It was good to make it to Friday and k ow the weekend is about to begin after a long and eventful week but after a busy day I started feeling ill….the feeling was the same as Jamie had been complaining about the last couple of days.

I don’t mind being ill (I don’t want to be ill), but why did it have to wait until Friday afternoon to get here ffs?

I did try to do a bit to my bench, which I have made real headway on the last few nights since last weekend, but I felt sick and tired, so I had to sleep.

Right way up, on wheels ready for table saw shelf .

I felt I had to send a message to my pool team tonight after getting soundly beaten and listening to one or two individuals losing faith in the process…

Winning is easy losing is the hardest but it either strengthens you or breaks you, tonight I had to be a captain!

“This is your captain speaking, I have not spent the last 30 years taking this team from championship winning relevance to bottom of the table obscurity, to let shithouses and gobshites from Middlewich and District ruin our Wednesday night out…

At the moment it is tough, when we are getting beat and we have to sit and listen to shithouses and gobshites living up to their names but we have great potential and its by small margins in each of our frames that we are not punishing and capitalising on opportunities.

If we stick together better times will come, it was the best feeling when JEB sank that double to beat Eight Farmers and that is the reason I keep coming back each week, because we can get results like that, and sticking together is the only way to get more nights like that!

All I can say is I’ll do my best as captain and the only thing I ask in return is you do your best when playing your frame. Beyond that there is not much I can do, I love being Steventons Pool Team captain and would hate to think the last 30 years of failures was my fault!

Let’s beat White Lion next week have a good night and forget tonight!”

Today I was made aware of my inability to hear high frequency noise, something I knew about to a certain extent from a hearing test I had back in my Ideal Standard days when after about 30 seconds an ear splitting noise jolted me and the nurse asked if that is the first sound I heard because she thought her machine had broken so turned it up. It was and she informed me that I had hearing loss at high frequency which at the time didn’t bother me but yesterday did especially coupled with the tinnitus I experience 24/7 getting worse I think I need to go get a hearing test.

The straw that broke the camels back this morning was two nurses laughing at me because I could not hear the annoying noise the fan within a switch was making that they could not bear yet I could not hear, I know they were telling the truth about the noise but so was I…I could not hear anything!

As days go today was a pretty good day, although listening to India slaughter England in the third test was not the perfect start I as you could probably guess spent the rest of the day in me shed. I finally managed to get some real headway done on me bench and loved just fettling away on me own working through the issues of getting everything square.

While I was out there, I got a text about this new job possibility, and it got me thinking about different people’s reactions if I handed my notice in and who it would affect the most…? Its wierd because on one hand I would regret leaving what I know and colleagues I care about but there are so many others that it would feel good to tell and maybe inconvenience them a little bit?

I would like to hear something this week as soon as possible because my mind is all over the place, not knowing what sort of opportunity is on the table….

Tonight, we took Reagan and Lincoln to Altrincham ice ring for their last lesson of the six Mommy purchased at Christmas but even though both children love skating we had to bring these Fridays to an end because over the next few weeks we are not available to take them.

Reagan end her lessons passing level two and was handed both certificates as she left the ice. Lincoln left with a level one pass but because he missed that one lesson due to injury he missed out on the second certificate.

It’s a shame ww can’t carry on, but at £14 each per lesson and no refund if they miss a lesson it is just daft to throw money away like that so we said that if we have the time and money over the coming weeks we can go to practice, maybe.