Author: Michael James

  • Week 38 – November 16th 2020 – Week 3 of lockdown 2

    Got to our lockdown escape place at Knole Park, more photography practice

    Hope you like ?

    Deer
    Young deer in Knole Park

    Deer

    Knole Park
    Knole Park scenery
  • Week 38 – November 16th 2020 – Week 3 of lockdown 2

    More early Christmas decorations including a video that you will have to login to see. ?

    Christmas
    Another Father Christmas
  • Week 38 – November 16th 2020 – Week 3 of lockdown 2

    I’m usually bah humbug at Christmas time, but whether it’s Covid19 or something else, for some reason tonight, I went mad in putting up some Christmas decorations ??

    Christmas
    Father Christmas sledge.

    Christmas
    Father Christmas, how many will there be?

    Christmas
    Penguin ball.
  • Week 38 – November 16th 2020 – Week 3 of lockdown 2

    More of the sunrise imagines.

    Sunrise
    Lovely sunrise colour sky

    Sunrise

  • Week 38 – November 16th 2020 – Week 3 of lockdown 2

    Caught some lovely sunrise skies this morning as I carry on with learning about photography. Hope you like?

    Sunrise
    Another lovely sunrise

    Sunrise

    Sunrise
  • Week 38 – November 16th 2020 – Week 3 of lockdown 2

    This evening over WhatsApp video call, I had my DBS verification call. All went well, now I just waiting for all the checks to be completed.

  • Week 38 – November 16th 2020 – Week 3 of lockdown 2

    So I completed the painting of the main wall in the front room – this is the before – https://mjmaddog.co.uk/?p=1011

    What do you think of how it looks now?

    FrontRoom
    New painted wall in the front room.

    FrontRoom
    Just waiting for the new armchairs.
  • November 19th RIP my friend John William George Harley

    Six years ago today, my good friend John Harley passed away.

    I met him in the 80’s when he joined Chelsfield Exiles cricket club. He was our Monty (Panesar), couldn’t field or bat, but would bowl and bowl and bowl. Ask him how many wickets he took, he could real that off with ease.

    He was diagnosed with cancer in April 2014 and his innings was to end 19th November 2014 (53 years old)

    He managed to play virtually the whole summer and John Harley, being John Harley, with his very last ball took a wicket!!!!

    In his last few years he became a TV and film extra and was well liked in that too.

    John
    John in action v Tonbridge Angels
    John
    Radio interview regarding film/TV extra work
    John
    The legend with me, Alan and Danny at Ash Village
  • Week 38 – November 16th 2020 – Week 3 of lockdown 2

    Since lockdown started, I have been doing a cricket project, just to keep my mind alert, I was amazed over doing this, the number of errors / mistakes on the Cricinfo website. This was an email I sent to their lead statistics administrator, waiting on feedback.

    Hello S Rajesh

    Lovely to hear from you. As Ken said in his last email. I’m taking this back over again due to his work commitments.

    Well I did raise a few via the feedback, when I started my 2000 stats project and have no record of them apart from some URL links of the matches.

    I do have a word document of later one’s, but I’ve been discussing with various people and considering the amount of working you’ve been doing with Ken, they said why don’t you ask if you could become a contractor working for cricinfo.

    So I’m asking that S Rajesh?

    I’ll attach a part of the word document, so you can see what I have found once I started recording them.

    Look forward to hearing from you.

    Regards

    Michael

  • Week 38 – November 16th 2020 – Week 3 of lockdown 2

    With the help of the Kent cricket administrator, I now had access to the ECB DBS website to start the next step for my cricket coaching.

    Morning Michael,

    Thank you for sending over your details. I have now initiated a DBS application for you.

    You should receive an email shortly with the next steps to follow.

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