27th March 2020 – Day One
How are you coping in this present situation ? How many days is it since Britain went into
the present lock down ? You know I am not sure: two, three, four days ? Are you
coping ? I am not sure if I am.
I have gone from working 12+ hours a day to doing nothing.
Last night I slept for eleven hours, when was the last time I slept for that
long ? Probably when I was a small baby.
I am a councillor but the council has closed down. I am
chairman of the local police community forum but the police as too busy with
operations to be concerned with meetings.
All of my community projects have closed. Music is at the centre of my
life but now the radio studio is closed for the duration so The Geriatric DJ is
on a sabbatical. All I have left is my
writing, writing to help maintain my sanity.
I boast that I am not a wimp so David aka The Geriatric DJ
aka Max Robinson stop being a wimp ! Stop feeling sorry for yourself ! It was in December 2016 that I first started
writing a blog, this is my 999th edition. Originally my intention was to
collect something like 100 editions then publish it as The Diary Of A Silly Old
Man. That never happened. Perhaps when we come out of this global crisis I may
publish my current blog writing under the title ESCAPE FROM ARMAGEDDON.
Perhaps. The important thing is that by writing a page each day it will help
preserve my sanity. Perhaps as I publish it each day s a blog it will help
others to preserve their sanity. It may even inspire some to write their own
blogs.
So........................
The UK death toll now stands at 578, it went up from 475
yesterday. Within that number is the first person to die in prison. He was an
84 year old. For goodness sake what is an 84 year old doing in prison ? OK, his identity has not been released so he
could be a major criminal serving an extended sentence or could he be someone who
has popped in and out of gaol all his life. Of all the broken systems in
pre-virus society the justice system with a 85% re-offending rate this has to
be the biggest failure.
Our Saturday lunch for the homeless rough-sleepers has
been forced to close I keep wondering about my friends: Richard, Barry and so
many others who had nothing more than a sleeping bag on the floor for their
homes. Where are they now ? How are they
coping ? Milton Keynes Council could not
help them in normal times so what chance do they have in this situation ? The more vulnerable you were the less help
was available. The council's homeless prevention team should be re-named
homeless encouragement and adult
social care renamed adult social couldn't care
less.
We
used to live in a society where FAILURE was the norm. I trust we do not return to that when this is
all over, wouldn't it be great if society adopted the motto FAILURE IS NOT AN
OPTION.
I don't do religion, god and all that stuff, but I do
believe in Destiny, I have had Madam Destiny tap me on my shoulder so many
times in my life. Several of my books feature destiny steering the reader
through the plot. What do you think ?
Has Destiny put Boris Johnson in charge of our nation ? Isn't he doing a great job ? Just imagine where we would be if Jeremy Corbyn
had won last November's general election or that gobby cow who was the
shortlived leader of the Liberal Democratic Party ! Rishi Sunak, isn't he doing a good job ? He was only thrown into the job a few weeks
ago, Did you know he is an Amazon Author ?
Yes, he is.
He is in good company, I am an Amazon Author. I have
fifteen titles currently available. I
write for pleasure, not to make money although before this crisis I was trying
hard to promote my books in order to fund our projects working with vulnerable
people. Promoting my books is also on hold for the duration of the crisis. That
said I sold 17 yesterday, my best day this year was 19th March with 124.
Primarily I write for personal pleasure, if someone reads
what I have written then that is a bonus, if they enjoy what I have written
then that is a double bonus. I have been writing since I was a teenager. In
recent years there has been a motive within my writing, to encourage others to
write. If what I write could inspire one person to write then that would be a
bigger achievement than selling one thousand of my own books.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
I am not expecting anyone to read this book. Well not in
this millennium anyway. If mankind does survive perhaps far into the future the
text may be discovered and become an academic study for scientists, historians
and sociologists to understand what I and my fellow human beings have been
going through in the Corona Virus Pandemic sweeping the world.
Day by day I have expressed how I have been feeling. I
have attacked the prime minister, journalists and the government but that was
how I was feeling on any day of writing. I am not going to go back and edit the
text, to calm down my ranting and raving, to do so would give a false account.
I think that history within the next hundred or so years will agree with me but it is history in a
thousand or so years I hope will profit reading my account.
That is if there are human beings on the planet in a
thousand years time. If the pandemic has its way that will not be the case.
The hardest part of writing a book is editing once the
last full stop has been punched in. Checking for typo’s and changing the way
something is drafted to put it into a better style is a long and tedious task.
I am not going to do that with this book. I certainly do not want to change the
way in which I have said anything, to do so would change the way I was feeling.
Perhaps in one thousand years time someone will sit down and record how many
typo’s there on each page then try to read into those figures something of my
mind. Yeh, do that if you want but at the end of the day a typo is a typo is a
typo. Life is a bit like a typo you know, if you do not make any then you are
not living it fast enough !
On that subject can I explain that I have been using
something called Google Blogger to write my daily pages. I try my best to
negotiate its geeky system. Then I transfer the text to Microsoft Word, how I
hate Microsoft. Trust me those of you reading this in the future, think of the
most hated thing in your life then multiply it by ten million to the power of
sixty-three and a quarter then you will have a figure which equates to how much
I hate Microsoft. Finally I have to upload my text using Amazon – fingers
crossed. I guess if I have not included enough Typo’s these will help. Now
here’s a task for you deep into the future, work out which are genuine typo’s
and which are geek generated.
As I publish this book we have not escaped from
Armageddon, far from it. I am publishing the first one hundred days of my blog
writing, I did not actually start writing on the day of lock down. You know
Wikipedia does not record the day the government imposed lock down restrictions
but it does record the day China gave us the virus, 31st January
2020. Will we escape from the virus
? Will we escape from Armageddon ? I
honestly do not know. Only those who will read these words perhaps in the year
3020 will know the answer. To you all in that year can I say hello, wish you
well and say I hope you are living in a better world than the one I am.
Max Robinson
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