When your greatest pleasure is a cuppa and a cake!
i WAS amused by Quentin Letts’s list of 50 ways you know that you’re over the age of 50 (mail). here are a few more that i’ve experienced: When people use wireless to mean wi-fi, but you still use it to mean a radio. When you listen to gardening programmes on the wireless. When you shout at people on the tv who say ‘haitch’ instead of ‘aitch’. When you look for the Cd player in your new car only to be told by the salesperson that in order to give you ‘improved connectivity’ the maker has taken it out. When you remember when the tv channels had continuity announcers in between programmes instead of talking over the credits of the programme you have just watched in order to squeeze in more commercials. When ordering something in a cafe, you remember when people said ‘may i have?’ instead of ‘Can i get?’ When tv commercials were limited to eight minutes in the hour instead of whatever the tv company thinks its viewers will put up with. When your greatest pleasure is a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake. When you have drunk the first mouthful of tea, you let out an: ‘Aah!’ When you look back fondly to a time when children had sensible names like, say, trevor.
TREVOR BAILEY, Nottingham.