It’s an odd day, Sunday. Squeezed onto the end of a hectic week and hard on the heels of a Saturday that has usually been a mix of self-indulgent activity and domestic chores, and coming immediately before Monday, the first working day of the week. Therefore it floats onto our horizon as a day tinged with Sunday Dread because it’s school tomorrow and we haven’t done our homework. Or some critical task for work remains unfinished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These Sundays are very different beasts to the Sundays of my youth where, if it was a Sunday we were staying at home, there was usually some persuasion to go to church but I’d try and duck out of that. There was nowt to do on those ‘stay-at-home Sundays’ except mooch around the house getting into trouble and trying unsuccessfully not to break things. TV was awful and the daytime reception for SWL was never brilliant. The bus service into Aber only started at 10.12 and buses ran just one every two hours, and the last bus back was at 16.30 and it was just over a mile to walk through the lanes to get to the nearest bus stop and therefore it would be just over a mile to walk home from the bus on the return journey. Besides which, even if we did get into town, Aber was dead on Sundays; there was no Dennah’s caf\u00e9, no funny little Greek caf\u00e9 and even the big chippy, Quo Vadis, remained steadfastly shut, as did Woolies (the only really useful shop in town, apart from Heinz and Allen which sold sheet music and was also shut on Sundays).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sundays now… most shops are open. I went to Mozzers this morning, after dog duties, and bought a few things. And back in the house there’s hundreds of TV stations to choose from (they’re all showing rubbish, but you can choose from hundreds of flavours of rubbish). Or there’s Netflix, Disney+, and Prime. And books. I have so many books that must be read! And written. I started to sketch out the story arc of a new novel yesterday afternoon. I’m quite pleased with the synopsis, I just need to get the characters formed and written down. And there’s a video I want to make for BookTok (yes it’s a thing). And there’s a little bit of audio editing that needs to be done before my family inflict great personal damage on me because of my WhatsApp family group chat alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking of books, which I was, obviously, Amazon has provided me with access to a reporting dashboard for ‘Tempest’. Currently, book sales are almost equally split 50\/50 between paperback and Kindle. I think this is interesting but I’m not sure why. It just is. This dashboard allows me to see how the book is selling in different international markets. It isn’t doing very well in Germany, France, Japan, Canada, or Italy, which is disappointing. Book sales figures for China aren’t available, but I feel sure that it’s doing a roaring trade over there. Because I’m big in China. Obviously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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