Mighty Mike enjoys Gardens party before Rahm-raid just fails

Further financial pressures arrived last week from a much larger than normal landline telephone bill. The wife and I were bemused, as we hardly ever use it. There has surely been some kind of mistake?

Then we put two and two together and finally made four. The offspring has developed a penchant for grabbing the phone over the last couple of months and playing with the buttons. We did not realise she had the ability to actually make calls, but it turns out there are lots of phone numbers stored on the device, so you need only to hit a couple of buttons in the right order to ring someone from a list of recent callers.

The little tinker has clearly been making merry and leaving some lavish voicemails to doubtless bewildered recipients. The most regular caller to the landline is my mother-in-law, who has only just returned from several weeks spent in France, so there has even been some international dialling going on. It never rains, eh?