A dull and cold day mostly spent shopping for gas and writing after a short session levelling the first side of the new building foundation. Also ordering the 8 off 2.6m sleepers for it.
Dominic Cummings was giving evidence to the Covid inquiry - three years after leaving No 10 as Johnson's top adviser.
Deaths have been reported after an Israeli air strike on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry and a hospital director say at least 50 people were killed. The flood level of the River Bure topped at 0.82 this afternoon, the highest since my records began.
The last day of a month which was becoming increasingly difficult to work at Blackrow wood given the daylight hours and weather. But one where I was still organising the foundation for moving the shelter from Horning to Blackrow, completing one side this day. I was also contacting the sleeper supplier to order 8 off 2.6m sleepers for delivery within the next week.
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I opted to join Kathleen for a visit to the local Taverham garden centre where we had a look round and she bought the items she needed before we enjoyed a very expensive coffee together, which offended us. Home and to go out to FLS to exchange an only empty Calor gas cylinder for a new and full one, tussling with a very annoying road closure that made the task even more difficult. I heard from Jack today, whose hand is rapidly healing ahead of his wish to resume work the following day As the rain returned, I fell to my journal for the rest of the day, catching up with not only this day but the end of the month.
Dominic Cummings is giving evidence to the Covid inquiry - three years after leaving No 10 as Johnson's top adviser. He describes the Cabinet Office - the key department that supports the PM and the running of government - as a "dumpster fire" when he was appointed in 2019. He also admits using "appalling language" about ministers in text messages but says his "judgement of a lot of senior people was widespread".
Cummings was at the heart of Johnson's government during the early stages of pandemic, but the pair fell out and he was sacked in late 2020. The inquiry earlier heard the former PM was "obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life". And Lee Cain, one of Johnson’s closest and longest-serving aides, said the pandemic was the "wrong crisis" for Johnson's "skill set", describing dither and delay.
Deaths have been reported after a blast at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry and a hospital director say at least 50 people were killed. The health ministry blames Israeli air strikes - Israel is yet to comment. On Tuesday morning, Israel said it hit 300 targets in Gaza overnight as its air strikes and ground offensive continue.
The IDF says its ground forces were attacked by "terrorists" with anti-tank missiles and machine gun fire. Israel has been bombing Gaza since the 7 October Hamas attacks that killed 1,400 people and saw at least 239 people kidnapped as hostages. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 8,500 people have been killed since Israel's retaliatory bombing began