Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2020 *UPDATED*

Brierly Hill 90210

We'd been living in our “dream house” for 12 years but, it having been built in the 19th century, there was always something failing, breaking or otherwise needing repair. It was beginning to take it's toll, both financially and in terms of time spent. So we decided it was time to move on. With the impeccable timing that had us buy it during a major financial crisis, turns out we would try and sell as the world experienced a global pandemic! Obviously that's the main story you'll hear about in this episode. The world went into lock-down, the kids stopped going to school and I stopped going into the office. But working for a company that manufactured highly sought after items like diapers and paper towels, unlike many others less fortunate, I was in no danger of losing my job. Mostly to keep the kids occupied, we bought some chickens... and then some ducks. We lost some chickens to a fox so we got a dog. While our house, which was clearly not selling, turned into a farm, I took up walking every morning to make positive use of the 2-hours no longer spent in the car each day. I lost about 40-pounds while listening to podcasts such as Something Rhymes with Purple, The God Pod and John Otway's serialized reading of his biography. I'd already been toying with the idea of doing something with the musical playlist that I'd organized into chronological order the year before, so started recording this series in April under my existing Brierly Hill 90210 podcast name. Cotswolds Radio, recently established in my old stomping grounds of Northleach, were on a similar COVID-related journey and they started broadcasting the Cotswold Hills 90210 version of my show in October. But as the year begins, while there are stories coming out of China of people with flu-like symptoms, here in the west, the main stories are President Trump's impeachment trial, the UKs impending withdrawal from the European Union and continuing tensions in the middle east.