Monday, August 15, 2022

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Coronavirus - Monday 15th August 2022

Finished cataloging all the Roy and the Rogers recordings. They're now all available on line on the Roy And The Rogers page. Spent the rest of the day practising and had a Goolie zoom in the evening. Did my ride out to Theale and back via Pangbourne and Mapledurham on Tuesday. They've started work on the festival site. There was a bit of drama late afternoon as there was obviously a fire somewhere as you could see smoke from the guest room window. It looked like if might be Coley Park way so I headed over there on my bike but it looked further over towards Southcote so headed off there via some back lanes. Got told by a policeman not to head towards the water meadows as the fire was heading that way. There was quite a lot of activity.
So thought I'd head over to Burghfield Bridge and cycle back down the Kennet. Got as far as Southcote Lock and was told by another policeman that I couldn't go any further because of the fire which was actually south of the river. Turned out it was a grassland fire and they'd had to stop the Basingstoke trains. Managed to get this picture from twitter.
I went out looking for where the fire had been on Wednesday. It was south of the Kennet between Southcote Lock and the railway line. Couldn't really tell how far south it went.
Its roughly the area in blue indicated on the map.
Headed off to Anne and Wynn's on Thursday. A couple of disasters before we set off. The automatic sprinkler thing got cross threaded so I needed to pop to BnQ for a replacement and we couldn't dead lock the front door. Also no aircon in the car. Arrived about 6 30.
Went for a meal at The Boat with their friends Kevin and Jane. Tom and Sally had arrived on Thursday but late so came round on Friday to work. We went for a walk along the canal to the aqueduct.
James, Amy and Madeline had just arrived when we got back.  Cooled off in the hot tub afterwards.
Went for a meal at The Cornmill in the evening. Got up early on Saturday to go for a swim in the river with Tom and Sally.
It was cold but OK once you got in. I was strangely cold afterwards though. Needed my fleece and took a couple of hours to warm up. In the afternoon I did a walk over to The Britannia Inn. Its just over a mile but with a steep climb each end. Nice views though.
 Interesting use of the phonebox down the lane.
Had a bbq later.
On Sunday had a go on Wynn's electric bike. Pretty good but if you try to freewheel it slows you down a lot. Also I think it has a max speed so going down a steep hill was quite slow. Wynn cooked chickens for lunch and Tom and Sally headed off. Unfortunately Madeline was a bit out of sorts and had a high temperature. We thought it was the heat and an NHS clinician suggested a virus so James managed to get some ibuprofen. They stayed the night instead of going back to their Airbnb as it was cooler. Not a good night for them though and they contaced a GP in Wrexham early Monday morning as Madeline had been rubbing her ear a lot and they thought it may be an infection. They went in later and the diagnosis was just a viral infection. So we all headed off late morning and all got home OK. Great weekend.

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