If you’ve read my blogs over a long period of time, you’ll know there’s nothing I like more than putting the world to rights. Explaining why I believe my view or proposal is the best to further humanity, while, with logic, rubbishing the claims of proposed ideas is nothing but a pleasure. It is both beneficial to myself, allowing my writing style and exploration of ideas in this mad place we call Earth to develop and altruistic, through, hopefully presenting you with a new spin on a topic.
I don’t want to do that this week. Reading through the news, it has just been bloody awful. Swearing is something I detest, viewing it as a sad breakdown in communication, someone’s lexicon so restricted that no alternative pre-modifying adjectives can be expressed. Today, however, I feel it’s completely justified Last weekend, five people – five innocent people – were killed in a helicopter accident. Before that, 11 Jews celebrating the birth of a new child in Pittsburgh was murdered by a despicable, deplorable white supremacist. If things could get any worse, nearly 200 people are presumed dead after budet airline flight Lion Air crashed in Jakarta, Indonesia. There will be no rant this week, no new evidence to make me feel smug about the inevitable logic of my point of view. While that is necessary, indeed it is an essential part of a current affairs blog, there is nothing wrong with taking a break, no shame in deciding to take a break from the world for one week. If you’re feeling the same, desiring the chance to step away from the world, walk on the other side, temporarily mind, here are some perfect activities to instead dominate your time. 1) Why not purchase an Ancestry UK booklet? According to a Radio 4 documentary, looking up ancestry is the second most frequent online search after pornography…moving on! A booklet is likely to have all the necessary information, documents to complete, research, pour over to discover who you are related to. Maybe your family really were bakers, tended land for a wealthy aristocratic who ruled the roost. Perhaps it turns out you are related to royalty and have as much of a claim to attention as Andrew and Fergie. 2) I would argue that nobody has fully had a childhood until they have gone to the local library and read all – yes all – of the Tintin and Astrix stories. If you haven’t read them, now’s the chance! They were just so excellent: the characters, pictures and adventure causing delight and amazement each time. Of course, the formula was always similar (Astrix having land invaded by the Romans, Tintin going off on some quest inevitably ruined by the Thomson/Thompson brothers) but that didn’t make the read predictable. Far from it. 3) Attempt some intoxicating, soothing tea (if those adjectives aren’t oxymorons when placed next to one another). Despite the name of this blog being Tea Talks, I realized I haven’t been the best at actually promoting…tea. Personally, my favourites remain English breakfast (PG Tips if you’re asking), Earl Grey or green tea, especially if I’m ill. I am yet to fully explore all the other delights that happen to exist, lavender and jasmine tea, chamomile. Oh, all the different colours. The selection is so huge, it would almost be like you were choosing cigarettes (except tea is tastier, cheaper and doesn’t give you every cancer under the sun). 4) See your phone as a disease. I know, it is so tempting every time to be distracted, promise you will only have a quick glace at YouTube. Before you know it, you’ve ended up watching Oasis’ Wonderwall again, despite only clicking on a two-minute Newsnight clip. It happens to the best (and worst) of us. Instead, throw your phone into an obscure place, someone where its location is known but your laziness – and fear of catching a disease – actually prevents you from collecting the phone. The best part is the phone remains on in case of an emergency! Hurrah! 5) When you do go on your phone, or the computer if work is inevitable, I have the perfect solution for ensuring your news craze declines. Just play the BBC News theme tune. They are so excellent, varying over the years and getting you in the mood for a breaking news story, except, at the end of the theme tune, there is no story. Remember, you are just playing the music. Instead of a saddened newsreader informing you of yet another horror, you only have to listen to sounds. The news can get you going without knowing what the news is. 6) And finally, start writing a blog about whatever you like…I’m only putting the idea out there!
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