May I suggest we need a few more lions.
DAY FORTY-TWO: Thursday 11th February 2021:
Within my diary I constantly criticise the government for its repeated failure to act quickly enough and to act firmly enough to protect the nation from china virus. My thinking has not changed. However, give credit where credit is due. Britain is leading the world with its vaccination programme, thank god I live in Britain and not the European Union just look at the ridiculous failure it is operating within !
I have had my first jab and have the date for the second jab in my diary. Perhaps the European Union will get its act together, possibly not. It is not a sad dictatorship pretending democracy which worries me it is the fate of people within Africa, India, Asia and their like where the likelihood of vaccination is slender to the point of being impossible. Until the world is vaccinated the pandemic will continue to surge. Britain is leading the world with it vaccination programme, Britain need to lead the world in supporting nations which can not vaccinate their own people.
Sad little people are getting their knickers in a knot over the legal powers to ensure travellers entering the UK self-isolate. What the government is doing is right, it is a bit late and perhaps not strong enough but tough luck it has to happen. TOUGH LUCK if some little person can not sit in a bar in Lanzagrotty this summer. Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.
Can we have some much tougher rules please to impose on the spot fines for people wearing a mask where their nose pokes out of the top. A minimum of £1,000 for the first offence and a six month prison term for the second offence.
Yesterday 13,013 new cases and 1,001 deaths. Locally to where I live 46 new cases and 1 death. Each number a real person with loved ones and each person a real person with NHS staff going the extra mile to care for them. Against each number we have the sad little person longing for the bar in Lanzagrotty, against each number we have an old biddie with their nose poking out the top of a mask.
Today’s SMILE: Watch out for people who are always bragging about who they are. A lion will never have to tell you it’s a lion. We need a nation of lions to defeat china virus not only in Britain but to lead the world.
I write this diary page primarily for my time
capsule to be opened on 1st January 2121, fast forward to 11th
February 2121 – I wonder what people will think when the look back to 11th
February 2021 ON THIS DAY.
11th February 1953: US President
Dwight D Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg.
11th February 1959: The Federation
of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United
Kingdom.
11th February 1990: Nelson Mandela
is released from Victor Verster Prison in Cape Town.
11th February 1990: The Vatican
confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy as a result of his
advancing age.
11th February 2012: Whitney Houston, born 1963, died.
I wonder on which day it will be announced that Facebook has gone out of business because the world had found itself a life and no longer needs its sad phony operation.
4,064 more words written yesterday bringing my total to 314,406 in total since 1st January 2021. Half a million will be a milestone, half way to the one million words I have promised to compose across 2021. I do so much want to achieve that by the end of March. If I do I can then reasonably expect to double my target.
I spent most of yesterday working on BEHIND THE NOOSE, all being well I can finish it today then submit it for publication with Amazon tomorrow. I think that my SECRET DIARY OF AN OLD MAN AGED THIRTEEN AND THREE QUARTERS will move along slowly and may actually end up being published at the end of March. I have a bit to add today. My head is full of quiz ideas for WHO NEEDS A PUB TO HAVE A QUIZ, not only do I need the individual quiz sheets for the book but to include in our SMILE envelopes. This week there will be 100 included in the Dreamsai food parcels to vulnerable people, some are being sent to the vet team who sorted out Doggie Jake’s recent problems, Birmingham Children’s Hospital will be our hospital of the week, SMILES are going to teachers, to Flowers Care Home and to police officers.
I am busy printing off sheets using Spike Milligan’s poem:
Smiling Is Infectious
by Spike Milligan
This is something I used to use a lot but with the onset of covid-19 it felt a bit politically incorrect, particularly given words I added myself to the end of Spike’s words.
Now as we are in the second year of the
pandemic we are all suffering sadness, anguish and depression as differing
levels. May I suggest we should take Spike’s poem and use it to vaccinate
sadness.
Smiling is infectious,
you catch it like the flu,
When someone smiled at me today,
I started smiling too.
I passed around the corner
and someone saw my grin.
When he smiled I realised
I'd passed it on to him.
I thought about that smile,
then I realised its worth.
A single smile, just like mine
could travel round the earth.
So, if you feel a smile begin,
don't leave it undetected.
Let's start an epidemic quick,
and get the world infected !
There is not a medic anywhere who could stop this infection, there is not a medic anywhere in the world who would want to stop it.
David
Talking about the half a million word milestone, this is when I want to start seriously promoting my books to raise money to fund an expansion of our SMILES.
So I guess I had better sign off for today and get back to writing the needed balance of the half million.
Speak again tomorrow
Dave
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