Covid Blog 19

18 Apr

Today I awoke at 7.00am and the weather was cool and overcast but not raining fortunately!

After breakfast I hoped on the bike and headed towards the city in the hope of finding my normal hairdresser open for business.... today I thought that it would be better to use the roads rather than the bike paths as the traffic was light... it proved to be a great decision as I was in the city in no time and fortunately the barber was open....yeh I could get a haircut after 2 months of growth and I was looking rather ragged!

I sat in the chair in my full riding gear which was a real change to the normal attire of suit and tie or smart casual... the guys were pleased to get some business as the city was devoid of people

After getting cleaned up I made my way to Southbank for coffee.... once again very few people!

After coffee I made my way home with the last few kms being along the bike path... choc a bloc with families out riding, walking the dogs or generally enjoying the Saturday of reasonably good weather

Arriving home I had lunch and decided to get on with some preparation work on the external painting job... gosh how I hate this job!

I managed to do most of the preparation work on the front windows using either builders bog or filler to cover up the areas where the weather had caused the wood to rot.

The job was painstakingly slow and a lot of patience was required but fortunately I was up for this

It took about 4 hours but it seemed to go quite quickly thank goodness

After the repair job was complete I will now need to sand it back and do the undercoat paint ahead of the final paint

The day was a good one and I cannot help but think about those poor individuals caught up with the pandemic in the USA and UK where the case numbers seem to be out of control and yet the President of the USA seems to be keen to ignore this and want his country to be “open for business “ to suit his own political ends... what a terrible situation

The days are now getting shorter with the darkness descending by about 5.30 pm... yuck the short days are not good!

Now for the photos....

Today’s ride ... to get a haircut!!