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5 May, 2019
Posted in: Reading etc.

I’ve given up on Twitter for a bit. I found that I was spending a lot of time looking at it and I have many other things to read.

In our house we get the following in print:

  • The Irish Times (most days, sometimes two copies due to an annoying inability to co-ordinate)
  • The Economist (weekly, bloody Hell)
  • The Dublin Inquirer (weekly)
  • Le Canard Enchaîné (weekly, notiony)
  • The Phoenix (fortnightly)
  • The London Review of Books (fortnightly, aspirationally – my friend D says she is waiting anxiously for delivery, the prospect of delivery makes me anxious)

I also have an email subscription to the Browser which I really love but which arrives daily. The horror.

Are we reading all this material? Are we even close to reading it all? We are not. I cannot be spending hours on Twitter looking at Brexit, cycling, art and sarky Irish people when I have a mountain of print to get through. Not to mention the hours of podcasting awaiting my attention in the phone.

And I do like to read a book as well.

I also quite fancy the idea of my media being a bit less social.

In case you were wondering.

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  1. Viviane says

    6 May, 2019 at 05:46

    I like that you read Le Canard Enchaîné, but what does “notiony” mean ?

  2. MT says

    6 May, 2019 at 21:25

    I like to read those things too. But when there are all these blogs to keep on top of, I just can’t find the time.

  3. Charles says

    8 May, 2019 at 22:16

    I read the Times, a lot of blogs and the Spectator. Obviously the Sunday Times. I like Guido Fawkes.

    When not screaming at the TV or the radio I do like a good book.

    The Economist was a must read when I had to earn a living, as a retiree I find it a bit worthy and lacking in a sense of humour. It so lives the EU, sometimes you need to look at Junker and say HMMM, that man should go to a spa.

  4. belgianwaffle says

    22 June, 2019 at 20:48

    Viviane, it’s a bit like having ideas above your station – the nuns were keen on the term “notions”

    MT, prioritise the blogs.

    Charles, the more I read periodicals, the more I like books.

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