Here's a funny thing

Changed the wired phone today. I have one wired phone in case there is an emergency and the wireless ones go dead. I have long used what are described as telephones with 'Large Keys' as it makes them easier to use on the outer reaches of my desk when there is just lighting over the keyboard. Reason for changing was to get a handsfree facility to cope with the Mumbai Morons on call centres who take for ever just to pick up a incoming call.

So, got home. Unpacked the Large Key phone. Blimey! The old one had keys that were about three quarters of an inch across. The new one has keys of inch and a half diameter. No problems seeing them.

Obviously there are degrees of getting old. I had the 'Just retired' model. What I have now must be the 'Damned Near Dead' version. The changes even apply to the volume choices. The last one needed to be towards the high end to be heard outside of the study. Replacement sounds like the Queen Mary reversing.