Getting Through the Days: Say 117 Still Too Many Deaths

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.

Lovely sunny day today. Jasper tried sitting outside for a while after I put a rug down for him.

Spent some time this morning sorting out my clothes in the spare bedroom. I have made two bundles for charity shops, one heap for Sheila to iron next week and a big heap for me to iron today. Spent some time over this but it doesn't do my back any good and I had to have a sit down afterwards with a cup of coffee.. Bedroom looks a bit clearer.

Ordered some nose wires from Etsy for the next lot of masks. I have decided to go with the previous design but with refinements: a nose wire and a pocket for a filter.

Watered the front garden. Disappointed to see the ravages of black spot on my roses. I need to deal with it!

Did some banking.

Walked Jasper with Sheila and collected the elastic I ordered from Waitrose.

Cut out some material for masks.

Snippet from the News

Priti Patel has risked inflaming a row with France by wrongly telling MPs that its authorities do not intercept migrant boats at sea.

The home secretary said that “appalling” numbers of people were attempting the journey across the English Channel, amid record numbers of crossings since the start of this year.

“I’ve had some very difficult discussions with my French counterpart, even looking at interceptions at sea because currently the French authorities are not intercepting boats at sea,” she told the Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

“And by that I mean even boats that have left that are just 250 yards or so away from the French coast.

“I feel that there could be stronger enforcement measures on the French side and they’ve heard that from me.”

French authorities do intercept migrant boats that are spotted in their territorial waters.

The maritime prefect for the English Channel announced that 30 migrants from three vessels had been returned to France earlier on Wednesday.

One group was handed over to police at Boulogne-sur-Mer and migrants from two other boats were taken to Calais.

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