House arrest - day 17

Josh had decided that after almost 2 weeks in Surrey it was time to return to his flat in Hackney Wick. As such, and not sure how long it would take I got up early to get my daily bike ride in. In the end we set off just after 11 am - Laura also came along as she wanted to pop into her flat to collects some clothes etc.. - she hadn't been there for 4 weeks and on return from Canada only really had stuff for a winter holiday. We drove and the roads were very quiet - basically not a single traffic problem - as the roads were quiet we took the shorter route through central London that you would never normally consider. After crossing the Thames at Vauxhall we drove up Millbank, around Parliament Square, up a practically empty Whitehall and round a completely empty Trafalgar Square. We then drove down the Strand eventually reaching Old St roundabout (Inmarsat, whoa) and taking the final part of the route through Shoreditch. After emptying the car we then took the Tower Bridge route to Peckham. We arrived back just after 15:00 so around a four hour trip. While all this was going on Lynette had her annual day in Oxford with Joyce, Julie and Angela – her schoolfriends. This time it was done “virtually” via the Zoom videoconferencing software. After a lovely fish pie for tea the girls did a Zoom pub quiz with their friends.Read more