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The Year That Was – 2020

Dec 31, 2020 | ,

Its that time of year again.

Where I look back over the previous year and answer the same 40 questions.

1. What did you do in 2020 that you’d never done before?

OK, New things :-

  1. Became ProvSGD
  2. Experienced a Global Pandemic
  3. Got put in Lockdown multiple times
  4. Worked from home solidly for 9.5 of the 12 months of the year.
  5. Hosted a SRIA Zoom meeting where the Supreme Magus Attended.
  6. Produced several Teams events for Robert Lomas.

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

2020 was 2.5 months long.

The rest of the year has been basically a lockdown, with hordes of plague spreaders all over the place. Everything is closed, and nothing can be done. I am therefore counting this whole year a bust.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? 

Nobody. Well that I know about. I have not seen anyone since March 13th.

But since everyone on the planet is locked inside their houses and everywhere is closed, I expect the amount of babies next year will be astronomical. 

4. Did anyone close to you die?

A fair few Masonic Friends passed away this year due to Covid and other issues.

But mostly Covid.

5. What countries did you visit?

Nowhere.

There is a Global Pandemic, all travel is banned. The only time I am legally allowed to go out the house is if I am going to collect food from a supermarket, and that was mostly click and collect.

6. What would you like to have in 2021 that you lacked in 2020?  

The Vaccine.

The Vaccine.

The Vaccine.

The Vaccine!

7. What dates from 2020 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

  • 13th March – Going into a Lockdown due to Global Pandemic.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Surviving Covid.  This area has a very high infected rate.

9. What was your biggest failure?

Not being productive at all even with working from home for 9+ months.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Nothing!

Not leaving your house really cuts down on injury’s.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

I do not think I bought anything cool this year, since the whole year has been a stay indoors just watching the world burn kind of year.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?

  • The NHS workers who have spent 9 months fighting in the front lines of a Pandemic, surrounded by the infected and having to watch the idiots ignoring the rules and gathering in mass helping the virus spread.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed? 

  • The Idiots breaking lockdown rules and having mass parties, etc.
  • The idiots rioting and smashing up the world because they can.
  • Those who are spreading lies and fear, claiming the virus is a hoax.

2020 is the year of idiots.

14. Where did most of your money go?

Amazon I think 🙂.

The only place still open and selling none essential stuff.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

The possibility of a vaccine.

16. What song will always remind you of 2020?

2020 has been a clusterfuck of a year. I think we are best just forgetting it fully.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

  • a) happier or sadder? Sadder.
  • b) thinner or fatter? Fatter.
  • c) richer or poorer? Richer.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Well since I have been locked down since March 13th. I wish I had been more productive over all those months.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of? .

Being in Lockdown.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

Wales is in a full lockdown. No visiting, No Pubs, No Shops, No seeing anyone.

So I will spending Christmas in a post-apocalyptic lockdown.

21. What was your favourite month of 2020? 

January. Well January & February were the only 2 months without a lockdown, and Jan has a few more days.

22. Did you fall in love in 2020? 

I did not even see many human people in 2020.

And those I did were in masks staying several meters apart.

23. How many one-night stands?

I did not even see many human people in 2020, and those I did were in masks staying several meters apart.

24. What was your favourite TV programme?

Way too many to mention, There has been nothing else to do that binge watch TV shows & Films.

Unfortunately since TV studios are also locked down, all shows have been old ones.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? 

Yes. All the anti-mask, Covid denying idiots!

Not to mention all the people rioting and burning down businesses to protest something that happened on the other side of the world!

26. What was the best book you read?

Too many to mention.

I think i read over 200 books this year since there was little else to do.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

None. all music/shows/etc are canceled. Wait…

Granger Smith.

28. What did you want and get?

Brexit.

29. What did you want and not get? 

  • Enthusiasm
  • Vaccinated
  • Return to Normal

30. What was your favourite film of this year?

  • Songbird.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

I am still not having birthdays. I have decided to stop having them so that I can live forever.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? 

