House arrest - day 56

Another day of lots of videocons – this is part of what some folk are calling “the new normal” and I expect this will continue for a lot of the rest of 2020 and maybe also into 2021. Phil started early with a 1.5 hour one with some of the folk in Australia hence early morning UK which is late afternoon Australia is probably the only time of day when everybody is awake and sober. Claire started her new job – she had some virtual meetings and also spent quite a lot of the day reading various documents etc… Laura was very happy when her new Garmin GPS watch arrived but was quite annoyed when she couldn’t get one of the key features to work – the ability to stream her Spotify music to her headphones. Anyway, after a call to Garmin support she managed to get everything working so was then happy.

Phil did a 20km road bike ride and at the bottom of the “Engliff Lane” short climb decided he would try and break his record. According to Strava he’d done this climb 68 times before with a best time of 32s done twice – once in 2014 and once in 2012. Anyway, today he did it in (drum roll) 31s. result. Also made him the 69th fastest of all time out of 1502 people. Evening meal was a Chili-con-Carne cooked by Phil. Did the weekly phone call to Angela in Wales – all seems OK with their family and her daughter Siobhan has managed to get a new teaching job 10 mins from their house.

Final fun fact - the Internet went down in the afternoon and when it came back up Phil did a speedtest to check it was all OK. What he discovered was that it's now faster - over 200Mbps download and over 20 Mbps upload. And all for no extra charge!Leer más