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Things That Gladden The Heart

AmandaJR said:
Dr Katherine Henderson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. If you get the chance to watch her interview on Andrew Marr this morning you'll see why. Every line of emotive, negative and critical questioning (typical BBC) was met with calm reassurance and quashed all his hopes of some drama.
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You know what? I want Marr to ask the difficult questions and make the critical observations - because in the UK there are many with these questions, many with these observations...but there are only a very few who are able to ask those questions to those who, frankly, have our lives in their hands.

There are many who want to hear the politicians and experts answering clearly, authentically and without obfuscation or diversion - because when they do they enable us to maintain our confidence in them. And we want them to be able to answer in this way - they NEED to be able to answer in this way. They need to be pressed. Top Marks to the BBC - top marks to Marr from me.

Unfortunately recently we have the government putting up ministers the likes of Robert Jenrick, Alok Sharma and Michael Gove for the daily briefings. They tell us little or nothing - they simply repeat the precautions message that we all know - usually not answering the difficult part of any question asked by a journalist by video link - with follow-up - whilst pushing a line that UK is Leading in the fight. I frankly don't care that we might be leading in the fight...I just want us to be an integral part of the fight - working jointly with as many as possible against coronavirus. These ministers are unfortunately in the main a waste of space in the briefings - everything we learn from the briefings we learn from the experts.

Bring back Rishi Sunak - at least he had the ring of authenticity and was on top of his brief - and seemed able to answer the difficult questions without having to stick to someone else's scripted line.
 
My club is running a virtual 18 hole comp this weekend, £2 to enter book via HDID, half the entry money is divided between the 1st 4.
Other half will be donated to the NHS.
The computer will randomly select your score at each hole and deduct your handicap [ basically a raffle ].
Hopefully I wont go up point one this time :love: or get held up by some old codgers :ROFLMAO:
 
AmandaJR said:
I'm not discussing it - it gladdened my heart and I find it irritating when people question my heart being gladdened :)
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AmandaJR said:
I'm not discussing it - it gladdened my heart and I find it irritating when people question my heart being gladdened :)
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I was thinking more SILH, Hugh :ROFLMAO:. I wouldn't like to irritate you Amanda, light of my life , oops that was Don Williams lol
 

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The sound of bees in the fields. Due to the rain we had last week the countryside around us is alive with colour, and the bees are loving it. There was little breeze today, and the noise of the bees was a lovely whisper in the background.

A decent book, some music now and then and a large glass of wine... no doubt there are better ways to spend the afternoon but it was well up there.
 
Hobbit said:
The sound of bees in the fields. Due to the rain we had last week the countryside around us is alive with colour, and the bees are loving it. There was little breeze today, and the noise of the bees was a lovely whisper in the background.

A decent book, some music now and then and a large glass of wine... no doubt there are better ways to spend the afternoon but it was well up there.
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You're lucky, mine Fuhrer has decided that she wanted a deep clean of all nook and crannies.
Including under couches, beds, tables, chairs, units, wardrobes, even under me :D.
Good news that's me finished housework for the day, dinner ate and it's still quite nice outside, so a large brandy and a Don Julian No 1 are awaiting.
Take care xx
 
Switched the water on in the garden and started pruning and spring tidy up. Another beautiful day here, the glass is nearly off the high scale.
Lady Doon is soooooo pinicitey when it comes to pruning and is always on my case......somehow she managed to make a complete horlicks of one shrub and I had to come in and rescue it.
She is definitely NOT trimming my hair tonight.:love:
 
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