Today is November 5th, the 416th anniversary of the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes had conspired with others to blow up Parliament in London - a plot that was doomed to fail and cost Mr Fawkes his neck. People commemorate it by letting off fireworks. Lots of fireworks being sold, also partly in connection with the Sikh festival of Diwali, which took place yesterday.
It is an overcast and at times drizzly day today. We are under warning for stormforce winds tomorrow, gusts possibly exceeding 70 mph, so damage and disruption is possible. I went down to the cemetery earlier to visit the graves of friends whom I lost over the past seven years. Flowers I left two weeks ago were still in good shape, in no small measure due to the recent wet weather.
Numbers of Covid-19 in this island, Lewis, are shooting up, numbering 36 yesterday. That may not seem much, but the total population in this island is only 20,000. A majority of cases are amongst children.
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