my little crocus

Tomorrow handymen come and move appliances and we can stuff up every hole in the living space. Then, soon (?), the handymen will fix the entrance from the outside. Then we see who owns the house. 

I should take bets:
- current humans
- current mice
- the rabbit
- crows (surprising plot twist, eh?)

The little birds are learning how to land on Fireglow. 

There is a bear named Masha who lived for 19 years in a circus. She was finally going to go to a sanctuary in Romania, when mice, I mean Russians, invaded. Lionel De Lange, from Warriors for Wildlife, British journalist Richard Ashmore, from Birmingham, and filmmaker Andrew Drury drove 280 miles, including through the warzone, to save Masha. She had to be sedated just enough to not kill anybody, but not so much that she couldn't get into the van. They drove to Ukraine with a van of medical supplies, food, menstrual products (so often people forget how necessary these are), pet food, and military surplus gear. They left with a bear and every time they stopped they cheered people up. 

A charity concert in Birmingham tonight, with a bunch of big names that I don't recognize, raised 12 million pounds for Ukrainian relief. 

Over 50 staff from West Midlands Ambulance Service transported Ukrainian kids receiving cancer treatment and their families from Poland to Birmingham Airport. They'll get treatment from NHS. The UK is doing this for 21 children. 

Britons can host Ukrainians in their homes. Sounds like details are being worked out but people can register their interest. Brits will be matched with Ukrainians. 3000 visas have been issued. British individuals, charities, community groups, and businesses offering homes to Ukrainian refugees will get a "thank you" payment of 350 pounds a month. 

The UK has seized its first Russian superyacht. 

The UK is sending 500 portable generators. I saw a tweet a woman posted of her mom who had just driven six of them from Krakow to Kyiv.

Someone donated her/his copy of one of the prints of CND Soldiers, a Banksy art piece. Someone else paid $106,505 for it, four times higher than the market value. The money will go to Ukraine's largest children's hospital. Banksy painted it on a brick wall in 2003. It was silk-screened two years later.