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Tech Is There, But It Doesn’t Mean We Have to Use It
Give yourself some space
Imagine a rainy Sunday in November. It’s cold outside and the darkness is creeping in, even though it’s not even lunchtime.
Bring back any memories?
I remember sitting in my parents’ house as a kid in Leeds (UK) on such days in the early 80s, wondering what I was going to do all day. My father was the same.
Normally on a Sunday, we would go walking in the Yorkshire Hills near where we lived. But on those miserable days, even my father’s enthusiasm for hiking was diminished.
So what did we do? Normally we played board games or cards, listened to music on the record player, read books or watched TV. Even if most of the programmes on a Sunday were old grainy movies set in black rooms in some Victorian workhouse — or so they seemed.
Sometimes, we went to my grandparent’s house or the cinema, but that was rare. In short, we made do with what was available. Then we had dinner, my father would get stuck into the whisky, and finally, we would go to bed.
Fast forward forty years, and I find myself on holiday in France with my wife and my brother-in-law’s family looking at a similar rainy day outside. Even though it was…
