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  • Philip DaviesTravelerCovid-19 House Arrest

    House arrest - day 63

    May 20, 2020 in England ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    The weather today was absolutely amazing – high 20sC in the afternoon and warm right through into the evening – in fact we had our evening meal outside which is quite unusual for May. Again it was another day of work and videocons – I guess this is the new normal and likely to last into 2021 at least. Phil tried and failed to fix the lawnmower – managed to install the new drive belt and it worked for a while but there was another problem which caused the whole assembly to “rapidly disassemble”. Bit the bullet and ordered an new battery electric cordless one from Amazon – due to be delivered on Friday. Phil did an awesome bike ride at the end of the afternoon – cycled to Wisley and then off-roaded thorough Wisley common, over the M25 and along the river Wey eventually appearing in Byfleet near the manor. Was still 25C when arrived home after 18:00. Evening meal was a lovely mushroom risotto cooked by Claire.Read more

  • Philip DaviesTravelerCovid-19 House Arrest

    House arrest - day 62

    May 19, 2020 in England ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Another working day with all 3 of us in videocons and telecons for big chunks of the day. In fact Phil was pretty much in videocons from 0900 to 1730. This meant the bike ride was quite late and quite short – took out the road bike and did fastest average speed in a ride for 4 years – definitely getting fitter. Evening meal was a lovely tuna pasta bake cooked by Claire. Weather today was amazing - mid 20'sC in the afternnon.Read more

  • Philip DaviesTravelerCovid-19 House Arrest

    House arrest - day 61

    May 18, 2020 in England ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    Weather really fantastic again – 23C, blue sky and sunny when I went out for my daily bike ride just after 16:00. Forecast is for over 25C for the each of the next 3 days and generally good all through next weekend which is a long weekend with the late May bank holiday on the Monday. Quiet day here, now down to three of us – Claire and I had lunch outside but Lynette was in telecons so had hers later. Today’s bike ride was down through the woods next to Silvermere golf course. Came back over the M25 which is a little busier although still way down on normal rush hour traffic. Local traffic has increased at a much faster rate than the motorway. Fun fact of the day – since 25th March I’ve cycled 772km.Read more

  • Philip DaviesTravelerCovid-19 House Arrest

    House arrest - day 60

    May 17, 2020 in England ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Big day today – Laura moved out! She’d been here for 55 days but decided to move back to London, initially staying in Hackney Wick with Josh, probably returning to Peckham in June. After the weekly family video chat we set off in the car, taking the central London route past Parliament, Whitehall, the City arriving about 12:00. After unloading the car we had a walk around Victoria Park and had our packed lunch with “socially distanced” beers from the local pub who were offering a takeaway. After arriving back Phil did a 20km bike ride past Fairoaks Airport and we had a lovely roast ham evening meal courtesy of Lynette. After that settled down and watched film “Darkest Hour” about Churchill – amazing performance by Gary Oldman as Winston.Read more

  • Philip DaviesTravelerCovid-19 House Arrest

    House arrest - day 59

    May 16, 2020 in England ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Weekend! Phil did jobs in the morning – lawn mower packed in about 2/3 way through doing the lawn – needs a new drive belt which is on its way this week courtesy of ebay. Washed the Audi. Food was “non standard” as we were playing a late afternoon teas so we had a brunch around 11:00 – nice bagels with avocado, bacon and egg. Phil did a MTB ride in the afternoon and we had the afternoon tea around 16:30 – ‘twas really good – supplied by local company Mclaren hospitality and washed down with a bottle of Prosecco from Claire.Read more

  • Philip DaviesTravelerCovid-19 House Arrest

    House arrest - day 58

    May 15, 2020 in England ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    Took the car for its service – on the way it made a strange noise which I assumed was a stone trapped between the brake disc and the dust shield – this happened once before on the Audi. Anyway I was wrong – garage phoned to see part of the exhaust was hanging off as a bracket was missing. My guess is that it got damaged in March when we went over the pothole in Wales that caused a puncture but I guess we’ll never know. Probably going to be expensive – we’ll find out next week. Other than that it was an uneventful working day. Managed a late afternoon bike ride with Lynette to Ripley. In the evening we received a surprise ‘thank you’ present from Claire & Laura – a lovely gin set based around a bottle of silent pool. Evening meal was a takeaway curry courtesy of Claire.Read more

  • Philip DaviesTravelerCovid-19 House Arrest

    House arrest - day 57

    May 14, 2020 in England ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    Another nice day – sunny and starting to get warmer. At the start of April Phil booked the big Merc in for a service – guessing it might be possible after mid May he chose 15th May but heard nothing back. This morning he got a text saying Merc is back doing services and the one booked for the 15th is on, was not what we were expecting. Another day of Videocons, at least for the 3 workers – me, Claire and Laura. Lynette works for Aqa on Mon/Tues/Wed but not Thur/Fri. She did the weekly shop – queues are getting shorter. Phil went for a bike ride late afternoon and noticed a lot more local traffic although the M25 is still quiet however busy than the last few weeks. Still nothing like a normal rush hour though. Thursday meal was home made pizzas again – really excellent – thanks to Claire and Laura for doing the creative part. As it was Thursday we went out at 20:00 and did the weekly clapping for the NHS. For lunch Phil made baguettes but forgot to photo them, apart from the last piece – I’ll try and remember tomorrow.Read more

  • Philip DaviesTravelerCovid-19 House Arrest

    House arrest - day 56

    May 13, 2020 in England ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    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!    Read more

  • Philip DaviesTravelerCovid-19 House Arrest

    Hoise arrest - day 55

    May 12, 2020 in England ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    Improving weather – sunny all day and bit warmer but still cold. Due to lots of late afternoon videocons Phil had to do his daily exercise at 12:00. Nice bike ride – just over 14km - to Wisley Gardens and Claire came along too. Evening meal was a really excellent Mac’n’Cheese with Chorizo cooked by Laura. Latest Amazon delivery was a baguette maker so we should be getting some perfectly formed French sticks in the coming days. Finally, today was Claire’s last day of freedom, she starts her new job tomorrow – first paid work since December.Read more

  • Philip DaviesTravelerCovid-19 House Arrest

    House arrest - day 54

    May 11, 2020 in England ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    Back to work! However, as the weather is now much colder and very windy spending a day working was not too bad. Made a small loaf which we had with the left over BBQ food for lunch. Evening meal was a lovely Haloumi and roast vegetables dish cooked by Claire. Phil decided that his space zoom background should be replaced – as most people on Zoom seem to prefer a bookcase as their backing I decided to have my virtual background as the bookcase to end all bookcases which is the reading room of the British Library. Managed a short bike ride today round Woodham and Pyrford.Read more

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