I know, I know!\u00a0 I need to remember it’s a blog not a rant!\u00a0 Yes, perhaps yesterday’s blogpost was a bit ranty, but sometimes you need a bit of a rant to get things off your chest but I’ve realised there is a world of difference between being INFORMED about what’s going on in the world and being INUNDATED, OVERWHELMED and MANIPULATED.\u00a0 (It’s the manipulation I especially object to.)\u00a0<\/p>\n
So how is my Elaine’s Life Is A News-Free Zone project going so far?<\/p>\n
it’s going well.\u00a0 Although I almost fell at the first hurdle when I got on the train last night and just stopped myself from picking up a copy of the Evening Standard someone had left in the carriage.\u00a0 And It was quite nice to sit and eat my breakfast this morning without the images of dead Syrians or Afghanis or Pakistanis\u00a0being paraded in front of me or listening to politicians talking rubbish.\u00a0 I’ve rooted out a lot of old CDs which are playing now as I write this\u00a0\u00a0 – all together “Johnny’s in the basement mixing up the medicine, I’m on the pavement thinking ’bout the government”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>They don’t write lyrics like they used to!!\u00a0 I’d forgotten how much I loved some of the music; it was great to sit and write yesterday afternoon with the Mamas and Papas crooning in the background,\u00a0 Who couldn’t sing along?\u00a0 Each night before you go to bed, my baby, whisper a little prayer for me, my baby….\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>So, yes.\u00a0 So far so good.<\/p>\n And it’s not as if I’m not hearing what’s happening.\u00a0 At drama group last night someone was talking about Tia Sharpe’s nan’s boyfriend admitting killing her.\u00a0 Bastard!\u00a0\u00a0 Couldn’t he have done that earlier and spared the family this last week in court?<\/p>\n I feel another rant coming on!\u00a0 Time to end the blog, methinks.<\/p>\n The Daughter’s been in touch, having a ball in Cyprus, bless her.\u00a0 The Weather Fairy’s calendar’s got stuck in late-February and I’m going to get on with some writing and then some house\/flat hunting.\u00a0 I have to move out of Mum’s flat very soon and haven’t got anywhere to go…..\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know, I know!\u00a0 I need to remember it’s a blog not a rant!\u00a0 Yes, perhaps yesterday’s blogpost was a bit ranty, but sometimes you need a bit of a rant to get things off your chest but I’ve realised … Continue reading