Do you spend too long?

Housework is a waste of time, you do it, and 6 months later you have to do it again.

But seriously, if it can wait, why not? You will not die if you sheets are not changed today, or even this week.

Social media....oh dear.... I am a 24/7 carer and have a small social life and do use my phone for podcasts, chatting to friends, to keep me in the loop. Plus I have two games that I play and am probably addicted to but I say 'live my life' . I find I am included locally with news, I never thought I would use social media instead of chatting person to person.

My youngest son has deleted all social media from his devices because he found he spent far too much time on it. He says he gets so much more done.
I find it’s not just social media but by the time I’ve read Apple News and surfed for information about hobbies, the morning has gone.

Yes talking for myself?
Just taken Facebook and intsagram off my phone.I get caught up

I find I'm getting bored with my phone now, even when I go for a coffee I enjoy to people watch, I find it fascinating

so very true nadateturbe thankyou.

I think it all has a place in life, tv radio SM listening to music, reading as well as housework and craftwork, going out and oh yes the world of work which I do like usually but sometimes wish I didn’t have to do, particularly a night shift once Winter arrives.

I pput meeting with real people far higher on my list than social media, but also use the internet to find out things - factual - keep up with local happenings so that I dont miss something , and of course come on Gransnet most mornings.

For me it is actually something of a ruse, whilst enjoying feeling part of the morning group. Getting up and showered and dressed is often difficult and painful, and of course very frustrating, as my mind has decided what I want to do but my body will not let me attempt it for some time, until I have been able to have some painkillers and loosened myself up a bit. That is why I tend to go on in the mornings for quite a while, as while I am drinking my first decent coffee and listening to J S Bach I can kid myself that I am sitting there by choice and not because I cant do much else yet!! So actually the more I am on here, usually the worse day I am having physically and I can get so frustrated when I cant bend down, stand up and cook or do things like hoover and reach for things.

I am only too pleased to get out and about, and on those rare good days that I have little or no pain, I am off out and about. Best days are a trip up to my beloved Swaledale, mundane days allowing me to do stuff like shopping and a bit in the garden, but a friend calling or meeting someone by chance is definitely much more important than any internet stuff. I know what you mean when you look across a cafe and see 4 people sat at the same table with not a word being spoken and they are only interested in their phones. Ah well it takes all sorts but I am glad that in my circle of friends human contact comes well in front of the internet!

Lathyrus

Lathyrus hope you feel better soon.

I love Pinterest .
I'm only sorry that I listened to one of my friends , who said that was wonderful .
What started off as a few art boards has escalated into dozens .
Sitting is the new smoking -never was a truer statement.
I wish that there was a TV channel devoted to exercise that we could copy !

And Rightmove - for some reason I can’t quite fathom🙄

Well, Im nt feeling so good today so I’m on the sofa with the knitting and Gransnet.

It’s keeping me amused🙂

Well I did a little bit of the vacuuming and changed the bed but it started raining hard so good excuse not to put washing out. When it rains it tends to pour here. Good time to play on gransnet.

I've been guilty of this only this morning. I spent an hour on my phone messaging sons and grandchildren.
I totally forgot the gardener was coming here today.
It's the first time I've greeted him in my dressing gown.
Must do better!

I love it all Gransnet, mumsnet, Instagram YouTube etc. I hardly watch tv now unless it’s a property programme which I also love.
I’d drop it all in a heartbeat though for family, or time with friends, you can’t beat that in my opinion.
I’ve lost interest in cooking and housework they all seem boring now. DH is currently cleaning the bathrooms I’m supposed to be changing the beds. Oh joy !

Social media was a lifeline for me during COVID and my recoveries from joint replacements. It is social contact and I felt like I was chatting away all day and always had news for DH when he came home. I feel I've made friends online, I've even met some of them. Social media is what you make of it.

I watch very little tv but I always have a tablet at my side. I confess I'm getting addicted to the latest news, but it is also useful for checking facts. For instance, yesterday I was reading a book which mentioned The Highwayman. I remember learning that poem in school but checked on google and there it was. I would have been very frustrated trying to remember the words, otherwise.

I average 1 to 1 1/2 hours a day, I suppose that's too long. I have stopped seeing people glued to their phones when you meet them for a meal or a coffee made me feel as if I was boring., I must be very old fashioned, if someone calls when out, i answer and say cannot speak will ring them back when home, if a number I don't know, I silence,

We have been living without a television quite happily for the last 4 months, and not really missed it.

It isn't a deliberate decision, but the tv went into storage at the end of June when we sold our house. Our new home is a project. We are camping there at the moment, while we have basic work done, best done when the house is empty - install central heating, sand and varnish floors, get a lot of replastering done - All our belongings come out of store on 12 December. So until then - no tv.

AS for Christmas, don't ask.

Has its uses for those who are lonely, often housebound.

Bless you for putting that into words—those unexpected calls from the little ones (or not so little now, eh?) are the very heartbeat of it all, yet they find us mid-scroll, don't they? I was much the same yesterday, faffing on the tablet instead of tackling the ironing pile, when my daughter rang about her new grand-babe. Made me think, as your pastor did, how these gadgets bless us with closeness but rob us of the quiet joys like pottering in the herb garden. Let's not beat ourselves up, though; small steps, like one screen-free hour a day. How did the vacuuming go in the end?