#clap for carers 20

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2020

23 APRIL 2020 || The Duchess of Cambridge along with Prince William and their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis appeared on BBC One’s The Big Night In as they joined in the UK’s #ClapForCarers movement from their home Anmer Hall in Norfolk.

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[1ddiscourseoftheday]

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#i don't feel like making a real post today so #I'm not #Stevie Nicks GUSHED about her love for Fine Line and all the same people who go on and on about how fans have taste that should be respected #and listened to cause we know what's good lined up to be like well she's just saying that cause someone (the azoffs) told her to #lol. whatever anyway why wouldn't she like it like one it's really good do you really think every critic out there who thinks that was #bought off? maybe they should have tried that for hs1. but also it's TAILOR MADE for her to like like... literally #that is who Harry is trying to impress and please #whatever anyway it's cute and I'm happy for him #also today Louis tweeted about the Clap for the Carers thing and health care heroes #a subject near to his heart one assumes having grown up going to the hospital with his mom who worked there #and Liam is doing a huge charity thing! I'll put that in the real post tomorrow he deserves it bless him putting his money in the game #buying food for people in need as well as promoting the organization #oh yeah Stevie also said Harry was in London #27 mar 20

[sassyfrassboss]

He attempted to snub William I guess " William, you might become the Prince of Wales but you won't be as cool as me, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air!" Or they are expecting Will Smith to mention this embarrassing drama on his social media so that they'll be another talked about topic for a while 😤

I have a feeling HW doesn’t want to touch them with a 20 foot pole after this...

This is the difference:

Prince William clapping for carers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_-TwFBIWlc

Prince Harry has High Tea on a double decker bus while being driven around LA. 

Harry claims that Netflix correctly portrayed the way his family puts duty before anything. Well William showing his support to the NHS and others during a pandemic included his family!

I think there is a time when duty must come before family in the BRF no matter what but there is also a way to mesh the two in certain circumstances. 

The issue was that Harry wanted his way all the time and because what he wanted would have caused issues with the family and their duty to the UK, the family chose duty instead of giving into Harry’s tantrum. 

[logical-little-lies]

his this is,,request thing because im Bored and Sad but-!!! could you do one of fussy sad lil babey vee?

Fussy Baby-Agere!Sides AU (pt.20)

“They’re both really, really tiny!” Roman was basically squealing at the adorable sight he saw when he entered Virgil’s room. Patton was curled up, in little clothes, next to an obviously also regressed, Virgil.

“I’m assuming that Patton woke up little, because he was quite regressed, and found that Virgil was the only one awake. And Virgil was regressed too,” Logan concluded, following Roman to Virgil’s bedroom.

“Dada!” Virgil made grabby hands towards Roman, and Roman came over and hugged him. “Lil Pat came to my room, said he had scawy nightmare! So I stayed big as I could to protect him from da monsters!”

Logan and Roman’s hearts simultaneously melted, “You did a very good job protecting him, young knight. But, now Logan is here to scare off the nightmare-causing monsters, so you can be as little as you want.”

“Good..feel really tiny,” Virgil crawled to the edge of the bed, swinging his feet off the edge. Logan picked up Patton.

“We should go put you in a new onesie, and get you some new juice. How does bath time sound?”

Patton only babbled, seeming quite bubbly, giggling lightly. Logan carried him out, leaving the other two by themselves. “You take a shower every night, so I think we’re safe to hold off on  a bath with you. Let get you out of those big boy clothes, hmm?”

Virgil nodded, “feel really small, onesie only p'eas?”

Roman moved to open his closet, pulling a white onesie off the hanger. “Whatever you’d like, baby.”

This onesie had metal button snaps on the crotch and shoulders. “Dada..should probably tell you somethings..” Virgil was blushing lightly and he seemed to be very shy about whatever he was about to say.

“What is it, Vee?” Roman set the onesie out, instructing Virgil to remove his hoodie.

“When m’ dis small..wear pullups, have accidents sometimes,” he mumbled lightly, and Roman’s face softened. Even when Virgil was on the littler side, it still wasn’t this young of a regression. He was in a much younger headspace than usual.

“Awe, baby, why didn’t you tell me before?”

“Never been dis lil wif you before,” Virgil tilted his head lightly, still blushing.

“Well, there’s nothing wrong with that, and it’s good you told me. Where do you keep the pullups?”

Seperate from where he hid his other little stuff, the pullups were placed inside of a box, under a few hoodies in his closet. Roman located them, pulling out a slip-on pullup covered in a pastel baby block design. “How old are you, Vee?”

“Vewy small..want baba n cuddles!” he kicked his feet lightly, and Roman chuckled.

“You can have all the cuddles in the world once you’re all dressed, baby boy.”

Roman was quick to undress him, but once he was in his underwear, he was hesitant. Virgil covered his face with his hands, and Roman noted that he wasn’t the only embarrassed one. He got to pullup on him, instructing him to lie back after pulling the white onesie over his head. He snapped it at the crotch, and the baby was all dressed.

Virgil whined softly, and Roman didn’t know what to do. “What is it?”

Virgil only tilted his head, whining softly, bouncing in place. “Ababa!” he spoke as if his babbles should have made complete sense to his carer. Roman thought, before it clicked in his head.

“Pacifier? Is that what you want?” Roman found his little plastic box of his pacifiers. Virgil clapped his hands.

“urpel!” he squealed, causing Roman to chuckle again.

“P-ur-ple,” he sounded out the word, trying to get VIrgil to repeat, but the baby only tilted his head.

“Urpel! Urpel!”

Roman nodded, not pushing him to pronounce the word correctly, just pulling out the pastel purple pacifier. Virgil opened his mouth and made an ‘ah!’ sound when Roman approached the edge of the bed. Roman gave it to him, ruffling his hair. Virgil seemed to be happy, just slightly fussy, and less verbal. Roman was willing to deal with it, he thought his baby was quite adorable, no matter what.

–

After breakfast, Virgil sat alone, surrounded by stuffed animals on the couch. Logan was nearby, and Patton entertained himself with baby blocks. Roman had left the room only seconds ago to go to the bathroom, and Virgil’s eyes were welling up with tears. He sniffled, and Logan looked over.

“No, no, no. Don’t be sad, what’s wrong buddy?”

“Want dada!” he whined, crying loudly around his pacifier.

“You’re quite fussy, aren’t you?” Logan pulled him closer, trying to console him.

He was still crying by the time Roman came back about two minutes later, “What happened to my baby?”

Roman sat on the other side of Virgil, pulling him onto his lap and bouncing him on his knee. “You left and he just started crying. I think you have a little fussy baby on your hands.”

Roman shushed Virgil, comforting him until his cries turned into soft babbles. “Why were you crying, baby?”

“left me, dada. Miss you,” he mumbled.

“I only went to the bathroom, no need to cry. I would never leave you, yeah?”

Virgil nodded. As the day went on, Roman quickly found that he couldn’t leave Virgil alone, or else he’d cry. Whenever he needed or wanted anything, he’d whine and cry until Roman figured out what it was. He didn’t talk quite as much, and when he did, the words were pronounced incorrectly.

“Yesterday, wasn’t he sad because one of Thomas’s friends stopped talking to him? Maybe him being sad is what made him regress so little, and made him so fussy?” Logan offered, and Roman agreed quickly. He held Virgil on his lap, bouncing him on his knee, because whenever he stopped, Virgil whined and pouted.

“But that’s okay, I can deal with a fussy baby. I’ll just have to do my best to cheer you up, hmm?” Roman kissed his cheek, causing him to giggle and scrunch his nose.

Virgil whined softly, “What is it this time, little one?”

“Baba?”

He nodded, thanking Logan quietly when he handed over the milk-filled bottle. Roman proceeded to held him drink the liquid, still bouncing him lightly. Virgil whined again when the bottle was empty, and Roman watch him rub at his eyes. “Does baby bat need a nap?” he teased.

“Dada sleep too?” he mumbled, and Roman nodded.

“Of course,” he needed it, he was exhausted from making sure Virgil wasn’t crying, and managing all of his needs. He truly didn’t mind, but it was tiring.

Within a few minutes, the two were cuddling in Roman’s bed, covered by the 'fluffy blankies!’ Virgil loved.

Roman loved Baby Vee, just as much as he loved Big Virgil, and Toddler Vee. But while Baby Vee was the most cuddly, he was also the most needy. But, Roman didn’t mind.

That’s what caregivers are for, right?

A/N: Cute lil oneshot that doesn’t quite fit into the main plot. Ig you can say this takes place around the point I am in the story, so consider it ‘canon’ that Virgil wears pullups when he’s Extremely Smol

Agere!Sides AU (pt.20)

#lilvirgil #littlevirgil #lilpatton #littlepatton #cgroman #cglogan #babyvee #pullups #sandersides agere #sandersidesagere

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.

My brother Shaquille Darren posted this yesterday, “If you have a black friend and you don’t understand their pain right now, you don’t have a black friend, you simply know a black person.” White people will never truly understand that pain. Don’t even try.

Another lovely day and the 61-year-old man went out for his three-mile walk. Spent an hour talking on the phone to my beautiful goddaughter Alicia. She was in bed recovering from an operation but, because she’s a nurse, they wanted her back today! One day of recovery and this is a girl who has been on the front line since Day One. She’s only a little thing but tough as nails. Love her to bits! I applaud her every day. I wish the Tories gave a damn? As you know, Government treatment of NHS nurses is absolutely disgusting! Clap for our carers? Do me a favour! The NHS is already being sold off to the Americans. Just like Jeremy Corbyn said it would.

The six clubs that broke Premier League rules will hopefully face some kind of punishment or sanction? In 2008, Luton Town were docked 30 points at the start of the season; 10 by The Football Association for irregular matters involving player transfers, and 20 by the Football League for breaking rules on exiting administration. In 2020, Wigan got a 12-point deduction for going into administration. How many points is it for trying to send 86 clubs into administration? The big sell of the European Super League was that it was going to strengthen ‘the pyramid’ and put more money into grassroots football. What a load of hogwash! It was all about the 12 owners making more money – nothing more, nothing less – and smaller league clubs would have gone under!

Birthday invitations, wedding invitations, BBQs, dinners, gigs, drinks, coffees. Suddenly, our diaries look healthy again! Feels good to be able to smile. We have been languishing. Sitting in limbo. None of our clothes fit anymore but – fuck it – we’re going out!

Have a throbbing and thrusting Thursday (with hopefully a few thrills through your thoroughfare?) I love you all. And, if you’re looking for an interesting book to read, check out my second novel ‘Whatever Makes Them Dance’ (74 Amazon Five-Star global reviews to date!)

#mixcloud #mi soul #lockdown #new blog #coronavirus #dj #music #weekend

[dannymillerfansite]

Emmerdale phases back to filming by recording lockdown episodes

The Emmerdale production team have commenced a phased return to filming by recording six new episodes featuring characters during the lockdown.

Filming was underway yesterday (Wednesday 20 May) at Emmerdale’s studios in Leeds involving a pared back crew to ensure health and safety protocols and social distancing measures are strictly adhered to by the team on set. The six episodes will be recorded over a two week filming period.

New ways of working to protect the crew and cast have been introduced by ITV Studios in accordance with pan-industry return-to-production protocols for TV drama which ITV’s Health and Safety team and medical advisers have been working on in consultation with the Government. The guidelines underpin everything ITV Studios are putting in place for the cast, crew and production team to adhere to whilst filming.

The measures will include social distancing, filming units staying together to work in designated studios with crew using their own sanitised equipment, office staff continuing to work from home to ensure fewer people on the ground, no location filming, scripts featuring a smaller number of actors and fewer scenes to avoid camera moves.  The crew have also attended a meeting with the company’s medical adviser and participated in a health and safety induction which saw the new working environment procedures explained in detail.

The new episodes will ensure Emmerdale stays on air in June bringing the audience topical stories from much loved characters. Inevitably, with time on their hands the characters will begin to think about what’s important in life.  

We’ll see resentments and past feuds resurface, old wounds further exposed, relationships scrutinised, with doubts and insecurities laid bare. Some seize the opportunity lockdown presents to heal divisions, whilst others get some sizzle back into their lives!  With the backdrop of the pandemic, the characters also reflect the nation’s immense gratitude and thanks for the NHS with the weekly clap for carers and the people working on the frontline keeping our country safe.

The six new episodes – Cain and Aaron (Jeff Hordley and Danny Miller), Chas and Paddy (Lucy Pargeter and Dominic Brunt), Sam and Lydia (James Hooton and Karen Blick), Marlon, Al and Ellis (Mark Charnock, Michael Wildman, Aaron Anthony), Mandy and Vinny (Lisa Riley and Bradley Johnson) and Jimmy and Nicola (Nick Miles and Nicola Wheeler) – will be recorded over a two week period and directed by Ian Bevitt.

The writers are Adam Sales, Jo Maris, Paul Roundell, Karin Young, Samantha Doland De Vaux, and Chris Gill.  The episodes are produced by Laura Shaw and Kate Brooks with Executive Producer, Jane Hudson.  

#spoilers #itv #emmerdale aaron #Aaron Dingle #emmerdale

[secretkingdomjellyfish]

Another day, another penny...

Here we are again. Life has become even harder with COVID doing the rounds and offing every poor sod and his granny. I actually thought I had already witnessed or experienced the worst of what humanity had to offer but no, life and society continued to surprise me. From the hypocritical ‘clap for our carers’ movement (The same people who clapped where the same people in the supermarket the next day sneezing on your eyeballs - two meter rule, people!!) to our world leaders and celebrities telling the world ‘we are all in it together’ whilst they lounged in their 20 room mansions. It was all a bit...shallow. Every month is like opening the world’s shittiest advent calender only rather than getting a nice little piece of chocolate behind each window, we get some new unseen horror unleashed on us.

Then came the BLM riots. Another black man was killed by corrupt cops who gave absolutely zero fucks about him or anyone else. People were, entirely and justifiably, angry and the protests began but then something else happened. I had already seen this phenomenon slowly creeping it’s way in with COVID making the rounds but I just put it down to me being bitter and angry at life, therefore my perception of people (I had already set the bar WAAAAAY low) was skewed.

I saw people take advantage of an entire society’s grief. I saw the vultures circle to loot and hate or to share their idiologies of hate and pain and recruit more angry, tired teenagers to do their twisted bidding.

I saw both extremes of the coin take advantage of the situation to spread that same hate and lash out at the other side. ‘Don’t look at us, look at what the other side are doing!’ I heard them cry. ‘The people protesting are just violent thugs, look at them causing all this damage, how else are the police meant to act?!’. ‘It’s not us, we are just so tired of the police taking advantage of us and I REALLY need these new Nikes’.

But then there were the people in the middle. The people who just wanted real change. The people who just wanted the hate, the pain and the injustice to stop. Those people marched and protested and wanted their voices heard. Who were seeing what I and many others were seeing and wanted to restore the balance. Unfortunately they were quickly drowned out by the screeching of the two extremes and it became a game of ‘who could sling the most mud to deflect from their own actions’.

To say I’m sickened is an understatement. I’m embarrassed and I’m ashamed. I’m ashamed to even call myself a human being. My heart is utterly breaking at how broken we really are, how much trauma has been ignored and how easily we are influenced by shiny, new things. How the media continually drives us, like the herd animals we are, to consume, to buy, to hate others that are different to us. To make us think that our little tribe, family, race are the best and everyone else is wrong.

Do me a favour. Find a story. Any major story and then go read/watch/listen to several different news outlets (on both sides of the coin - you know who they are) and see how they report it. I can assure you, it will be like watching a different story altogether. Don’t get me wrong, they all have the very basic facts but they simply cater to their audience. No wonder people think they are right, they are surrounded by others who think the same way. They feel a kinship in a really scary world. The leaders (not the real movements, not the real game changers) take with one had and point with the other.

Plato had it right with his cave anology. Those shadows that the people can see are just that. Shadows. Boogymen. Nothing more than smoke and mirrors. I get that the world is scary, I get that we don’t understand even a fraction of how the world works and I understand so SO well that it feels good to find others who think the same way as you and even if you ‘see the light’ and see the world for what it really is, there are few who will listen to you. Most of us took the blue pill because the truth is just too painful to bear.

However, a new pattern has emerged here. A much more dangerous way of thinking. We just don’t allow ourselves to be wrong, it physically hurts! Everything we do is so emotional today. Everyone just wants to think emotionally rather than taking all of three seconds to think about something logically and rationally.

