I have just got a computer back after nearly 3 weeks without one.
That’s ok, you may think, but it has actually proved to be some of the most difficult 3 weeks of my life. Why? Because I now realise that I rely so heavily on the internet for all that I do in my life. Take it away from me and I am floundering like a fish out of water.
Ok, I do blog and do bits for fun online but I am actually amazed at how many things I actually do do without even thinking about it. I bank, shop, for everything, use it for researching, use it most importantly to do alot of my socialising and it was horrid having this inabillity to do these things. I didn’t even have a computer until 5 years ago and since my husband and I split up, I do use it, as I have already said for everything. Talwyn was letting me use her i touch for the little bits that that would allow me to do, and they are great little inventions, but they can’t compare to the lovely new animal that is now sat on my lap purring away.
I reckon that it was the ‘out of touch’ thing that got me down the most. My friends are scattered mostly all over this country now, let alone the world and we all use the internet for keeping in touch-very rarely do we phone each other, but stay in touch via email and facebook and I have felt totally cut off from them all. The world is most certainly a much smaller place now because of the world wide web and very scarily, I am not sure that it is a world that I could cope in without technology. I would be totally lost.
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Boadicea's Chariot 
What indeed, Kate! I have two computers: a desk top and a lap-top. I wouldn’t be without either – just in case one breaks down!
Glad to see you are now back in communication, Kate, but must dash; I’m now running late!
Wretched computers. 😉 Only joking; couldn’t cope without one.
PS: We have six at the moment, but some of them are past their use-by date!
I am just soo happy to be back online-can you tell 🙂 ❤
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Yeah, it’s strange isn’t it…?
I wasn’t particularly into telly as a teenager; it just wasn’t a feature in our house. Then I started getting hooked on it a few years ago.
But since the digital switchover, telly is so rubbish that just about everyone I know doesn’t bother. Everyone’s blogging instead!
Hi Kate,
I have just changed my phone to an iPhone. If push came to shove I could still keep in touch with the phone. I’m debating whether to get an iPad or a notebook as well.
I can understand your relief at being back on line, Kate! Although most of my local friends aren’t that into computers, I wouldn’t be without the internet – for communications, news, music, and research at your fingertips. It’s without compare for keeping in touch with family and friends who are thousands of miles away. I chatted for over an hour with son no 2 and his fiancee on Sunday using Skype – the airmail equivalent of the news we swapped would have taken up scores of pages of thin airmail paper!!