Chris in Limpley Stoke

 Our main priority at the moment is to improve our English. I am trying to use "total immersion" with my wife and son - trying to only speak to them in English. It seems to be working with my son, whose vocabulary is coming on in leaps and bounds, but it's harder with my wife, who spends a lot of time listening to Chinese on her mobile phone. She does like watching television in English, though, and her favourite programmes are Gardeners' World, Songs of praise and wildlife documentaries. She watched David Attenborough talking about how to save the planet from destruction, which is also a major priority. Avoiding catching covid is also vital, so we are having our own family lockdown until the government sees the mistakes it has made and calls for another lockdown, which should be in about 4 and a half weeks' time. I don't know if schools will start in September, but our son is doing his GCSE's next year so continuing his education is important. We also nee...

 Saw the sunrise at 5 o'clock this morning: Made my petition to the government calling for an immediate lockdown. Then we picked some blackcurrants and gooseberries. In the afternoon I taught our son how to defrost the freezer and asked him to design and make a rat trap from materials we have at home. It's urgent as we saw several rats in our garden today. In the evening we went for a nice walk along by the canal towards Avoncliff and we saw a duck with 13 ducklings and a heron.

 Lovely sunny day today, so we've been doing some gardening. Started by mowing the lawns, taking care not to mow the edges where there are wild flowers growing. This afternoon we saw a baby goldfinch on our bird feeder, but we hadn't put out any seeds, so it flew away. That reminds me that I must order some nyjer seeds from the RSPB, which is what goldfinches like, I have read, so that's what I'm going to do now.