Mad Cook
Master Chef
My television gave up the ghost a few days ago and I haven't got round to doing anything about it. In fact, I may not bother to replace it.
I can't believe how much I've got done since it died. I've knitted half a baby's cardigan, sorted out and taken a huge box and three bags of stuff to the charity shop, had a sort out in the garage, tidied up and weeded out my piles of knitting and food magazines, been out to lunch with friends, done a pile of baking, read two novels, listened to the radio live and caught up on my laptop with a few radio programmes I'd missed and emailed various friends who I don't see often and done the financial report for the charity horse show we ran in the summer, which has been sitting on my shoulder nagging at me for a few weeks. That's in 3 days and it's been wonderful!
I was given the TV by my colleagues as a retirement present. I hadn't had one for about 10 years and they had always been shocked when they asked me if I saw "Coronation Street" or "LA Law" and I told them I didn't have a TV. They told me that I would be lost without a television when I was retired! I was SO lost without one it sat on the floor in my hall for three months before I even opened the box!
In Britain you have to buy a licence to receive TV broadcasts but sometimes I think they should pay me to watch the rubbish that's on! Being without one just for these few days really has seemed like freedom.
I can't believe how much I've got done since it died. I've knitted half a baby's cardigan, sorted out and taken a huge box and three bags of stuff to the charity shop, had a sort out in the garage, tidied up and weeded out my piles of knitting and food magazines, been out to lunch with friends, done a pile of baking, read two novels, listened to the radio live and caught up on my laptop with a few radio programmes I'd missed and emailed various friends who I don't see often and done the financial report for the charity horse show we ran in the summer, which has been sitting on my shoulder nagging at me for a few weeks. That's in 3 days and it's been wonderful!
I was given the TV by my colleagues as a retirement present. I hadn't had one for about 10 years and they had always been shocked when they asked me if I saw "Coronation Street" or "LA Law" and I told them I didn't have a TV. They told me that I would be lost without a television when I was retired! I was SO lost without one it sat on the floor in my hall for three months before I even opened the box!
In Britain you have to buy a licence to receive TV broadcasts but sometimes I think they should pay me to watch the rubbish that's on! Being without one just for these few days really has seemed like freedom.
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