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Well, I think I have heard it all now! There I was, about 10:30pm merrily playing a spot of 'Call of Duty 4" last night before bed, as you do whilst your wife is away and the phone rings....
"Dad?"
"Yes Peter" (this is son aged 26!!)
"Errr, my iPhone has crashed and I use it as an alarm clock"
"Err, OK" says I wondering what I can do about that as I'm here and he's in Derby!!
"Can you give me a ring in the morning to wake me up?"
"And what time would that be?"
"Oh, er, about 10 to 5"
At this point I don't know whether to hurl abuse or just laugh!!!
"Sorry Peter, I'm not prepared to do that, go to Tesco, they are open 24 hours and buy an alarm clock"
"Oh, yeah, could do that, I just thought...."
"No!"
Off he goes to Tesco, spends £2.50 on an alarm clock and comes back a happy bunny..well, he would have been happy but as he had no batteries he had to spend another £2.50 on batteries!!

Now, I don't have a £400+ iPhone, I do have a £40 el cheapo Chinese knock-off of an iPhone which hasn't crashed on me, has enough bells and whistles (that I don't use anyway) for anything I might ever want, has space for 2 sims (one French one English) which the iPhone can't do and I am quite content...and I have a 'stand alone' alarm clock too!!!

As a friend of mine said this week "The young have forgotten the difference between the words want and need "

Dick 'sleepy head' G xx

OMG we have loads of little alarm clocks, a clock radio, the OH has an alarm on his watch and there's even the bloomin' timer on the bloody oven if necessary!

How times have changed. If my mobile has an alarm clock I am blissfully unaware of it, and given that it's turned off 99% of the time it wouldn't do me a lot of good anyway!

I really worry about young people!
You are intelligent, your wife is intelligent. I'm sure your son is intelligent.......but...what happened to the common sense gene? Did someone drop it somewhere?

Young uns today eh!

Next Wednesday it's an early start for me, off to St Malo for the morning ferry. We decided to check that the alarm still worked on my bedside clock, one of those all singing and dancing electronic ones. Went off perfectly the next morning at 5 a.m. Cancelled the alarm, well I thought I did! Next morning at 5 a.m. off it bloody goes again. You have to REALLY cancel it using the temperature changing button, C /F!

BE

Hope you dont have a power cut during the night BE.

OMG Dick, it's a bit like Nick ringing me this morning when we were having breakfast in the hotel, to ask if we could come back in the next hour all the way from Warwick so he could come home and look at his facebook page.