It’s come to this

I haven’t done a jigsaw since I was a child but Dennis sent this months ago after the family photo shoot. He usually visits in the summer but couldn’t this year, because of Covid. Mr C rigged up a camera on a stepladder for this distanced one. It was when we could have the family in the garden at a distance. I’m finding it relaxing to do. But why are so many of them in jeans? And Luke had on his running gear, also black. So it’ll take me a while.

#3 daughter is stressed. The school server keeps crashing when she’s teaching. It’s not just sending work on line now, every lessons is taught on Teams. The school still has not got the computers the government promised in March for the pupils who had no access at home. (They applied for 78 but were told they could have only 7 - they are still waiting.) The procurement of them was out-sourced. No doubt to some of the government’s chums. Maybe to the chap given the ferry contract when he had no ferries.

I was so happy about the results in Georgia but then the sociopath President urged his lawless supporters to storm the Capitol. Jim Naughtie on BBC hours before, warned something would kick off, so where were the forces of law and order? They were capable of brutally attacking peaceful BLM protestors but when it’s Trump supporters, wearing no masks, it was selfie time. It’s appalling. Some Republicans of the Bush era are saying on World at One the Republican Party might split, with Trump taking his supporters with him. The Chinese and Russians must be ecstatic.

The Covid numbers are horrendous. Something like 1.5 million currently with the disease. After 11 years of under-funding by the Tories, the NHS was already struggling with the longest waiting lists ever. Now it’s at breaking point.