All Nature Has a Feeling

My title is the title of the poem below by John Clare. Sunshine and showers all day, This afternoon I did some ironing and started watching the amazing match between Thiem and Schwartzman, which 5 hours later is still going - superb play. I took this sprig of flowers from the shrub I took out - when I removed the rhubarb I could see the shrub was both lopsided and had dead bits in the middle, so its time had come. 

All nature has a feeling:  woods, fields, brooks
Are life eternal:  and in silence they
Speak happiness beyond the reach of books;
There’s nothing mortal in them;  their decay
Is the green life of change;  to pass away
And come again in blooms revivified.
Its birth was heaven, eternal in its stay,
And with the sun and moon shall still abide
Beneath their day and night and heaven wide.
John Clare (1793-1864)


Day 205 / Full Day 197 of Lockdown / Day 23 of Rule of Six (for my record only)
UK deaths up 76 to 42,445 (revised basis), with a 14,542 rise in new daily cases (up 70% on the revised figure for a week ago), and 2,833 patients in hospital. The ONS reports 57,348 deaths with a certificate mentioning Covid and excess deaths of 65,057. A tweet by Trump on Covid has been hidden by Twitter and removed from Facebook as Twitter says it's 'spreading misleading and potentially harmful information relating to Covid-19'. GSK and Vir Biotechnology have moved to the third phase of trials of a Covid-19 antibody treatment and reporting 'rapid achievement' with no safety concerns so far.