Society is full of adult toddlers who have a tantrum when they are challenged. Rather than giving them our time, we should be giving them a sippy cup with chocolate milk and a nap. I get it, it feels bloody good to scream and be angry. To blame someone other than yourself or your leaders for the life you have lived. All those missed chances? Not your fault, not your parents or your leaders fault. It was those pesky (insert blameless minority here)

Now I can already hear many of you shouting ‘I hear you lamenting but I don’t hear you coming up with any answers’ but the solution is simple. The implementation is incredibly complex and difficult and (unfortunately I believe it is also impossible but I’m praying I’m wrong) will require everyone to do their part but the answer is so SO simple. Equality.

I don’t mean the bullshit ‘everyone should be treated the same’ that’s not equality. I’m saying EVERYONE should be given the same chances regardless of their race, gender, sexuality, sex, wealth. Instead, the world is incredibly unbalanced and unequal and I have strong feeling that mother nature is about to shift it back into balance because she is a bad bitch who is fed up with us just taking but not giving back.

In my teens I went through a phase (I can hear the sniggering in the back). I found wicca (I can now hear louder sniggering). Now this phase lasted about 6 months and generally involved me wearing a lot of black, buying some coloured candles and generally trying out some cool spells because I could now do motherfucking magic biatches! But, soon enough, it fissled out and I got bored and moved onto something else (mainly the grunge scene - they, just, like...got me, you know?). But, I took one of my very core beliefs away from it. As at the heart of this beautiful religion it was all about balance. Whatever you took, you had to give back and EVERYTHING came back threefold - you had pay the dammed ferryman (you always have to pay eventually and not always in the ways you expect) . So, you sent out good vibes? You got those good vibes magnified right back atcha! Kind of a witchy butterfly effect.

Furthermore (check me out with the academic phrasing..eh? eh?!) many of followers of Wicca believed that their main deity was simply like a multi faceted diamond with many faces and each aspect simply reflected a different religion, deity or belief system and that she was always with them no matter what deity they believed in. (disclaimer - It’s been a long time since I was involved in this so if I’m wrong, please accept my deepest and most sincere apologies) but, again, it kinda made sense to me at the time (and still does). When I first started, it was new, it was different and it gave me purpose but then the glamor kinda got scraped off and I actually had to do some hard work and, being a teenager, I was just not into that.

Now I know many of you are asking ‘what the hell has this got to do with the price of cheese’ but bear with me because the answer is, again, relatively simple.

It’s all about balance. We have taken but not given back for so long. As a society we think that being successful is hoarding as much wealth as possible, drinking champagne and eating caviar whenever we feel like it, occasionally giving a few quid to charity to show that ‘we’re in this together’ because that is what the media have us believe. That it’s the ULTIMATE goal to have your own private jet and generally just whittle your life away doing nothing but pamper yourself.

We think the only way to achieve this is to take it by force. To be ruthless and cutthroat and step on as many heads as we can to get to the top, right?! That’s always been the way it was done!

However, that might have worked for a while but, as a society we have kinda went full circle and are right back at the start - openly rejecting facts and evidence for emotion (well it feels better to believe in x therefore it must be x) and anecdotal evidence (if you crack an egg at the fulll moon whilst hopping on one foot, you will totally get rid of that cancer - it totally worked for a friend of a friend so it must be true).

Right now the world is a giant carnival game and we all know those carnival games are rigged as shit. Step right up, Steeeep right up! Come along, try your luck! Why you look like an amazingly (add appropriate adjective here) individual, I bet YOU could win - not like any of these other chumps. The whole thing is rigged in favour of the wealthy and powerful and, in all honesty, I completely understand. It’s in our very nature.

It’s been so insidiuous and we have been bombarded so much with this message that we now have an entire generation of very broken and exhausted individuals who think that surviving and living are the same thing. News flash. They’re not.

This is why we are in the situation we are in. We have simply been sleep walking and ignoring what is right in front of us. In order to move on, we need to accept some really hard truth and take a long, good look at who we are as both individuals and as a society. Honestly? I don’t think we are ready for that yet the other two options are to continue the way we are going and let mother nature do her thing or simply destroy ourselves in the process. We are quickly running out of options and I REALLY don’t want to be the guy who said ‘I told you so’.

Now before anyone starts with the whole ‘you’re so wrong because (insert appropriate defense here) just stop and think for three seconds. Let that knee jerk reaction go and give it time to sink in. Even read it again if you have the attention span to do so and then think. Is he really wrong? Maybe the truth just hurts.

TL;DR - society is really broken and there’s no easy fix.

#wtf #covid #blm #hardchoice #depression #anxiety #currentaffairs

[the-coconut-asado]

NUT MILK CITY LIMITS

This should have been my Boston blog. And I will write one, someday soon. 

But limited as we are to four walls, dodging pavement cyclists and the kindness of delivery folk, let’s settle for a tale of lockdown invention. 

That said, my story does start in Boston - or rather, leaving it. It was the real start of The Weird, around early-mid March, when I still took the tube into work and was looking forward to a visit to the hairdresser (lockdown was announced the day before my appointment in case you were wondering. So there will be no selfies here).  We managed to head off to the US the day that Trump banned the rest of Europe from flying and I won’t lie, we felt lucky. I sat next to a Canadian student on the flight who explained, as she coughed, that she had traded her study trip around  Europe for a £2,000 ticket-chance of getting home. 

We got to our faintly Psycho- throwback hotel that night, where we seemed to be the only guests. And for three days we toured the (mostly shut)  sites of Boston with the streets all but empty. 

At one stage, as we strolled past a CVS store, two young women emerged, insanely juggling 4x16 pack toilet roll bags. How we laughed. The way those pesky kids laugh as the Scooby-ghoul looms behind them. On the Sunday, any holiday vibe had been replaced with low level anxiety, counting down the hours to our flight leaving the US on time and as planned.

And since we landed back in London, that’s been it. Travel now means taking the car for a weekly local drive to keep the battery ticking over, and let’s not dwell on the cancelled trip to Vietnam. The Supermarket Sweep race as you grab random packs off shelves before the personal space invader twats sneak up behind you  is now replaced by the delivery time lotto of Amazon Fresh. Got a formula for that, Dale Winton? 

But there have been new things to smile about: neighbourhoods coming together every Thursday evening to Clap for Carers; the bravery of NHS workers and a whole army of people I hope we’ll never take for granted again; friends and family checking in on each other much more than ever usual. And the travel buzz achieved by changing our backgrounds on Zoom. Don’t knock it,  the endorphin kick is real. 

And dare I say there have been pleasures too: delicious meat, fish and vegetables delivered from local suppliers, and weekends full of invention possibilities. “ Are we all fucking bakers now??” Twitter ranted in week 2 of lockdown  as flour and eggs became the New Disappeared. Cashew milk, the one nut milk I enjoy, became similarly scarce for a short while, but I discovered the eye-wateringly expensive delights of Milkadamia until sanity returned. 

Faced with the random nature of vegetable boxes, half used packs of speciality flours otherwise doomed to outlive their sell by date and the excitement of what you can achieve with a carton of buttermilk and bicarb of soda - life in the kitchen is nothing short of a blast right now. Just like wartime? We have no rationing and plenty of Chipotle paste so, er, no. 

Breaking my veg box virginity has been liberating. There are the highs of high-sheen aubergines and those creamy new potatoes of the season, and the occasional low of celery on three consecutive weeks. But the thrill of anticipation when we open the door to a new box is palpable. And finding specialist suppliers for everything from sumac to burrata has made me realise that up until the pandemic I’d been shopping all wrong and wasting far too much money. With the simple elimination of impulse purchase I have hit my notional monthly food budget for the first time ever. 

So here are a bunch of recipes for what I consider my best lockdown experiments. Stock up on your store cupboard essentials and you can use whatever basics are available that week. And by store cupboard essentials I mean: Olive and coconut oils, smoked paprika, cumin, turmeric, chilli flakes, soy sauce, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda (you don’t need yeast for soda bread or flat breads). And whatever flour you can find, you’ll be able to do something with it. 

Bolli-cauli biryani with camargue rice

Forget boiling cauliflower ever again. Chop florets, toss them in spice and oil and roast to crispy, caramelised deliciousness every time. Serves 2-3. 

Ingredients

1 medium cauliflower, cut into florets, then cut each floret in half to create bite size pieces

The cauliflower leaves, pulled from the fibrous stalks

2 medium red onions, quartered

1-2 large red chillies, split from top to bottom but kept intact

2 tsp. Sumac

2 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp kosher salt

Generous grind of black pepper

1 tsp chilli flakes

3 tbsp. Olive oil

300g camargue red rice (1 small mug)

25g salted butter

Plan yoghurt to serve

How to make:

Heat the oven to 190C. 

In a large bowl, toss the cauliflower, cauliflower leaves, chillies and onion (and any other chunky vegetable you hav in the fridge eg.squash, aubergine or courgettes) with the spices and olive oil. Spread out onto a large roasting pan and pop into the oven for 40-45 mins, turning everything half way through. The edges of the vegetables will caramelise and the leaves will crisp up. 

Meanwhile, heat the butter in a saucepan until it bubbles then add the rice and toss until you get a toasty aroma. If you used a small cup, then now add a small cup and an extra quarter cup (or if you measured 300g then add 400ml water) and a generous pinch of salt. Bring to the boil, stirring once and then simmer on a medium heat until the water is all but absorbed (about 15-20  mins). At this point, cover with a lid, turn the heat to low and cook for a further 10-15 mins. Turn off the heat and leave covered for a further 10 minutes before fluffing the rice up. 

When the bolli-cauli is ready, remove from the oven and serve over a generous scoop of the toasty, chewy buttery camargue rice. Add a dollop of yoghurt on the side and some mango chutney to serve. And treat yourself to some poppadoms for the crunch factor. 

Beer and Buttermilk Soda Bread

My favourite bread of the lockdown - and no yeast required.  Based on a Paul Hollywood recipe, mine replaces stout with any old beer or lager you may have  in the fridge, and a range of ‘bin end flours: Wholemeal, basic brown, spelt and strong white. 

Ingredients: 

500g wholemeal flour (or a mix of any brown or grain flours you have)

250g strong white flour

280ml buttermilk

300ml bottle of beer or lager

2 tsp salt

2 Tbsp. bicarbonate of soda

How to make:

Mix the flours, bicarbonate of soda and salt in a large bowl. 

Make a well in the centre and add the buttermilk and beer. 

Mix until everything comes together then knead gently until you have a cohesive ball. 

Pop into a 2lb loaf tin and press slightly into the corners.

Leave to rest for 30 mins. 

Heat the oven to 210C. Bake the loaf for 10 minutes, then turn the oven down to 180C and bake for a further 25-30 minutes. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack. The base should sound hollow when you tap it. 

Cool then slice and slather with butter. This bread is also excellent toasted. 

Spinach,  Ricotta and Feta  Pie

The superstar look of this pie as it emerges from the oven belies a super-easy method. If you can’t get hold of ricotta, just use cream cheese. Serves 4. 

Ingredients

7 sheets filo pastry

2 garlic cloves, chopped finely

1 medium onion, finely chopped

250g spinach

1 large egg

1 tsp. Grated nutmeg

250g ricotta, mascarpone or cream cheese. 

125g feta cheese, crumbled

Handful of fresh oregano leaves, chopped finely. 

100ml olive oil. 

1 tsp. Nigella seeds

How to make:

Heat the oven to 200C. 

Heat 1 tbsp. Olive oil in a frying pan then saute the onion and garlic on a low heat until soft. Add the spinach and cook gently until wilted - about 5 minutes. Turn into a sieve or colander and squeeze out as much liquid as you can. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and put to one side. 

Beat the egg with the ricotta and nutmeg then season. Crumble in the feta, then add the spinach and onion mixture. 

Brush a 22cm loose bottomed cake tin with olive oil and lay a sheet of filo pastry along the bottom and the sides. Brush again with oil, then add a second sheet at an angle to the first. Keep brushing each sheet with oil, then adding the next layers at an angle until you have used six sheets and they are lining the tin in a flower petal formation. 

Tip the spinach and cheese mix into the tin then fold each ‘petal’ of filo on top to form a lid to the tart. Brush with more oil then scrunch up the seventh sheet of filo, perch it on top of the pie and brush with the remaining oil. Scatter over the nigella seeds. 

Pop into the oven for 25-30 minutes (watch the top so it doesn’t turn from golden to burnt). 

Remove from the oven, cool slightly, before releasing the sides of the tin and transferring the pie to a plate to serve. 

Carrot cake muffins with mandarin frosting

Not really the season for carrot-eating, but grated three carrots into this cake mix and you have a winner. And the frosting is a great way to use up mandarins. Makes 6 Large muffins. 

Ingredients

1.5 cups plain flour

1.5 tsp. Bicarb of soda

¾ cup demarara sugar

½ tsp. salt

½ tsp. Cinnamon

1 cup cashew nut milk

2 eggs, beaten

½ cup sunflower oil

1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

3 carrots, shredded

50g pecan nuts, roughly chopped. 

For the frosting: 

Juice of 1 mandarin

1.5 cups icing sugar

How to make

Heat the oven to 180C. 

In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, bicarb. Of soda, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Add the eggs, oil, vanilla and cashew nut milk and mix again until a smooth batter. Fold in the carrots and the pecans. 

In a muffin tin with 6 cases (or double the recipe and use 12). Fill each paper cup with the muffin batter until ¾ full then pop into the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes, until they are fully risen. 

Remove from the oven and cool in the tin before removing each muffin and placing on a cooling rack to cool completely. 

When the muffins are cool, mix the mandarin juice with the icing sugar until you have a smooth and sluggish paste. Ice each muffin and serve. 

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Friday 1st January 2021

Review of the Year Q1  January, February, March 2020. Pre Pandemic Lockdown.

Hello, I’m wishing everyone a Happy, Healthy and Safe Year Ahead. We always say that don’t we, but boy does it have so much more meaning this time.

What can I say about the year just gone that hasn’t already been said? Well, they say a picture paints a thousand words so I’m going to choose some of my own photographs to illustrate the most positive things we experienced over the strangest year of our lives - the year of the Covid-19 coronavirus world pandemic, which is still raging today (and let’s hope I don’t get to say that again)

I’m cheating at the very beginning because I’m starting off by using a photo from Christmas 2019 when we had one of our usual type of trees in the Hall.

I’d usually decorate the Hall tree in the traditional red and gold

Below is the little tree that gained promotion this year, but in pink and white, silver and gold. That was a bit fancy for me, but the Owls liked it.

It put on some healthy growth throughout the year and played host to many perching little birds, mainly Blue, Great and Marsh Tits. I had to clear off all the cobwebs and take out all the bits of twig and leaf before it could come indoors.

And there it was, pressed into service. Every year in this house we’ve had at least two trees, a 7-8′ and a 5-6′ but this year, Little Tree was upgraded to the starring role. Hoorah Little Tree, you’ve done us proud. One of the best things to enjoy about the tree is all the memories that come with the decorations collected year after year from all around the world and some dating back to my Granny’s tree, although they’re looking rather delicate these days.

You can see our fairly recent tradition of perching ‘Travis’ the Christmas Pheasant in prime position just underneath the Angel. I think he looked fab this year, you can see him a bit more clearly than on a bigger tree.

January Garden Visitors: Sparrowhawk

As for January 2020, it brought some horrid bitterly cold, wet and windy weather. We were lucky on the 10th when we drove to Ms NW tE’s house and she put on a fantastic lunch that we both really enjoyed. That was the last time we sat down close at the table with anyone else outside of our own home and ate together* Last time we dined out-out was November 2018! Those were the days. 31st January 2020 was also the last time I had my hair cut - now it’s the longest it’s been since I was about half the age I am now and it might even be longer than then and still growing.

* Ms NW tY did pop around after work for supper in February and we meant to make that a fairly regular thing, but the only other time we got to eat together was when it was allowed outdoors in the Summer - sat at opposite ends of a very, very long table. That was weird.

January: sunset 

The bad wet weather had started here in late October 2019 and we were caught in flooding in Cheshire. The Fire Brigade came to pump water off the road that  we were sat on for a very long time. Much worse came with horrendous floods in Venice when some of the canals became unnavigable. World weather certainly made headlines in 2020 with flooding and raging fires devastating massive areas. The National Trust wildlife report I posted talks about the effects of the weather and climate change and what they’re trying to do to combat as much as they can.