Not being stuck in a Global Pandemic!

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2020?

Scruffy, since not allowed to leave the house.

I considered I was smartly dressed if I remembered to put pants on.

34. What kept you sane? 

Sane?  I do not think any of us will get out of 2020 still sane.

We are talking the year of global fires, earthquakes, riots, civil unrest, deadly weather storms, global pandemics, murder hornets, odd shapes in space, high placed people saying aliens are real, space force, Zombie Minks, etc.

Nobody is leaving 2020 sane!

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? 

I guess Harley Quinn.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

This year is basically the same thing as last two three years. he same screaming angry nazi fascists who believe their echo-chambers and scream death threats against everyone who is different to them, or who does not think 100% the same as them.

37. Who did you miss?

Everyone. I have not seen anyone due to the global pandemic.

38. Who was the best new person you met? 

Nobody, since I have not met anyone due to…

(Say it with me)

the Global pandemic!!

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2020?. 

People are dumb, and getting dumber!.

As a species we are doomed.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. 

From EvilGothGnome’s Covid Christmas Carols: Sing away your fears

Silent night, Covid night
All is closed, all have blight
‘lone yon shielding Mother and Child
Fearful infant so tender and mild
Sleep in lockdowned peace
Sleep in lockdowned peace

Silent night, Covid night!
Everyone’s suffering, incredible plight!
Conspiracies stream from Facebook cries;
Anti vaxers sing its-all-lies!
Covid the Destroyer is born!
Covid the Destroyer is born!
Covid the Destroyer is born!

Silent night, Covid night
Six-foot gaps, mask’s in sight
Everywhere closed, no one goes out,
Do not sing, do not shout!
Stay Home, Stay Safe, Save Lives
Stay Home, Stay Safe, Save Lives
Stay Home, Stay Safe, Save Lives

Second Craft Promotion – AKA Goodbye to the Red

Oct 10, 2020 |

Today I went along to the Provincial AGM, to receive my second honours.

I was very lucky to get Provincial Senior Grand Deacon!

So it is time to sat goodbye to the Red regalia and hello to the blue. Well I say goodbye to the red, but I do still get to wear it while acting as a steward at events like the Provincial AGM, or when I am in a Stewards Lodge. I also have to wear a tailcoat while out on duty with the PGM.

It was a great honour to get a second active rank in a row.

 

A Talk at Bishop Wilkins College

Sep 15, 2020 |

Lockdown still has all Masonic units closed.

Since I am in the chair of Bishop Wilkins College I decided to have a zoom meeting instead of a physical meeting. And I decided we would have a paper given by myself, followed by a discussion.

The paper was “he Fifth Ancient“.

 

Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (S.R.I.A.)

The Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (S.R.I.A.) stands as the world’s oldest independent society of Rosicrucian Freemasons, proudly composed of Master Masons from Lodges acknowledged by the United Grand Lodge of England.

Our Colleges are strategically located across the globe, including England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Wales, France, and Holland. To find the most convenient location for you, please click HERE to access our interactive map of S.R.I.A. College Locations.

For more information on the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, please click on the link to the Societies website, or the Province of Western Counties and North Wales website.

Scam Call – £1,568 worth of Jelly Babies

Sep 1, 2020 |

Earlier today I received a couple of scam phone calls pretending to be from Amazon.
 
