Thanks for your reply.
Never seems to be one trigger time, it's mainly the content, and by the time I've cottoned on to what that is. . . . it's too late.
Yet, me actively browsing the news IS KEPT to headlines, ticker tape style now, for about 5 minutes twice a day, and boy has it been hard to keep to that.
One key click in error and up pops a typical trashy news video (if it bleeds it leads, sort of thing).
Except the wife does read the news and when something grabs her interest, we talk about it.
Occasionally, and unintentionally, the content is a trigger.
BUT, I've always encouraged her to "keep informed" and for good reason with recent events in the UK and Europe.
Now the bad bit. I have a few ex-mil friends, and their topic of conversation (outside of how bad things have got in the UK) is what they have read.
Occasionally it's "places and things of interest and my past life". Sometimes it jogs a memory.
Media is everywhere in the UK, in cafe's it's talked about, on front pages in bold print, radio, even junk mail (usually from charities).
Not to forget the fools listening to news broadcasts on their Smart phones while walking past you in the streets.
I so want to get back to living on a boat. There, the silence and our days were controllable.
The only dangerous time was when we went shopping.
Too many people, too much advertising and talk about what's been broadcast or splashed on the Newspaper Front Pages.
However. having written all that, I need to know, in broad strokes, what is going on as keeping informed is to be forewarned about potential threats.
