Barton on Humber

A most difficult day. Finding that a public blog doesn't necessarily meet the need for a private diary. I can say hello to friends: Hi Russell for example. But email is far preferable for many purposes, as is the phone, even the wretched mobile phone occasionally (though on balance I think we'd be better off without them).

Letters are only rarely useful for personal communication and even less so with email as well as phones. As for 'texting', however useful in extreme circumstances that's only really an everyday option for somebody with a mental age of 11-16.

Still don't understand though, given the ease of use of webpages (even creating your own by hand) and email, why mobile phones have to be so illogical and impossibly difficult to use. (Apparently designed by an even more degenerate idiot than the one responsible for video recorders).

Still a little warmer in London than Faro - remarkable for 11.30 pm on a July night.