Technology is not a strength. It is without doubt the bigest curse of modern time. Not the medical technology or the mechanical technology but what I call domestic technology. The biggest curse of all is the dreaded mobile phone. I hate it, have always hated it and will never ever own one. I was issued with one when at work for "your safety". Yea right my safety my arse. It was so they could check up on you every 5 minutes if they wanted to and you could never get away from anyone for 5 minutes. The number of calls I made in 4 years of having this thing was 3. People sit behind wheels of their cars with the things attached to their head as if it was the only thing that mattered rather than actually steering or even looking where they are going. People sit on public transport airing their private lives for all to hear even if they don't want to know. People walk around with it stuck to their ears or checking for messages not looking where they are going and expect all others to move around them so as not to interupt their most urgent conversations or texting. They can't write anymore except in text speak from the age of three. You also can't tell the scytsophrenics anymore. They used to be the ones walking down the street talking to god knows who or what. Now half the population appears to be carrying out a conversation without any apparant wires showing. Kids play nothing much but computer games now instead of running around a park with a ball or something equally healthy. See what you've done now to get me started.
And, thank you for the birthday wishes which I will pass on. I told her she didn't look a day older than when we first met. She thought that was funny somehow and said she had aged twenty years in the last two. That was when I retired but can't say I'd noticed it even though I've been home all the time. Then she broke down and cried. Must have been the emotion of my endearing comment.