Dr John Hawkins

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Escape from London
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday
Urban Walk
Roll Out the Barrow
Andrew's Birthday
Garden
Hori Hori
Feather sticks
Morning Walk
Sunday
Outdoors
Bank Holiday
Tent
More Beer Garden
Pineapple Shrine Again
Chie's Birthday
Primrose Hill
More Jungle Exploration
English Oak and Jelly Beans

Escape from London

[Friday 22nd May 2020]
I had the day off from work and decided we all really needed some escape from our urban confines. So I hired a car and we got out of London to see some proper countryside - the closest example of which I could think of being Ivinghoe Beacon.
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Thursday

[Thursday 21st May]
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Wednesday

[Wednesday 20th May 2020]
Various deliveries in the daytime. More time sat outside in the garden in the evening.
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Tuesday

[Tuesday 19th May]
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Monday

[Monday 18th May]
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Urban Walk

[Sunday 17th May 2020]
I went for a long urban walk this morning by myself, now that time spent outdoors exercising is unrestricted (ridiculous that it ever was). Was roughly aiming for Highgate Wood, but actually just went to neighbouring Queen's Wood instead. On the way back discovered the Southampton Arms had reopened for takeaway, which made my day.
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Roll Out the Barrow

[Saturday 16th May 2020]
Ordered fish and chips for lunch (had attempted to yesterday evening but the place we wanted to order from wasn't available, so had to wait until today). In the afternoon I took Erika for a walk to Hampstead Heath, having discovered there was a Bronze Age barrow there, and I wanted to have a closer look.
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Andrew's Birthday

[Friday 15th May 2020]
Erika and I decorated the garden with ribbons. Had a virtual birthday party for Andrew.
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Garden

[Thursday 14th May 2020]
Another evening with as much as possible of it spent out in the garden, escaping the confines of the interior as best I can.
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Hori Hori

[Wednesday 13th May 2020]
Received a hori hori in the post today - a Japanese gardening tool - so christened it in the obvious fashion.
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Feather sticks

[Tuesday 12th May 2020]
Practiced bushcraft firelighting in the garden this evening - made "feather sticks" as a firelighting aid, and managed to start a little fire using just that and my tiny little ferro rod.
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Morning Walk

[Monday 11th May 2020]
I woke up relatively early for a change so went for a morning walk to Hampstead Heath before starting work for the day.
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Sunday

[Sunday 10th May 2020]
Video chat with Vera, Robin and Louise in the morning. Lego in the afternoon. In the evening I opened the first bottle from my case of Domaine Fourrier Gevrey Chambertin 2015.
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Outdoors

[Saturday 9th May 2020]
Quite a mixed bag, and most of it outdoors - a bit of gardening, I revisited the Monnow Valley 2004 Brut, pizza in the garden for dinner, then a late post dinner stroll to a nearby park where we saw squirrel and a nonchalant fox.
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Bank Holiday

[Friday 8th May 2020]
May bank holiday (moved this year to Friday for VE day). Took Erika to Hampstead Heath for a walk in the afternoon, and made (Indian) curry for dinner.
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Tent

[Thursday 7th May 2020]
Chie and Erika set up the tent in the garden today.
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More Beer Garden

[Wednesday 6th May 2020]
More time out in the beer garden this evening with the Harvey's keg.
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Pineapple Shrine Again

[Tuesday 5th May 2020]
Constructed another shrine to my local, the Pineapple, in the back garden again this evening, and opened another keg of Harvey's.
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Chie's Birthday

[Monday 4th May 2020]
Erika and I made a cake for Chie's birthday.
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Primrose Hill

[Sunday 3rd May 2020]
I went for a walk to Primrose Hill this morning. It wasn't very good.
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More Jungle Exploration

[Saturday 2nd May 2020]
Erika and I went to explore the jungle of Hampstead Heath again in the afternoon. In the evening I had a play with my camping stove in the back garden.
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English Oak and Jelly Beans

[Friday 1st May 2020]
Another English Wine Night online tasting event this evening. This week the focus was on the Wessex region, so I chose a sparkling wine from Dorset: English Oak. Also some Jelly Belly jelly beans arrived from Mum, so we had a fun time tasting those too.
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