Decisions, choices.<\/p>\n
There are too many of them in this hyped-up, consumer-led world.<\/p>\n
For example; supermarkets.<\/p>\n
I don’t mean that there are too many brands of supermarkets.<\/p>\n
Or even that there are too many supermarket outlets.<\/p>\n
But you go inside the supermarket and boy is there too much choice!<\/p>\n
Want some washing-up liquid?<\/p>\n
How long have you got?<\/p>\n
Because over in aisle 13 we have four rows<\/em> of washing-up liquid.<\/p>\n And those are just the lemon, lime, banana, strawberry, mango and\/or orange flavoured products.<\/p>\n Over in aisle 14 we have 9 types of 5 brands of Eco-washing-up liquid.<\/p>\n Good grief.<\/p>\n Anyway, want some peas?<\/p>\n In aisle 31 we have 18 types of 9 brands of frozen<\/em> peas.<\/p>\n Whilst over in aisle 33 we have 5 types of 31 brands of tinned<\/em> peas.<\/p>\n But back at the greengrocery counter we have a selection of freshly grown<\/em> peas.<\/p>\n Yet just around the corner at the specialist<\/em> greengrocery we have a selection of organically grown<\/em> fresh peas.<\/p>\n Sigh.<\/p>\n Back in the Spanish mountain village where I used to live, the ‘supermercado’<\/em> shopper has two choices:<\/p>\n ‘Do you want this one, or not?’<\/em><\/p>\n And life as a consumer was just so much simpler.<\/p>\n So the thing that teases my brain as I cruise down the M5 in the early morning light this Tuesday, listening to the Chris Moyles ‘brand new cheesy song’… I have my own decisions.<\/p>\n About where I’m going to sleep.<\/p>\n You see, the place I’m working for the next few months is borderline commuting distance from home.<\/p>\n But I’ve been creeping home more frequently.<\/p>\n To The Lovely S.<\/p>\n To my own house.<\/p>\n To my own bed.<\/p>\n And when The Lovely S has been working late, I’ve been able to go straight to the yard to spend some quality time with the boys, tidy the lorry and then ride Vinnie.<\/p>\n But the situation changes next week.<\/p>\n The Lovely S will be away at a Welsh University, working on her MSc.<\/p>\n So do I make the trip home every night next week?<\/p>\n Distractions are well… distractions – whether the distractions are children’s toys or just ‘alien’ noise.<\/p>\n This isn’t\u00c2\u00a0about ‘not commuting’ or staying locally.<\/p>\n It’s about being in my own environment – a place I know; not having a shared one.<\/p>\n It’s about spending time with my own horses – force-feeding them apples (ha!<\/em>) even if I choose not to\u00a0ride.<\/p>\n And about choosing whether or not to cook pasta in my<\/em> kitchen.<\/p>\n Where I know where the knives, forks and plates are.<\/p>\n Hmm…<\/p>\n As I read this back it looks as though the choice is making itself with very little input from me.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n But a whole week at home by myself?<\/p>\n What will I get up to?<\/p>\n ROFL! Decisions, choices. There are too many of them in this hyped-up, consumer-led world. For example; supermarkets. I don’t mean that there are too many brands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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