I also see that in January we’d started to hear of Wuhan and to talk about hand washing. A friend’s sister is living in China and she’d got a flight booked to visit in April. Another friend said their lockdown and travel restrictions may be lifted by then. Little did we know.

Looking back at last year’s photos, pre blog, I was surprised I caught the Green Woodpecker in February, photo taken mid morning on the 16th. 

This may be one of the last PP pictures I took (PP = Pre Pandemic) and it’s all the more remarkable because Storm Dennis had hit us.

On the 17th we went shopping for a care package for Ms NW tY who was sick and home alone. Raging fever, cough, felt like she had a chest infection and limbs like lead. Similar to what I had back in November 2019. It took seven months for me to feel tip top again, so who knows what on earth we had - not Covid obviously because the medical experts say it wasn’t over here then. They also said no need to wear face masks and children were impervious...

I’ll just leave those thoughts there.

February Garden Visitors: lots of Pheasants 

Meanwhile we were starting to talk about handwashing - a lot, 20 seconds minimum with soap and hot water. Sing Happy Birthday to You all the way through and keep on washing. Haven’t heard that so much in a while actually.

...and toilet rolls. Any mention of a forthcoming lockdown and panic buying prompts shortages immediately. It was toilet rolls, rice, pasta and flour. I’m sticking with my illustration of handwashing using one of my favourite soaps. Portuguese Soap, hard to beat but prohibitively expensive nowadays. We just looked at that link and whistled, drawing in our breath and sighing. I’m going to be refilling that bottle with something altogether more modest. Of course, so much more choice now for something a bit different, especially closer to home. Kent Soap. I’ve been glad this year that I ask for nice soap as a gift if anyone wants to know what I’d like and we got some for Christmas too, so that’ll keep us going.

White Hyacinths and Freesias for fragrance lifting the bleak days

The pandemic seemed to get worse and we were getting alarmed. I last went into a supermarket early mid March. Since then I’ve only been in National Trust shops, the petrol station and the pharmacy. I first wore a face mask when we took the car for its MOT, also mid March. Staff looked at me as though I was a bank robber. When we went to collect the car later the same day there was a notice on the door ‘Only two customers allowed inside at any one time’ and news was starting to spread...about health precautions, not about me.

Soon MOT tests were suspended and the country was facing a lockdown. Since then we had a time when both of our cars’ batteries died. We’ve SORN (officially declared off road) one - it’s taking us all our time to keep the other ticking over.

March Garden Visitors: hungry Rabbits at the seed trays

I started to write my Blog. At first I just used Google Sheets for seven daily scribblings and then I moved to this platform. Blog Number 1 here with the urls of the first few entries at the end. Little did I know at that stage that I’d be writing every day at least once a day and still going.

As National Lockdown got underway as well as writing we all started walking again and looking at nature and baking - boy did we all embrace baking last year. There must’ve been a country-weight of Sourdough and/or Banana Bread attempted with varying degree of success...lucky Joe Wicks came on board to get everyone up and doing a bit of keep fit, People started working from home, hosted social lives by internet, online quizzes and memes became a thing, a really big Thing. If we were lucky our food shopping was delivered straight to our door, TV cookery shows were full of advice on what you could use if you couldn’t source what you really wanted.

Just as my football team was on course for its first ever Premier League Championship win, the season had to be suspended (13th March) hoping to resume in April. It was a vain hope, but as our manager Jûrgen Klopp said, health and safety is far more important than anything else...we can wait 😉

Sport around the world, like everything else, had to be put on pause.

The situation got worse and every Thursday night at 8pm we went outdoors and clapped for our carers as they battled on trying to get to grips with this new virus and people falling sick in huge numbers. It was a whole new way of life.

To be Continued

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WEATHER NEWS:

Forecasters are warning of possible further chaos, because the same conditions behind the 'Beast from the East' in 2018 - one of the worst storms to hit the UK in living memory - are forming again high up in the atmosphere.  

The 'sudden stratospheric warming' (SSW) event happens when the temperature in the stratosphere soars by 50C (122F). This 'reverses' Britain's wind pattern, from the warmer west out in the Atlantic to the east – and Siberia.

It can take two weeks for the effects of a SSW to be felt. This was the case in February 2018 with the infamous Beast from the East, which saw much of the UK gripped by travel chaos and school closures amid heavy snow. 

^ Not to mention Hospital closures too, which meant my operation was cancelled.

New Year’s Day Read:

The Wildlife Trust Marine Review of 2020

This report is also covered by the Daily Mail which also includes photos, video and information from other regional trusts around the country.

Decoration from the Standen Courtyard Christmas Tree

Once again some absolutely beautiful handiwork, The Tree of Life. What better message for a brand new year.

The Tree of Life symbol represents our personal development, uniqueness and individual beauty. Just as the branches of a tree strengthen and grow upwards to the sky, we too grow stronger, striving for greater knowledge, wisdom and new experiences as we move through life. 

Music for New Year from the Rivertree Singers

a community choral ensemble in Greenville, SC. USA

‘Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day’ Let’s hope so.

#nature photography #review marine NewYear music UKwildlife

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81. Aug 5

MM ANON ……… Kate mask…………… Louis £12 shirt ………… granite city………… Bridesmaid on Island😱😱………………these BOOTS are made for walking ………… five silent ……………54 million!!!………The pain in Spain………… Epipen tragedy ………… the Spitting Image …………is statue on my toe………… Italian migrants!!!………KP deepcleaned.

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August 5/2020. Riddle #81

Kate mask……………

Catherine was seen wearing a lovely Amelia Wickstead dress, very floral and lovely on her! She was also wearing a lovely mask with a floral print. Now that it seems this is going to be our new normal. I love they are making masks that are not just utilitarian but also that are pretty. My sister has gotten me some and I’ve ordered some online and they’re quite nice. But one doesn’t realize all the detail to make a mask. How to make it comfortable, to make it fit properly that’s quite a technical feet to make a safe effective a comfortable mask and yet to know what fabrication to make it out of.Sorry kids I got the dress mixed up I know she was wearing that floral dress which she was William now she’s wearing what I would call spectator dress. Any of you people old enough to remember spectator pumps? Oh man I had a pair they were so popular during the 1940s they were pumps or court shoes as they’re called in the UK. They were black and white usually,the tips were black and the heels were white or variations thereof they were very smart looking shoes in that dress she was wearing reminded me of that. Oh she looks stunning! From the BBC now, The Duchess of Cambridge has revealed stories of families struggling during lockdown have moved her to tears.Catherine was seen wearing a mask for the first time as she visited a Sheffield baby bank, which offers essential supplies to mothers in need.She said she wept at the “bravery” shown by parents after an earlier visit to a similar project.Previously during the pandemic, the duchess has usually attended engagements outdoors or via video call.

Her appearance in a floral fabric face mask comes after the Duchess of Cornwall wore a face covering during a visit to the National Gallery in London.

Louis £12 shirt ………… I just Love that despite all the money they possess in the world Catherine has this down to earth fashion sense of where to spend money and how do use it appropriately and also how to reuse close. We’ve seen that with herself where she wears her dresses on several locations or sometimes even has them altered to look a little different. We’ve also seen little Louis wearing clothes George has worn before. I just find her amazing yes I am biased but I love the Cambridges so hate me😋😛😛😛😝😝😝😜😜🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂! Prince Louis wears adorable £12 shirt from Sainsbury’s in his new birthday portraits. Kensington Palace released new pictures of Prince Louis to mark his second birthday on 23 April - doesn’t he look so adorable? The sweet photographs show the toddler having fun painting a rainbow picture, in a set of new snaps taken by mum the Duchess of Cambridge at Anmer Hall. And since royal fans are often keen to learn which clothes Kate dresses the children in, we’ve tracked down Louis’ super-cute blue shirt! Little Louis is wearing a smart navy blue checked shirt from Tu Clothing at Sainsbury's - it costs £12 as part of a dungarees set and is luckily still available to buy online. In fact, it could well be the same top the young royal wore underneath his jumper for the Cambridges’ Clap for our Carers video in March - when many fans noticed similarities between the boys clothes.

granite city…………

Aberdeen is called the granite city. Everything is in Scotland and it’s very near to Balmoral Castle in case you didn’t know.If you’ve ever been there it’s just beautiful and yes I am biased it is beautiful. The buildings are all made of stone everything, everything is made of stone. Granite stone. One would think that would be rather austere and boring, but it’s not. Whoever designed all those buildings and put them together, they’re just standing just absolutely stunning! I went to attend a wedding, on one occasion,at King’s College at the chapel there. That was so beautiful in the wedding rehearsal I was part of the party, so we had to go a day before I think, for the rehearsal and that was totally new for me it was just I’ve never ever ever been in a church that old. The whole experience was amazing! If you’ve never been to a Scottish wedding and you get a chance, I highly recommend it. If you’ve never been to a cieliedh, pronounced kaylee, l highly recommend it! So Aberdeen is now on lockdown because of Covid. Just yesterday her Majesty flew there to get to the Balmoral Castle. Oh that’s frightening that’s frightening! If that had been the case yesterday when she arrived, she would’ve had a helicopter waiting right at the airport to take her right to Balmoral Castle she would not have had to be anywhere near this in the city in the airport isn’t really right in the city with the one that’s up on in and out of many times. my thoughts and prayers are with everyone there who’s been affected now.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Bridesmaid on Island😱😱………………

I just soooooo wish none of this would ever have happened. I wish none of us would have to be hearing this filth that’s 20 or 30or 40 years old oh yuck!DM…Bridesmaid for Princess Diana was guest on Epstein island: Clemmie Hambro who took two trips on paedophile’s private jet says ‘I was young, naive and lucky to escape’.Clemmie Hambro revealed as guest on JE’s private island.She also took two flights to Little St James on one of the paedophile’s jets.Travel logs were released as part of court proceedings for GM.Now married mother of four said she did not suffer or witness any abuse.

these BOOTS are made for walking …………

BOOTS has revealed plans to temporarily close 60 stores that have taken a hit due to coronavirus.The pharmacy chain says it’s made the decision due to a lack of footfall in some stores, particularly those in airports, train stations, and city centres. Pharmacists have been redeployed to busier nearby Boots shops.It has around 2,400 stores across the UK and says some local community pharmacies are seeing more than double the number of people requiring prescriptions.Boots adds that it’s looking to redeploy other staff but says some could be sent home.The Sun April.BBC More than 200 Boots stores across the UK could be closed by its American owners Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) in a bid to cut costs.The shops - which are in areas where Boots has more than one store - are under review for possible closure.It is understood the review will take place over the next 12 to 18 months.

Boots said it did not have “a major programme envisaged” but was always reviewing “underperforming stores and opportunities for consolidation”.“We are being realistic about the future and that we will need to be agile to adapt to the changing landscape,” it added.The chain has 2,485 stores across the UK, employing about 56,000 staff. So to use the clue, BOOTS has sent many people walking looking for new jobs and I’m sure they’re not singing the song ‘these boots are made for walking’while they’re trying to find a job in this in this current world situation.

five silent ……………

All this money being spent on court costs and she’s not even there. I find that so bizarre. What’s even worse is harass her flagrant lack of respect for the judicial system in the United Kingdom! The judge has been more than patient with her and more than kind. Reminds me of the Bard’s “more kin then kind”.ha ha Identities of five of Madam’s ‘friends’ who briefed People magazine about her relationship with her father will remain a secret ‘for the time being’, judge rules.Mr Justice Warby upholds application by Madam’s team that five friends’ identities should remain secret, FOR NOW!!! Women named as sources of People article in 2019 in legal papers submitted by Duchess to High Court. But their names were not made public and it is not clear whether any of them will be called as witnesses.Madam maintains she didn’t know any friends had spoken to People until after article was published.🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥 Well I maintain that I am the the fairest of them all with my magic mirror and I maintain that I have $1 billion right here in my bedroom and I maintain that I could fly even though I don’t have wings. She can maintain anything she wants to she can maintain that she can ride a donkey halfway across the desert. Those are all lies! Mr. Justice Warby is going to see through her, he’s already has done!

54 million!!!………

DM …. Land Rovers targeted in £54million rural theft spree as countryside crime rises to an eight-year high.Figures show thefts of the 4x4 rose by more than a third in the year to April 2020.2020 Rural Crime Report found tractors, quad bikes and live stock were targeted.Thefts likely to have been fuelled by overseas demand for farming equipment.Well this is what a world of people wasting their lives. There’s so much good to be done in the world and yet there’s just a continuous criminal activity. I suppose it’s always been there we just hear about it more now that we have global media 24 hours a day.

The pain in Spain…………

Second wave strikes Europe: Spain reintroduces lockdown, Greece sees a worrying rise in cases and virus is 'more active’ in Germany amid warnings France 'could lose control at any moment’.The head of Germany’s doctors’ union has said that the country is already in the midst of its second wave because people have flouted social distancing rules.France says it stands on precipice and 'could at any moment tip’ out of control.Two towns north of Madrid, Spain, have been put under strict lockdown.

Greece recorded 121 new cases Tuesday - the highest daily tally since April 22.Italy has quarantined two infected cruise ships at Civitavecchia port in Rome.

Epipen tragedy …………

Everybody and I mean everybody, who has a serious allergy to anything should have an EpiPen with them at all times. Their family members and their friends I don’t care what age should know the symptoms and they should know the exact way to use an EpiPen!

DM this is terrible. Schoolboy, 14, with severe dairy allergy died after eating popcorn while watching movie at Odeon Cinema with his parents - having left his life-saving EpiPen at home, inquest hears.Ruben Bousquet died after eating sweet popcorn while at an Odeon Cinema. Ruben was a promising player in the London Knightz ice hockey team.The boy, aged 14, was allergic to cow’s milk, raw egg and soya. Such a simple thing, but we all forget things right. My Sincerest condolences go out to his family and friends this is so very sad.

the Spitting Image …………

I just knew this was going to be in the riddle today! I just knew it when I read part of the article! Disclosure documents now accuse prince Andrew of using the puppet of himself that was used by the television show, Spitting Image, from years ago.Now accused of using that list with two women in sexual ways. In New York. If you do not know spitting image, just go to YouTube and Google it. It was a very much satire and they were they went hard hard mocking the royal family. All was just the puppets. It was just very exaggerated and that’s the skits they would do the things he would talk about or just absolutely over the top!DM…slightly altered by me. Prince Andrew in sunglasses as he emerges from Windsor after court documents claimed he used Spitting Image puppet of himself to grope Virginia Roberts and another woman at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York home.Duke of York is accused of using latex puppet of himself to grope the women.VRG made the claim in a manuscript a judge has ordered released.It states that Andrew groped Roberts and another woman in front of Epstein.Prince Andrew has always strenuously denied any allegations of wrongdoing.

is statue on my toe…………

OOPSIE! I ‘toed’ you not to take that picture🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂. Get it, bad pun ‘toed’= told. Sorry my bad humour.

A quick snap! Tourist accidentally breaks the toes off a 200-year-old sculpture at Italian museum while lying on it for a selfie.I tell you kids, people walk into water fountains, there’s taking selfies they walk into it a little pond they walk into traffic it’s just ridiculous! The tourist leaned on the ‘Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix’ artwork.He accidentally broke off three of the toes of the 200-year-old sculpture.Police say they have identified the man as a 50-year-old Austrian tourist. Well I will certainly hope he got the best selfie of all time. I wish him a speedy recovery. I shouldn’t joke about it, that wasn’t good. I hope he can recover and we can use of his toys in his foot.🙏🏻🙏🏻

Italian migrants!!!………

Is bad and difficult as things are in the UK people are still fleeing other countries to come there.DM Another 120 migrants on eight boats stream into Dover in a day as people smugglers urge hundreds to make Channel crossing now before Brexit 'closes the door’. This human trafficking business, I mean this is like an industry just ‘helping’people escape and then taking them to different places and then they charge an exorbitant amount of money to do that. That is human trafficking as well shuffling them from one place to another it’s just dreadful! Pictures show men wearing masks and lifejackets while arriving at Dover, Kent.Border Force sent out vessels Seeker and Hunter from Dover earlier this morning.Figures making perilous journey have spiked recently during favourable weather.So far this year, 3,510 migrants have crossed illegally, compared to 1,850 in 2019.

