I had the pleasure of attending my brother’s wedding at the weekend, and managed to go completely offline for (most of) two days. I returned to a mind-blowing 400 emails, mostly blog notifications. Even if I read and dealt with each one in a minute, that amounts to 10% of ALL my time over the weekend, waking and sleeping!
I need to scale back a bit.
Actually, a lot.
There is so much that I want to do with my writing, but trying to keep up with the endless treadmill on WordPress is exhausting. There are so many talented poets, writers and bloggers that I follow… so much is inspiring, or beautiful, or heart-felt, or just plain old-fashioned funny… but it’s a distraction from my own writing, and what I need to do.
I am off to the Isle of Wight Festival this weekend, and will be completely offline from Thursday to Monday, most likely caked in mud, and merrily light-headed/unconscious (it’s a binary thing – either one or the other) from my stash of Jack Daniels, my festival buddy.
This weekend is a good catalyst for me to take a bit more of a break and re-charge the batteries.
So … drum roll… I’m going to take a full fortnight off from anything WordPress-y. This will be a HUGE challenge for me, but it needs to be done! (Can you help me out by being a bit less interesting and awesome for this fortnight? Please? 🙂 )
While I’m away, I’m going to write my Blogifesto – my promises to you – and I’ll share that with you in a couple of weeks. I’ve got a couple of other things up my sleeve that I hope you’re gonna love too…
Have a great fortnight, whatever you’re going to be doing. I hope you’ll still be here when I come back! 🙂
Getting away from it all…
Picture credit: flickr.com/photos/fumigraphik/15006192406
A Certain Point of View 
Good for you! We’ll be right here. Enjoy❤️
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Al who? lol
Enjoy – you are in my neck of the woods. G:)
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Ha! Sod it, I’m going to comment and see if you read this!! Good plan. Enjoy. and I promise to be dull. Wadya mean you’re always…?
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(If I knew how to do a pokey tongue emoji, I’d have wielded it here!)
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Pokey tonguey accepted.
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Have a good break and come back refreshed
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There’s quite a good dinosaur attraction in Sandown (you may want to keep that quiet in Chez Lane or a couple of small boys will want to come with you).
Have a great break, matey. Hope you’re a happy jack when you come back.
How are you getting there? Taking the 5:15? Or the Magic Bus? Keep away from Baba O’Reilly (I won’t get fooled again).
I’ll get me coat…
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Good for you, Al. Being as active as you are online must be pretty draining. I felt the same during the A-Z challenge and find this while blogging “commitment” a toss-up, since all the time spent on WordPress is time not spent writing articles or my book… Have a great weekend and a relaxing two weeks.
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Enjoy your time off, Al. I also had to take a step back (halfway through NaPoWriMo no less) as things were getting a little crazy!
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Wonderful, Al. This blog thing is so wonderful and such a time gobbler. Finding a way to make it work along with writing and having a life with family and friends is an on-going challenge. A fortnight will pass in a snap. Enjoy enjoy enjoy and don’t even think about blogging – it’s certainly will be here when you get back. 😀
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Have a great fortnight.
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Good for you, Al! I’m going to scale back a little bit this summer, too. See you in a fortnight!
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Have a lovely fortnight. I have purposely limited the blogs I follow for this very reason. It’s supposed to be fun, not a chore! And it’s a very easy way to avoid “working”. So good for you, have a great break, work it out and come back refreshed.
You could probably work out the weather pattern from my blog postings, actually. If it’s sunny, I’m not blogging!
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I think a lot of people are feeling the time crunch! I’ll miss you, but I understand…enjoy
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Good on you! ❤
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Enjoy your break, we’ll all still be here when you get back – you’re not getting rid of us that easily! 🙂 x
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Have a fun filled vacation! 🙂
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I am SO jealous that you’re going to the Isle Of Wight Festival. Sling some mud for me when you get there. And don’t worry about me being a bit less interesting and awesome. I got that one in the bag!
Have a fantastic time Al. We’ll all still be here when you get back. 🙂
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Keep luck keeping away! 😉 But, really, enjoy your break and hope you’ll de-stress and come back refreshed and full of great ideas!
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Enjoy your break! Have a great time 😀
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Good luck. I have massively scaled back too, which is a shame, but you do what you have to do. If only blogging paid better without corporate sponsorship.
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Enjoy the break, Al. It’s will do you the world of good. And that’s from somebody who has taken a break and loved every moment of it. Oh, and I’ll be doing it again in July while I get my book ready. See you in two weeks time.
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Enjoy the break, Al! Blah…blah…blah…I’ll try to be very boring…
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Enjoy your time off! It’s a great idea to take a break every now and then, especially if you get 400 blog/emails. Yikes – that’s a lot to keep up with.
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Well, you know me, my life is dull, nothing interesting ever happens and I never have anything to write or say in a comment. 😉
Enjoy the Isle of Wight. Loved it when I went.
XO
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It’s a good thing… taking a break. Me, I’m an addict and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t last a day.
Also, I don’t think I can be less interesting and awesome. My apologies. 🙂
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Of course we’ll be here when you get back. Go ahead and unplug for a while. We could all use some time off from time to time. Have a great time!
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I know exactly how you feel Al. That is also the reason I have had a bit of a break too, and for a while I am just drifting in and out of blogland until probably after the bash!
Have a fabulous time, and of course, we will be here when you come back. ♥
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I’ve tried it before…didn’t work. The withdrawal symptoms was just too heavy…
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Now I don’t have to cry because I haven’t had anyone to write silly rhymes about boats with. Bruce & I will be patiently waiting, and slicing away, for whenever you return. Have a great time! Don’t you even dare responding to this message. Here – for good measure I’ll throw in the words “scones are delicious with dark chocolate nibs” – now it’ll probably wind up in your spam folder. Enjoy that family!! 🙂
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Thank you so much for your visit Al. 🙂
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