Telly Hibernation
“This anti-telly posturing always strikes me as a particularly irrational
affection in England, where we have what is generally acknowledged to
be the best television in the world, and there really is something
worth watching almost every day, even for those with haughtily highbrow
tastes.”
from Watching the English by Kate Fox (p212)
This extract has been taken from a highly amusing book that I’ve had on
the go for quite a while now. To be honest, if you are English or you
have some experience, as a foreigner, of living here then I recommend
this!
Anyway, the point is that we got rid of (or rather - we put in storage)
our TV at the beginning of this week. This is an experiment of sorts.
We were born at the end of the 70’s and are very much children of the
TV couch potato clan. We enjoy watching TV, there’s a lot of really
good programs on, you know about real life! However, we are just about
to celebrate our first wedding anniversary, and were recently talking
about all the things that we wanted to do in the last year, but
haven’t. So we have decided to remove the biggest distraction in our
life and start living.
Hmmm… I must admit I’m not totally convinced. What have we achieved so
far? Well we are talking a lot more, we are going out for evening
walks, maybe this is a good idea.