{"id":1033,"date":"2010-05-25T17:58:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T16:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:57:10","slug":"twitter-tweet-twaddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2010\/05\/twitter-tweet-twaddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter, tweet, twaddle."},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is what happens if you isolate yourself too long.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Twitter, facebook and the internet now isolate us. Todays news. Is it news? Having moved from printed media to the internet I can only agree. It’s true. The hours spent sitting hunched over a desk writing and posting detracts from the real life that is still, thankfully,out there. Spending time away from the technological distractions of day to day life means real life gets an opportunity to seep back in. Slowing down, spending time sitting on a wall chatting to a complete stranger about …well…nothing. Sitting completely still and staring out to sea in total peace.<\/p>\n

Last week I was in Argyll, the wild, green, rolling mountains, watching eagles and buzzards (I am the only in Scotland that still likes them!), deer, squirrels and \u00a0seals. \u00a0Of all the\u00a0 impressive animals we came across\u00a0it was a \u00a0Blackbird\u00a0\u00a0whose song was incredibly chipper and amusing – that turned my head. And when did I hear it?\u00a0 At 3am! I did.\u00a0There I\u00a0lay in a B&B on Mull as the sun came up\u00a0 and this bird just started.\u00a0To begin with I was highly irritated ‘how dare it interfere with my sleeping’ but as I lay there listening I found myself\u00a0 alone in bed laughing at the sheer joy of this twittering wee feather pot.
\n\"\"<\/a>Sitting staring at screens, all day is a means to an end but as time goes on I\u00a0believe\u00a0 the original Twitterer aka the birds have more validity in this mad bad world than the\u00a0short blurts of information that an increasing number of people feel compelled to share with us. That geezer who was negotiating with BA on behalf of the enployees Twittering\u00a0 during the meeting made me think what a rude, distracted pillock – I mean how could he be concentrating on representing the enployees who had entrusted their future potential strike and livelihoods\u00a0with the due care and attention it deserved when he was texting on Twitter. I reckon he needed a slap for that. No Twitter and I are going to fall out longterm.\u00a0So whether this heralds the begining of a stupendous\u00a0mid-life crisis or not remains to be seen. But if I start googling Bill Oddie, wearing \u00a0Birkenstocks and knitting my own balaclavas I have instructed \u00a0my husband permission to phone Location Location Location and Find me a Place in the Country now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twitter, facebook and the internet now isolate us. Todays news. Is it news? Having moved from printed media to the internet I can only agree….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24],"tags":[621,623,622,624,617,618,620,619,625,616],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}