A welcome break!

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Last week we were away on holiday - more about that another time. But for now I was just going to mention what a relief it has been not to hear, see or read any news, not only for the week we were away but also for the days we have been back until this morning, when the radio alarm woke us all up and told us a series of bad news stories. For about 10 days I have not seen any news on TV (I don't normally watch TV anyway, so nothing new there really), not heard any on the radio (we did listen to music radio in the car but I don't think we heard any news bulletins - and if we did, they were very short and we didn't understand them!), not read any newspapers or any online news, and we've been able to imagine that all is right with the world. Today unfortunately it's back to disasters and tragedies here and there, plus more Brexit (will it ever end?) My resolution for Lent was to give up reading news online, because it is almost all bad as well as being in incredible time-waster. It took me a while to really manage that, because although I managed to give up an online newspaper earlier in the year, the BBC site was more difficult because I would generally check the weather forecast there and then my eye would be caught by one story and then that would lead to another... I've now weaned myself onto the Met Office instead, so no temptation there, and I haven't turned the radio on after getting up (which I often do to help me keep track of time) so the rest of today so far is quite pleasant and calm. I must try and keep this up, as I'm sure it is better for my mental state as well as saving about an hour or more of time wasted reading things which are moderately interesting but ultimately not necessary!