Tuesday 31st March
11:12 - 11:59, wind NNW 2 gusting 3, temp 8C (feels like 6) The cause of the pandemic wren sings on the garden fenCe looping through the sOuth east cherRy in full flOwer the bell paiNted black fewer people less trAffic iVy rotted fence a poInter and an old black lab duck thRough the fence cows on dUke’s moor smell of woodSmoke
Wednesday 1st April
06:59 - 07:44, wind W 3 gusting 4, temp 5C (feels like 2) Today’s walk … heading for The NW peninsula a man in black gOes to work on a harley a small juDas tree An X18 with nobody on it nearlY walk in front of a bike tree-top blackbird Song the sparroWhawk flushes everything off the field on wolsinghAm road bunting still flies house sparrow fLies off with a feather in its beak tree-top finch flocK
Thursday 2nd April
07:00 - 07:41, wind W 6 gusting 9, temp 8C (feels like 4) It becomes clear that the UK does not have any significant testing capacity and has bought tests that are not good enough off To define the northErnmost peninsula the wind mimicS the lost Traffic roar drIfts of daffodils a lurcher ruNs towards us a roGue rhododendron please don't park in Front of these gates an overgrown pAth across alley gaRages with huge shuttered doors a concrete fRont garden full of vegetAble trays a street sweepinG machine bumbles along back alley slabs cut to make flOwer beds
Friday 3rd April
07:08 - 07:54, wind W 3 gusting 4, temp 3C (feels like -1) The Health Secretary announces a Plan to tackle the pandemic off to deFine the south east Inlet jaywalk oVer the temporary lights empty bussEs a light frost crisPs the grass joggers cross the lIttle moor along the grove of no myrtLes … though there is an elderfLower the paperboy neAtly folds the day’s news primulas by cowslips in a stReet corner bed plump liPs by “award winning surgeons” sheds and greenhouses stud the alLotments a blAckcap sings flits jumps sings “suppliers of household requisites siNce 1947”
Saturday 4th April
07:12 - 07:54, wind SSW 2 gusting 3, temp 5C (feels like 5) The ExCeL Exhibition Centre is re-purposed as a hospital oNe man, hood up, sits at tHe back of the bus topiary Spirals upwards six piNts on the doorstep a paperboy trollIes his load a drop-leaf table lyinG across the skip a dunnock propositions tHe world a lyTch gate to the garage the house wIth two porsche’s … and a beNtley eighteen Geese ‘v’ north above the green fellow travellers wAlk the streets the sparrowhawk fLap glidE flaps through
Sunday 5th April
11:42 - 12:23, wind SSE 4 gusting 6, temp 14C (feels like 13) Widespread testing is required to understand and control the outbreak the island is preTty much complete a wandEr towards the north eaSt a man siTs rapT in his phone a chiffchaff sings unsEen maroon and redS on a flowering currant an imagined beaver dam holds The stream the attack of a small, disobedienT rug small fErns grow from a corner wall wall-top pollarded a cheStnut sprays upwards a girl plays baskeTball on roller-skates sprouTs and leeks long gone over a blackbird stakEs out the worms the man on the bench Shouts to his phone a Q3 wiTh no passengers
Monday 6th April
18:49 - 19:34, wind WSW 3 gusting 5, temp 10C (feels like 7) The Prime Minister is admitted to intensive care unloading shopPing a woMan at the back of a range rover an almost full mooN rising a garden wHere goalposts dominate the back lawn walkerS converge at pedestrIan nodes shouted conversaTions from two metres distant pigeons feast on tree top bUds