I live-Tweeted the calls as they were happening to the amusement of many people on Twitter, So I figured I may as well share them here.
I have just received an automated phone call from a mobile phone number informing me they were Amazon and were querying a £1,568 order of an iPhone 11. A nice Indian bloke called Darren is chatting to me, to explain how “hackers” used my phone number to create a fake account
Darren has asked if I want to cancel the order and get a refund, but I have explained that I have watched the film “Takedown” and know those hackers like Mitnick can launch nukes by whistling. and I am too scared to cancel their order….
Daren is now asking about my online banking, But I have explained I do not do online banking, or offline banking due to fears “Hackers” using my phone number will steal all my money to buy iPhone’s so I will accept the refund in Jelly Babies… Darren seams confused
Darren is still helping me with the Hacker, and is asking about what smart devices I use. I have informed him i use an etch-a-sketch, Palm Pilot and a tamagotchi. I did point out I was a bad owner and the tamagotchi is technically dead. I think Darren is crying.
All is not lost.. I just excitedly told Darren that before I saw Takedown I used to do online banking on my programmable calculator.. I think Darren must be ill, he seems to be getting very confused and close to tears. Maybe he is struggling to understand my Welsh accent.
I have decided to help Darren understand my accent and language better by speaking VERY LOUDLY, I think this is helping as he must be struggling to hear over all the people in the background making similar calls. Who knew Hackers loved iPhone 11’s
I told Darren I would ask Twitter if anyone know how we could install Logmein on a calculator. He got excited for a while about what I ran twitter on, then he swore when I said I only tweet via carrier pigeon. Darren seems invested in the call, or he would have gone by now
Sad news people. Darren has gone. I think I need to report him to Amazon. He said I was a very rude man who has wasted his valuable time. He also suggested there may be something mentally wrong with me…. I guess that means i am not getting £1,568 worth of Jelly Babies.
Today just keeps giving. 5 minutes after Darren hangs up on me I get another Amazon recorded call about a £1,568 iPhone purchase. This time it was a lovely lady called Karen, she is not as friendly as Darren since within 1 minute she screamed “it’s you!” and hung up on me

A Talk at Wrexhamian Lodge

Aug 30, 2020 |

Everything is locked down. Lodge meetings are closed.

To try and keep everyone together Wrexhamian Lodge No 6715 decided to have a Zoom meeting, and to have a talk.

My father and Myself gave a Zoom presentation on “Blood Bikes – It’s What We Do”, which is something we normally do to various groups around North Wales.

Blood Bikes Wales

Blood Bikes Wales is a charity that transports blood, plasma, platelets, samples, vaccines, donor breast-milk & any other urgently required medical items to hospitals at night, weekends and bank holidays. This service is provided completely free of charge, allowing the NHS to divert funds where they are needed most.

Our riders are a hardy bunch that operate in all but the very worst weather.

This ain’t one body’s story. It’s the story of us all.

May 7, 2020 |

This ain’t one body’s story. It’s the story of us all. We got it mouth-to-mouth, so you got to listen it and ‘member, ’cause what you hears today you got to tell the birthed tomorrow.
 
I’m looking behind us now, across the count of time, down the long haul into history back. I sees the end what were the start. It’s Pox-Eclipse, full of pain! And out of it were birthed boredom and lonesome time. It were full-on locked-down, and Mr. Dead chasing them all. So they never left their homes, said bidey-bye to the people-places and the sports-ball, and what were left of the knowing they left behind.
 
Some say the travel just stoppered. Others reckon it were a witch called Rhona. And after the locked-down some had been jumped by Mr. Dead but some had got the luck, and it leads them here. One look and they’s got the hots for it. They word it “Planet Home.” And they says, “We don’t need the knowing. We can live here.
 
Time counts and keeps counting. They gets to missing what they had. They get so lonely for the BrumBrums and the Pubs, they want to leave the locked-down. But Mr Dead is still in the here-time, so you got to listen it and ‘member, ’cause what you hears today you got to tell the birthed tomorrow.

The World is CLOSED!

Mar 23, 2020 |

Good Evening,

The coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced for decades – and this country is not alone.

All over the world we are seeing the devastating impact of this invisible killer.

And so tonight I want to update you on the latest steps we are taking to fight the disease and what you can do to help.

And I want to begin by reminding you why the UK has been taking the approach that we have.

Without a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus, there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope; because there won’t be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses.