KP deepcleaned.

As usual MM Anon you leave me with one clue that doesn’t doesn’t cooperate for lack of a better word it doesn’t cooperate with me ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. This could refer her to carpet cleaning or washing the walls are doing a deep thorough clean. I am certain that that all will be down done it will be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before they arrive there.FULL STOP!!! NO DOUBT!!First thing that came to my mind when I read the phrase deep clean,it was security issues that must be with this family.My mind went right to looking for bugs are looking for things cameras planted or anything like that. They are currently at Anmer Hall. I’m sure they’re getting Kensington Palace ready for when they return to London. As the plan is that school will resume in the fall and I’ve heard or read nothing that George and Charlotte will not return to Battersea. Time will tell what happens there but it is the first week in August and the summer is coming to an end. And we can know that just by looking at Catherine’s she’s had some lovely highlight quite lovely. Reminiscent of the way her hair was last item when she in William George in Charlotte to school and Charlotte was her birthday and her hair was trending top worldwide. Oh I just love that! It must have just got Madam’s 🐐 goat!!I’m still laughing at that at that. I wish them all well good health and safety. I pray for them all every day.

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MM ANON …… Harry gossip………President Macwrong ………MM moving????…………… desertion of the theatre charity …………… Brexit&Coronavirus tanks economy ……… structural changes???? ……………… negative interest rates !!……………… pregnant migrant…………… mother hit by Flack…………… 50 million for duff masks😱😱…………………… Ireland hits 1.8………… elite athletes only!!

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Aug 6/20💜💜💜💜💜🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈Thank you MM ANON🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈💜💜💜💜💜

August 6/2020. Riddle #82

…… Harry gossip………

I posted this on my blog this morning and I don’t know I haven’t checked this evening but it sure got a lot of feedback. I am just furious about this this is this is the from the daily mail.

“Prince Harry’s biographer Angela Levin claims he’s become ‘a shadow of his former self’ after losing some of his ‘mischievous charm and royal stardust’ and only focusing on negativity. Prince Harry has become a 'shadow of his former self’, claims royal biographer.London-based Angela Levin made the remarks on ITV’s Royal Rota last Friday.Harry is currently living with Meghan Markle and their son Archie, one, in LA.” I’ll repeat what I said this morning this woman knows absolutely nothing about where Harry is, what he’s doing, how he’s feeling, what he is thinking, how he is coping, what his issues are etc. etc.! She has absolutely no inside information or any direct contact with him at all!! She has no business putting her nose into this. The only reason she is doing is to get some publicity for herself!Apparently she’s been in the past have made comments and then forced to retract them. She is a piece of work trying to get her slice of the Harry pie pardon the pun oh my..

President Macwrong ………

French president macron visited the disaster site today in Beirut. I’m gonna cry here in a minute, Lebanon is the former territory to France.In colonial times when France possessed other nations as other European countries did, France was a colonial power over Lebanon. So he has sent I believe I don’t know how many jetsPlanes full of aid food medicine anything to Lebanon. I read three here in this BBC article but there may be more by now. He walked the streets amongst the people and they were, I’m sorry I’m crying, they were pleading for help pleading pleading him for help help them help them!Truth be known their government is so corrupt it ineffective people are crying for a new government and I don’t think they have the option. Macron said what they need is a “new political order”. What does that sound like kids??? A member of the EU talking about a “new political order“. I’ll let you think on that for a minute. The balance of this paragraph is from the BBC.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron has called for “profound change” from Lebanon’s leadership following Tuesday’s huge explosion in Beirut.

Visiting the devastated city, he called for an international investigation.Many Lebanese say government corruption, neglect and mismanagement led to the explosion.It killed at least 137 people and injured about 5,000 others, while dozens are still missing. A two-week state of emergency has begun.Lebanese President Michel Aoun says it was caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a warehouse.The state news agency says 16 people have been taken into custody as part of the investigation.

Judge Fadi Akiki, a government representative at the military court, said more than 18 port and customs officials and maintenance workers at the warehouse had been questioned. What did Macron say?The first world leader to visit since the explosion, Mr Macron described it as a “metaphor for Lebanon’s current crisis” and said a “new political order” was needed. Funding was available for the country but its leaders had to implement reforms first, he said.

MM moving????……………

'Cooped up’ Meghan wants to leave her $18M sprawling mega-mansion to celebrate her August birthday - and will make guests get tested for Covid-19 beforehand.Madam wants to celebrate her birthday outside of Los Angeles, as she and Prince Harry are feeling 'cooped up’, .The friend explained Madam thinks a change of scenery would be nice and is eyeing up Montecito, outside of Santa Barbara, where friend Oprah. Madam said it will be low-key. She said she doesn’t want to come across as being careless and irresponsible. How anybody could feel cooped up in an $18 million mansion is beyond me but then she is beyond me she’s beyond all of us! Now this article Was put into the press before her birthday. And as we know she puts things into the press that are not real but things that she’s demanding or wanting from somebody. So she Wanted to celebrate her birthday because she was being kicked out of Tyler Perry’s mansion, if she ever was there,so she put out in the PR where she wants to go and she’s listed 0W she wants a quieter place simpler place .Yeah right yeah if you believe that again I still have that bridge in the Sahara desert I want to sell to you.

desertion of the theatre charity ……………

There’s an article in the paper today regarding the patronage of the national theatre which her Majesty the Queen so generously gave to Madam. We all know that the COVID-19 virus has affected many many things and it has all the decimated the theatre industry which was huge in England especially London. People travel from all over the world to attend the theatre on the West End that’s legendary and I told you before my sister used to make regular trips to go see usually three different plays or productions. The national theatre Society no association I think whatever the patronage that she was given is saying publicly now that they feel abandoned by her. They have gone public and that has to be absolutely has to be with the approval of her Majesty the Queen. That is pretty major for an Royal patronage organization to come out and criticize her like that. Is this the beginning of more of her patronages coming out and voicing the same opinion? Madam “has been attacked for what has been seen as abandoning her patronage to the National Theatre when she stepped down as a senior royal, especially because the theatre industry is struggling so much amid the coronavirus pandemic.16” Daily Express. For some reason and I do not know why the national express your daily express I can get to the homepage and I can read some articles but not all. And I know I read this one in the morning and now it won’t load for me completely so I’m going to put the link in here and I hope it works for you guys. And if anyone else knows why this is happening or how I can fix it would you let me know please I’ve tried shutting off my iPad cleaning my cookies and all that kind of stuff and nothing works. https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1319467/meghan-markle-news-prince-harry-national-theatre-patron-royal-family-duchess-sussex-spt

Brexit&Coronavirus tanks economy ………

Around the globe everybody is feeling the effects of the coronavirus but in the UK that is compounded by the issues surrounding Brexit. The Bank of England warns some parts of the economy might NEVER recover from coronavirus with a million jobs set to go this year as GDP plunges 9.5% - but the slump might only be the worst in a CENTURY rather than 300 years.The Bank of England has published its latest quarterly Monetary Policy report with views on the UK economy.It predicts that GDP will be down 9.5 per cent this year, lower than previously estimates of around 14 per cent.Unemployment rate could rise from 3.9 per cent to 7.4 per cent by the end of 2020 as a swathe of jobs go. This is actually a fantastic article if you’re into the graph into reading graphs and understanding what’s happening I’m going to put the link here because I’m a visual person and when I see a graph that makes it much more clear in my head than reading a bunch of flat statistics on a paper. So I’m just going to put the link here just for those of you who are interested. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8599039/Bank-England-says-unemployment-hit-7-4-cent-year.html. There will no extension of the Brexit transition period beyond December 31, 2020, meaning that the European Union and the UK will have to strike a deal in just six months to avoid Britain crashing out of the bloc without one.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed on Monday not to extend the transition, which currently preserves much of the UK-EU relationship from before the UK left in January.https://www.euronews.com/2020/06/15/brexit-boris-johnson-and-ursula-von-der-leyen-to-hold-high-level-talks-next-week

structural changes???? ………………

I knew what this was the moment I read the clue. COVID-19 is as lightly as some people are affected by it and it can be lethal as we have seen thousands and thousands of people die from it. But what they are learning now is that there are long-term effects and changes in the body that happened I read one lady her hair was falling out in clumps so she just ended up shaving her head. Other people their sense of smell and the taste since has not returned. Other people are having long-term effects on their lungs with fluid in their lungs. Even long after that they don’t have the virus present in their body. This is a little nasty piece of work, That this virus is. Hi I almost wonder I don’t know I almost wonder if it wasn’t a man-made thing and released by accident or on purpose. Because it seems to be really acting in a very aggressive way in a long term way. We are not even at the end of this yet we don’t even know when it will end. Right now it’s increasing in so many places however I’ll stop talking I’ll let the professionals do the explaining. There’s a very highly regarded in the medical community for lack of a better word magazine it’s called the Lancet. And they have published some information recently which I’ll share here. and if you don’t wear a face mask wash your hands and use hand sanitizer after reading this and learn and learning about this well then I will say no more. From The Lancet Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in COVID-19 Patients – An MRI-based 3-month Follow-up Study. Background Increasing evidence supported the possible neuro-invasion potential of SARS-CoV-2. However, no studies were conducted to explore the existence of the micro-structural changes in the central nervous system after infection. We aimed to identify the existence of potential brain micro-structural changes related to SARS-CoV-2. Findings

In this follow-up stage, neurological symptoms were presented in 55% COVID-19 patients. COVID-19 patients had statistically significantly higher bilateral gray matter volumes (GMV) in olfactory cortices, hippocampi, insulas, left Rolandic operculum, left Heschl’s gyrus and right cingulate gyrus and a general decline of MD, AD, RD accompanied with an increase of FA in white matter, especially AD in the right CR, EC and SFF, and MD in SFF compared with non-COVID-19 volunteers (corrected p value <0.05). Global GMV, GMVs in left Rolandic operculum, right cingulate, bilateral hippocampi, left Heschl’s gyrus, and Global MD of WM were found to correlate with memory loss (p value <0.05). GMVs in the right cingulate gyrus and left hippocampus were related to smell loss (p value <0.05). MD-GM score, global GMV, and GMV in right cingulate gyrus were correlated with LDH level (p value <0.05). Me😁. I realize that this is written for the medical community but you can get the gist of what they’re saying. Changes structural changes are happening because of this little viral monster. I pray so much that I don’t get it and no one I love does.

negative interest rates !!……………… The governor of the Bank of England has refused to rule out introducing negative interest rates in the UK. Andrew Bailey told MPs that his views have changed in the light of the coronavirus pandemic - the BoE is reassessing all its tools, as it tries to fight the worst downturn in centuries.Bailey was speaking shortly after the UK sold government debt at negative yield for the first time. Investors effectively paid for the chance to lend to Britain — perhaps partly because the BoE has pledged to buy the gilts under its stimulus programme. The pandemic is pushing inflation down across the globe. In the UK, the Consumer Price Index dropped to just 0.8% last month, down from 1.5% in April - with fuel and clothing prices dropping last month.Eurozone inflation fell to 0.3%, while in Canada the inflation rate turned negative for the first time since 2009.The WTO warned that world trade in goods has fallen dramatically this year, as the economy contracts.Despite this concern, global stock markets have risen today on hopes of economic recovery later this year. I am the last want to talk about finances and percentages and all that stuff that stuff is all over my head so I’ll just leave it here this is from the professionals it those of you who understand it I take my hat off to you and for those of you like me who don’t you can just scroll on by ha ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!

pregnant migrant……………

There are so many people, the world over, in such war torn poor countries that they’re willing to risk life and limb in fact they’re very own life so that they can get their children to a safe country. If you live in a in a first world country and I live in Canada I am so blessed and I thank God every day for how I am blessed.DM 😁A newborn baby, a heavily-pregnant woman and children are among 120 migrants to land in Kent today bringing total crossing the Channel in 2020 to DOUBLE the figure for last year.The group of around 16 refugees landed on Dungeness beach,Kent, at 8.30am.It comes just a day after 13 migrants were picked up yesterday morning in Kent.It means 3,643 migrants have made the life-risking Channel crossing this year. Me😁We have many people in Canada they have migrated here. Legally. But we’re starting to see more and more and more people smuggle or sneak across the border. The border between Canada and the United States is the longest unprotected border in the world we have many many official crossings but there’s miles and miles and miles or people can just find a way in. In fact back in the 1930s Al Capone used to to smuggle booze from a place I know very well and he had a place there where he would hide.In some border towns people are quite afraid. Some have started to leave clothes and shoes and blankets and nonperishable foods just outside their house or in the bushes or just to help these people. Canada has always been a welcome place to immigrants. Where I live we have thousands of immigrants thousands in our culture has been vastly expanded because of it. In fact, all I won’t have my personal stuff there but oh it’s it’s just been marvelous.

mother hit by Flack……………

This is such an exceedingly sad story when it happened and now that the inquest has been going on been reading about it day after day after day in the daily mail. I don’t believe her mother was actually physically hit by her I think she was emotionally hit by the suicide and by the charges that her daughter was facing. There was so much question about whether she should have been charged at all for domestic assault on her boyfriend and that was the last straw for her and she hung herself. She had so much going for her she was so famous and so beautiful so so beautiful. It’s just goes to show you if you don’t have your health and your mental health nothing else matters. For those of you who haven’t been following this or are not aware Caroline Flack was the host of the X factor in the UK and she also was on a show called love island. They’ve done a love island America I think it is basically they send all these couples on to an island and then they kind of vote each other off and it’s a reality show. I have never seen the show. Anyways she obviously had some mental health issues and there is some relationship issues thrown in there as well. And as anybody in a passionate relationship knows there’s good passion bad passion and I guess things got physical and she was just charged with assault assaulting her her boyfriend. Not long after that she hung her self. And the inquest is now going on I’m gonna put a little little bit from the bit from today’s paper in here. DM Caroline Flack star’s tearful mother blasts CPS for 'show trial’ - but inquest hears how POLICE pushed for tragic Love Island star to be charged over 'lamp attack’ on boyfriend.The 40-year-old, known for hosting Love Island, found hanged at her home in Stoke Newington on February 15.

The Presenter had been due to stand trial for assaulting her boyfriend, Lewis Burton, after police called to home.Today CPS said it had considered Flack’s mental health in its decision making but decided the risk was 'low’.Said prosecutors recommended a caution but police pushed for charge because of alleged domestic violence.

50 million for duff masks😱😱……………………

From new scientist.com Covid-19 news: NHS unable to use 50 million masks due to safety fears. The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the COVID-19 pandemic. Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 6 August

Safety issue means 50 million medical face masks won’t be used by NHS England workers50 million medical face masks purchased by the government in April won’t be used by NHS England due to safety concerns, according to legal papers seen by the BBC. The masks use ear-loop fastenings rather than loops that go around the head, so may not fit tightly enough. Alan Murray, chief executive of the British Safety Industry Federation told the BBC: “The face fit is either a pass or a fail and there are more fails on products with ear loops than there are on products with head harnesses.” The FFP2 respirator masks were bought as part of a £252 million contract from supplier Ayanda Capital. It isn’t clear what will happen to the masks. Now me 😁Well they should obviously be burned if they’re not safe to use. Why keep them around good gracious!. Kids do you ever feel like the monkeys are running the zoo sometimes these days? Because it sure does to me. So many things that are so basic and so bloody simple like making masks and making masks that are appropriate for medical use! I mean we’re not in the 1800s in the Civil War here I mean we are in the 21st-century! We have groundbreaking things,we have wireless everything and they cannot make bloody mask that are safe. Sorry I sound like Prince Philip, but I this is really upsetting to me as a former nurse oh my goodness! This shows you the modern value of hard work and what happens when when you Outsource things to China or some of these third world countries where they are not paid enough and they’re not given the proper working environment. I don’t know where these masks were made but I’m guessing whoever did them was not given the correct directions on what to do. Or whoever designed them did not design them properly which is quite frightening because you think that be a specialty somebody in graphic design or whatever that title would be called would know how to design a facemask that was proper for medical use! This is absolutely asinine! Madam if you’re reading this, you have to go and look in the dictionary for some of these words. I know they’re awful big words but you know, you can go on Mr. googly, actually if you go on Mr. googly and type in the word you will find out what it means. Ha we know Madam reads here we know she does! Mind she probably only reads things about herself.

