Looks like the drier weather is back, so Pip the Dog and I had a peaceful and sunny walk this morning. Never came across any other dog walkers, just a couple of mountain bikers who were jumping in the small wood that we have to go through to get to the fields with the cows.

The other day, I took some photos of the bike track in the wood. There had been a discarded bit of cardboard that would have carried a six pack of bottled beer, guess what the name of the beer was – “CORONA’’. But it wasn’t there any longer so instead a photo of a can of beer hanging in a tree! You will notice some discarded tools and a bucket, which they use to shape the bike track from the mud in the wood.

Walking back from the fields, Pip and I were walking on the pavement, which is about wide enough for both of us, it was dead quiet everywhere and hardly any cars on the road, then moving towards us, was a road cyclist, but he was on the pavement and I though, well he will stop anytime soon, but he didn’t, he just carried on cycling towards us and last us, within a a few inches of my arm. I was SO angry, I really wanted to curse at him and the words that came up were ‘you f…ing selfish git, seriously?’ But something stopped me, I’m sure he would have been capable of stopping and beating me up, so I didn’t say anything but I could feel the blood rushing into my face with anger, wow that was horrible, thankfully I was walking so managed to walk it off before coming back home, not a nice experience at all.

Today is cleaning day at Clair’s Mum’s, which Clair has been doing every Saturday since lockdown. I usually do a bit of cleaning at ours, so I did some vacuuming, floors washing, bathroom cleaning, study cleaning, obviously washing up etc. Felt a sense of satisfaction after all that.

After that some computer work and a bit of Taiko drumming practice. I managed to master a really tricky rhythm we’ve been learning over the last 2 weeks and felt again a massive sense of achievement with that. The song is appropriately titled “Lockdown”, written by my teacher James Barrow, the founder of Taiko West.

Finished doing the weekly washing and hanging up in the garden and Pip found my garden chair and cushion to relax on in the sunshine, she just loves the sun!

Had some lunch and then it was time to catch up with Jacob Granville, the founder of Distributed Bio, who are working on a antibody drug to treat COVID19. He was featured in the Netflix documentary Pandemic!

Watch his update, which he lived streamed yesterday, 1 May 2020.

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Last thing to share, which I will share daily from now on, is the U.K. daily charts, it will be interesting to look back on these in years to come.

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Okidoki, that’s about all from me!

Michael out…

Michael de Groot

ps. My part-time business partner on a project I brought to him, has reduced my commission this month, I wrote about this in a previous article. I received the email from Udemy today!