Day 42 Monday 4th of May

We carried on with the decorating. It will be finished some day. We changed our mind about the colours we were going to use. Goose Down we decided was too pale and also looked blueish rather than grey. The door and the skirting boards are now Chic Shadow.

Possibly we could have gone with a few more shades, but we were worried It could have turned into Fifty Shades of Grey.

In the evening we had a fancy dress Zoom birthday party for one of Diane’s nieces. It worked better than you might think that it would.

Day 43 Tuesday 5th of May

Tuesday meant back to work, boring, but it does give me a bit of a change from the sameness of lockdown. It also makes life seem a bit more normal.

In the evening, before dinner, we took our bikes and some wine up to the allotment. We had a very pleasant hour or so, drinking our wine, interspersed with a bit of light weeding and watering.

Day 44 Wednesday 6th of May

Today I drove round the M25 to Caterham and back. The sat-nav told me Take the M25, the traffic is light. I would not normally have taken the M25, but it was incredibly light. However, I shouldn’t have been driving round the M25 in the Little Lilac Car. We should have been in the Big Green Bus on board this:

We should have been on our way to Bilbao to start our holiday. Covid-19 put paid to that. I’m not sure when the Big Green Bus will next get an outing. Sometime before the summer is over, hopefully.

Day 45 Thursday 7th of May

Diane woke up about five o’clock and couldn’t get back to sleep. She decided to paint the wardrobes. This worked out well for me, I got woken up with a cup of tea. Very pleasant way to wake up.

Our I.T. department has finally sorted out the problem with uploading our reports. It was a bit of an involved and long-winded process, but we got there in the end.

We watched a good film “Material” in the evening. I think it is only available on Netflix.

Day 46 Friday 8th of May

The May Day bank holiday was converted to the 75th Anniversary of VE Day Bank Holiday, for this year only. I’m not sure what was planned before the lock-down, but it seemed to sort of work. We had a physically distanced afternoon tea. Fish fingers, chips and beans, followed by stewed rhubarb, seemed an appropriate choice for supper.

In the morning we started putting the wallpaper on the walls. By lunch-time we had done one wall. Hopefully we will get the rest done tomorrow. We are getting there.