Ireland hits 1.8…………

Evening Standard. Coronavirus R rate in Northern Ireland ‘could be as high as 1.8’Reported uptick in the R rate comes as Northern Ireland records 43 more coronavirus infections in the region. The regional government’s health department said on Thursday that the rate had risen from between 0.5 to 1 last week to between 0.8 and 1.8 this week.

R represents the number of individuals who, on average, will be infected by a person with the virus.A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said while community transmission remains low in Northern Ireland, the number of positive tests per day has increased three-fold from early July. Why happening to so many places around the globe? Why is it that the number of cases exploding in so many places? Is it just due to people becoming complacent and not complying with social distancing and handwashing in and hand sanitizer? Or is there something more sinister going on? Is this virus more than we even thought it was?

elite athletes only!!

Well isn’t that special? Only the best of the best will be allowed isn’t that special? The rest of you who usually run in the marathon, you really don’t matter but in the elite athletes who that is their job to train for running marathons, they will let them go ahead. They can do it and earn their money and let the sponsors and their money. Well I think it’s a good thing because maybe it’ll bring some money in for something.BBC London Marathon: 2020 edition to be elite-only race, with mass event cancelled. The 2020 London Marathon will involve only elite athletes, with 45,000 'mass-event’ runners unable to take part because of coronavirus concerns.The much-anticipated contest between Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge and Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele will take place on a bio-secure closed course.Reduced fields of 30-40 athletes will also compete for the elite women’s and wheelchair titles on 4 October.The 2021 race, meanwhile, will be on 3 October rather than a date in April.That calendar shift from the traditional date is designed to maximise the chances of all runners being able to take part in next year’s race.

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83. Aug 7

MM ANON …🎼O I do like to be BESIDE the seaside🎼…………Air India ………… 4000 crossing ………………4000 BA lost……………… the cost of lockdown 😱😱😱38.000 excess death …………… PRESS-ton…………… SM. a fire of hate…………… Palmerston quits🐱…………………A WOC veep…………nudist legs it……………… Catharine unbeatable!!

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August 7/2020. Riddle #83

🎼O I do like to be BESIDE the seaside🎼…………

The UK is experiencing unprecedented hot weather. It is called the Sahara Blowtorch or something like that.. Some places were to see 38°C today the weekend is supposed to continue very hot. Do you see the pictures of the people on the beach? Like they are crammed together like sardines in a can! No social distancing and I don’t think any of them were wearing a mask. Beside myself and many people are beside themselves that what the public is doing. The risk of spread the close quarters it’s just all so dangerous!DM ‘Have we forgotten social distancing?’ Critics accuse beach crowds of ‘undoing the hard work of lockdown’ during dash to the seaside on hottest August day in 17 years as staycation stampede leaves roads gridlocked.Temperatures hit 97.5F (36.4C) at Kew Gardens in West London at 4pm Friday and may soar further tomorrow.Heathrow matched Kew and the temperature makes it the hottest August day on record since 2003.Met Office issues level-three heat health alert warning Britons to look out for the elderly and young children.Councils fear tourists flocking to coasts will ignore social distancing rules and cram on to packed seafronts.😁Me. Listen, most of us in North America, we all have central air conditioning or window units or something like that. They don’t have that in the UK, nobody has air-conditioning there nobody that I know. And even on the West Coast in Canada they don’t have air-conditioning and when it gets so hot it’s unbearable. Oh I feel for them oh my my my my life. All those people at the beach are going to be so sunburned and there’s going to be people with heat stroke. When I just looked at the paper now everybody’s in the bars because the bars are open. So they will be drunk and back on the beach tomorrow and repeat the whole thing over again. Why don’t you just shut the bars down I don’t get it?

Air India …………

There is a most horrific air crash this morning in India. DM… At least 17 dead, including both pilots, and 123 injured as Air India flight from Dubai with 191 people onboard splits in two as it crash-lands on runway in Kerala.The Air India flight left from Dubai and overshot the runway in Calicut, Kerala.The pilot is among fourteen people who were killed in the crash earlier today.Images on social media show aircraft torn in two with people gathered around.Police reports say two pilots and 13 other individuals were killed in the disaster.Another 123 people were injured in the crash with 191 passengers onboard.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

4000 crossing ………………

The migrant crisis is increasing and increasing. Today there was a,oh my don’t know what motor way it was, but there is a long queue the police have stopped a lorry and the driver remember where he was from but he had the whole back of the Lorry loaded with people that he was trafficking. Oh I hate that human trafficking!These people that are crossing the channel in these rubber boats there risking their lives their children’s lives and their unborn children’s lives because the home they know it’s so terrible that the unknown no matter what the baby is a better safer option to them. Now those of us in the lap of luxury in first world countries just just take a minute to sinking what a mistake for a pregnant woman and her little children it’s just it’s it’s just heartbreaking. Heartbreaking. DM….

FOUR THOUSAND migrants have crossed the channel this year: Toddlers and a baby in a gym bag are among at least 130 migrants landing in UK today on 13 boats as ministers threaten to send in the Navy to turn back the ‘tide’.Nearly 4,000 migrants made the crossing in boats in the first 219 days of 2020.Up to 235 migrants crossed the channel on Thursday, the highest ever daily total.One group had 12 men in their 20s intercepted by Border Force Friday morning.Home Secretary’s spokesman said the 'fantastic weather’ was behind the surge.

4000 BA lost………………

British Airways is sinking and they’ve been in tight agreements with their cabin staff. And I heard a woman speaking on the BBC this morning and she was saying she’s been with BA for 25 years and does not want to leave however she took redundancy because what they would be having would be just untenable. First of all menu will be losing their jobs so thousands have already taken redundancy to just avoid that. But those that remain that are given a job their salaries their take-home pay will be reduced by 40 to 50%. Kids just graspthat the same work the same stress but have to pay wow!BBC Some British Airways staff who have accepted voluntary redundancy say they had felt “forced” into it.BA wants to cut 12,000 job roles and says 6,000 staff have volunteered.Carol - not her real name - said BA had told her if she did not accept the offer of voluntary redundancy she would have to apply for a job and if she did not get it she would only receive a statutory redundancy payout.She says the airline’s conduct was “a slap in the face”.Carol, who had worked for BA for 23 years, told the BBC: “They [BA] said 'If you don’t take the offer, you’ll go into the fire-and-rehire phase’, but if we aren’t hired, we’ll get only statutory redundancy.”

Those BA cabin crew who did reapply for their jobs on a new contract are expected to find out later on Friday whether or not they lose their jobs.Carol, who worked on the long-haul fleet, said it was a foregone conclusion that the airline would not re-hire older cabin crew members.“Even before I had accepted the voluntary redundancy offer, I had a message on my roster from BA: 'Thank you for your service. Good luck’. That is all I got from them after 23 years.“It’s a slap in the face, but it shows they knew who they were getting rid of,” she said. She says she will be forced to sell her home since her redundancy payment won’t cover her mortgage.

“It’s actually age discrimination, we were forced out

the cost of lockdown 😱😱😱 38.000 excess death ……………

There’s been a lot of people talking about this and I know a lot of these clues because l have been paying attention to these things. During the lockdown and the whole Covid thing that never ends there have been many many many people that have died not of Covid. People that I’ve had a heart attacks people that have had cancer people that have not gone to emergency because of Covid they didn’t want to go. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people have died. I dare say some of those may be domestic violence related although I don’t have the stats to prove that. And I also do think with the tremendous loss of income and loss of job there may be well some suicides in there I have no doubt of that.DM….The full health cost of lockdown: Doctors warn of a devastating toll on non-virus patients who still face delays in diagnosis and care.Cancer, stroke, diabetes and heart condition patients among the worst affected.Doctors still face delays when referring patients for cancer or cardiology tests.Coronavirus deaths have now fallen to their lowest level since before lockdown.

PRESS-ton……………

Coronavirus: Stricter measures introduced in Preston. Lockdown measures are being reintroduced in Preston from midnight after a rise in Covid-19 cases.Residents in the Lancashire city are facing stricter restrictions, which include banning separate households from meeting each other at home.The council had already asked residents to follow extra precautions in a bid to halt the spread of the virus.The move brings Preston in line with measures in east Lancashire, Greater Manchester and parts of west Yorkshire.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed the restrictions in these areas would remain in place “as the data does not yet show a decrease in the transmission of this terrible virus”.

Any changes to the measures will be announced by 14 August following a review next week, he added.He said the decision to extend the restrictions to Preston was “at the request of the local area”.Almost half of the cases reported in Preston were among people aged 30 and younger, Lancashire’s director of public health, Dr Sakthi Karunanithi, said.As Preston has been designated an “area of intervention” by the government, the city will be able to access additional support to tackle the spread of coronavirus.BBC

SM. a fire of hate……………

No one has to be very careful in this situation. Unless I see him, Prince Harry, standing next to William and Catherine actually saying these words publicly before reporters I believe nothing. Madam is hard at work with her PR hard at work and she’s the one stoking anything if they’re stoking being done. DM…..Prince Harry says social media is stoking a 'crisis of hate’ as he reveals he and Madam have been calling business leaders for the last month to ask them to stop funding the sites in column for US business magazine.ME yeah right she’s she’s the one that’s been calling business is desperate for a job and putting out PR that she wants $200,000 from somebody. OK back to the DM….In an opinion piece for U.S. business magazine Fast Company, Prince Harry said that social media, in its current state, is ‘unwell’ and in desperate need of fixing.The former senior royal said he and madam , have spent the past few weeks working with business leaders to enact positive change. The Duke of Sussex called for online communities to be 'defined more by compassion than hate; by truth instead of misinformation’.Harry said he and Madam started their social media reform campaign at the same time as the launch of the Stop Hate for Profit movement in June. Me. OK kids you know that saying take a take things with a grain of salt? Will take this with 10 pounds of salt! She knows that she is in quicksand and that she is sinking. She is desperate and she is trying anything and everything to get whatever she thinks that she needs or wants. Even if it’s just her picture in the paper she’s just happy about that. I can hardly wait Skippy till your page turns emerald green I can hardly wait!!!!

Palmerston quits🐱…………………

I knew this was gonna be here I knew it I knew it I knew it I knew it I knew it when I sought on the news I knew it was gonna be here!! It is the cutest black and white cat he’s been on duty in the secretary of defence office for years. And he’s been meeting and greeting everybody that comes in and out of that office. But a memo with the circulated yesterday that Palmer’s den was going to retire and live in the country and accompanying this memo was a picture of Palmerston next to a tree and it said it was him by his favourite tree. We wish him all of very happy retirement! I knew this was gonna be in the riddle I knew it new it I knew it I knew it I knew it I knew it!I’m going to put his picture in here but it like always it won’t be right here when it gets posted they’ll be a big blank space but the picture will be at the very top of the interpretation but you have to see this cute little guy oh my goodness I’m gonna give you some less emotional comments from the BBC I just knew this was going to be in the riddle I’m so excited.. BBC Foreign Office cat Palmerston retires to countryside. Palmerston, the Foreign Office’s resident cat, has retired from mousing duties to “spend more time relaxing away from the limelight”.In a “letter”, he says he has moved away from Whitehall and is now climbing trees rather than “overhearing all the foreign dignitaries’ conversations”.The black-and-white rescue cat, who has more than 105,000 Twitter followers, arrived from Battersea in 2016.He has been known to clash with Larry, Number 10’s main mouse-catcher.Their decidedly undiplomatic disputes - which have included several hissy fits and a stand-off in full view of the press in Downing Street - are not thought to have hastened his departure.

A WOC veep…………

Well they said today on the news that Joe Biden has his choice narrowed down to two women earlier in the week it was for but now it’s two women and I think it’s either Kamala Harris or Susan Rice I believe was her name. Either way he will be picking a woman of colour for vice president that’s a given! And if one were so inclined to have that party win the election that would be fantastic fantastic achievement to have a woman of colour in the vice presidents chair. Oh for those of you who don’t know veep veep is a slang word for vice president is also a cheesy show on HBO or one of those one of those channels you got a pay an arm and a leg for.

nudist legs it………………

In Ukraine today there was a man stark naked blocking traffic. I don’t know what his problem was or what his issue was. It was solved rather quickly though when I guy got out of his car and he was a big guy he took his fist and he clocked him and he knocked him cold out and got back in his car and drove away. You can see the video look on the daily mail. Or this from the DM….

The bare cheek of it! Naked man is forced to chase a wild boar after it snatched his laptop at a naturist hotspot in Germany.The unnamed man had been sunbathing at Teufelssee, a lake west of Berlin.Tenacious wild boar snatched a yellow bag which contained the man’s laptop.He chased after the boar as dozens of bemused families watched the pursuit.

Catharine unbeatable!!

The Duchess of Cambridge remains the biggest royal influencer: The Duchess of Cambridge’s 'premium’ lockdown looks have proved more popular than Madam’s 'relaxed style’ - and are THREE times more likely to sell out. She overtook Madam as biggest royal influencer in March.Research shows she has maintained title throughout the coronavirus lockdown.

The Duchess of Cambridge’s looks three times more likely to sell out than Madam’s.Favourite look of hers was Blue floral wrap midi dress by Boden for Zoom call. She opted for dresses, Madam went for a more relaxed, down-to-earth look ( filthy, ratty, messy, wrinkled, ill fitting..shall l go on?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂)Catherine’s 16 outfits cost a total of £6,305 while Madam’s six ensembles cost £1,105. Yes because she hasn’t done anything as a royal! Catherine says she’s 'in awe’ of frontline staff as she and Prince William pledge £1.8 million from their charity to support emergency workers and mental health amid the coronavirus pandemic. Catherine and William have pledged £1.8 million to support frontline workers after crisis.The grants have been made to ten leading charities at the heart of mental health and frontline support.

Earlier this week, the Duke and Duchess spoke to representatives from organisations to benefit from the fund. She said she has been 'in awe’ of workers, but 'knows pandemic will have a lasting impact on mental health’.

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84. Aug 10

MM ANON … Bela-rouse……… 🎼roaming in the 🎼gloamin:………………Simple Simon…………Spill…………Karen ain’t a happy embryo …………”erotic podcast??? ………… sheepish microdot. …………… muggy, tuegy,Wegy ………red bullish………… beach barney……………… education not saturation ……………… getting ready for school Charlotte?????

Aug 9/20

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August 10/2020. Riddle #84

I’m sorry it’s a day late.💜😊💜

I am so so sorry that there’s two clues here that I just cannot solve to my satisfaction. I truly am sorry I have researched for a couple hours now I just can’t I just can’t figure them out. I apologize for letting you all down but I really have done my best.💜💜💜💜💜PG💜💜💜💜💜

Bela-rouse………

Just to give you a little history of the country, Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.It is bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

The people of Belarus are very angry. That’s exactly what the word rouse means. Protesters clashed with riot police as ‘Europe’s last dictator’ secures another landslide in Belarus despite fury over his dismissal of Covid-19 as ‘psychosis’. Clashes came after President Alexander Lukashenko’s landslide victory.Lukashenko, 65, has held office since 1994 and dismissed Covid as ‘psychosis’.Outraged opposition supporters came out in their thousands to demonstrate in disbelief that the repressive strongman had secured 79.7 per cent of the vote. Many hours after that, one lone protester faced off against an army of armoured vehicles in Belarus. 3,000 were arrested and one killed in clashes over ‘rigged’ re-election of Europe’s last dictator Alexander Lukanhesko.Scene emerged amid clashes over apparent re-election of President Lukanhesko.He’s known as Europe’s 'last dictator’ as Belarusian police detained 3,000 people.Election officials said he won his 6th consecutive term with over 80% of the 🗳 vote. Those of us who live in countries where you actually can vote freely are so blessed! So many countries that purport to have “fair elections“ but in fact or actually dictatorships or autocracies. My heart goes out to these people. Long protester remind me back call me what was the year in red Square where the tank drove over that one brave I don’t know if it was a man or woman that was protesting that gave their life for it.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻What are the people of Belarus.DM and me.

