Welcome to my podcast episode 142, and it is Saturday the 24th of October 2020, it's not strictly true it's actually Sunday the 25th, but I didn't do it last night because I was so tired, so I've got an up and I'm gonna do last night, then this evening I'll do today's exciting. And so yesterday was a slight, slight change of the day because I actually spent most of the day working rather than rather than tidying and unpacking as has been the previous basically five days. And it was pretty good day, but very good day I woke up to find that somebody had bought one of my calendars, which is great so it's nice to wake up to purchase which is brilliant. And then I budget no no I didn't wake up until about nine I sent out an email about my calendar about voting for my calendar, and somebody, replied or somebody bought the calendar straight off the back of that which was really really cool. So, that was nice to see two things one sports and banner Canada which brilliant and to that you know when you put in a little bit of effort, or you know you do something and people react to it, and I sent out an email to say you know if you have voted please do vote on your favourite photos or somebody bought it. And so that's really cool, really chuffed about that. And then I promised my brother, I would do some Facebook ads for him for a product of his has just been launched in the states it's been out in the UK for August several years, and now it's just been launched in the states in Amazon. And so he wanted to see if we could get a bit more traffic to Amazon to happen. And so, I ran some Facebook ads for him. And it seems I could be, we could be wrong, but it seems that we might have made a couple of sales straightaway on it which would be really positive because, you know, it been out a few weeks it's sold a few items but it's got no promotion so no one knows to look for it or to find it. And if the case is that we run a few ads and we've generated some sales, that it was more than five quite a bit more than we spent on the ads and obviously that's really exciting potential new so we'll monitor that over the next week or so and see what happens. But um, so that was really really cold really chuffed about that. And then I replied to emails I've got my emails from or some of my emails one of my inbox is down from 100 to about 60, I think, and amongst that I was replying to people who would very kindly reply to my emails when I send out newsletters. A couple of weeks ago, and that week and I hadn't really hadn't got around to replying to everybody. And I do feel overwhelmed is not the right word, but out of sorts and not in control when my inbox go you know go skyrocketing. Because I like to be on top of everything it just clears my head. And so it was really nice to clear some emails, but also, I felt really thankful that. Can I spending time writing to you know various different people who, a lot of them I've spoken to quite a bit over the years, you know, back and forth emails, and so yeah that I felt like we know each other. And I felt really privileged that this is the kind of level of, you know, relationship I have with some of the people on my list or some of my fans some of my friends online. And, you know, I was just, yeah, very happy that people basically care about my art and care about what I'm doing in my little corner of the world which is looking out the window currently raining although yesterday was a quite a nice day a bit windy, but still, I think. The sun has disappeared now for about 24 degrees yesterday I think today and onwards, it's going downhill, but I should really talk about today because that's the latest podcast, and, but for all of that, I did feel a little bit of a plea was not the right word is Lowe's not right word but maybe motivated, I saw a video from one of my friends that I knew in London, very talented, very talented singer songwriter, called Dan Olson, who has just done I believe like the world's first
