Captain Tom

100 tomorrow and over £8,000,000 raised for the NHS! We thank you 😇

£12,238,931.92

An amazing fellow.

Hope he gets a knighthood.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
An amazing fellow.

Hope he gets a knighthood.

Indeed ..... 🛫 🛫 ✈️ 🛬 🛬🛬

@drewnogal said
100 tomorrow and over £8,000,000 raised for the NHS! We thank you 😇

I had to read this story twice this morning in order for the magnitude of it to sink in.

Edit: link for others interested.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-veteran-99-raises-12m-for-nhs-as-he-completes-garden-challenge-11973950

In the midst of a 'big' situation that's affecting everybody one way or another it just goes to show the magnitude of such a simple gesture as walking up and down his garden.

Tom's a legend!

@divegeester said
I had to read this story twice this morning in order for the magnitude of it to sink in.

Edit: link for others interested.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-veteran-99-raises-12m-for-nhs-as-he-completes-garden-challenge-11973950

Thanks for the link. As an American, I had no idea under the nine suns who in the world this person was.

An amazing man, never heard of him until this post!

-VR

Meanwhile politicians are voting not to give nurses a pay raise.

@trev33 said
Meanwhile politicians are voting not to give nurses a pay raise.

Perhaps have the politicians who vote for not giving the nurses pay raises to go work in the hospital for a 12 hour shift, see how they feel about it afterwards.

-VR

@very-rusty said
Perhaps have the politicians who vote for not giving the nurses pay raises to go work in the hospital for a 12 hour shift, see how they feel about it afterwards.

-VR

they would not have the balls

@drewnogal said
100 tomorrow and over £8,000,000 raised for the NHS! We thank you 😇

I think they should promote him to MAJOR

20 million now apparently.

@divegeester said
20 million now apparently.

Last I heard was 25 million Canadian and still growing.

-VR

I saw US$25m. What's that, about 20m pounds? Good job Tom and all the people that donated

Nice to see good news for a change, eh?