't Quit by John Greenleaf Wittier

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is strange with its twists and turns

As every one of us sometimes learns

And many a failure comes about

When he might have won had he stuck it out;

Don't give up though the pace seems slow—

You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out—

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell just how close you are,

It may be near when it seems so far;

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit—

It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

Random Photo

This is a sampler embroidered by my late sister-in-law Irene. She gave it to us on the occasion of our 25th Wedding Anniversary. I am very fond of it and it hangs on the wall in my bedroom. Irene was a great favourite with Jim and I and she joined us on several holidays as she was good company.

TOT ZIENS! Don't Quit! Unless you are Dr Pimenta!