🎼roaming in the 🎼gloamin:………………

There was a movie maybe 20 years ago called, in the gloaming, did anybody see that? I did not, however the definition of gloaming will tell you something. I will share it with you. A poetic word for “twilight,” or the time of day immediately after the sun sets, is gloaming. This is a word with a strong Scottish heritage, adopted from Scottish dialect during the Middle Ages and rooted in the Old English word for “twilight,” glōm.WIKI Yesterday we saw some lovely pictures of Her Majesty. She was out for a lovely walk amongst the grounds of Balmoral. There was a woman with her at a safe distance and the paper I read didn’t identify who that was. But they looked like they were just having a lovely time enjoying being outdoors. Prince Edward and Sophie and their children arrived, so I imagine they probably had 🧺 with them as well. so as they say they were out for a good long walk, that clears your lungs, spending time together outside which is what they all love doing!! It is also something they can do safely in this time of COVID-19. In Scotland you would call that roaming in the gloaming!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢��󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Definition wiki, the rest me.

Simple Simon

Simon Cowell is one lucky man! He could have been paralyzed or worse in this accident!‘The impact missed his spinal cord by a centimetre’: Simon Cowell 'could have been PARALYSED’ when he fell from his electric bike… as star recovers from six-hour surgery on his broken back.The 60-year-old was rushed to hospital on Saturday when he fell from his new electric bicycle whilst taking it for a test drive at his house in Malibu.He had surgery after breaking his back in a number of places and is recovering well from the six-hour long operation which saw a metal rod placed in his back.A source later revealed that doctors told Simon his injury could 'have been a lot, lot more serious’ and 'the impact missed his spinal cord by about a centimetre’.Speaking on Sunday, a family friend told MailOnline that Simon is 'doing well’ now but was in ‘shock and massive amounts of pain’ after the accident.The music mogul's girlfriend Lauren Silverman, 43 - with whom he shares son Eric, 6 - was spotted riding her own bike on Saturday.Simon was at his Malibu home with Lauren and their six-year-old son Eric when the accident happened. The father-of-one is due to return to America’s Got Talent next week, with the first live show set to air on Tuesday August 11.Simon’s other hit show Britain’s Got Talent is due to film in the autumn, with the mogul scheduled to be in the UK for the live final in October. He was previously hospitalised in October 2017 after falling down the stairs at his London home - prompting him to embark on a healthier lifestyle.'Back on his feet in three weeks’: Simon Cowell’s new 'family-friendly’ lifestyle and four-stone weight loss could mean he’ll recover faster from e-bike fall that’s left him with metal rod in his back after he missed breaking his spine 'by just 1cm!! DM and me.

Spill…………

Mystery as devastating chemical spill kills tens of thousands of fish along stretch of pristine river in rural Wales leaving trout gasping for air amid sea of toxic foam. Mother-of-three witnesses a river pollution spill so toxic it wiped out all the fish.Emily Tilling, 47, walks her dogs along the shady banks of the River Llynfi, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales. Ms Tiling says the event 'was like something out from [TV drama] Chernobyl’.As Emily Tilling walks her dogs along the shady banks of the River Llynfi, her eye will often be caught by the splash of a leaping wild brown trout or the iridescent flash of a kingfisher.But during an evening stroll last weekend, she witnessed an ecological catastrophe that has almost completely destroyed the wildlife at the river in mid-Wales.Amid putrid foam and an overwhelming stench of chemicals, trout flailed around in the shallows gasping for air as desperate crayfish attempted to scrabble out of the water. DM and me.

Karen ain’t a happy embryo …………

Something I just heard recently and I do not know if you kids are aware of it. I read online somewhere and am actually quite confused. Apparently some people of other races, call all women who are white, Karen, as an insulting him term. I do not know how that came about.BBC Until last week, if you had asked the BBC to nominate the most reviled species on the planet, the answer would have been obvious: middle-aged white men, of course, the necrotic heart of the evil patriarchy (so long, Andrew Neil et al).But not any more, it seems. For Auntie has a new enemy in her sights: Karen.A Karen, in case you didn’t know, is a term used on social media to denote a middle-aged woman who is unaware of her ‘white privilege’. Yeah I know as of the fancy baby shower in New York City the baby ha ha whatever it was supposed to be a girl. The royal family swept out away from her and turned around it was a boy. So I can I can’t find I don’t know what this clue is meaning beyond that I just don’t and I’ve looked and looked and looked I don’t know and I’m frustrated!💜💜💜💜 usually every riddle has at least one clue that drives me batty and then in the end I get it but this riddle has to. I researched and looked and read high and low. I just cannot solve this clue. I feel upset about this. Extremely frustrated! And worst of all I’m so sorry to disappoint you all. I just don’t know where to go from here I just don’t know.💜💜💜💜💜💜

“erotic podcast??? …………

Demi Moore stars in scripted podcast Dirty Diana that focuses on couple trying to reconnect amid their failing marriage.

Demi Moore stars and is the executive producer of a new scripted podcast series called Dirty Diana.The new audio drama circles around a couple that face a dying marriage as they lose touch with their intimacy.Demi stars alongside Claes Bang, as two partners who try to work on their marriage and intimacy, as heard in the first trailer that dropped via People. Dirty Diana begins on Monday, July 13 via podcast; it is a six part fictional series from QCODE. The podcast also focuses on female erotica, with the trailer starting with a woman being heard telling Demi’s character that she wants to pleasure herself. But why do they have use the name Diana? there’s a part of me that wonders if this isn’t a potential revenue earnest for Madam? How do people find these podcasts? How do people find all this porn and garbage that’s on the Internet? I don’t understand I wouldn’t have a clue where to begin to look to find anything anything remotely like this never mind if you don’t even know the title of it or if it even existed? Oh my stars! Demi Moore have you no shame? Have you no shame? Obviously she doesn’t! One would think she would be a multi multi millionnaire after all the movies she has made. But she is start to get old, according to Hollywood standard,and she wants to stay relevant. So what is the best, easiest revenue earner? Selling your body disgusting! she has adult children and probably grandchildren too! I have no no doubt that if Madam thought she could earn money doing this, oh you bet, in a heartbeat she would be in there like a fish in water! Pardon the pun she’s used to doing this kind of stuff around water Ha Hah Hah Hah Hah Hah Hah Hah Hah Hah Hah Hah Hah🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂. I want to get that only because of her but the whole issue was very serious and very shady!DM and me.

sheepish microdot. ……………

Let’s start with the definition of microdots. A microdot is text or an image substantially reduced in size to prevent detection by unintended recipients. Microdots are normally circular and around one millimetre in diameter but can be made into different shapes and sizes and made from various materials such as polyester or metal. The name comes from the fact that the microdots have often been about the size and shape of a typographical dot, such as a period or the tittle of a lowercase i or j. Microdots are, fundamentally, a steganographicapproach to message protection. Bear with me now let’s find the definition of sheepish.adjective (of a person or expression) showing embarrassment from shame or a lack of self-confidence. So somebody sent something via microdot that they are ashamed of or embarrassed by. This is another clue I’ve looked and looked and stretch my brain I I cannot figure out what this means! It’s usually one clue that really drives me batty but eventually I can Kinda sorta get some thing but this one there’s two honestly I’ve looked at looked and read and searched and every permutation I I just cannot find what your meaning by this MM Anon.💜💜💜💜 I am so so so so sorry I just cannot solve this clue! I really apologize for letting you guys down I am quite upset about this. Forgive me.💜💜💜💜

muggy, tuegy,Wegy ………

One thing I find so but funny about the UK is that everything has to have a slang term or almost every word has to be twisted and said in a funny way. I do not know why that is but I just find that so funny.😊😊😊This reminds me of a child learning to speak the days of the week. How does my head go, I wonder if these are the days when little Louis will be going to preschool, and he is learning to say the names of the days of the week. That is just a thought I’ll I get back to this. This has nothing to do with school it has all to do with the weather. Due to the Sahara Blowtorch, as it was called,the UK was subjected to unprecedented heat over the actually, the whole weekend Friday Saturday and Sunday. As the front is passing, coming behind it is muggy weather. Muggy is where the air is very sticky and the humidity is very high. What is going to be happening today is you will be feeling the muggy weather but then the rain is coming and it is going to be torrential ☔️rain. So we have Monday will be Muggy, Tuesday will be sort of humid and some rain, hence Tuegy. Wednesday will be Wegy, lots and lots of rain, possibly even torrential amounts of rain! Me and weather knowledge.

red bullish…………

A leaked 'racist’ map of the world 'according to Americans’ shown at Red Bull conference that led to the firing of three execs who called for company to make a statement in support of BLM.Three Red Bull execs have lost their jobs in a row over a leaked map of the world that was shown at meeting.Florian Klaass was global head of music, entertainment, and culture marketing at the energy drink giant.In February he made a presentation in Detroit with an offensive map of the world that he was advised not to.North America CEO Stefan Kozak, chief marketing officer Amy Taylor also let go after lobbying for BLM suport.The pair were fired after being vocal about attempts to make Red Bull inclusive in wake of BLM protests.DM

beach barney………………

It’s heartbreak after their son, 17, died in a horror car crash - as police continue investigation into what caused P-plate driver to veer into a fence.Family of young man tragically killed in horror smash pay tribute to 'adored’ teen.Barney Wakes-Miller, 17, died when the vehicle his mate was driving crashed.There were six young people travelling in an overloaded Holden Commodore.NSW Police say no arrests or changes have been made but inquiries are ongoing.Tributes have poured in for an 'adored’ teenager who was tragically killed in a horror car crash on Sydney’s northern beaches.Barney Wakes-Miller, 17, died when the vehicle his mate was driving came off the road and slammed into a sandstone and wrought iron fence at Elanora Heights on Saturday at about 11.20pm.Family of the young man said he was their 'rainbow’ and a 'real treasure’ in their lives.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻for all his family and friends. DM and me.

education not saturation ………………

(Early) Signs of (Modest) Online Saturation

Does a small decline in the share of all academic programs that are delivered at a distance suggest that online has peaked?

Bold pronouncements about trends in the fast-moving, and somewhat data-poor, landscape of online learning should be approached with great skepticism.What it is is a high-level view of some data in an analysis published by Public Insight, which collects and makes available public data in accessible formats. The blog post by the company’s CEO, Dan Quigg, carried the provocative title of “Has Distance Education Hit Its Peak?” – a question inspired by federal data showing that the proportion of all academic programs that were offered via distance education.It was the first such decline since the federal government’s main higher education database, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, began collecting data on online education in 2013.”It appears that the original lure of distance education seems to have worn off somewhat and whatever works, works well,“ Quigg wrote. “Whatever is not working is being phased out."Quigg admits he is no expert on online education, and that his analysis is at a surface level, prompted by one data point surfaced from among the millions his company processes.

But the assertion sparked our curiosity here at "Inside Digital Learning,” especially in the face of other federal data showing that online enrollments continue to grow. So we did a bit more analysis on the data Quigg produced and asked a couple of people better versed in online education for their takes on the question. Now this research article appeal applies to higher learning, but I think we can extrapolate that down to our school-age children and their learning experience. So does this mean all the online education being thrown out to children via digital means, while at home due to Covid, and all the various assignments etc. are not equivalent to an in person learning? Of course there are not! They miss the whole atmosphere, the milieu, the whole being with your peers and interacting learning social skills. A school milieu enables learning from other people, learning from your peers, learning from different teachers who have different ways of speaking. It also teaches structure and how one spends their days.There are all these basic life skills that children need in order to function later in life.Just learning in the whole environment! Not being in your home environment, where they are used to playing, having fun, and time with your family. It is dramatically different thing. So the saturation, was just throwing all this data at the children they cannot possibly learn in the same way. I’m not a statistician. I’m not a researcher, but I do have common sense. And it’s just if you’re not in the milieu at school there’s so many non-verbal and experiential things that you are missing experiences and learning from them. I found this article and thought it was very applicable to the clue. I’m not sure, MM Anon if you were talking about rain and weather and all that but I just thought this was very applicable. This is something that’s everybody is wrestling with, whether you have children or not. I just feel for parents. I feel for the children. I feel for the teachers. It is just such a different world isn’t it? There used to be a phrase we really used a lot at work, when a patient had would be admitted and they would have all this information thrown at them, hospital policy, their diagnosis, new medications lots of teaching. It was called sensory overload! That means so much coming at you that your brain is overloaded. Your brain cannot process any of it because it is just too much information coming at you at once. I think that is what is happening to many children. Insidehighered.com

getting ready for school Charlotte?????

It is a very small world in the aristocratic circles of London. Princess Charlotte’s teacher married her godfather isn’t that something! The Cambridges, said back in June I believe it was, that she would not return to school unless George was in school. Now with Covid and things going up and down and up more on the up and down, I am not sure what they are going to do. I wonder if they know what they are going to do. I personally, I do not have children, but if I did have children and two of them are in very high line of succession to the throne, I would keep them at home and school them at home. But that is just my opinion. I think that is what all the?’s are about . Should they shouldn’t they should, they shouldn’t they, they are weighing the options the pros and cons. I guess until the time comes we will not know. But I do pray for them and I pray for their health and I pray that they make the right decision. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Me.

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85. Aug 14

MM ANON ……… “ we have 4 hours to get a ring of garlic “ ……… I dispute my results ……… poor maintenance!! ………… first responders warm to Charles …… 7 million mortgage 🤣🤣🤣…………… £3000 !!!…………” I shan’t be buying any Tuna on rye” ………… staycation on the up…………” it arrived in a crate!!!!” …………… algorithm and blues…………” not eligible to serve”.

Aug 14/20

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Riddle #85. August 14/2020

THESE ARE HARD EXTREMELY OBSCURE CLUES😁🥺🥺😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩OBSCURITY HAS MET WITH TENACITY AKAPG ME!! TODAY MM ANON!!!! I SAY, CHECK MATE😁😁😁😁😁

“ we have 4 hours to get a ring of garlic “ ………

What the heck is a ring of garlic? Here it’s called a head of garlic. Who wants a ring made of garlic? I don’t understand this clue at all! I think I’ve lost my mojo because I just makes absolutely no sense to me. OK I have searched, now a ring of garlic is not actually a ring nor is it garlic, it is oh thing of sausage a great big long whatever you call it in the in the tube I guess I don’t know if it’s in the casing that’s what it’s called casing casing. Why do you only have four hours to buy meat? I know this is not it but it is awfully gross. A disgusting video shows the moment a mother cuts into her sausages and finds a ‘rubber glove’ inside.Shona Barton, from Sandy, Bedfordshire, was horrified to discover the foreign object inside the £3 Jolly Hog sausages, which she purchased from a Sainsbury’s store.

The 37-year-old sat down to dinner on July 27 with husband Jamie, 37, and their daughter Ellie, 6, before she made the grim discovery.DM. Well this must have something to do with the closing of travel ban I don’t know but you certainly could be able to buy garlic sausages in the UK. I don’t understand this clue it just makes no sense to me.

Is Nicola Sturgeon running Britain? Scottish First Minister causes holiday chaos for thousands by demanding France is put on quarantine list by 4am tomorrow rather than Sunday amid fears GREECE will be next.The UK Government has placed quarantine on arrivals from France, the rules set to come in at 4am Saturday.It has triggered scramble among hundreds of thousands of Britons in France as they try and rush home today.

Many are desperately trying to return home today to avoid having to quarantine for 14 days from tomorrow.Demand for the Eurostar has soared, while a BA flight from Paris to London has increased from £66 to £452.There are fears Greece could be the next country added to the infection list after a spike in its daily cases. I RESEARCHED GARLIC AND RYE ENDLESSLY! This closure must affect wherever this fancy meat comes from in the EU. DM

I dispute my results ………

The UK’s under-fire education secretary Gavin Williamson has said that the government would cover the appeal costs to ensure that head teachers are not put off from making appeals by the cost. The government is facing a storm after nearly 40 per cent of results were downgraded by the computer model deployed when exams had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis. Around the same proportion of GCSEs as A-levels are expected to be downgraded when results come out next week. Meanwhile, students face being forced to take a gap year after Oxford, Cambridge and other universities said they may not have room for them – even if they successfully challenge their A-level grades. Lucy Lipfriend missed out on a place at Cambridge University after her grades were downgraded, which she thinks could be due to her poor performance in A-level exams last year - which she took when her mother Tina had been diagnosed with breast cancer - being taken into account. Bottom: Students protest outside Whitehall

poor maintenance!! …………

KINSHASA, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A plane carrying four passengers crashed late on Thursday in dense forest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said.

