Hello and welcome to something rhymes with purple. This is the podcast that I've been doing with my friend Susie Denty, they're Susie.

I am, hello. I have to say that because we are a few miles apart because though the system is changing slightly and we've had back to work Wednesday, we are still miles apart from one another. Where are you speaking from?

I'm speaking from Oxford. I wish I could give you some news in that, you know, I'm at the top of a mountain somewhere exotic, but now I'm still in the same study that I've been occupying for.

The duration of the lockdown, but I'm very happy here. I'm surrounded by the books that I love, some pictures that I love and I'm okay.

I'm okay too. I'm in southwest London and I have to say the possibility of lockdown being lifted is alarming me. I've got quite cozy in the house here and I'm lucky because all my grandchildren and children live nearby.

So they come to visit, they don't come into the house, they stand outside the house and I'm on the first floor and I open the window and check the marknames we discovered.

I chuck that, but better than that, my wife was saying to the children the other day through the window, the grandchildren, oh, we can soon give you a hug.

And one of them called back, we'd rather have a magnum. And indeed last night my wife said to me, Charles, I think, you know, it's just the pair of us now.

We've been together quite a long time. You don't need to give me a hug. I'd rather have a magnum too. So the pair of us are sitting at home on the sofa, eating our magnums, watching too much television and putting on weight pretty devastatingly.

We're also beginning to fantasize about our first post lockdown trip.

Where are you and your girls going to go for your post coronavirus holiday? Have you begun to think about it?

Well, to be honest, we haven't because we were not really allowed to travel too far. I mean, I guess we come within the UK or within England at least for the time being.

But obviously a lot of people, including my parents who live down in South Dev and don't necessarily want an influx of people from the outside potentially bringing things with them.

So it's a tricky one. So I feel that we shouldn't travel too far, but we are having a lot of fun on our bikes. So maybe we could do a long bike trips on where?

Good. I'm getting a tricycle. This is for real. A tricycle.

A tricycle. Because this going to work thing, they say, you know, don't take public transport if you possibly don't have to.

My children say to me, oh, you know, you can't drive the car. You know, you should be on a bike.

But I say, look at my age. I'm a little bit nervous at the best of times. I'm a bit wobbly. I don't feel a bit insecure.

And I'm also rather in my head going back to childhood anyway. And I loved my tricycle when I was a little boy. So I'm getting a tricycle.

I can't wait to see this. I can't wait. I promise you I put it on Instagram and Twitter. You can see what I look like.

Where are you jumping on a tricycle? So I've been in touch with your Vic tricycles. You wouldn't believe it. I mean, I began googling.

And shape like a Viking. Well, I don't know. I said to them, you're doing tricycles. You rock. And they said, let's not quite the line we want.

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