Did an early ride on Monday morning, down the Bath Rd, Nunhide Lane, Sulham, Pangbourne and back via Hardwick Stud and Mapledurham. Lots of red kites soaring. I got enough responses for the February Lockdown Festival to make it viable so sent out an email asking contributors to select their performances. Played around setting up a website for it. Added some wah wah guitar to Across The Universe. It turns out the black boxes I saw by the Kennet last week are dormouse nest boxes but they will be hibernating at the moment. Today's outdoor activity was meant to be an afternoon ride on my road bike going out through Caversham. I got half way up St Peter's hill when the same thing happened as when my chain snapped. I.e. the rear mech got jammed. Thus time the chain didn't snap which made this worse as the back wheel was effectively locked.
I rigged up strap to put over my shoulder to lift the back wheel off the ground and headed back home. Bumped in to Kelvin who was going out on a similar ride. It was hard work so decided to lock the bike up in town and go get the car only to find the battery was flat. Went back for the bike with a better strap. Bumped into Carolyn and Steve who had been out for Seville oranges. Went for a quick early ride on Wednesday just to the Cunning Man. Got the breakdown service to start the car. Chap recommended a new battery. Took my bike in to Rotec. They dont seem to any thing like as busy as they were before, hopefully it wont take so long as last time, about 3 months. Took the cupboard from the front room up to the music room. It was a bit too much with the top bit but fine with just the bottom. Had a goolie zoom in the evening. Got the car battery replaced on Thursday. We decided on the colours for the front room so I went off to get paint and stuff. In the afternoon I was planning to cycle out to Fobney Lock and round the nature reserve to see what birds I could see. I set of on my town bike but my bad luck with modes of transport continued as I discovered it had a puncture and naturally it was the back wheel. Went on my mountain bike instead. The ducks I saw the other day were still there and they are definitely gadwalls. Nothing much else though apart from some long tailed tits. A lot of the area south of the Kennet is land fill and therefore there are lots of these pipes sticking up.
It turns out these are ground water monitoring pipes. I saw a chap with a white hard hat and bright orange work gear. At first I thought he might have doing some conservation work but as I got closer I could see he had put a tube down one of the pipes so he must been checking the ground water.
Landfill sites are a lot more sophisticated then I thought. Not just a case of putting trash in a hole. I like this log cabin.
I stopped of to see if I could see anything in the almost permanent lake in the Coley water meadows but the light levels were too low. On Friday I took my town bike into Evans to get the puncture fixed. They did good again my telling me the labour would £20 because of the hub gears but only charged me £10. Whilst I was waiting I walked over to Waitrose in Caversham in search of Saville oranges as I'd bumped into Steve Snook earlier in the week and he'd been sent to buy some. Coincidentally saw Steve and Lindsey on the way. Managed to get some and started making marmalade when I got back. On Saturday went over to Purley with M to pick up some photos for the Coley book. Finished off making the marmalade but it came out runny. Had a Swiss based meal in the evening starting off with raclette.
A good start to the day on Sunday. Had a bit of a lie in. Did a bit of gardening including the annual lawn spiking.
Got the front room ready for decorating.
I stopped of to see if I could see anything in the almost permanent lake in the Coley water meadows but the light levels were too low. On Friday I took my town bike into Evans to get the puncture fixed. They did good again my telling me the labour would £20 because of the hub gears but only charged me £10. Whilst I was waiting I walked over to Waitrose in Caversham in search of Saville oranges as I'd bumped into Steve Snook earlier in the week and he'd been sent to buy some. Coincidentally saw Steve and Lindsey on the way. Managed to get some and started making marmalade when I got back. On Saturday went over to Purley with M to pick up some photos for the Coley book. Finished off making the marmalade but it came out runny. Had a Swiss based meal in the evening starting off with raclette.
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