{"id":2771,"date":"2021-07-22T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2021-07-23T01:54:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T01:54:48","slug":"thursday-22nd-july-2021-day-493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/22\/thursday-22nd-july-2021-day-493\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 22nd July, 2021 [Day 493]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every so often I get up early and whilst the temperature is comparatively cool, I review my finances, including savings plans and saving ‘pots’. So I spent an hour or so this morning getting things in order to my satisfaction.\u00a0Then it was breakfast, a shower, (and ditto for Meg) and then we walked down to the park together. Instead of throwing away yesterday’s <\/span>Guardian<\/em>, I have started to take it with me so that having parked Meg on one of our favourite benches and\u00a0partaken of our coffee she can read it. Then \u00a0I pop off and get today’s newspapers.\u00a0Upon my return it was a fairly\u00a0leisurely stroll home and lunch – except it was so hot we just made one of our favourite m\u00e9lange of tinned fruit (apricots), yogurt,\u00a0ice cream and a drizzle of honey. We felt that we would be better to leave our main cooked meal until this evening, which\u00a0indeed we did.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This afternoon, my much delayed consignments of extra plants arrived from the online company. I have purchased a\u00a0<\/span>Buddleia<\/em> which I know is almost a\u00a0weed-like plant (think of railway sidings) but this particular one is somewhat unusual in that the\u00a0horticulturalists maintain that they have grafted three\u00a0colours of <\/span>Buddleia\u00a0<\/em>onto a common\u00a0rootstock. I suppose these are white, pink and purple so we will have to see if it\u00a0fulfils its promise.I made a little wigwam of canes to support it as one or two of the fronds had suffered a bit in transit but overall, it looked\u00a0in pretty good condition. Then I had ordered two more little bulbs that were almost thrown in as an afterthought and were being\u00a0sold off for \u00a31.00 each. One of these was an\u00a0miniature\u00a0orange canna lily which, I must admit, I have never actually seen before. The other was an orange peony and, as before, I have never actually seen an\u00a0orange peony before either. Having got these three plants\u00a0planted, I had three more little tasks to perform. One was to put some sulphate of iron around the roots of my\u00a0recently planted hydrangea. In theory, this ought to turn the\u00a0whole plant into a\u00a0really vivid shade of blue (such as you often see by the seaside) Whether this works or not, only time will tell. The second little job was to adapt one of my staves such that I could add an\u00a0additional support to one of the steps leading\u00a0down into Mog’s Den<\/em> which\u00a0appeared to be slipping downhill a little. I have done this sort of task lots of time before and everything worked OK. \u00a0The final\u00a0little task was to transplant another bit of\u00a0mint from a neglected part of the garden to my newly\u00a0established mint bed. \u00a0I then have just one more little seed sowing job in front of me. Whilst I was in Poundland<\/em> the other day, I bought to my amazement (for \u00a31.00) a packet\u00a0contains six different type of spicy and aromatic herms i.e. Serrano Chilli, Coriander, Japanese Greens, Chilli Cayenne, Cinnamon Basil<\/em> and finally\u00a0Pak Choi<\/em> (Chinese cabbage).I honestly cannot see many of\u00a0these seeds germinating but if I get\u00a0half a dozen plants from each\u00a0variety of seed, the venture will have been well worth while.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are two bits of COVID-19 news this evening. The first is that more than 600,000 people have been ‘pinged’ by the Test and Trace app in the\u00a0last week and they therefore have to stay at home and\u00a0<\/span>self-isolate. This is\u00a0creating mayhem in the economy with supermarkets being quite badly hit as\u00a0delivery drivers are not available. The\u00a0government is so worried about this and tonight\u00a0they have published a list of sixteen sectors where fully vaccinated workers do not need to quarantine provided they also take a daily test which proves negative – and. these exemptions will only run to\u00a0the 16th August in any case.\u00a0Many different\u00a0parts of the economy are being adversely affected \u00a0tonight – but Test and Trace<\/em> is only just doing its job and do we want to get on top of this pandemic or not? The second major\u00a0areas concern\u00a0is that rates of infection are now very high amongst the (unvaccinated) 20-29\u00a0year olds and some\u00a0vaccination points are\u00a0returning vaccine to their\u00a0headquarters perhaps destined for ultimate destruction because not enough\u00a0are. coming forward. to be vaccinated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A Labour MP (Dawn Butler) has taken \u00a0Boris Johnson to task for misleading the country. As she \u00a0says: \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am disappointed that the prime minister has not come to the House to correct the record and to correct the fact that he has lied to this House and the country over and over again.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The deputy Commons speaker was\u00a0asked\u00a0repeatedly to withdraw her comments but she refused. She then had to withdraw for the rest of the day (actually only an hour as the Commons is going into recess for the summer) but Dawn Butler is unrepentant arguing that:<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been thrown out of Parliament for saying what we all know: Boris Johnson has lied to the House of Commons and the country over and over again.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Under the rules of Parliamentary etiquette, one MP is not allowed to call another a liar so one must either withdraw the offending remark (even if true?) or be suspended from the House of Commons<\/span><\/p>\n

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