Over the last few years I have become – along with the misses – quite a fan of gardening. This will probably shock a few people who knew me before I left my previous job as many will remember me as a big petrol head.
One of the reasons for changing my hobby was that the financial need to support a family far outweighs the need to drive a ridiculously fast car. But the biggest reason, which I later discovered whilst pottering about in the garden, is that I found I could truly switch off from the many digital distractions that switch me on during the week.
Emerging yourself in the digital world is truly tiring. The constant need to understand new technology, new standards, write 1000′s of lines of PHP code whilst tweeting and blogging can be at best, draining. So, to offset this constant binary attack, especially when the weather gives me the opportunity, you will find me at the bottom of my garden, pottering.
During a recent garden escape from things like PHP, jQuery and Linux, Nicola arrived home with some new plants, and to my dismay, I discovered that each plant pot had a QR Code printed in the side. Normally, I would have been leaping for joy at this obviously clever positioning of the medium, but I couldn’t, as the realisation hit me hard that the digital world is now invading my purposely un-digital hobby. And I maybe biased but this for me is all a bit to much. Or am i just getting old?
