AN INSPIRATIONAL duo have put on their walking shoes to complete an incredible one million steps for a cause close to their heart. Determined colleagues Harry Buntrock, a Traffic Marshall and Ian North, a site supervisor at the Covid 19 Testing centre in Deeside, which is operated by Mitie, each completed a million steps in just one month. The incredible March to a Million challenge saw them walk the equivalent of the UK to Denmark in support of a charity for bereaved families of stillborn children. It was inspired by the tragic loss of Harry and his fiancée Ellie s daughter, Winnie Ivy Buntrock, who was sadly born still on November 14, 2020.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:26 pm, December 28th, 2020 - 43 comments
I realise that this would normally be our silly season, but it seems a bit macabre with the northern winter death toll. But nothing really excuses Chris Bishop for being a complete dickhead in barking for immediate offshore testing for travellers from the UK. It is pointless. The government are a bit more sensible. They’re instituting an extra test at our border.
Young authors may be self-censoring because they worry they will be trolled or cancelled , according to celebrated writer Sir Kazuo Ishiguro.
Sir Kazuo, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, warned that a climate of fear was preventing some people from writing what they want.
He said they may be concerned that an anonymous lynch mob will turn up online and make their lives a misery .
He told the BBC: I very much fear for the younger generation of writers.
The 66-year-old said he was worried that less established authors were self-censoring by avoiding writing from certain viewpoints or including characters outside their immediate experiences.
That is amusing. Prentious. Obvious as well.
I just prefer to keep people from looking at my desks. Cables everywhere (I currently have 18 USB ports active in the desk). Hardware. Test equipment. Coffee cups. Pens & hardcopy. Laptops. Flash drives and external hdds. Phones. Pads. etc
Instead, they look at the lights above me or (at home) at a mini kitchen.
gsays 1.3.1
Your workspace sounds like my workshop.
A litany of unfinished projects; flagon holders from repurposed pallets, a proof of concept star roller for making firework stars, containers of grape, willow and pine charcoal waiting for processing into biochar or aforementioned fireworks…, charcoal retort mark 2 nearly finished, remnants of quart bottles of home brew that became bottle bombs.
Don t eat too much. Don t drink too much.
And don t talk politics.
My family Xmas bun-fight kicks off this arvo so must remember to heed my own advice.
SPC 2
Given it s the year that China asserted full control of Hong Kong (23 years into a 50 year agreement), a little focus on the Baluchistan area of Pakistan.
It s become an economic zone (it has natural respurces for export), one handed off to China for exploitation. Now a port is Chinese controlled and is being fenced off from the wider region. A bit like Hong Kong in its 1897-1997 phase.
Formerly the Pakistan government kidnapped local nationalists. Now in Sweden and a few days ago in Canada Baluchi nationalists in exile have drowned.