Greg Gardner
2 min readMar 27, 2020

It’s Times Like These You Learn To Live Again!

(Foo Fighters)

This blog aims to tell the story of my fantastic idea to launch a business in the middle of the Coronavirus outbreak. Yeah yeah, I know!

Let’s put aside the fact that launching a business on your own is pretty challenging, but one I felt pretty happy to sign up to.

However, I do have to say I feel slightly honey-trapped with this one. I didn’t know I was signing up to try to launch a business in the middle of the most insane, unprecedented times that certainly my generation has so far experienced.

I most certainly bit off more than I meant to chew.

What I aim to do in this series of short posts, is capture the challenges & to try and see the funny side, of my newfound reality of trying to launch a business in these times.

I have huge respect to the hero’s out there in the NHS, Police & Government who are fighting this on the front line. What I hope to do with this blog is to provide some positive entertainment to people during these tough times.

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I’ve moved back in with the parents in the countryside until we make it out the other side. Living in isolation with one-another has provided the perfect stage for a comedy play.

It’s been a while since my parents & I were in such close proximity with one other for a lengthy period of time. It’s safe to say we have some adjusting to do.

I also love some of the amazing memes I've come across so far. They perfectly sum up our new living conditions. People are bloody fast! Credit to their creativity, like the one below.

What I aim to do is use these to help visually explain myself. I will also post my own content as long as I can capture the situation as it unfolds.

Oh and I forgot to mention, we also have Max the dog too. He is as much a character in this story as the rest of us.

The current times we are in are extremely challenging. I've got a unique entrepreneurial story to tell.

I’ll catch you soon!

Greg Gardner

The guy trying to launch a business during the middle of COVID-19, the global deadly pandemic!