Choooosday

Or to those of you of a more sensible disposition, Tuesday.

It is my birthday on Tuesday, feel free to shower me with gifts and cash but I digress. 61 years of fun, misery, happiness, sadness, success, failure, love and loss and all the other things that go to make up life.

So on Tuesday coming, which I'm not sure if I mentioned is my birthday my brother and I are going to have a day out. Just the two of us wandering around Barter Books in Alnwick, a splendid secondhand book shop well worth a visit, having something to eat in some insalubrious boozer in Alnmouth and generally chewing the fat, not the fat in the meal I hope but anyway.

On Tuesday, which is my birthday by the way, I will switch my mobile phone off for the duration of our trip out so that I can concentrate on actually enjoying the day with my brother and not feeling like I have to constantly keep up with the incessant yammerings of emails, texts and social media.

I was on the Metro the other day and every single person, including me I'm sorry to say was engrossed in that small electronic dictator we carry around like a security blanket. So, on Tuesday, which is my birthday should anyone have forgotten, I will take a step back from modern communications and enjoy a pleasant day out in peace.

And a thought just struck me; when I was a kid and watched Star Trek with communicators and speaking computers it was science fiction, we live that science fiction every day now, amazing.

Off to do some poeting now so ttfn.

Peace and Love.