After a huge delay with the 2021 summaries, 2022 will be summarised in two posts spanning Jan-June and July-December in order to finally catch up to the present time of writing here in 2023 where the blog becomes HomeWork & AwayPlay in 2023.

Rugby League (Wigan)

A great start to the year began with a first away trip since July 2021, ironically alike then it was to see the Warriors face Warrington and this time around it was a successful trip, The success continued into what became my longest winning streak and unbeaten run of 17 games before a first defeat of the season against St Helens on Good Friday. The streak featured some new horizons in the Women's attendances with first ever trips to see Salford Women and Bradford Women and also a first clash against Dewsbury Moor Women.

However, there was a surprise switch in focus after the Easter loss as I took the steps to become a Media Volunteer for Wigan and it meant actually doing match reports and updates with the first covering the Women's Nines Festival at Warrington's Victoria Park. Finally after many near-misses, I graced the infamous venue and although Wigan lost out to Catalans Deésses in their group (wins came against Hull FC/Wakefield), interacting with the Wigan Women's squad was a superb experience.

That experience extended into a first ever trip to see the Women play Huddersfield in early June which included interviewing Becky G and Beth H and despite the content not being used by the club due the focus on the Men's news that week, the interview took the negatives of my PMRs into a new positive.

Another unique double was seeing both the Men's and Women's Challenge Cup finals in May, the first was at Elland Road as St Helens Women defeated Leeds Women ahead of another memorable experience against Huddersfield with victory at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in May's Challenge Cup Final following Wigan.

The strangest game was my first covering the reserves as the Warriors eased to a 100-0 win over Castleford which made the report easy to write but led to some happy chaos in rapid updating and across the first half of the year, having the 17 game streak and then an eight game streak made for a hopes of an equally great second half of 2022.

Leisure

After the lockdown of 2020/21 saw Leisure limited to being at home, this continued around the aforementioned attending with the Countdown Weights surpassing the second anniversary on April 28th. The first half of the year saw almost 250,000 lifts bringing the overall total to around 850,000 meaning the Million would hopefully happen in 2022. Various records graced the whiteboard including the first ever day of 2000 lifts and also 500 days of the CW as an idea itself.

A nice transition around April saw work become more secure in the move from an agency agent to a permanent agent which came days after the Rugby Derby defeat in happening on Easter Monday.

The online friendships with my closest friends both here and overseas grew stronger and led to new friends across the pond so to speak. However, the most significant connection change came as a friend who sadly disappeared last year, reunited in May and that began us forging an online relationship which added to the joy of the aforementioned Huddersfield Women trip in June as the 'Yes' came while standing soaked on the touchline.

As both the attending and work situations increased into 2022, this meant Gaming became less of a focus and any hopes of matching or even topping the epic 2021 was going to be tough. This was clear in the fact only three of the six months from Jan-June included more than 150 unlocks and just ONE over 200 as shown in the monthly totals below.