It’s another one of those odd days with alternating grey, cloudy skies and clear blue skies. I suppose that’s what blustery is all about. Coming back from my run round the village this morning, I met Lesley, the wife of the Methodist minister who covers Delph, Dobcross and possibly Diggle, on her way to church. She said she was pleased to have been able to take part in Friday’s Whit Walk, holding one of the ribbons of the church banner. I say “ribbon” but it’s more of a rope and was needed on Friday to stop the banner from blowing away. She was especially pleased as her husband has been in his current position for almost three years now and this was the first time the walks had been able to go ahead. Covid again!
Numbers of cases of Covid have been reported to be increasing again. Maybe because of all the gathering that people did during the jubilee celebrations - not to mentions crowds of folk going from village to village watching bands on Friday.
Yesterday I saw various groups of people seemingly in fancy dress. In Greenfield there was a host of them in bright green wigs and some kind of tunics with numbers. They seemed to be heading for the playing field. Maybe there was a fun-run, raising money for charity. Later in the day, walking round the village, we followed and then overtook a group of four Boris Johnson lookalikes - in smart(ish) suits and dishevelled blonde wigs. They had their own music system with them, broadcasting to all and sundry. Really they should have been dancing not strolling down the lane. They had to talk very loudly over their own music. Ahead of them were a couple of people in loud shirts, also be-wigged and with bandanas round their heads. They carried a surf board so maybe they were “surfer dudes”.
I have no idea what was going on. Ten years or more ago I would have thought it was the Beer Walk, organised by the Round Table people, rushing around the participating pubs of Saddleworth and collecting money for charity. It was a regular Saturday after Whit Friday event but that stopped happening long ago.
We’ll probably never find out what that was all about.
In the wider world, CND put out this notice a few days ago:
“It's with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our Vice-President Bruce Kent. A giant of our movement and an inspiration across the generations. Our greatest tribute is to fight for world peace, free from the threat of nuclear weapons. RIP Bruce.”
Another good man gone!
A group called Scientists for EU posted this today!
“Tawfiq Al-Ghussein.
Wondering why Pritti Patel’s family came to live in the UK when they could have made the far shorter journey from Uganda into nearby Rwanda …”
One wonders also!
I have read that four billion pounds’ worth of protective clothing bought early in the pandemic to stop MHS staff being infected with Covid is to burned because it is unusable. That’s £4bn that could have been spent on something else. Someone has made money out of that. It’s a prime example of panic buying and yet there are people going round telling us that the government handled the pandemic perfectly!
The Department of Health and Social Care has so much unneeded PPE that it has appointed two commercial waste firms to help it dispose of 15,000 pallets a month “via a combination of recycling and burning to generate power”. So now someone else is making money out of it! Interesting!
In Moscow today they have opened the replacement for McDonald’s in the very same location in Pushkin Square where McDonald’s first opened in Russia in 1990. More such “restaurants” will open soon in the rest of the country.
I doubt that McDonald’s will suffer economically. Long ago I had a map,of Paris showing all the locations in the capital where you could get a Big Mac! Astounding!
And finally, here’s a link to an article about some people who have a teapot museum. They have collected 8,000 teapots over the years. How many teapots does anyone really need?
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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