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Put your phone AWAY!!!!

 

Hi there!


It’s a gorgeous day. Sun is shining and I am looking after my beautiful baby Granddaughter so I'm grabbing some time to write whilst she has a nap. #livinginhope :D In Wings & Behemoths, you might notice a theme of food running through the book. Ellen Wyatt is one of the main characters in the book. She is a mum, in her forties, with four children, and she is known for cooking food and lots of it.

The family spend a lot of time sitting around the table, eating together, sharing stories and talking, which is how my husband and I raised our family too when they were little. We have three boys and a girl so cooking for six every day was quite a big deal. Occasionally, we were lucky enough to get a romantic weekend away together so my parents would come and spend the weekend at our home and look after their grandchildren. My mother cooked dinner one evening and my Dad was watching the News on the TV, as he helped to lay up the table. He shouted up the stairs to tell the children that dinner was ready and then when the first child appeared, they headed over to the TV and turned it off, before taking their seat at the table. My Dad, wanted to watch the news, so he turned it back on, and then went off to get a jug of water for the table. When the second grandchild arrived from their room, walked in and turned the TV off again, my Dad was a little put out. He wanted to watch the news, so he flicked the TV back on. When child number three and four arrived for dinner and turned the TV off for the third time, my poor Dad finally got the message. “We don’t have the TV on when we eat, granddad,” one of them said.

Nowadays the biggest threat to a family meal, is the ugly mobile phone that sits on the table next to the salt and pepper. It takes it place like a member of the family and says loudly to everyone that can see it, I am important. If I ring or ding, you have to look at me. If you’re talking to someone when I ding and ring, then I come first and the person you’re talking to, has to wait.

I don’t like the slide into the world where gadgets speak louder than the people we love.

The Wyatt family in Wings & Behemoths, are gadget free, live off grid and don’t even own a TV. Is that unrealistic? Can we really do without phones, AI or tech? Would we end up reading more books?

ps. My little poppet has gone to sleep! Yay! I haven't lost my touch. Now an hour of editing book 2 The Howling Willows which is coming soon  :D


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Don't forget to pop me a dilemma and Audrey and Lois will answer it on Friday's blog :D



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