The plane, thought to be one of two small cargo planes owned by Agefreco, went down during a flight from Kalima in Maniema province to Bukavu in South Kivu province, said Theo Kasi, governor of South Kivu.”The investigation will determine the cause of the accident. I share the pain with the grieving families and offer my deepest condolences,” Kasi said on Twitter. The wreckage has not been located, but the suspected crash zone is a vast dense forest, said Desiree Kyakwima, a spokesperson for South Kivu administration.”The airport services who informed the governor of the crash told him that, while trying to locate the wreckage of the plane, there is no chance of finding any survivors,” Kyakwima said.Air accidents are relatively common in Congo because of lax safety standards and poor maintenance. All Congolese commercial carriers are banned from operating in the European Union. (Reporting by Stanis Bujakera and Fiston Maham Editing by Gareth Jones).

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13th August

Housing group under fire over ‘poor’ maintenance of open spaces in Castle Mead. CAMPAIGNERS on the Castle Mead estate in Trowbridge say housing provider GreenSquare’s maintenance of open spaces is not up to scratch.

They say litter is not picked up and grassy areas are not weeded.

Wendy Evans said: “We just want a fair deal. I fully support Castle Mead residents’ objections as we too understand the frustration of being denied a fair go.

“We, too, have become increasingly aware that work done is at a bare minimum, leaving many disgruntled by the shabbiness of the central garden and surrounds. “The lawn is cut regularly during the summer, however litter pickup, weeding and plant management is virtually absent.”The 67-year-old says 79 residents in the Union Street area are collectively paying £12,000 a year in fees for a poor service.

first responders warm to Charles ……

Prince Charles Thanks First Responders at the Site of a Deadly Train Crash in Scotland

Queen Elizabeth said in a message of condolence, “Our thanks go out to the Emergency Services for their response and dedication”Prince Charles paid tribute to those who died and showed his support for the emergency services who rushed to a tragic train crash in Scotland this week.The 71-year-old royal headed to Stonehaven early Friday to visit the site of the train derailment and speak with first responders who aided the injured and helped at the scene on Wednesday.The 06:38 Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Street ScotRail train service derailed in the area of north eastern Scotland, and local transport police have confirmed that three people died, including the ScotRail driver and conductor. Several other people were injured and taken to hospital. Charles arrived just after 11 a.m. local time and surveyed the scene from high up on a bank. He then chatted to some of the emergency crews who have been on site following the crash.It’s believed that the derailment was caused by a landslip following heavy rain, the BBC reported. On Wednesday evening, Queen Elizabeth sent a message of condolence to the Lord-Lieutenant of Kincardineshire expressing her “great sadness.”“The Duke of Edinburgh, and the entire Royal Family, join me in sending our thoughts and prayers to the families of those who have died and those who have been injured,” she wrote. “Our thanks go out to the Emergency Services for their response and dedication.“People.com

7 million mortgage 🤣🤣🤣……………The Sun

Prince Harry( nope she is lying!!) and SEAHAG are believed to have taken out a massive £7.25m mortgage on their lavish nine bedroom, 16 bathroom estate - which they are calling their "sanctuary”.The couple reportedly moved into the luxurious £11.1 million mansion which boasts a pool, theatre, arcade and guest house in Montecito, California, back in July. Pictures from a previous listing of the huge 14,563 square foot property on five acres of land show it appears to have a stripper pole installed in its gym.🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥It is not known if the quirky feature has since been removed. The huge pad also has its own kids playground.🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥Despite the hefty price tag, it looks like the couple got themselves a bargain as the estate is actually valued at a whopping £20m ($27m).

Deeds, obtained by The Sun, show the buyers for the property took out a £7.25m ($9.5m) mortgage to be paid back plus interest by the year 2050 - indicating they put down a deposit of £3.8m ($5m).They will also have to pay a whopping yearly property tax of £220,000.The records show the property was bought by a mysterious company called the Residential Real Estate Trust.🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥While there are no names listed for the mysterious trust, it matches that of a previous LLC set up by Meghan called Frim Fram Inc.A source close to SEAHAG and NOT!! Harry says the couple are calling the luxury mansion their “sanctuary”.🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥“NOT Harry and SEAHAG have settled into their new home and say they are still figuring things out, they hope when Covid lets up their lives will become easier,” a source said.🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥

£3000 !!!…………

Here’s another one £3000 what like what what where do you like are you doing this on purpose making these ridiculously obscure clues? but I don’t give up!Excess baggage: Average traveller packs £3,000 worth of clothes, gadgets and toiletries (three times the cost of holiday) When it comes to packing, everything but the kitchen sink appears to be the order of the day for most holidaymakers. The concept of travelling light seems to be as foreign as their destinations. For it emerged yesterday that the average British holidaymaking family crams £3,000 worth of clothes, gadgets and toiletries into their luggage – worth almost three times as much as their holiday.DM. This is just absolutely ridiculous! I retract any sympathy I had for anybody who Mr. vacation or who got stuck or had to be quarantine. If you have that much money on stuff that you’re toting along with you and then the cost of your holiday I got no pity for you no pity at all!😁ME I have not been on holiday since my last trip to Scotland in 2005!! Any sympathy for me?!😁🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

“ I shan’t be buying any Tuna on rye” …………

Well I would never buy tuna on Rye because I hate fish and seafood of all kinds. This is in quotation marks but if I search it as such nothing shows up. I hate these clues! Wall Street Journals Coronavirus Has people Hooked on Canned Tuna, and Producers Are Playing Catch-Up.People have been buying more canned tuna during the economic downturn, in part because it’s a cheap protein. Tuna fish has surged in popularity thanks to pantry loading during the coronavirus pandemic, but producers of the canned fish are dealing with higher prices and other challenges that are making it difficult to keep up with the increased demand.

staycation on the up…………

Fully booked! Scramble for staycation spots after Cornwall and Dorset’s top camping areas reach capacity - with some booked up until the end of SEPTEMBER - and there’s hardly a hotel room or cottage to be found.None of the top 20 campsites in Cornwall have any availability for a week’s stay for two adults from tomorrow.Parks and campsites across Britain are seeing a boom in bookings as Britons give up on planning trips abroad.Haven, Butlin’s, Center Parcs and Hoseasons are being inundated while cottage bookings are being swept up.Officials in St Ives, famed for narrow streets, introduce a ‘keep to the left’ policy amid soaring visitor numbers. DM

“it arrived in a crate!!!!” ……………

UPDATE: Call of Duty publisher Activision has revealed plans to unveil the new game on August 14.According to influencer NoahJ456, the next Call of Duty 2020 teaser will go live at 5pm BST on August 14. That’s based on clues uncovered from the mysterious Call of Duty crates, as well as the discovery of a new teaser site.

“I just heard directly from Activision. What we solved today was just the FIRST step of the Call of Duty 2020 reveal. What comes out on Friday at 12 EST is just the next part. We go again.”

ORIGINAL: Call of Duty publisher Activision is finally ready to reveal the 2020 release, titled Black Ops: Cold War.

After months of waiting, fans will get a glimpse of the new game during a reveal planned for 5pm BST on August 10.

The extent of the reveal is yet to be confirmed, but fans will be hoping for more than just a cinematic trailer or logo.

After such a lengthy wait for any kind of information, fans want a release date and extensive gameplay footage, or maybe even a look at next-gen upgrades.

The timing of the reveal was confirmed by COD influencers such as CharlieIntel, who recently received a mysterious Call of Duty crate.The locked crate can only be opened when Activision sends out a code at 5pm later today.Elsewhere, Activision has started dropping hints about the upcoming release in Call ofDuty’s Battle Royale spinoff Warzone.Visual glitches featuring the message, “know your history”, started appearing in Warzone late last week. This was followed by the appearance of mysterious gas cannisters scattered throughout the Warzone map. Other leaks suggest the reveal will take place in the Gulag.

THE EXPRESS

algorithm and blues…………

Where I live the COVID-19 cases are increasing. They’ve been steadily increasing each day and today they’re at the highest level that they were April 2. I don’t think we are even done the first wave yet and wait till the kids go back to school and flu season comes I am already stocking up and still have a stock pile but I’m continuing to have a stockpile.DM Britain records 1,441 Covid-19 cases in biggest daily jump for two months as officials announce another 11 deaths - but separate statistics show the crisis IS under control with the outbreak definitely shrinking each day and the R rate stable.Department of Health statistics show the daily spike in cases is the largest 24-hour jump since June 14 (1,514).The rising numbers of positive tests have ignited fears that the virus is rebounding and sliding out of control.But prevalence of the coronavirus in England is mostly unchanged since last week, official statistics show.Office for National Statistics report estimates 0.05 per cent of population are currently infected with Covid-19.Official daily cases are rising but this is likely because testing is better targeted and finding cases well.SAGE today revealed Britain’s Covid-19 R rate remains between 0.8 and 1.0 - the same as last week’s estimate.And it said that the outbreak is shrinking and cases are fall. Algorithm referred in the clue is the algorithm used to calculate the R rate etc. The blues is obviously the death and disease.

“not eligible to serve”…

CAVEAT HERE THIS IS NOT! I REPEAT NOT! MY OPINION

President Trump said he heard that Ms. Harris, the presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee born in California, was not eligible for the ticket, repeating a theory that is rampant among his followers. Constitutional scholars quickly called his words false and irresponsible. WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday encouraged a racist conspiracy theory that is rampant among some of his followers: that Senator Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee born in California, was not eligible for the vice presidency or presidency because her parents were immigrants.

That assertion is false. Ms. Harris is eligible to serve.

Mr. Trump, speaking to reporters on Thursday, nevertheless pushed forward with the attack, reminiscent of the lie he perpetrated for years that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya.“I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” Mr. Trump said of Ms. Harris.“I have no idea if that’s right,” he added. “I would have thought, I would have assumed, that the Democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for vice president.”Mr. Trump appeared to be referring to a widely discredited op-ed article published in Newsweek by John C. Eastman, a conservative lawyer who has long argued that the United States Constitution does not grant birthright citizenship. Ms. Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, was born in 1964 in Oakland, Calif., several years after her parents arrived in the United States. The New York Times

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MM ANON …… redundant coal……… I’m a penguin , officer !! ……… 🎼stormy weather🎼………… property boom??……… don’t stamp on my duty!! ………… still her own women at 70. …………… ask your father for 7 million ………… “ there giving me 50 million if I play spider woman “……… vaccine vaccine Ivan!!………… Shambolic!!

Mon Aug 17/20. Riddle #86

💜💜💜💜😊😊😊😊Thank you dear MM Anon 😊😊😊😊💜💜💜💜💜

August 17/2020

redundant coal………

The Sun…. COAL SCUTTLED England’s last coal mine shuts next week marking the end of a tradition dating back to Roman times. ENGLAND’S last coal mine shuts next week, marking the end of a tradition dating back to Roman times.Banks Mining’s open cast site near Dipton, Co Durham, will extract its last coal on Monday. The 250 workers will be made redundant — victims of falling demand and concerns over the environmental damage caused by burning fossil fuels.It means there will be no working mine left in England — although there are a handful of sites still operating in Wales and Scotland.Coal has been a vital resource since Roman times and powered the Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries.At its height, the mining industry employed one million people in the UK.The last deep mine in the UK closed in 2015 and all coal-fired power stations will close by 2025.Banks insists five million tons of coal is still needed in Britain for the steel and cement industries.But most of it is imported from Russia while potential sites in the UK remained untapped. More and more redundancies.. Clean the millions of jobs lost to Covid and this and so many other industries our world is looking very grim for millions and millions of people possibly billions! My heart goes out to all those people that have lost their job. Not only do they have the physical health effects of having worked in the coal mine now they’ve got a find work when there is no work.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I’m a penguin , officer !! ………

BBC ……. Penguin 🐧 waddling in Broxtowe picked up by police.A penguin 🐧waddling through a village has been picked up by police officers on a routine patrol.They were on patrol in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, when they spotted the Humboldt penguin in a village street in the early hours of Sunday.The bird, nicknamed Po-Po, that’s hilarious because that’s a slang term for the police 👮‍♀️,Po Po 🤣🤣😂😂😂,had escaped from a farm enclosure in Strelley and then managed to waddle a mile up the road.Police stuck their beak in and the 🐧 was returned to its owner.PC Gareth Philp said they nicknamed the penguin 🐧 Po-Po after “he posed for some pictures with us and he was very friendly with our officers”.Last year a pair of stolen penguins were rescued by officers in Strelley. In January 2019,Police acted on a chip and rescued the two penguins. 🐧 🐧

🎼stormy weather🎼…………

Great song sung by the unbelievably gorgeous and talented Miss Lena Horne from the film 🎞 of the same name. The Evening Standard…… UK weather forecast: Storm Kyle aftermath set to hit Britain as Met Office warns of strong winds and torrential rain. Forecasters say weather will turn "autumnal" this week. Large parts of Britain are likely to face “heavy storms” and further torrential downpours this week as the aftermath of Storm Kyle hits the UK, forecasters say.

Flash flooding has already caused disruption to parts of England after storms and driving rain followed a scorching week where the mercury topped 30C for five consecutive days.

A yellow thunderstorm warning covering the whole of Wales, southern England and parts of the north is in place until 9pm Monday, with the same warning in place for a large area of Scotland on Tuesday afternoon. Up to 1.6in (40mm) is likely to fall within an hour in some areas. Other parts of the country are likely to see “heavy storms” on Tuesday as the “dregs” of Storm Kyle hit the country, followed by windy and showery conditions later in the week.Rainfall is expected to be more sustained, with the potential for 0.8in (20mm) falling over six hours, the Met Office has said. Please stay safe everybody!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

property boom??……… SKY News…… Coronavirus: UK’s £37bn July house-buying boom sees busiest month of sales in a decade.Record-breaking transactions coincide with the country going into recession and the suspension of stamp duty. More than £37bn worth of property sales were agreed in July - the busiest month for home buying for 10 years, according to property website Rightmove.The spike follows a suspension of the housing market during the coronavirus lockdown, but also coincides with the UK plunging into a recession. The chancellor also cut stamp duty in July, in an effort to encourage more people to get on the housing ladder. By comparison, £25bn worth of sales were made in July 2019, .Rightmove said the average asking price for a house in the UK in August stood at £319,497, down by around 0.2% from July’s £320,265 - which was a record high.However, in Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire and the Humber, North West England, the East Midlands, West Midlands and the East of England all recorded new highs in August. It was London that pulled the national asking price down, with average prices falling by around 2%.

don’t stamp on my duty!! …………

FTADVISER.COM…… for those of you like me who don’t have a clue about financial matters or what on earth stamp duty is I have found a definition before we go any further. You usually pay Stamp Duty Land Tax ( SDLT ) on increasing portions of the property price above £125,000 when you buy residential property, for example a house or flat. There are different rules if you’re buying your first home and the purchase price is £500,000 or less. The chancellor cut the stamp duty in July, in an effort to encourage more people to get on the housing ladder. Investors want support beyond stamp duty cut.The government is not doing enough to support the housing market despite its generous nine-month stamp duty holiday, according to a survey of investors.A survey from FJP Investment, carried out in August, found 42 per cent believed the government needed to offer more support to homebuyers and property investors beyond its temporary stamp duty relief on £500,000 of the purchase price.More than half (54 per cent) were in favour of extending mortgage payment deferrals beyond October 31, the date when applications for a deferral are due to end for borrowers who have not yet taken one.

At the same time a quarter (24 per cent) of investors were planning to purchase one or more properties to take advantage of the temporary stamp duty cut, with the figure rising to 43 per cent for those aged between 18 and 34.Last month the Financial Conduct Authority issued a call for input on how firms should treat consumers who are coming to the end of their second mortgage payment deferral, as it considers extending its current guidance beyond October.However, the research also found more than half (54 per cent) of investors had lost confidence in the government based on how it handled the coronavirus pandemic, with almost six in 10 (57 per cent) believing more financial relief was needed to support UK businesses affected by the coronavirus.

still her own women at 70. ……………

Happy Birthday, your Royal Highness! 🎂 Happy birthday HRH! Royal family releases three new portraits of Princess Anne resplendent in evening gowns and relaxing in the grounds of Gatcombe Park to celebrate her 70th.The Princess Royal’s 70th birthday has been marked with the release of three official photographs taken in February before the lockdown to celebrate the milestone.Princess Anne is known for her no-nonsense approach to life and tenacious attitude, but in the images she is pictured smiling and looking relaxed at her Gatcombe Park home in Gloucestershire.

