Over recent years I’ve noticed a significant shift in my attention span. I’d like it to be getting longer but unfortunately it’s getting shorter. 
There may be a reason for this; we recently discovered that the central heating boiler in our house had been incorrectly fitted and was doing its best to poison us all.
But I’m not sure it’s that simple.
I wonder whether it’s also a problem with the number of distractions that I now have available to me.
This week I decided to do something about the distractions.
One of the main distractions is my phone, it always seems to ring at the most inopportune times. This week I made a decision (please don’t tell anyone), I put my phone onto silent and waited to see what would happen.
I’ve written and read more in the last few days that I have for weeks.
I haven’t missed a single really important phone call – and there have been some.
I must admit that is the most common setting for my phone. I don’t miss critical calls either as you generally know from the flow of events when urgent calls are due and who from. For the unexpected true emergencies I find people will keep ringing back rather than leave a VM – hence those calls get answered. Or any that come up “nursery” “wife” “boss” “bosses boss”, oh and “graham”