Thursday, June 6, 2013

Too many Bank Holidays?


Well what do ya know ... it's almost the weekend again, and last weekend seems like just a couple of days ago. These short weeks are far too frequent for me as I slide ever more quickly towards an older old age. Slow down please, and let me enjoy more 'todays'!
• The 'slide' is bad enough for me, but a new film, The Bling Ring, highlights how teenagers want to broadcast their lives via a screen, rather than savouring the moment. Has this generation lost touch with reality? Sometimes kids can look like they’re living in another world. While the day whirls around them, they’re lost in their mobile phones – photographing, Tweeting, texting, emailing ...