Right, out of sheer bloody-mindedness I did this. The morning was alright, I live quite close to a country park so I walked up there and had a wander round for a bit, see the photos below, chosen for illustrative purposes rather than artistic merit:
A fisherman.
A moody vista.
A church.
A felled tree, leading pleasingly into the Hamble river.
A pair of deer!
I managed to get another shot, then they ran off.
However, when I looked back, I could see the deer were stood at the top of the hill watching me. I managed to get one more shot before they disappeared.
Then I got home, had a bath, did a bit of reading and tried to come up with some writing ideas which are probably not of that much interest - my first idea was so bad that I refuse to include it here, but I also thought of doing a sitcom called Ghost, about a guy who ghost-writes celebrity autobiographies, every ep starts off with him interviewing a different celeb and trying in vain to get useable material out of them. I thought of a story for the first episode too.
I also thought of doing a freaky Old Boy meets Twin Peaks thing, where a modern art museum like the Tate Modern has been turned into a prison, the captives don't know why they've been imprisoned, there's a makeshift assault course littered with corpses; I feel a bit embarrassed typing it up here but maybe it can evolve into something, ya never know. I also came up with some other ideas so the exercise was useful in that I did a bit of thinking, but with all that time on my hands I should have probably tried to write some script pages. Lazy strawberry floater.
Anyway, by the evening I was desperate to fart around on the internet or watch a bit of telly or at least have a cup of coffee, but somehow I managed to stay strong - partly aided by deciding to go to bed at about 10 pm... Still, I did some stuff I probably wouldn't have got around to if I didn't have a lack of tech in my life, and I enjoyed the country park. Strikes me this is written in quite a downbeat style - I actually did enjoy the exercise up to a point, if I had been doing this for a TV show I'd probably say something trite like 'it really brings home to me how dependent we've become on modern technology to live our lives', but the truth is I already knew that.