Nice to see you (again)...to see you, Nice!

September is here, and the great digital detox experiment is over.

The past month taught me that you can't totally live without the internet - it is such an important part of our daily lives now and we still need it, whether to plan travel journeys/timetables, or online shopping, or checking the weather forecast or listening to a radio station or watching a TV show from another country.  All of which I did over the past month.

However it also taught me that I could live without the time-consuming temptations of blogging, Twitter, showbiz news sites and messageboards....but out of all that, the only thing I really missed was my online friends.

For the first two weeks of the month I was glued to the Olympics - what an amazing time that was!  I also managed to get a number of outstanding jobs done at home, most of which I probably could never have achieved if I'd continued my online obsession.

One very important piece of news since my previous posting, and an explanation for this blog post title.  Not only is it a well-known Bruce Forsyth catchphrase of course, but it's also a very bad pun to introduce my big announcement:

We're off on holiday again in the next couple of weeks!  It's all very last-minute, as up till very, very recently it was looking like a September 'staycation' but we're now returning to a very familiar old haunt, and one of our most favourite places: the wonderful city of Nice, on the French Riviera.

Over the next few days there will be some posts about some stuff from August, but I'll also be very busy preparing for the holiday so I can't promise when they will appear (but hopefully soon!).

The Great Digital Detox Experiment: August 2012

It all started with a random conversation with one of the girls at work yesterday, about how much time I spend on the internet, when I could be watching my telly backlog, reading books, doing other things at home.   I wouldn't want to give up the internet for good, but it then got me thinking about whether I could give up surfing for one month, which sounds a more do-able proposition.

(The only exceptions to this rule will be logging my food intake on Weight Watchers Online, online shopping when required, checking the local 5 day weather forecast and watching TV on demand).

Otherwise, from August 1st until August 31st there will be no surfing, no blogging, no tweeting, no emails, no reading message boards, no future holiday research, no YouTube videos, no discovering new music, no showbiz, TV or music news.  It's digital detox time!  I will be writing a diary during the month complete with all the withdrawal symptoms (!) and will let you know how I got on. My other two blogs will also be closed for the duration of August, and I will be back on September 1st with my very own "rentrée".

 Off to watch the Olympics now...see you in September :)