Binge watching TV

 Over the past few months I have been watching a lot of streaming TV.  I make no apologies for doing so and I am fully aware that some people may think that I'm being lazy.  Well there may be an element of truth in that but there is also the truth that everyday I get up and go to work racked with pain.  I try not to show this; I try to be positive about it and I really enjoy my work and although not physically tiring, it can be be mentally draining as I cope with managing the pain and doing a job that I can quite happily say I love doing.

There are times for example when my wife is watching her programmes on the tele, which I do not enjoy, namely Earbenders (Eastenders) and Constipation Street (Coronation Street).  So whilst she is there watching them, I sit watching my programmes on my phone, with my little earbuds in oblivious to that caterwauling emanating from the big screen on the wall.

Also, when I am doing my crafts, sometimes spending hours at a time, just chilling out, I put my phone on and just let a series play through.  I enjoy it.

Some of the programmes I have been watching:

Supernatural

Grimm

Criminal Minds

NCIS

Ghost Whisperer

Lie to me

Castle

Perception

Body of Proof

Harrow

Missing

.........just to name a few.

Now my wife, keeps blaming me for having a bad influence on my daughters as they are now currently binge watching Castle, but hey ho, what can you do?

Anyway I get to the end of these series and I know that in some there are more series being produced which will explore the story more and I think great, but when the series has come to its natural end, I often wonder about what would happen next.  Would I have the creative talent to write some fan fiction to follow it through some more.  Well I would love to have the energy to write for hours on end and come up with some new ways of a victim being helped, a murder being solved, a true romance blossoming between two people who you would never have thought would get together and all in time for Christmas!

I'm the same when I watch 'who do you think you are',  I think there ought to be an extra ten minutes on the end of each programme when the celebrities are filmed describing to their families what they have found out about ,well, their families.

As you know I am no Doctor and I don't pretend or claim to be an expert.  I am sure there are Doctors and experts that will tell you its unhealthy to binge watch TV.  How much is binge watching.  I may be spend about three hours a day watching TV, granted it is usually one series and I keep watching it over a few days, sometimes weeks until it is all finished. Does it matter?  In my view, no.  If it makes you happy do it it is a simple as that, but don't take my word for it, go and watch for yourselves!