Saturday, 11 January 2025
I feel old
Our granddaughter is with us at the moment as she often sleeps over from Friday to Saturday. We collected her from school yesterday afternoon and when we arrived back at our house she told us she had some homework to do.
I imagined spreading a few books and notebooks across the kitchen table, but Granddaughter told us she’d do her homework online on her phone, which she did. She showed me a few of the questions.
Online homework has probably been going on for some time, especially after the lockdown debacle, but it left me feeling old. I imagined what my mother might have said if I’d told her I was doing my homework on the telephone.
“Are you writing about telephones for your homework?” she might have asked. “Well there’s the phone box on the corner but you can’t do your homework in there, somebody else might want to use it.”
Oh well, times change. After looking at a few questions Granddaughter had to answer, I went back to reading my Kindle.
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6 comments:
The whole telephone box thing now seems a world away. Sometimes when we were children the public phone would start ringing when we were walking or hanging about nearby. We would answer it and someone would ask if we could go and summon the intended recipient from a nearby house.
There's a bloke in the South Downs who has a little business restoring the boxes. Posh parish councils like to have a nice one next to the village green or duck pond.
I remember visiting friends in Wales in the 70s and outside their cottage there was a telephone box with something wrong with it. You could call any number in the country for any amount of time for a 2p piece. What a 'service' Happy days!
You’re young at heart though, AKH.
How does the school know who''s doing the homework?
Sam - yes it does seem a world away. I've seen a few refurbished phone boxes in prosperous villages. One housed a defibrillator which didn't quite go with the retro look of the box. Maybe it was for really alarming phone calls.
Tammly - I bet there was quite a queue.
James - I know, it's what keeps me going.
dearieme - they don't, I don't see how they could.
There wasn't because it was a long way from anywhere.
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