As this week went on, COVID19 was starting to take grip in the UK and then came the announcement by Boris, flanked by Chris and Sir Patrick, that Monday 23rd March we would be going into a lockdown. Claire was to work from home from that day on.
I and Claire were actually going to help the fight against COVID19 too.
Again I didn’t know where this would lead too and I’m sure a local MP didn’t either. 🙂
People that know me, my passion is cricket, I’ve played since I was 10 and started playing in adult cricket at 13 and have played virtually every year since.
At this point in time I was still in depression from the effects of not enjoying my job and then being made redundant after 21 years, 1 month and 11 days service. I had no desire to travel to London any more, been doing that since 1984.
So I thought lets do an International cricket stats spreadsheet for the 2020 decade, men’s test, men’s and women’s ODI. So what I was to call the cricinfo project begun. 🙂
Now me and DIY, is like England and Europe, America and Trump, potatoes and chocolate, they simply don’t go!!
Before this year, all I was good at, was breaking or smashing stuff up, or giving my father-in-law a screwdriver.
We had been very lucky to have found a great builder called Terry, who we could leave at home and go of to work, as we TRUSTED him that much.
Sadly in February 2019, he had a heart attack whilst driving and never recovered 🙁
All I hope, is he is proud of me as he looks down at what I have done this year!! Thank you for everything you did. Also in our early days to my father in law too, especially the bathroom tiles. Plus our next door neighbour Ron, especially with the garage window frames.
Of course this was simple, well you have to start somewhere don’t you, so giving the kitchen unit a cleanup and tidy up, little was I know to with the English weather performing so well what was too come!!
So what do you do on your first working day off from redundancy?
You share it with your wife (Claire) and go and pick up your brand new 20 reg Kia Sportage car, little were we to know that the approx 500 miles we were to do that week, would be the most for a long time!
Here is MJ 
This story begins 29th February 2020, why you may ask?
2020 has obviously been a very strange year with a certain COVID19 pandemic happening, little did I know that this would with the help of my wife Claire and financial advisor Nikki and escaping my second bout of depression that a new journey would start.
Please sit tight and strap in, as I have no idea where this is going 🙂
This happened last June 2019, when we were having drive relayed, the evening before the boss of the company fired someone, next morning and Claire was actually up at the time, the former employee came along and torched the digger, you can see him ride away.
Thankfully the fire brigade were with us very quickly, but we never saw any police and they closed it within 7 days via a text message!!
In my younger days I was a pretty good medium fast bowler until my hamstring went during a match bowling.
Watching other’s bowl, I wanted to bowl again, but I lost all control of bowling, I could have been Steve Harmison double – Please log in to see the videos
