I was in Waitrose and all the staff came out into the car park at 8 ( shop closed ) and we all clapped. I hope those who constantly knock the NHS joined in too??
Notwithstanding the poor nursing care my wife has often received in hospital, we were certainly on the doorstep applauding the fantastic work done by NHS staff at this time of crisis.
Included in our applause were those others who soldier on and make our lives easier and safer: the binmen and the delivery drivers, the shop staff and the food producers, the emergency services and the postal workers. A tip of the hat too - and I never thought I would say this - to Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock. Kudos too to the scientific advisers who aid their decision making.
Add to the list the researchers and the entrepreneurs who are diligently researching vaccines and switching output to serve the NHS. Finally a big, big thank you to the hidden heroes - the community volunteers who are making our society a kinder, more inclusive, milieu.
Just a reminder that this is taking place again tonight - hoping for even more noise than last week. Tip from my 83 year old dad - a saucepan hit with a wooden spoon (or even a metal one), makes quite a racket .
I'm all for tributes to workers in the NHS and other essential services, but I'm not hearing much about the farmers, whose livestock and crops need just the same attention as always. No "gardening leave" for them. (Maybe I'm just not getting my news from the right sources.)
Farmers are really worried ... at the moment because if a member of staff becomes ill they'll all have to isolate ... so who will plant the potatoes ... the machinery takes a lot of experience to use ... you can't just draft in someone new to do it. Then later in the season there will be more worries
I found out about this earlier today by one of our customers. I thought it was just a one off last week. I will be on my doorstep at 8 tonight as I think it's a lovely idea
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I hope those who constantly knock the NHS joined in too??
Included in our applause were those others who soldier on and make our lives easier and safer: the binmen and the delivery drivers, the shop staff and the food producers, the emergency services and the postal workers. A tip of the hat too - and I never thought I would say this - to Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock. Kudos too to the scientific advisers who aid their decision making.
Add to the list the researchers and the entrepreneurs who are diligently researching vaccines and switching output to serve the NHS. Finally a big, big thank you to the hidden heroes - the community volunteers who are making our society a kinder, more inclusive, milieu.
Tip from my 83 year old dad - a saucepan hit with a wooden spoon (or even a metal one), makes quite a racket .
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/farming/cla-calls-for-a-new-land-army-on-farms-to-fill-gaps-left-by-migrant-workers-1-6574533
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
For what it's worth l agree.