House arrest - day 36

The good weather continues – the days tend to merge into one another – most weekdays are like the day before or the day after – for me it’s work from home for around half the day, do a bike ride, do a few chores, eat lunch in Garden etc… Friday tomorrow and then some variation as it’s the weekend. Lynette did a really big shop today at Tesco – took quite a well and cost a fair few £££. But, thankfully, we are well stocked up on nice things to eat and drink. We continue to make use of delivery companies for some stuff – veg from McLaren hospitality (yes, the same McLaren who build formula 1 cars – it’s our local car builder), meat from JL butchers, beer from craftybrewing and Beer52, wine from Naked Wines and coffee from Nespresso.

Our friend Geoff popped around today with some professional grade flour which is pre-yeasted so quite easy to make into bread. Phil cleaned up the old breadmaker which has been dormant for 10 years and made the first loaf which was quite a success actually – lovely bread, probably a bit too big so will make slightly smaller next time. Evening meal was a lovely rice dish with Chorizo cooked by Laura. In the evening we did the clap for NHS, extra claps today for the two nurses we know – my niece Phoebe from Wales who is a recent qualifier and our friend Sue who is a retired nurse who has gone back to working to help out at this time. After that we tried and failed to spot the new starlink satellites and watched BBC’s “Big Night In”.Read more