"The beginning of this bridge is very dark, but when you just walk far enough you can see a beautiful sunset that englightens your way!"

‘Tagesschau’ says that in England a 100-year old retired soldier used his walker-rollator to walk 100 rounds along his not so small garden to raise money for workers of the British health system. For his efforts he was knighted by the Queen.

Environmentalists and human rights activists have been complaining for years that our excessive production of clothes pollutes the water in countries like India and Bangladesh, making it undrinkable. In Germany it is common to throw a shirt away if it’s got a hole – even just a very small one. You simply buy another one. Thanks to Corona however many clothes shops now are locked in Germany. Thus according to ‘Domradio’ we now have a new trend around. If your shirt has a hole, just cover it. Please note that the following tips aren’t just meant to cover holes in shirts. You may also use them to cover parts you don’t like about this shirt or parts that got dirty and you just can’t get the dirt off. Plus these tricks may also work on clothes other than shirts:
>If you’ve got two shirts of different colors that are damaged, you could just take textile scissors and cut out little figures – stars, hearts, butterflies, circles etc. – out of one of these two shirts. Then you sew on the fabric onto the other damaged shirt to cover the damaged parts.
>If you’ve got two shirts that are damaged and one has ornaments like pearls, rhinestones, artificial flowers etc., just cut them lose from this shirt and sew them onto the other shirt so they may cover the damaged parts.
>If you just aren’t talented enough to do either of these yourself, you may also ask a seamstress. The semstresses I know don’t ask for much for work like this.
>You could simply take a needle and a thread and sew the hole up or ask a semstress for help. As mentioned before this may not be too expensive.

In Germany police officers and nurses usually don’t get as much respect as they deserve. Instead they both get low wages and often get verbally attacked. The following actions ‘Die Zeit’ wrote about at least give us hope that this lack of respect may change someday: In Stuttgart an unknown number of people used chalks to draw a giant picture on the street that says thank you to police officers for the work they do every day. In Bad Urach at about the same time someone hung a huge sign on the door of a hospital that says thank you to the nurses there.

On the German TV-channel ‘SWR’ there was a documentary movie last week. In Ulm (Baden-Wuerttemberg/ Germany) there is a wheelchair-bound surgeon who already saved the lives of many patients by removing tumors – even complicated cases like brain tumors or tumors located to the backbone. In one case even the slightest and seemingly insignificant error during surgery would have caused the patient to remain blind forever and yet everything went according to plan. All the doctor needed was a special wheelchair that helps him to stand and to move while standing, but that one was provided by health insurance and not by the doctor’s employer. Well, that doctor later even got a wife without a disability – a quite handsome one at that – and thanks to a specially-built car provided by his health insurance even managed to get his driver’s license. He even helps grooming the garden of his and his wife.

The German newspaper ‘GEA’ says that in Dreizißau (Baden-Wuerttemberg/ Germany) a man in a wheelchair accidentally fell out of the wheelchair and into a river. He knew that due to his disability he couldn’t swim and yet held on to a branch that hung into the water. He never let go and eventually was saved by a passerby who then called for more people to help getting the wheelchair user out of the water. What these men did was very brave, because they risked getting sucked in by the flow as well, but they succeeded. They saved the man!