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Part of the garden at Eastgate
Started on the scrubs today. I have 11 medium tops to do. I spent a couple of hours or more overlocking and ironing the pockets. More tomorrow.
Went to Waitrose later in the afternoon and took Jasper a walk around the town. Lovely weather.
Snippet from the News
Rishi Sunak has warned public sector workers to expect a renewed squeeze on pay and ordered government departments to find cost savings in response to the economic shock unleashed by Covid-19.
Against the backdrop of rapidly rising public borrowing after the government pumped billions of pounds into its initial emergency response, the chancellor announced the launch of a comprehensive spending review to set out his longer-term priorities.
Sunak promised to raise overall spending in real terms to meet the Tories’ manifesto promise to “level up” Britain, but also served notice that cost savings would still need to be found across Whitehall given the scale of the economic shock
On Monday night the Treasury announced an above-inflation pay rise for 900,000 public sector workers this year. But in a letter sent to government departments, the chancellor said that over the next three years “we must exercise restraint in future public sector pay awards”.
One union leader described the pay awards as “a smokescreen” to hide bad news.
Snippets from Facebook
An amendment to protect and maintain standards on animal health and welfare, food safety and the environment in the UK in any post-Brexit trade deal was voted down last night, by 337 votes to 251.
New Clause 11 to the Trade Bill – put forward by Labour leader Keir Starmer with the support of Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and others – related to imported agricultural goods.
The amendment would have guaranteed that standards remained “as high as, or higher than” those that exist currently, in the following areas:
- Animal health and welfare
- Protection of the environment
- Food safety, hygiene and traceability
- Plant health
Snippets from Twitter
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Random Photo
This is a panoramic view of New York from the roof of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Taken about 10 years when I was visiting New York with a friend Peg.
TOT ZIENS! Look under the beds for the Reds!
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