Wearing a Maureen Baker evening dress and Sue Palmer bolero jacket, the Queen’s only daughter looks stylish as she poses for celebrated photographer John Swannell and smiles broadly while sat in a chair. In another picture the princess looks directly at the camera, with a hint of a smile on her lips, wearing a Sue Palmer emerald green dress and a gold ribbon knot brooch, set with 12 diamonds.The images were taken in late February a few weeks before the coronavirus lockdown, and in the final picture Anne is dressed more causally for the outdoor setting, where she poses under a tree.Anne celebrates her 70th birthday on Saturday and her son-in-law Mike Tindall has already revealed Covid-19 and the recent spike of cases in Aberdeen have meant plans to mark the day have been scaled back.DM ITV did a fabulous documentary called Anne: the Princess Royale at 70. If you have not seen that, I highly recommend seeing it. It’s probably been pulled off of YouTube by now for copyright infringement but I am sure it will air on some other channels sometime in the future. It was so well done! She is so natural, down to earth, being in a ball gown to holding the chin of a cow who wants to cuddle. She said there’s lots of Gatcombe Park to keep her busy during Covid, but there’s so much work that’s being missed. That was bothering her. She’s outstanding, she is just outstanding! I’m going to include a picture, but again the way things get posted, it will be at the very top of the riddle but I will include one of the special portraits that were taken for the special birthday.

ask your father for 7 million …………

The Sun….. Prince Harry and Madam are believed to have taken out a massive £7.25m mortgage on their lavish nine bedroom, 16 bathroom estate - which they are calling their “sanctuary”.

The couple reportedly moved into the luxurious £11.1 million mansion which boasts a pool, theatre, arcade and guest house in Montecito, California, back in July. Now I think all you kids know by now what side of the fence I am on. There is no house purchase done. Harry is not with her. She is flea bagging it at the Soho in West Hollywood. This is another PR lie saying that Harry’s going to ask Prince Charles to pay their $7 million mortgage! Don’t believe it! Harry is not with her! Archie is not with her! They are not a family! If they were, she would be just as she was trumping up and down in front of the daily mail in her rubber wellies trying to get noticed, if they were together she would have them marching up and down every single street in west Hollywood, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Timbuktu to everywhere! She lies she lies she lies she lies! 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥Satan is the father of lies and she has learned from the worst she lives she lives she lives she lives she lies she lies she lies! Get it? Got it? Good!!!!🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥

“ there giving me 50 million if I play spider woman “………

Huzslers yikes that’s a bad website news name.

Mother is Suing Marvel For $50 Million Dollars After Son Died Jumping Out 6th Story Window After Waching ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’. PHILADELPHIA – Aaron Clinton, a 12 year old boy who was “obsessed with Spider-Man” died earlier today after jumping out his 6th story apartment window. His Mother, Cheryl Clinton is suing Marvel, the company that owns Spider-Man, for $50 Million Dollars.Aaron’s Mother blames Spider-Man for her son’s death. “After seeing that movie yesterday, he became obsessed with Spider-Man and has been only talking about him since he saw the movie, It’s all Marvel’s fault for making kids think they can be superheroes. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻☹️☹️☹️I think Madam is going to extrapolate that and put it out there that she’ll be getting $50 million to play spider woman. And we all know when she throws a number out in PR that’s the amount of money that she wants from somebody. So who does she want $50 million from? And who would be giving her $50 million? That’s the even more interesting question doesn’t it!. Back in February, Marvel and Sony just announced that they will be releasing a new movie in October of 2021 and inside sources say that this movie is going to be Spider-Woman! Well that’s far an actress has not been announced. So naturally Madame assumes she will throw out the number and they’ll throw the 50 million to her and Bob’s your uncle!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

vaccine vaccine Ivan!!…………

The United States Canada and the UK are all working with a number of pharmaceutical corporations on several different vaccines for COVID-19. They’re actually working on vaccines and therapeutics. Basically that means they’re working on finding a treatment for us and a vaccine to prevent it.. Some of the vaccines are in stage III clinical trials which is basically meaning they are being tested on human beings many many human beings. Both China and Russia have attempted hacking to the database of these pharmaceutical companies as well as the teaching hospitals or medical centres that are working on the study and doing the clinical trials. Yes they would rather steal the information and then possibly work on it themselves.But that’s been their modus operandi since I don’t know my whole life probably much longer than that!NEWSWEEK….

Bill Gates-Backed Vaccine CEO Calls on Russia to Release Data.If Russian President Vladimir Putin has found an effective COVID-19 vaccine, then the data showing its safety and effectiveness should be released, the head of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance says.In an exclusive wide-ranging interview with Newsweek International, Dr. Seth Berkley said that he had yet to see any efficacy data showing that President Putin had a safe vaccine.He said: “We don’t have public, published information on efficacy or safety of this product.“It may be that there’s some data we don’t know about but in general what’s very important is that vaccines go through a well-oiled and recognized process for evaluation and safety and ultimately registration. "My understanding from the media is that they [Russia] are starting an efficacy trial now so it hasn’t been through an efficacy trial and normally that would not allow a stringent regulatory authority to approve it.”If there is some efficacy data we don’t know about, we’d love to see it."GAVI is a public-private global health partnership that aims to increase access to immunization in poor countries, with The Gates Foundation the organization’s single biggest supporter, donating $4.1m since its formation in 2000.President Putin had announced last week that a locally developed vaccine for the COVID-19 virus that has killed over 770,000 people worldwide, had been given regulatory approval.CNBC……Russia’s vaccine chief claims the West is trying to ‘lure’ away its scientists. The head of Russia’s vaccine-developing body has claimed that Western research institutions are seeking to “lure” its scientists away to work for them.Gintsburg heads the institute that developed Russia’s coronavirus vaccine that was given regulatory approval last week.News of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine was greeted with skepticism in the West.

Shambolic!!

Top scientist slams ‘shroud of secrecy’ around 'shambolic’ government coronavirus decisions as ministers try to get UK moving with eat-out discount launch and return to work - despite rising cases, lockdown fears and civil service revolt.Sir Paul Nurse hit at 'shroud of secrecy’ on government coronavirus decisions.Francis Crick Institute chief said some of the key policies had been 'shambolic’.Civil servants rebelling over Boris Johnson’s call for people to return to offices. Sir Paul Nurse, chief of the Francis Crick Institute, raised concerns that crucial choices seemed to be made by a 'black box’ in Whitehall with the results sometimes 'shambolic’. He insisted more transparency and scrutiny was needed to get the 'best results’.The intervention came as the government faces a fresh backlash about mixed messaging. Treasury subsidies for eating out at restaurants are launched today, and advice that everyone should work from home is being downgraded.

However, there are also mounting rumours about tightening coronavirus rules in some areas, with fears of a looming second wave.Civil servants have complained they are being used as guinea pigs for the return to offices, with claims of more cases at the heart of government over the past fortnight.DM

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Shambolic in the slips: Close-in catching continues to haunt England. England’s nightmare is not new. They have been dropping catches again and again and again in the slip cordon. England vs Pakistan, England badly let themselves down at the start of Day 1 of the 2nd Test vs Pakistan at Ageas Bowl, Southampton on Thursday. Right from the beginning of the first session, the English slip cordon comprising Dom Sibley, Rory Burns, and skipper Joe Root looked all at sea whenever an edge came flying at them. James Anderson had trapped Shan Masood lbw off the 14th ball of the innings to leave Pakistan on 6/1 and under real pressure in the opening session, but the abysmal performance in the slips let them off the hook. The Indian Times.

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[muzeez]

Thursday

7th May 2020

20:00

For the first time, I'm not hanging out of my window and clapping. I don't need to do that to prove that I care, when I genuinely care about what's going on out there. In front of neighbours who are pretending to care but they really fucking don't. Otherwise they'd be alot more mindful.

Social distanced or not, if they genuinely cared, they wouldn't be going outside everyday, encouraging lockdown down boundaries to be diminished. Henrietta wouldn't be having Asbo George, who lives elsewhere, in her flat everyday and looking after his dog. Merlin wouldn't have people who live elsewhere coming up to our building, chatting and drinking, complacency increasing with every second. And Persia and Folie, who have a car each, wouldn't be going out everyday i their cars, just to buy booze and don't get me started on the illegal drug deliveries. If they reeeaaally cared about the NHS and carers and frontline carers they wouldn't be doing any of it.

They have the cheek to be going to their windows clapping at eight o clock and Henrietta has even started going outside with her wooden spoon and pan, whooping and cheering and shouting up to Merlin, Persia and Folie. Fuck...... Them.

I'm staying right here on my sofa. I'm clapping in my heart.

[bdobson07]

12/04/2020

It’s Easter Sunday, so we had a day in the garden drinking and having fun! Then had a gorgeous roast followed by a dog walk.

As I was scrolling on Facebook I stumbled upon this, and it basically sums up what’s happened with the virus - brilliant for years to come when we want to look back!

Happy Easter Sunday everyone!

Just so that we never forget..... today is Sunday 12th April 2020 🗓 (Easter Sunday 🐣🐇🐥)

The unprecedented events that have occurred as a direct result of the Corona Virus.....🦠

On 11th March 2020 the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) was declared a Pandemic, by the World Health Organisation (WHO).🦠

On Friday 20th March all schools were closed. 🏫Remote learning is now in place and parents are home-schooling their children 🎓. All GCSE and A Level exams have been cancelled.

On the evening of 23rd of March 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson implemented a national lockdown 🚫

The Excel London is now known as NHS Nightingale and has been turned into a hospital for up to 4,000 patients, most of whom will be on ventilators. It was opened by Prince Charles (virtually, rather than in person) at 11am on 3rd April. There are also several similar venues being built and used in cities across the country (including Westpoint in Exeter).🏥

On 5th April The Queen addressed the nation at 8pm 👑 (only the 5th time she has done this, outside of her annual Christmas message).

Also on the 5th April, Boris was admitted to hospital, after 10 days of self-isolating with the Corona Virus 🧪

On the 6th April Boris was admitted to intensive care with deteriorating symptoms. Fortunately he came out of intensive care on 9th April 🩺

Many Community support groups have been established, to support the vulnerable, elderly, immunocompromised and people in enforced isolation due to exposure 🧓🏻👴🏻

Petrol ⛽️ prices are extremely low and the national average is £1.02 per gallon

Gatherings are restricted, initially to 50 people, then 20, then 10. Now, you cannot socialise with anyone outside of your home. 🚫

Self-distancing measures are implemented ☹️

There is now tape on the floor at grocery stores ❌ and other essential stores to help distance shoppers 🛒 (2 metres) from each other.

There is a limit on the number of people allowed inside stores at any one time, including staff, this is causing queues outside of the store doors and in car parks🏬

Non-essential stores and businesses are mandated closed. People who are able to, can work 👩🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻 from home 🏡

Parks 🏕 trails, entire towns and cities 🏢 are closed or restricted to locals only

Sports ⚽️ 🏉 🎾 seasons are cancelled, as well as The Grand National, The Open and Wimbledon .

The Olympics are postponed until 2021.

🔵🟡⚫🟢🔴

Concerts, 🎫 tours 🚌 and festivals, 🤹🏻 (including Glastonbury) and other entertainment events 🎭 are cancelled 🚫

Weddings, 👰🏼🤵🏻 family celebrations 🥳 (birthdays, christenings and anniversary’s) and holiday gatherings, such as Mother’s Day and Easter, 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 even funerals ⚰️ are all put on hold or cancelled 🚫

Churches ⛪️ are closed and the Pope delivers the Palm Sunday mass to an empty Basilica, in the Vatican City🚫

Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and all other TV networks are on in every home, daily 🎬

People are glued to the News and to Social Media.

Children's outdoor play parks are closed 🎡

Most flights are grounded, ✈️cruise ships 🛳are docked, holidays are cancelled 🏖and only essential travel is permitted. Few rescue flights are operating.

There is a huge shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), masks, 😷 gowns 🥼 and gloves 🧤 for our front-line essential health workers.

There is a shortage of ventilators for the critically ill, 🤒 in many parts of the world.

On the news, we see refrigerated trucks for the dead, outside hospitals in the USA 🇺🇸 Italy 🇮🇹 Spain 🇪🇸 and China 🇨🇳 etc and we see the mass digging of graves (even in the UK).

Panic buying 🛒 sets in and we have restrictions on toilet paper 🧻 disinfectants, paper towels, basic foods (like pasta, rice and bread),🥗 as well as hand sanitiser.🧴 Flour is hard to find, because the packaging comes from China 🇨🇳 and many borders are closed 🚧

Manufacturers, 🏭 distilleries and many other businesses, 🏢 switch their production lines to help make visors, masks 😷 hand sanitiser 🧴 and PPE 🧤

The Police are given the power to impose fines for breaking lockdown rules and to disperse groups 👮🏻‍♀️

Stadiums 🏟 and recreational facilities overseas are opened up for the overflow of Covid-19 🦠 patients.

In some countries, Public Park 🏕 areas are being turned into caravan parks for stranded tourists to self isolate 🚐

There are daily Press conferences from the Prime Minister👱‍♂️ and other government 🏛 officials. We are given daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths ⚰️

There are Government 🏛 incentives to stay at home. Self-employed can apply for grants and employees are being furloughed (and can receive up to 80% of earnings). 💷

Barely anyone is on the road or the street 🛣

People are wearing masks 😷 and gloves when they go outside 🧤

Essential service workers are terrified to go to work 👮🏻 👩🏻‍⚕️ 👲🏻

Medical field workers 👩🏻‍⚕️ are afraid to go home to their families 👨‍👧‍👦

Every Thursday evening at 8pm we all stand outside our front doors and clap the NHS and Carers, to show our gratitude for what they are doing.👏🏻

Many people have rainbows visible 🌈 in the windows of their homes, as a way of spreading hope.

There have been 1,783,220 cases, 109,299 deaths and 405,353 recoveries globally and 84,279 cases and 10,612 deaths in UK so far.

Why, you ask, do I write 📝 this status?

One day it will show up in my memory 💭 feed, and it will be an annual reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted 💕

We have so much! Be thankful. Be grateful 😌

Be kind to each other - love one another - support everyone 🥰🌈❤️

We are all one! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

Bye for now!

B x

[lollipoplollipopoh]

UK applauds the NHS and other key workers - BBC News by BBC News People across the UK have taken part in a second "Clap for Carers" tribute, saluting NHS staff and other key workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Delivery drivers, supermarket staff, care workers and bin collectors were among those honoured by the nation. Households banged pots and pans, while others played the bagpipes to show their support. The event is now expected to happen every Thursday at 20:00 BST. Households gathered on balconies, doorsteps and gardens to pay tribute to the efforts of key workers during the crisis. Emergency workers and NHS workers also joined in the applause. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog

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[peckhampeculiar]

It’s only rock and roll but we like it

They say there’s only one king of rock and roll – and in Nunhead it’s Aaron Arter, who has been impersonating his music idol Elvis Presley to entertain family, friends and neighbours since he was just three years old.

The 20-year-old has been replicating the American singer’s trademark look to perform every Thursday during lockdown in neighbourhood gigs, organised with the help of his friend and manager Michael Peacock, 61, who has lived in the area since 2010.

And his morale-raising performances of some of Elvis’s biggest hits have not only entertained local residents and cheered people up during the pandemic, but they’ve also helped raise an impressive £2,100 for the NHS, local charities and community projects.

Explaining how the idea to fundraise came about, Michael said: “Aaron has great talent, and has all the moves. Just before lockdown when he performed outside the florist, I could see he was really making people smile.

“He was raising people’s spirits, so after a couple of weeks in lockdown I asked Aaron to set up outside my house for the clap for carers evening on the Thursday, and it was fantastic.

The response was amazing and everyone came out, people were dancing in the street.

“A neighbour suggested he should start collecting money with a bucket, so that’s how the idea started. The record-breaking performance was the final night of clapping when Aaron performed in Kimberley Avenue, and raised £275.”

The performances have been so popular that despite the lockdown measures now easing, Aaron plans to continue performing and entertaining Nunhead residents, and his proud family, who are all big Elvis fans.

As well as helping Aaron raise money, former railway worker Michael has been involved with multiple community projects within the area over the last year, including helping Kristal Pharmacy on Evelina Road deliver prescriptions to shielding or isolating neighbours, and is also involved in Nunhead’s Salvation Army.

He said: “It’s been very fulfilling. Helping in the community has really helped me – I just really wanted to give something back.”