Lockdown Reading

With all this extra free time,  I'm getting the chance to plough through the pile of books by my bed. We had our second Zoom Book Club recently. The blip is this month's book:- the Poisonwood Bible (my choice - one of my all time favourite books) plus all the other books I have read since the previous Book Club meeting, so I can keep track of them.    I thought I had blipped last months pile but it seems not, so I've put them in extras for posterity. The previous  Book Club discussion was the Alice Walker book. Not one of her best. 

Day 63
351 deaths today, they are going down very slowly, total now 36,393. Interesting details from the Border Force spokesman on the daily briefing, of the counter-smuggling operations, cocaine in face masks and the like. 
Test Track and Trace now scheduled for the beginning of June. Norfolk has been selected as one of the 11 areas in the country for the enlarged pilot . The others are:- Tameside, Warwickshire, Leeds, London - Camden lead in collaboration with Hackney, Barnet and Newham, Devon, Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Surrey, Leicestershire - with Rutland, Cheshire West and Chester.  Of these, Middlesbrough is highest at 8th worst in the country
 South Lakeland is still the 4th worst Local health authority in England with cases of the virus but Sunderland very close behind .

Apparently there is a shortage of curtain hooks in hospitals and hospices . BAE Systems in Barrow, who normally make high tech planes  and ships, made some curtain hooks specially for a local hospital and have now had a request from a hospice in Colchester.  

Motorhomes have been creeping into the Lakes. Some tell the police it their only vehicle and they need to use it to go for exercise. Really!!.