Day 5 of 21 days in quaratine

I had to take the garbage out this morning, what excitement! As I wheeled the bin out I saw a neighbour about five houses down doing the same and we waved to each other, then the guy directly across the road came out and I shouted "Good morning" to him, he called "Morning, morning." back and I retreated into the sanctuary of my own home, wow! Excitement at the social contact welling in my chest.

Janet and I had a serious discussion this morning about our wine stock. After making calculations based on the empties that went out with the garbage we will run out before the 17th April if we carry on imbibing at our current rate! Unfortunately alcohol is not considered a necessity so during lockdown we cannot buy more, we are going to try and reduce our consumption to two glasses per night at dinner time. Let's see how that goes, I'm not very confident but as I said we have beer and whisky. I think when the bottle stores re open the queue will be longer than it was on the day before the lockdown!

Bikers on social media are calling for a 30 second engine rev at 16h00 today to show our solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus, I am in two minds about this, on the one hand I'm happy to start my bike up for the battery's sake and I will rev it but on the other hand us bikers already get on Joe Public's nerves with noisy antics. They will not have read about why this is happening because it has been passed around all the biker pages which they do not read, so as far as they are concerned it will just be "those bloody bikers making a noise again!" We'll see what dominates the pages later and in the morning.

A far more appealing notice went out a little while ago; Cimarron MCC in Capetown has suggested a National biker braai day on Saturday 4th April, we will braai in our own backyards and take selfies at our braai wearing our colours which we can post later on facebook. We will definitely take part in this, we enjoy a braai anyway.

The day has passed quietly but we read with dismay and a twinge of trepidation that one coronavirus death has taken place in the Saldanha Bay area. Stay in your homes people.

I was going through my old photographs, scanning and downloading from old albums so I thought I would post a few here. These are from my time in the BSAPolice force in  the then Rhodesia, which incidentally at that time was the breadbasket of the African continent and which now is Zimbabwe, the basket case. I digress, this is where my love of motorcycles began;

In those days the girls wore mini skirts

Two Traffic Department Constables on Yamaha RD350s

Motorcycle escort with BSA 650s

Patrol Officer and Constable

My late friend Paul Weinel on the Matchless 500

District Policeman at base camp on patrol

Those were the days and I am proud to have served in one of the best Police forces in the world.