
The Rory's Stories Lockdown Lookback
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From dodgy home haircuts and Tiktok dance crazes to banana-bread baking and checkpoint cheek, even in lockdown social media star and comedian Rory O'Connor found plenty of opportunities to keep everyone laughing.
Filled with Rory's trademark banter and observational gems, this hilarious and infectious (!) lockdown lookback will make you nostalgic for outdoor dining in the rain and loo roll shortages!
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Rules, Rules, Rules
- The start
- The early days
- Whispers and WhatsApps
- Another level
- The 2km rule
- Covid and curtain-twitchers
- The news bulletin
- Garda checkpoints
- Panic at the supermarket
- Holding in a cough and a sneeze
- Covid tests
- Essential vs non-essential
- Getting the chop
- Chapter 2: Home and Family Life
- (Hardly) working from home
- Home-schooling
- The Leaving Cert
- Lockdown cooking
- Songs from the shed
- Normal People and abnormal TV
- The TikTok phenomenon
- Online shopping sprees
- Staycations
- Lockdown Lucy
- The snip
- Chapter 3: Social Life (Or Lack Thereof)
- Small talk
- Bottle-bank banter
- A cocktail for disaster
- The perfect pint
- Dining out
- Bags of cans and takeaway pints
- The ?9 rule
- Takeaway coffee vans
- Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
- Bingo in the flats
- Clapping for the nurses
- The Meath ladies
- Chapter 4: The Hard Times
- Our Covid experience
- Mental health
- Chapter 5: Me, Myself and I - Self-Improvement
- Home workouts
- Sea swimming
- DIY
- Writing sketches
- My Ultimate Hell Week experience
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
- About the Author
- About Gill Books
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