As the dust settles on the festive break, and the return to work is now fully engaged, I thought I'd reflect upon the days off, and how it had affected me.
I find myself telling people I meet for the first time since the New Year, that I had a really relaxing break, managed to spend time with the family and recharge the batteries.
How ironic...
In fact, the thing that caused the most stress in our household over the time off was exactly that...recharging.
We managed to take the family away for a few fabulous days in Copenhagen just after the New Year, and we had a wonderful time.
Sadly the peace was regularly threatened once we'd realised that although we had our entire cabin allowance worth of gizmos, gadgets and associated chargers, Daddy had only packed one European two pin plug adaptor - meltdown!
Between Kindles, iPads, iPods, and iPhones, we could be on 24 hour charge, but only one point to charge meant some serious prioritisation.
For me the answer was simple, turn the trusty Samsung Galaxy into Ultra Power saving mode, and watch smugly while various other members of the family went pale with panic at the prospect of not being able email/post or simply 'get entertained'.
It did make me wonder however, can the genie of electronic reliance ever be put back in the bottle? Will we really have to recharge every three hours, in order to actually 'recharge' at home?.
I hope not, I hope we can still sit back, switch off relax and enjoy a good book, just reach out for the eReader and bingo.................doh!