And as we have seen elsewhere, in other countries that also have fantastic health care systems, that is the moment of real danger.

To put it simply, if too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the NHS will be unable to handle it – meaning more people are likely to die, not just from Coronavirus but from other illnesses as well.

So it’s vital to slow the spread of the disease.

Because that is the way we reduce the number of people needing hospital treatment at any one time, so we can protect the NHS’s ability to cope – and save more lives.

And that’s why we have been asking people to stay at home during this pandemic.

And though huge numbers are complying – and I thank you all – the time has now come for us all to do more.

From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction – you must stay at home.

Because the critical thing we must do is stop the disease spreading between households.

That is why people will only be allowed to leave their home for the following very limited purposes:

  • shopping for basic necessities, as infrequently as possible
  • one form of exercise a day – for example a run, walk, or cycle – alone or with members of your household;
  • any medical need, to provide care or to help a vulnerable person; and
  • travelling to and from work, but only where this is absolutely necessary and cannot be done from home.

That’s all – these are the only reasons you should leave your home.

You should not be meeting friends. If your friends ask you to meet, you should say No.

You should not be meeting family members who do not live in your home.

You should not be going shopping except for essentials like food and medicine – and you should do this as little as you can. And use food delivery services where you can.

If you don’t follow the rules the police will have the powers to enforce them, including through fines and dispersing gatherings.

To ensure compliance with the Government’s instruction to stay at home, we will immediately:

  • close all shops selling non-essential goods,​ including clothing and electronic stores and other premises including libraries, playgrounds and outdoor gyms, and places of worship;
  • we will stop all gatherings of more than two people in public – excluding people you live with;
  • and we’ll stop all social events​, including weddings, baptisms and other ceremonies, but excluding funerals.

Parks will remain open for exercise but gatherings will be dispersed.

No Prime Minister wants to enact measures like this.

I know the damage that this disruption is doing and will do to people’s lives, to their businesses and to their jobs.

And that’s why we have produced a huge and unprecedented programme of support both for workers and for business.

And I can assure you that we will keep these restrictions under constant review. We will look again in three weeks, and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to.

But at present there are just no easy options. The way ahead is hard, and it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost.

And yet it is also true that there is a clear way through.

Day by day we are strengthening our amazing NHS with 7500 former clinicians now coming back to the service.

With the time you buy – by simply staying at home – we are increasing our stocks of equipment.

We are accelerating our search for treatments.

We are pioneering work on a vaccine.

And we are buying millions of testing kits that will enable us to turn the tide on this invisible killer.

I want to thank everyone who is working flat out to beat the virus.

Everyone from the supermarket staff to the transport workers to the carers to the nurses and doctors on the frontline.

But in this fight we can be in no doubt that each and every one of us is directly enlisted.

Each and every one of us is now obliged to join together.

To halt the spread of this disease.

To protect our NHS and to save many many thousands of lives.

And I know that as they have in the past so many times.

The people of this country will rise to that challenge.

And we will come through it stronger than ever.

We will beat the coronavirus and we will beat it together.

And therefore I urge you at this moment of national emergency to stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives.

Thank you.

The PM

Day 1 – Work from Home

Mar 16, 2020 |

Just to give you all an update on “Work from home”
Commute: Fast
Morale: High
Coffee: Hot
Pants: Not wearing any

To save lives, we shall work from home!

Mar 13, 2020 |

Today we made a decision.

Covid is getting more worrying, and the bottom floor of our building are individual office’s rented out to various companies. Among them are, a child therapist, a normal therapist, a masseuse, and a chiropodist. Now the majority of patients entering the building at the moment are the elderly (AKA the most at vulnerable).  

We had an informal meeting today and decided that even though we are out of the way on the top floor, we may still pose a threat to the elderly. Since we can work remotely with no inconvenience at all it would make sense for us to abandon the building for a while.

We have therefore decided to implement “work from home” until the worst is over.  

Not all heroes wear capes!