BoJo might have to listen to not only public opinion but also to his fellow parliamentarians on the matter of Cummings breaking lockdown. Also, a doctor working in the Covid ICU for the last two months has stated that if Cummings doesn’t resign then he will. Doctor Dominic Pimenta said he has not seen his own parents since January and he added that Cummings was spitting in the face of what they were doing and the whole of the NHS. The PM is backing his senior aide and said he had needed to go to stay with his parents to get help with the child care while he and his wife were ill with the virus. When asked if he had returned in April Cummings replied that he had not. Whoever saw him there needs to come back with some evidence, in this country we are still innocent until proven guilty. I personally still think he’s lying though.
Lockdown doesn’t deter the Trump. He will be hosting an independence day 4th July bash in the National Mall in Washington. Rooms at the Trump International Hotel are going at $562 to $2257 plus taxes etc. In 2018 the hotel made him a profit of more than forty million. Did you know that I once got a speeding ticket in Wisconsin on 4th July? Not the best day for a Brit to be breaking the law in the US.
I’m not breaking lockdown but my daughter Elena did pop over with Elizabeth today just to have a little catch up chat over the garden fence. She very kindly also brought me a bottle of milk and a bunch of yellow tulips, very happy looking flowers. Just before she left we were talking about the possibility of Elizabeth getting some work experience to help with her psychiatry degree. Elena mentioned her neighbour and suddenly I realised that I actually knew her. Not only that, I had been out to dinner several times with her as we have a mutual friend a Croatian lady whose husband I used to work with. It’s a small world. Then another strange thing, I was just saying goodbye when I looked down and said ‘is that a silver earring down there?’. And it was and Elizabeth had lost it a couple of weeks ago when she last came over. My lockdown world is so weird.
In the news today is makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury who is hoping to sell her company supposedly for one billion pounds of which she will get to keep 500 million. Not bad for a girl who learnt to use mascara and never looked back. Her parents Lance and Patsy were ‘original posh hippies’ and I wonder if Absolutely Fabulous Patsy got her inspiration from that source. Charlotte who was brought up mainly in Ibiza applied paint and powder to an endless list of models and stars before launching her own company. She claims that on her mother’s advice no man has ever seen her without cosmetics. I once hitchhiked to Spain with a blonde hippy named Dolly, her mother gave her similar advice ‘don’t ever go to bed with a man completely naked’. She used to wear a pair of socks. I won’t tell you about my bedtime habits. Night night, don’t let that bug bite.