In message on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:05:51
+0000 in uk.railway, "M. J. Powell" tapped out on
the keyboard:

In the days before mobile phones I travelled all over Wales and the West
Country organising OBs. I managed perfectly well with telephone boxes
and hotel phones. And those were the days when phone boxes were
regularly vandalised.

Telephones ? You don't know you were ever born ! In my young days, I'd travel
around with a supply of carrier pigeons to send messages back to base. And if I
got hungry, I'd eat one !