House arrest - day 40

In the end the weather was OK today – the big rain event now scheduled to start very early Tuesday. Cloudy in the morning but that didn’t matter as we were all working (Claire was doing a job interview in my office). Early afternoon Phil & Claire worked on the bike – so far we gave it a general cleaning by blasting it with water from the Karcher, got the very rusty drivetrain working using plenty of oil and got the front brakes working fine, we replaced the V-brake unit with a Shimano Deore unit that Phil had taken off a mountain bike about 10 years ago that still works very well – much better than the unit we took off. Main tasks for next session are raising seat, fixing front puncture, rear brakes, gears – may need new cables plus getting the mudguards aligned properly. Once that’s done we’ll do a deep clean with Surfex and re-lube all moving parts.

Had a nice lunch with bread rolls made from the flour and evening meal was a fantastic Chicken Satay cooked by Claire. Phil’s bike ride was 45 minutes MTB to Woking and back. Evening TV was episode 3 of the latest “Killing Eve”.Read more