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I'm very disappointed. Received a letter from the Prime Minister and my name was not on it. One doesn't expect to have to explain proper etiquette to someone named Boris. A Jeremy or a Tony perhaps, but not a Boris. It's pretty much the only thing I expected him to get right, and he's muffed it.

I suppose you’ll just have to lower your expectations.

I didn't open mine, I'll try and eBay it one day.

I think ours is lain neglected and unread on top of the recipe books in the kitchen.

Interesting that some of the Tory newspapers have turned on them, and in particular Johnson, in the last 2 or 3 days over their handling of coronavirus.

The Times have really gone to town on him today over skipping 5 COBRA meetings among other things https://twitter.com/thesundaytimes/status/1251563504118771712?s=19

"Last week, a senior adviser to Downing Street broke ranks and blamed the weeks of complacency on a failure of leadership in cabinet. In particular, the prime minister was singled out.

“There’s no way you’re at war if your PM isn’t there,” the adviser said. “And what you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends. It was like working for an old-fashioned chief executive in a local authority 20 years ago. There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared he would be.”

ONS releasing figures up to 10th April, and that week has the highest number of deaths (from any reason) on record

^Any idea what the 1-15 represents. Is it from the start of the year or the start of April.

If it represents the year, we should look at scraping February.

^ I think it’s weeks of the year, so the big peak at the beginning would be over the middle of January.

^ How did I not get that.

PS, we're keeping January, it's got my birthday.

^ Well, I didn’t figure it out till you prompted me to focus on it
(Today is a low function day: overdid it yesterday, but have two cakes, bread and a box full of pasties to show for it! )

Deffo keep January then.

If you can put the Covid19 escalation in the years numbers in that^ graph aside, then the jump up in post Christmas deaths is pretty horrifying

The good weather has really helped the lockdown I think. If the floods from a few weeks ago were happening now I think the nations mood would be different.

glorious weather in the Thames Valley today. 23C forecast for Thursday (I will be moaning about the heat by then)

^
The weather has definitely helped.

What would really help is if Karamazov shared round the cake; for the national good, and all that.