I love e-books too. Nothing like curling up to a good Kindle.

By the end of the day my mobile gets shut off to recharge, but it stays off because otherwise its incessant trilling will drive me batty. I hate all phones but alas, they are a necessity of life. Sometimes even smartphones lose their signal, so one is left pirouetting in loud busy traffic with a finger jammed in my ear while trying to either re-dial or listen to someone bellowing "hello hello? Are you there?" down the phone. That's when I feel a bit of a twit.

Mobile phones do everything except make tea. One day perhaps Apple will find a tea app. Until then, I'll just go boil a kettle.

My return to work today after a week off made my phone so active that by the time 4pm arrived I wanted to drop it down the kharzi. (Brit slang for a lav incidentally).

Never let your phone rule your life.