During lockdown Kibworth Community Library home-delivered over 2000 books to people of all ages across Beauchamp, Harcourt, Smeeton and Foxton. All books were donated by our lovely customers and all were returned (plus several hundred more). We had to buy a shed to store them all in.
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I saw your plea for memories of Covid in the last Kibworth & District Chronicle. My experience had a deep low and a great high. The low was that a close friend of mine was diagnosed with throat cancer shortly before Covid struck. He was undergoing radiotherapy, so his immune system was destroyed. He caught Covid - pre-vaccine - in hospital and it killed him in three days, he was only in his sixties.
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Completing an online survey and watching an interview made me think about communication skills.
‘Surveys are designed to gain knowledge and assess thoughts’ (Survey - Human Research)
Dear Editor
I am both dismayed and disappointed at your irresponsible decision to publish what you termed as ‘an alternative view of climate change’ based upon the letter from Steve Needham. ‘An uninformed view’ would have been a more apposite title.
Travelling by car from Market Harborough to Leicester recently I noticed that at every roundabout the necessary street furniture indicating that one’s car should turn left was in disarray, flattened by someone going straight on! Of course modern cars now have exceptionally good braking systems which prevent drivers skidding all over the place; however it is the modern drivers who seem to want to test their car’s braking systems and alas are occasionally failing.
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25 March 2020
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