Lockdown day #77

Today was the announcement of the Queen's Birthday Honours ... and two local charities which I support received The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service - George House Trust and Manchester Parents' Group - congratulations to both of those groups - really good news for the City of Manchester.

Today, another hot day, was also the day I received two new items of furniture - a display cabinet and a six-shelf bookcase ... the latter is already full.  I felt sorry for the lads delivering the furniture - the bookcase was too big for the lift, so they had to manhandle it up 11 flights of stairs.  

In solidarity to the peaceful protests in the USA, today was deemed to be Blackout Tuesday.

I posted on a Prayer Group I belong to Joy Webb's song "I am the candle of the Lord" ....

In the evening I downloaded an e-book called "Hello ... Coastal" - the story of Victoria Coach Station - somewhere I have been from time to time over the years.

Lockdown day #76

The first day of June - weather lovely again - but lay in until 12noon ..   June is traditionally Pride month (the Stonewall riots were in June) ... but there will be very few Prides this year.

I was reminded it is okay not to do much - and I didn't do much today.

In America the protests against the murder of George Floyd continue .... why is so much of America's policing racially motivated - I do not understand the point of racism!

I had some exercise, but not much, there were too many people about.  I read some pages of my book, and downloaded an ebook on Garden Flowers.