We all remember lovely Captain Tom who raised millions for the NHS. Well now we have another hero in the shape of 5 years old Tony Hudgell from Kent. Tony is a double amputee who had to have both legs removed following parental abuse. He now lives with adoptive parents and having received prosthetic legs decided to try to raise £500 by learning to walk again. His aim is to walk 10 Km in a month and at the same time find out if the prosthetics would be a solution for himself. So far he has raised over a million pounds and reached 8.4 km but his mum said he might go over 10km if he can walk a little bit further than his 300m daily target on some days. Not only has he raised an enormous amount of money for the Evelina London Children’s Hospital where he had his operations but he has found out that he can manage very nicely with his new legs. Yesterday he even went running. Very well done to our Little Man.
The Trump went to Tulsa but quite a few people didn’t and the Trump was sad. Sounds like the start of a fairy story but it’s more of a horror story in the middle of a pandemic. Now it seems the POTUS is looking for a scapegoat because, as usual, it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with his own behaviour. It couldn’t have had anything to do with the lies he tells, or his reaction to the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, or the fact that he told his people to take a poison to combat the coronavirus and it could have killed them. His 2020 campaign staff are probably wondering today whether they still have a job. Now here’s the thing, why would they have wanted the job in the first place? Maybe the salary made it all worth while.
News is that the infection rate for Covid-18 in England is dropping quite fast. More worryingly in Germany where they relaxed lockdown earlier, the R number which needs to be below 1 has risen to 2.88. I haven’t heard if any new restrictions have been put into place but the outbreaks seem to be in care homes, hospitals, refugee centres and following religious festivals. There is also of course the outbreak in an abattoir in the north of the country. Surely if the infection rate there is rising we should be looking at whether travellers from Germany should be allowed into England. After all it was stated that we had so many deaths in London because it is a hub for flights and because we closed down our borders too late. Just saying.
Heatwave is on its way and should be here, in the south at least, tomorrow. Hope you’ve got your factor 50 ready and your swim suit, I might even make it to the beach myself. But then again, are the toilets open? Sleep with the window open. Nighty night.