Last week I promoted my page and a certain post over on Facebook. The advert
and post boost was targeted around a large area of the country and outside
of my usual friends list on Facebook.
The results are in and they reveal that the page advert
reached out to 1013 people and that 15 were added to the page members list. The
rest were invited to like the page. The boosted post reached out to a further
to 2319 people with 67 link clicks.
This cost me £19.95 in total and I feel that it was money
well spent to give me a little insight as to how using this option on social
media can bring in new views to my writing activities. I will be using it again
in the not too distant future.
Now, I trust that you are all keeping well at this difficult
time, not only in this country but around most of the world too.
This is truly a disturbing time and as someone who works for
the NHS can I encourage a bit of calm amongst the noise and claptrap going
around at the moment, please?
The best advice would be to follow the advice given on the
advice on the NSH 111 site (https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/nhs-services/urgent-and-emergency-care/nhs-111/)
and try not to pay any attention to little snippets that you find on social media.
If you are advised to self-isolate, do so.
Keep washing your hands with regularity, properly. Unlike as shown by our
esteemed Prime Minister on the television recently!
If you sneeze, use a paper hanky
and ‘catch it, bin it and kill it’ (https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/09/catch-bin-kill.pdf),
and wash your hands as soon as you can. Cough or sneeze into a hankie or in to
your elbow.
This advice is freely available on the NHS website and
really at this time of the year when normally there is the usual round of
coughs and colds, we should be doing these things as a matter of course.
We are not entering into a dystopian zombie apocalypse, hence this weeks picture and there is no requirement for us to panic buy and hoard piles of food. Our supply
chains are robust and will not run out.
We don’t need to be hoarding anti-bacterial soaps and gels, in fact, any soap will do. Hint, anti-bacterial versus a virus, I’ll let you work that
one out?
My colleagues in Urgent Community Response along with all
those within the health and social care community are working extremely hard at
the moment. They are trying to keep people safe and to put in place
contingencies for future problems.
Our Support Worker network will be severely hit
if the schools are closed and as you might imagine there is a lot of work
around that scenario. There is a lot of work to do all around.
The price of oil has fallen and fuel has come down in price.
That’s a bonus, not that we can go anywhere! All sport has been cancelled and there’s not much
on the television anyway!
Please remember to check on family and friends and those in
your street as well. If you are not self-isolating, you may be able to help
others that are, in some way. #bekind
The care home where my Father is has suspended visiting for
the time being unless for urgent occasions. I imagine that most such homes
around the country will be taking the same line.
Sadly my writing group has taken the sensible decision to
curtail meetings for the foreseeable future as we have several members of a
certain age where their health makes them vulnerable. However, we will be
remaining in contact and on the positive side, it will give us plenty of time
to catch up with our writing.
We are continuing with our aim to publish an anthology
of short stories and poems later in the year and continuing with planning of a writing/literary
festival weekend for 2021.
I’m fully expecting my band and my masonic lodges to take
the same decision to not meet as well, so, there will be plenty of time for
writing in the evenings which I should take advantage of.
To finish off this piece can I urge you to keep well everybody.
Act sensibly, #bekind to others and we will all get through this just fine.
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