Update from The House of Plague, Day 67

[elisi]

I am somewhere between a Quaker and a Maureen? I mean, I am WRITING fanfiction (the most escapist), and reading Dante, Milton, Bunyan and various related texts...

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Man, 100, raises more than £170,000 for Covid-19 victims while fasting for Ramadan

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Video: Coronavirus in Africa: Ghana WW2 veteran in Covid-19 fundraiser
A 95-year-old World War Two veteran from Ghana has set himself the challenge of walking two miles a day for a week to raise money for coronavirus charities.

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Coronavirus: Clothes box bid to help Bangladeshi workers
An Edinburgh businessman is trying to help thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers hit by cancelled orders during the coronavirus outbreak.

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And finally, Led by Donkeys once more not just holding the government to account, but being more useful:

The Government has stopped releasing its Global Death Comparison slide (wonder why?) so we’ve published it for them – on an 18sq/m billboard on Westminster Bridge Rd. Unlike @BorisJohnson, we’ll be updating it over the coming weeks pic.twitter.com/RyFsuFYEAu

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) May 22, 2020

Comments

[auroracloud]

*nods* I'm trying to get there, since I'm starting to do okay at Maureen-ing. I think I may have to just be daring and mentally declare a whole bunch of books Did Not Finish and take the bookmarks away and return them to the library if they're library books, or just shove them behind the shelf if they're mine. Because I realize my reading is being held back by the thought "I can't start this nifty escapist book I want to because I'm already reading about 10 different books" except I'm not actually reading most of them because either I'm not into them or I haven't been in the headspace for them since the lockdowns started. Hmm, I used to be shameless at not-finishing books, don't know what's making it hard now!