8 April 2020 - Food donations, jokes
A reminder about the request for any food you can donate for the a Littlemoor volunteer network to distribute in Preston and Littlemoor. Tony Ferrari would welcome any contributions - fresh, dried, tinned, whatever you can spare. He will put out food collection box by the Village Information Centre (that’s the conservatory like structure opposite the Cart Shed) this coming Sunday, 12 April, for you to add your donation. Everything, however small, will help.
A number of villagers have sent me jokes, songs, pictures and videos to help cheer me up in these lockdown days. Thank you for those, but some are a little disturbing. One, for instance, has lockdown words substituted into a parody of ‘It’s not unusual’ by one of the greatest singers in the history of music, Tom Jones. Like me, Tom comes from Pontypridd in South Wales, and in his childhood he spent a long time in bed with a debilitating illness. My bus home from school used to pass his bedroom window. You can see how close we were, so to hear this great singer, the Pavarotti of the coal fields, treated disdainfully brings tears to my eyes. Then there are the jokes about sheep. What I must ask, coming from Wales as I do, is how would you feel if members of your family were ridiculed? Jokes about llamas are fine, but not sheep, please
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Stay safe and positive
Best regards
Chris