Those of you who know me will agree that I am!

I don't have a television and I don't care!

I find it incredibly boring when people at work can only find the soaps to talk about - I don't care!:b

I don't have a microwave and I don't care!

I gave my microwave to Bird in the Big Blue house six years ago - it was gathering dust and wouldn't fit in a caravan and we didn't have electricity to run it! We rarely used it - occasionally used for defrosting.

Wouldn't know how to cook in one and don't want to.

At work they ask what I do of an evening - well I write my blog, network with internet friends, spend time with my husband, read a book and go to bed. My evenings are limited - I get home from work at 9.30 on four out of seven nights. Why mong in front of the goggle box?

On three nights out of seven - I spend time with my daughter, cook wholesome meals from fresh mainly organic foods, watch a dvd or a video, have a long soak in the bath and read a book.

During my days off I get to spend good quality time with my family - what do other people do with their time off? I'm sure most of you good people are more net heads than tv coach potatoes but I would love to hear what everyone else does, just to reassure me that I'm not that weird.

I just find it odd that people judge me for my lifestyle just because I don't have a tv - as a family we gave it up in 2001 and we haven't looked back. There is so much more of a world out there that contains real life stuff!

I don't wish to bombard my head with images of so called celebrity - this weeks hot topic of conversation at work - Liz Hurley's wedding! Great - so what about the real life weddings of friends - someone I know once refused to go to a friends wedding because it clashed with the football - it's true - I was there and it was my ex!

My daughter says that sometimes she wishes she could be 'a little bit' the same as the other kids but still she says that she'd rather read a book! Not bad for a dyslexic really.. That's how much progress she's made in a year just by changing schools!

It is with much sadness that the school will be losing it's most excellent Head Teacher at the end of the summer term - fortunately for us, our daughter also leaves at the end of the summer term, so she will be able to have the continuity she so needs until then.

Anyway I'm sure that by now someone is lighting a match and waiting to stick it under my soapbox and tell me just how educational tv can be ... sure there are some merits to it, I do miss certain things like nature programmes but then I just wander outside and look at the chickens and the garden and remember why I gave up tv in the first place.