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I was listening to a documentary on the radio whilst I washed the dishes. It was on the subject of Surviving the Pressures of Modern Day Living.

This is something which I personally feel that most of us manage to do quite well without any need of a documentary on the subject. If anyone wants to make a documentary on how to survive the pressures of modern day living they could do no better than to simply follow me around with a camera. I am the very model of survival in the modern world.

Not so the guy they were interviewing. He was a TV writer and he had traded in his London pad for a family home in the Chiltern Hills. Sounds idylic, and indeed it was, the writer was hard pressed to think of anything bad about it, but when pushed he said the mobile 'phone signal was very bad out there. He had to leave his 'phone leaning against the back door and if it rang he had to speak to people while walking around the garden.

Have we really reached the stage where people don't realise that there is an alternative to mobile telephones? It's called the home 'phone and it's plugged directly into a network of telephone cables so it doesn't need a signal to work. It's also a whole lot cheaper and more reliable.

I used to wonder why people like that earned more money than me, but now I know. They need it to pay their mobile 'phone bills.