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Well, my energy levels were up this morning. I cleared out several kitchen cupboards containing cookware and the like. A big bag of unwanted stuff for the Dogs Trust when it opens again, an assortment of plastic boxes and lids that don't match for the recycling bag and other bits and pieces in the wrong place now sorted.
Some items are more difficult. Do I keep the shopping bag I bought in Canada and which reminds me of a great holiday with Jim but which I never use? It still has a tag on it from the cloakroom at The Royal York Hotel, Toronto where we stayed for part of the time.
Did some more of the peg bags before I watched Maigret. I quite like Rowan Atkinson in the title role but otherwise I am not a fan of his. Can I remember who done it?
Snippet from the News
It is a competitive field when it comes to noise, but the sweet birdsong rising up from 27 acres of ragwort, overground grass and dense bramble hedgerows just about wins against the hum of traffic from the nearby M20 in Kent.
But from Monday the victory for wildlife will end as the first machines and crews start work on a 27-acre Brexit customs clearance centre to process lorries coming from the EU into Dover from January, prompting anger from local residents, a Tory MP and other politicians.
It is the first official infrastructure the government has finalised as part of a £705m package to put a Brexit border in place, with new IT systems and 500 extra Border Force officials. On Sunday, Michael Gove denied it amounted to a vast lorry park.
The plans were secret until Friday when the local council was contacted by the Department for Transport and told the land was now in public ownership and earmarked for “temporary capacity for the holding of delayed HGVs and facilities for border-related controls to be carried out by government agencies”.
The lack of consultation has triggered anger. Damian Green, the town’s Conservative MP said he was opposed to the site, tweeting that it was “unfair to Ashford” as it was “too near too many homes”.
Gove, the cabinet minister in charge of implementing Brexit, insisted on the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme it would not be a “lorry park”, but surveying the site on Sunday, the local Green party spokeswoman Mandy Rossi dismissed his remarks as “semantics”.
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Blue Monday - Fats Domino
Random Photo
This is the garden at Vlagstraat, yet to be transformed. It is small but very sunny and full of potential. The dog is Charlie Parker, a Beagle.
TOT ZIENS! Stay Home! Don't cross the border!
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