House arrest - day 35

Beautiful sunny day again and getting quite warm – reached the 20s today. Spent the morning working which included a Videocon with exactly 100 people present – it was done using Microsoft teams which seemed to work OK although we were all muted apart from the speakers and we had to ask questions using the chat feature. In the afternoon went out for a 1 hour bike ride on the road bike – did a loop taking in Fairoaks airport. Roads are still very quiet and most cars are behaving responsibly but have noticed quite a few who see lockdown as an excuse to completely ignore speed limits, often cars with “phut, phut, bang” exhausts as someone on twitter noted. Doesn’t always end well – see photo of car (from the local news feed) that ended up 12 feet down a bank on a road (Sheerwater Road) with a 30mph speed limit – difficult to see how that could have happened if car was close to legal speed limit.

In the evening we watched the live launch of the next batch of Starlink satellites – they took off from Florida at 20:30 – beautiful launch into a clear sky. Exactly 22 minutes later we saw the satellites pass overhead from our garden – amazing to think that a load of hardware sitting on the ground in Florida was passing West Byfleet 22 minutes later.Read more