Lockdown/Covid Check In
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@r-l said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life crying. 🤣 No comment!! Get a bit like this around a full moon.
Perhaps stop doing them? Just saying.
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@r-l it really does. Just occasionally, the stars align.
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@r-l said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life crying. 🤣 No comment!! Get a bit like this around a full moon.
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Happiness Scale 100 tonight!!
Gin ✔️
Wildling asleep✔️
Italian on the way ✔️
No more home-schooooooooooling ✔️✔️✔️✔️Man today is a great day.
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@mokey said in Lockdown Check In:
Finally got some great news in this hellscape year. I'm now officially a USA Today bestselling author. Can plaster that fact everywhere and on book covers as well.
That's awesome Mokes. How many qualifies you for bestseller status?
Just did a quick cyberstalk on your website. Crikey you've published some books, not my taste I hasten to add. How many? ( I didn't count.)
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@booboo entirely depends on the week. The USA Today bestseller list is the top 150 books across all genres, across all major retailers (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Kobo) in the American market. Data is gathered each week to update it. Usually the bare minimum is about 8000 or 9000 copies sold in the previous week, but if you get a week where fewer books were released or put on sale, then you could get away with 5000 or so. The higher on the list, the more copies sold.
I have 22 books published now.
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How is Lockdown treating yas?
A tropical Captain Morgan and I are getting acquainted tonight. Its mango and pineapple flavour with diet lemonade. Delightful. Gone off gin. Won't go overboard (boom boom) tonight, just a little drinkypoos during a zoom!
I know we are still in lockdown but I swear the schools being open makes it feel like the old normal. This I can cope with! -
@r-l yeah discovered a chicken shack nearby last night that does burgers and chips just like Oporto from my Sydney days, went down bloody well with rugby and beers. Cheeehooo
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@r-l Situation since the start of March much, much better. Seeing more people again, more friends getting in touch, I've returned to my place of work, kids able to be with their friends a bit, almost everyone I know over 50 has had the jab at least once, great 6 Nations, rhythms of life returning. I think we are only a few weeks away from normality again in the UK.
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@catogrande I think we'll be getting COVID jabs and wearing masks in crowded environments for years. Not sure there are going to be many holidays to Continental Europe in 2021. But apart from that I think the COVID crisis itself will mostly be a thing of the past in the UK by May/June.
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@catogrande Getting used to it. I think it makes sense in confined airspaces where you can't ventilate like a taxi, a bus, a plane or the tube.
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@sparky said in Lockdown Check In:
@catogrande Getting used to it. I think it makes sense in confined airspaces where you can't ventilate like a taxi, a bus, a plane or the tube.
That’s my slightly irrational fear. I don’t want to end up like many of our Far Eastern friends. It’s the danger of meeting a fugly girl but with nice eyes. Too high a price to pay.
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@majorrage said in Lockdown Check In:
Gotta hold our nerves. Cases will go up soon as Europe has shown. Gotta keep tabs on the hospital / icu / death stats. Cases should not be relevant.
Agreed. There was an important fact in a post on another thread about vaccine efficacy. None will 100% prevent you catching it but all will pretty near 100% prevent hospitalisation or death. Making the virus manageable.