Love the Father Ted reference.
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Itās how we get away with it Cherts.
Whenever someone questions me about why I am shaving my head, installing knives into my Doc Martens or tattooing a swastika onto my forehead, I just bung out that reference.
Iām deep cover mate. Hiding in plain sight, with a load of forrinā looking relatives, yet somehow able to grow a full head of hair and get that swastika tattoo off my forehead instantly after my Tommy-esque escapades.
I thought Iād get away with it forever. I am gutted to have been found out by the Clouseaus-in-residence.
Ah Karachi.
Had some epic moments in that crazy City.
The Pub crawl was well up there, but if Iām honest my 1st ever published photo was taken there.
Also (more @pap focused I also made the mistake at Pizza Hut of taking a mouthful of Pepsi from the cup before remembering I hadnāt opened a bottle.
Next day I had to give PowerPoint training to 40 sales guys.
The most powerful anti shit meds allowed me to present in unforgettable painful 20 minute segments
My lot all live near a place called Clifton Beach. You ever been?
Maybe close
Got taken to Karachi Yacht Club for dinner on my 1st trip there. All immaculately starched white uniforms & tall hats very āRajā to my eyes.
Will have also been to some end users around there.
Had a tour one evening around the City in a 4x4 with a cool box full of beer.
Saw the Cathedral, went to a soup kitchen for Heroin Addicts, drove through the Red Light Area. Yuk.
Watched Robin Smith score a good 50 in a World Cup ODI in the Amazing (except for the toilets) cricket stadium (took our own food & drink of course)
Loved itās crazy madness, but then the contrast with Lahore was amazing, felt much more comfortable in the latter City
Only saw a bit of Islamabad, but did a trip through Abbottabad then on up into the Swat Valley which was mind blowing. The guys still reckon I was one of the last white guys to visit.
Climbed up to the Afghan border wearing Brogues, Chinos & a Polo Shirt while drinking Heineken.
On the way down I was given the freedom of a village by their āMayorā at a ceremony with a UN guy.
One of our 5KVa UPSās was connected to a small water wheel generator & I switched it on to give them power for the 1st time.
Ahhh memories.
Did 1 other ODI & a 5 day Test in Lahore met everyone inc the PM & sat in the Sky Commentary box
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Well, I am back at home for a while. Got some new advice from the MD this week, stating that weāre not to come into the office unless weāve absolutely got to, and that members of the same team should not physically be in the same place. If weāre absolute desperate, we can go in, but seeing as how I donāt drive anymore, the only option is public transport. Fuck that
Gingora, quite inexplicably, was called back to work. Sheās in a risk group, had rave reviews while she was working from home and doesnāt physically need to be in the office to do her job. Worse, nearly all the rest of the company are off. Smells like small time power-tripping to me.
Not happy.
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I am in quarantine another 8 days to go
I have beer vodka coke I may get out alive. the person who looks after the internet will not survive much after my release
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I was working towards getting my teams back into our offices across the country, had already started small scale and was aiming to ramp it up in the next few weeks to a max 60% occupancy.
now thatās out of the window as weāre encouraging home working to continue unless absolutely necessary, probably for the next 6 months. Thatāll make it a year of not having to travel up to London.
A Covid bonus 
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How would you rate her in terms of fidelity? 
Sheās ginger. Iām short. Weāre fucking stuck together 
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Another Friday. Does Friday mean much anymore in a time of lockdown? Basically, it means I am not obligated to work for the next couple of days, but hereās the thing. I probably will work. Itās either that or play computer games, and Iām getting to the stage where I feel guilt about sitting on a game all day.
Iāve long been at the drinking on a school night stage.
Youāre not going to take retirement too well are you.
Nope. Fortunately I probably wonāt have to. As long as I can keep the mind limber I can keep going.
You need a non-confrontational hobbyā¦youāll burn out before youāre 50 otherwise. How about building a model of St. Maryās Stadium of 2050 to your own design out of matchsticks. 
Iām in that lucky spot where my hobby is my job and Iāve been doing it professionally for 21 years.
Well whoās going to build that stadiumā¦someone sat around doing nothing constructive for an extended period of time.
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Oi i have plenty to do sunbathing walking to the fridge to refesh the glass opening the door to the health officials checking up on me
My time is at a premium I will be going back to work for a rest. 
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You inertia has been put to shame by this man from Southamptonā¦
Former oil rig worker spends 15 years making model of oil rig out of four million matchsticks.
He has no life when offshore and when heās home does that ?
If I start doing that please shoot me.
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Weāll do better than that. Weāll wait for you to finish it, then set fire to it
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