Idler: Do Not Disturb

When life gets too much don't fall for the doctor's potions and pills that conspire with your body to get you straight back to work.
Have the confidence to listen to yourself when you can feel that something is wrong.
It's not you that's wrong.
You're having an entirely reasonable reaction to the chaos of the modern world.
There's nothing wrong with having enough of chaos every now and then.

Put a "Do Not Disturb" sign up outside your front door,
Ignore the phone when it rings,
Turn off your computer so you can't "get mail",
Switch your mobile to silent and fling it into the bottom of an old drawer.
Forget about the newspaper,
Unplug the TV,
Unplug the computer,
Leave all the chores for tomorrow and make a pot of tea.

Dan Kieran, from The Book Of Idle Pleasures.

Lovely.
Read anything with Tom Hodgkinson's name on the cover.