Living in the Past

Here in Ibiza there's no need to be nostalgic about living in the past. With our undrinkable water, intermittent supply of electricity, ineffective drainage, and vast swathes of empty supermarket shelves (no lamb to be found in SYP this Easter) we are only short of gangs of rickety street urchins to give the feeling of living in Dickensian London. And if all that wasn't bad enough, we don't have a single free Wi-Fi access point in Ibiza.

However, wealthy villa owner Steve Taylor has pointed out that for people like him and me - abjectly cash rich, but living in the lap of poverty where time is concerned - living in the past can be quite advantageous!

Thanks to Sky+ where we can watch a recorded programme whilst simultaneously recording another, it is possible to live life a day behind the rest of the world by watching all yesterday's TV today. The best thing about this is that you can fly through the adverts at 30 times their normal speed, thus giving yourself an extra hour at the end of the day for whatever takes your fancy!



Even better, you can record all the games in the Rugby Union Six Nations Championship and rather than spend a whole afternoon dozing through endless rolling mauls and kicking duels, just check in the paper to see if any of the 90 players involved managed to touch the ball down and merely fast forward to that point in the game. It shouldn't take long and there won't be many, (if any) occasions to take your thumb off the button.