Monday 15 March:

Went for my usual harbourside dawn walk (in fact, the first harbour walk since last Tuesday!)… bright start to the day, sun rising over (or beside, at least) the marina. While walking along Wapping Wharf (between SS Great Britain and Gaol Ferry Steps), I became suddenly aware that there was absolutely no one else visible on the harbourside – no runners, no walkers, no cyclists etc – and, apart from the low hum of the traffic on Cumberland Road/Coronation Road, there was complete silence… something I hadn’t previously experienced on my dawn walks.
Someone had painted graffiti on a harbour wall in protest of the recent death of Sarah Everard (*reclaim these streets*) and, presumably, at the crass handling of the vigil in Clapham over the weekend by the Metropolitan Police.
I spent part of the morning drafting out a blog post to mark our 12 months of lockdown.
At our morning coffee, Moira and I had discussed our intentions to ‘sort out the house’ (ie. cleaning and clearing out redundant bits+pieces)… I made a start and spent an hour or so in the kitchen (but just ‘scraped the surface’!).
Read a little more of my ‘Lemons in Italy’ book in the afternoon.
Evening saw another ‘cousin zoom session’ – this time Janet, Lyn, Jackie, Barry and Alan. We were limited to 40 minutes, but it went quite well (quite difficult to get everyone to contribute a little and not to dominate the conversation, but hey!).
Evening telly: watched the end of ‘Only Connect’ and ‘Challenge’.
Image: Sarah Everard graffiti.