MJ Mad Dog

Month: March 2020

  • Week 5 – March 30th 2020 – Week 2 of lockdown

    2nd April, was a day that was going to start a change in my life. Due to our friend Covid19, I had a Zoom meeting with a financial adviser Nikki Rowell (Foster Denovo – has given me permission to use) Please note this was a free meeting.

    I had a simple question, could I retire?

    After an hour meeting, Nikki initial reaction was YES.

    From the information that I provided, he would produce a document for me to review and take it from there.

    If you need a finanical advisor and I would fully recommend it, I can introduce you to Nikki, the same as me, your first meeting would be free and you decide if you want to work with Nikki or not.

    Nikki does know, as this was very hard for me to do, trust someone with my future and finance. Just as I was looking into Nikki and his company (trust me I did, I even rang the FCA as I wasn’t happy with something I read on the FCA website about Foster Denovo, but they explained it – all good, even though I don’t watch much television, I kept seeing an advert for pension scamming and the scammer on a jet ski bike and two elderly people broke.

    This was worrying Claire too.

  • Week 4 – March 23rd 2020 – Week 1 of lockdown

    Thank you to Annemarie Plas for coming up with the clap for NHS and front line staff in this fight against the COVID19 virus. Good to see (though not well in the video) and hear people clapping locally and across the country.

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  • Week 3 – March 16th 2020

    The England cricket team were sent home from Sri Lanka and I couldn’t see when International cricket would be played again. My 2020 decade project was completed, I thought I have to keep my mind active, so I decided to work on 2000 test project.

    A common theme is starting to appear, as I wasn’t expecting all the errors I was finding on cricinfo for each test match!!

  • Week 3 – March 16th 2020

    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. 🙂

  • Week 2 March 9th 2020

    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. 🙂

  • Week 2 March 9th 2020

    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!!Kitchen unit

  • Week 1 – 2nd March 2020

    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!

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