Isolation things to do and done

Speaking as a cyclist, a goodly proportion of cyclists have terrible road manners. Obviously I am a responsible and careful cyclist but I do seem to be in the minority.

The queue for Hasda was an hour to get in to the store but I completely forgot the blank holiday weekend. Most people very polite.

The Waitrose queue yesterday was a not unpleasant 30 minutes in the sunshine, which included seeing and hearing a Ferrari F430 pull away.

It will be the local butcher and greengrocer tomorrow to stock up for the weekend.

Other than that, the garden is looking neater than ever and I have started on the garage. I have some more vintage style enamel signs to put on the walls and will re-paint some of the floor.

We have a wheelie bin here which has food dumped into it, it's full and I mean full. Bin men refused to take it (Understandably)and had a strop leaving bins all over the estate where they do not belong. I did warn the bin company it had happened to give fair warning but the thing is now a health hazard crawling as it is, with maggots. I have my suspicions but no proof.

I braved the local Tesco the other day and so many people, mostly younger people, were breaking their 2m distance and one way instructions. At one point I had to move backward towards the end of one aisle as some gammon faced prick just sauntered towards us against the arrows. When myself and the elderly lady behind me asked him to turn around he lost his rag and threatened to smash my face in before storming off moaning that he'd been stuck indoors for two weeks! The lady behind me got security to have him thrown out but that just meant that whoever was waiting at home for what he was buying is going without so I wasnt too happy. What is clear is that the situation is causing a lot of people's stress levels to rise and the initial sentiment of us all being in this together is fast disappearing.

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Apart from enjoying the sunshine in the garden - always nice when you can have lunch outside in the sun, today I washed the BMW and took it out for a quick spin down to Earlsfield and back to get petrol and generally give it a run for the first time in three weeks. Then I also did various bits of gardening, polished our antique dining table with beeswax (overdue, especially since my wife has taken to spritzing absolutely everything with Dettol) and shaved off the goatee beard that I have been nurturing for the past month (my wife hated it and I promised to shave it off for Easter).

We also walked up to Bayley & Sage, the deli (more of a food jewellery store really) on Parsons Green, where we managed to snaffle the last bag of flour (unobtanium in the supermarkets for weeks now), so my wife now planning to bake an Easter cake.

On the way there we walked up the New Kings Rd, which was frankly already way busier than it should have been - groups of twenty-somethings in shorts, large families with multitudes of children and dogs, cyclists galore (including on Boris bikes) and no particular shortage of traffic. By the time we left the shop, it had got even busier - groups of people standing around yakking so we instead walked home via the residential side streets which (a) were mercifully virtually deserted and (b) turned out to be full of spectacularly blossoming cherry trees.

This afternoon we had the first round of our neighbourhood Zoom quiz. Like a pub quiz, but with everyone in their own house or garden. It worked very well. We came second by one point, so will have to up the ante next time.

Just got back from our daily exercise down the lane. I would go properly mental if I lived in a city with no direct access to open countryside.

My wife went to our local big Sainsburys in the car earlier. She was back within 10 minutes saying the queue, at around 10am, was round the block.

I had to go through to St Andrews just now.
No queue at the chemists and the roads were reasonably quiet, especially at my favourite places .
Unleaded was 99.8p at the garage in Dairsie. When did we last see that?

Bummer, I paid 34p yesterday!

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