Getting Through the Days: Day 92 Flower Power

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Front garden of Druids Green showing medlar tree in bloom

Resumed scrub tops this morning after a late start. How many times do you think it's possible to make the same mistake sewing fronts to back. Three! So more unpicking to do but I managed to complete all the neck facings and have only the side seams and arm edgings to do tomorrow.

Walked Jasper usual route and met a pleasant woman clearing one of the abandon plots down at the allotments. We had a chat and I wished her well, she has her work cut out.

I watched The Imitation Game, the story of Alan Turing which was good and then the first part of The Luminaries, which I found as confusing as the book which I abandoned after a while. I never used to give up on books but then I decided that life was too short and there were too many books to read (or good ones to re-read) without struggling over one I wasn't getting on with. I shall watch the second part because I hope to see scenes of Hokitika which features in the story and where Jim and I went in 2014.

Snippet from the News

A top UK fund manager has warned companies that executive pay packets should be the first casualty of any cost-cutting measures linked to Covid-19, but said hard-hit sectors such as airlines should not shy away from making necessary job cuts.

Aviva Investors, which manages about £346bn in assets, said it expected companies to do “the right thing” as they mapped out their response to the pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

“It means any pain should start at the top,” Mirza Baig, global head of governance at Aviva Investors, said in a Q&A published for clients last week. “We have been communicating that any pay cuts should affect senior management first; whether that means a cancellation or reduction of bonuses, lower future share awards, or even a temporary suspension of salaries.”

Baig went on to say that those measures “should come before any scrutiny or decisions about longer-term, wide-scale, redundancies or restructuring”.

However, he said some industries such as airlines would have to let staff go owing to travel restrictions that have decimated passenger demand and company income. “We do not think companies can continue to bleed cash just to maintain an unrealistic or inflated employee base, especially in industries like airlines where structural change is under way,” he said.

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