Day 104 Pubs open - in England!

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Very lazy day today. Done hardly any housework except some tidying and laundry. 

Jasper escaped after a cat when I was trying to unlatch the back gate. He ran off after it and I walked round the road after him (remember, no sane person runs after a whippet!) and he came back after a few minutes. No sign of any cat.

It started to rain on our walk and it has been pouring steadily ever since.

I made some blackcurrant crumbles with the fruit David gave me. One for Sheila.

Started watching On Chesil Beach but gave up - too slow and not very realistic of the times in my experience.
Then watched first episode of Strike. A repeat, of course, but watchable.

Snippet from the News

The prime minister has been accused of inventing an allegation that wildlife rules are holding back house-building.

In his recent speech on job creation, Boris Johnson said: "Newt-counting delays are a massive drag on the prosperity of this country."

But environmental groups say the allegation is a political trick with no basis in fact.

And BBC News has been unable to find evidence that wildlife surveys are unduly delaying development.

Downing Street passed our inquiry to the environment department Defra, which has not offered evidence. Nor has Natural England, which is responsible for wildlife protection.

The Local Government Association said it was not aware of any evidence that newt surveys were unnecessarily holding back projects.

And the Home Builders Federation said it has many concerns over planning, but newt surveys were at the bottom of the list.

"The PM's speech was pure fiction," Craig Bennett, head of the Wildlife Trusts, which runs conservation projects and education projects, told the BBC.

"It may sound funny referring to newts, but actually it was rather sinister. In the environment movement we know referring to newts is a dog whistle to people on the right of his party who want environmental protections watered down."

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Random Photo

Picture taken at a Cowbridge Carnival - remember those? My brother-in-Law Eddie Childs in the Roman soldier gear (which he made himself ) and husband Jim as Boudicca. I think the event was a pub crawl - or rather pub dash - as a pint had to be consumed at each alehouse along the way and there were more pubs in Cowbridge in those far off days.

TOT ZIENS! Drink at Home! Don't go to the Pub yet!