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Monday 28 October 2019

Holidays and the need to know




Holidays are rum games aren’t they? Here we are enjoying a short break in Norfolk, getting out and about, doing a spot of bird watching, drinking lots of coffee followed by long lazy evening reading or surfing the web.

Because we are on holiday I’ve tended to switch off, ignoring the endless screeching nonsense that mainstream news has become. Of course life goes on with or without the constant clamour and absolutely nobody is surprised that it does so. Ignore the nonsense and life goes on because that’s what life does.

Many activities bring this out. For me a walk in the Derbyshire hills or a long evening read, but holidays seem to drive the message home particularly well. Mainstream news is mostly a mix of wild exaggeration, nonsense and celebrity drivel we don’t need to know. Ignoring it could easily become a habit.

3 comments:

Scrobs. said...

Ignoring 'the news', is bliss these days.

We haven't watched more than an hour or so of BBC for over three years, and life is so much more enjoyable.

James Higham said...

Better for the mental health.

A K Haart said...

Scrobs - even more necessary since the election announcement.

James - much better.