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?
Month: November 2020
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Week 38 – November 16th 2020 – Week 3 of lockdown 2
New painted wall in the front room. 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 in action v Tonbridge Angels 
Radio interview regarding film/TV extra work 
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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
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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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Week 38 – November 16th 2020 – Week 3 of lockdown 2
Today we had our old arm chairs collected after they had been purchased on Ebay.
We noticed how dull the main wall looked plus it was marked, so we decided to brighten it up, look out for a posting later in the week to see the change.
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Week 37 – November 9th 2020 – Week 2 of lockdown 2
So after chatting with Mark Scholfield during the week, I decided with his help to start a blog, as I didn’t want use any of the big commercial websites.
So on Saturday 14th November @ 16:36 https://mjmaddog.co.uk was born and created.
I have to say a BIG thank you to Mark for his help and time, especially over this weekend.
Hopefully I haven’t disturbed him too much since?
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Week 37 – November 9th 2020 – Week 2 of lockdown 2
During the de cluttering, I found my cricket Wisden collection, this is one of their special editions from 1987
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Week 37 – November 9th 2020 – Week 2 of lockdown 2
You have to keep your financial advisor and market advisor on their toes.
Dear Graeme
Hope I find you well during this lockdown?
Why are the UK Bonds not doing well, compared to the UK Equities?
I notice silver took a big hit in the last week, why was that?
The markets appear to be very happy with the USA election predicted result (America is strange) and the announcement of the possible COVID19 vaccine.
Will Trump not accepting the result and suing cause any issues with the market?
The response –
Dear Michael,
Sorry that I did not answered you email first thing yesterday morning but for some strange reason my computer had decided that your emails should go straight into my “junk” folder. I have now sorted this with IT so it should not happen again.
Turning to your questions:
I’m well and really not too worried by Lockdown II.
Bonds tend to move inversely to equities, but this situation has not necessarily been the case over recent years as Central Banks have been pumping in liquidity through quantitative easing. Generally as a rule of thumb if investors are feeling confident equities prices will rise and the money for these investments will come from the fixed income (bonds) part of portfolios. Likewise in periods of risk off, equities will fall in price and bonds will gain in value as investors seek to protect capital values. The price of bonds will also move as interest rate and inflation expectations change.
Silver/Gold is similar to bonds in that they tend to move inversely to equity prices. Investors see the shinny metals as preserving capital. The price of silver has been weak recently as investors have being buying equities on the hope that the world economy will be back on its feet soon given the positive vaccine news.
The US election result (assuming Trump’s law suits come to nothing) could not have been better, Mr Biden winning but control of the Senate remaining with the Republicans. This will mean that Mr Biden will not be able to raise taxes as high as he had wished.
I do not believe that Mr Trump will cause too much disruption as he is very much on his own, with party members starting to distance themselves from him. However given what we know of Trump we cannot discount this in full.
In general we are still confident in investing in equities but in the near term we are likely to see periods of volatility as Covid infections rates rise.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to call.
Best wishes
Graeme
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Week 37 – November 9th 2020 – Week 2 of lockdown 2
A quick turnaround from Hon Brokenshire – as always you will need to login to see. This is in response to this posting –
