It has been 2 long months in the wilderness, the metaphorically bleak and empty wilderness that is life without internet of course! A few weeks after moving into our apartment in Germany the internet was abruptly disconnected and subsequently it has taken 2 months and several exasperating conversations to restore it. Apparently, German efficiency has yet to infiltrate the telecommunication industry as I am told this is normal practice, however, I am thrilled to report that normal service, has been resumed!
It was during this period of regression to a time without email, Online banking, You tube, Facebook, Spotify, Twitter, Google search and all the other crappy things I spend time looking at on the internet, I was forced to rethink my mediums of entertainment and sources of information.I have never been overly excited by big TVs, HD or surround sound systems, and I didn’t want to become a Sky +/ HD/ Multi room ‘TV zombie‘ or one of the growing number of households that now have huge television that dominates their living room. So in light of this we of course , . . yeah we bought a big ass TV! What can I say I have principles, . . that I sometimes choose to ignore. I now have a wonderfully large dust collecting square box in the living room, . . totally worth it just for the Olympics, . . . right? I am however, eternally grateful that living in Germany means that I do not have to watch depressing soap operas, endless Singing Competitions, washed up celebrity reality TV shows and host of talentless spray tanned and vajazzled simpletons from some backwater in Essex anymore.
So when the Olympics finished I was once again cast into a dark void of endless days and even darker nights without media entertainment! Ok maybe I’m being a little dramatic, but I’m so used to turning on the TV or surfing the internet when I’m bored or need entertaining that I’ve forgotten what I used to. Of course, I have my usual day to day tasks of cleaning and going to the gym and feeding a 110 Kilo eating machine, (also known as my boyfriend) but this only fills a small percentage of the day.
What did I used to do before? Ahhh. . . . Read books!
Yes . . . . that old old OLD tradition of reading BOOKS . . . you know . . paper with words on them!
I decided to work my way through the collection of leather bound classics in the bookcase that look rather nice but really should be read.
The complete works of Shakespeare, Plato, Sherlock Holmes, The Scarlet Letter, The Last of The Mohicans, Moby Dick, Oliver Twist etc.
This should keep me busy for oh . . . . about a decade!!