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Missing something we no longer have

Homebird

I have recently had to get a new phone. I was looking at a post and it changed the colour of the background then asked me about changing colours. It keeps telling me about new things and do I want to install an app.  I keep having to ask how to get out of loops.

Also I can no longer just turn it off, but have to swipe quickly up the screen twice (to avoid doing anything in the process like turning on the torch), to find a small square to start off the powering off. Apparently they are all like that now.

Then I can't swipe to the next page but have to use an arrow and to get rid of a page I have to minimize it first.  Rant over.

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  • I still miss my first car, it was a 1960’s  MK1 Mini, I miss its simplicity and quirkiness. It had heater, lights, wiper and indicator switches. A clothes  peg kept the choke out on cold mornings and it had no engine management lights.  

    Nothing was expensive to replace and climbing the stacked scrapyard cars for parts at the weekend was deemed normal.

    We went on many happy adventures together and parking was easy.

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  • I still miss my first car, it was a 1960’s  MK1 Mini, I miss its simplicity and quirkiness. It had heater, lights, wiper and indicator switches. A clothes  peg kept the choke out on cold mornings and it had no engine management lights.  

    Nothing was expensive to replace and climbing the stacked scrapyard cars for parts at the weekend was deemed normal.

    We went on many happy adventures together and parking was easy.

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