Notes for new readers - as this is a diary the first entry is the last, so you get to know 'who done it' before the crime is committed! This is a pain but can't be helped. After a week of entries the scrolling will stop and if you want to venture further click on 'OLDER POSTS' and read until you get to the first entry 'The Day Before Day 1
Another batch of scrub tops finished. I shall take them to Julia in the morning. I'm beginning to feel as though I have had enough of them. But, of course, if asked I will take more.
Apart from anything else the house is a tip. Green threads everywhere, piles of washed and unwashed laundry in the spare bedroom and the kitchen needs a going over.
The front garden needs some attention too and if the dry weather holds I shall have to do some watering. And then there is the allotment. Everything blooming there. The strawberries are coming along nicely.
Joni rang twice today - the second time to say that her mother, Jan had been tested today for Covid-19 and would get the result in three days. Meanwhile she had to stay home (annexe) and if the result was positive would need to be isolated for 2 weeks and I would not be able to go over there next week on the 30th. So we wait.
Snippet from the News
When Matt Hancock announced in April that care workers were to receive a green badge to offer them the same recognition as is enjoyed by those working for the NHS, the government might have thought its job at appearing to appreciate the care sector as much as the NHS was done. Referring to a lapel pin with the word “CARE” on it, the health secretary claimed it was a “badge of honour” to allow social care staff to “proudly and publicly identify themselves, just like NHS staff do with that famous blue and white logo”.
In reality, two months has passed and care workers feel far from on equal footing with people working in the NHS. Take a look at immigration policy. The bereavement scheme offering indefinite leave to remain to the families of workers who die as a result of contracting coronavirus was only extended to all health and care workers after intense public pressure, as was the decision to drop the NHS surcharge. More concerning, care workers are still excluded from the government’s offer of free automatic visa extensions to health workers, despite facing the brunt of the crisis.
It is important to not hear that this is not just an issue of the care sector being inadvertently sidelined, it is a demonstration of the different value the government places on the so-called “skilled” compared with the so-called “unskilled” worker. As well as care workers, nursing assistants, hospital porters and hospital cleaners – all of whom are exposed to the risk of coronavirus at work and whose work is essential to fighting the pandemic – have been excluded from the visa extension scheme.
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Song
Massachusetts sung by the Bee Gees. It should be obvious by now which decades my collection is mostly from.
Random Photo
This is a wild boar print. Found down by the River Cele in the domaine of Moulin du Clout. We never actually saw any wild boar and discouraged La Chasse from hunting them on our land but when we weren't there . . .
And below is a curiosity that appeared on my FB page. What fun you could have with that!
TOT ZIENS! Keep the Faith with Care Workers. Pay them properly!
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