Ended up going past the Lodden Brewery so picked up 4 bottles of Forbury Lion. They are expanding their decking area and looking forward to reopening on the 3rd after lockdown. They dont do Dragon Fly in bottles unfortunately. Noticed some raspberries on the canes when putting my bike away so I harvested them and had with muesli for a late breakfast. Bob Onions, the double glazing man came. Learnt the lead for Like a Hurricane. It uses the same notes, an octave apart on the 4th and 2nd strings. Went out for a very early ride on Wednesday, 10 past 8, almost the middle of the night. Went out through Caversham and back via Mapledurham. Saw lots of pheasants, they must breed them as I spotted a feeding box.

We heard last week that there had been a break at Nigel and Sarah's at the end of the street. 4 men in balaclavas at 9pm. Nigel was beaten up and taken to hospital. We heard today from Sarah that he has a broken jaw and eye socket and is in the John Radcliffe. One man has been arrested. On Monday M entered a competition to be in Reading's University Challenge team. On Wednesday she heard she'd got through. Got some bad news from Russ, Clive Seymour has died. He had motor neurone disease. He was a really nice bloke, had been the drummer in Blank Generation with Russ and JR and played drums at my 40th birthday session. He was also an excellent guitarist. I think he had had it for about 5 years. I last saw him at the Fantasy Lockdown Festival. Had a zoom with the goolies in the evening and tried out some of our quiz. It took a while to get going due to various technical issues but worked reasonably well. On Thursday I went for a quick ride down the Kennet to the Burghfield Bridge then back down the A4. I noticed some improvements at Fobney lock.Picked up some coffee on the way. We seem to be getting through a lot in lockdown. Got the estimate from Kellys Sash windows so finally completed my green deal application. Had a zoom call with Gigs n Ale in the evening. On Friday I did a solo on Like a Hurricane. We have agreed songs for the get together at Pirate Studios Tony has arranged. The other guitarist is Mike and Peat plays drums. If you have Spotify  here they are. Started learning them. M made some very tasty meatballs. Started off some bread to finish in the morning. On Saturday got up about 8 to make some tea, knocked back the bread dough and left it to rise again. Baked the bread later and had fine bacon sarnies for breakfast. Finalised the quiz in the afternoon. Cooked the Ottolenghi aubergine dahl. Did the quiz. It went well. Kelvin won, Bobby and Fiona second. On Sunday we did the Sulham walk, this time taking in the motorway footbridge. It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon both pylons and trees look good.