Somebody ought to be making and selling egg-timers (the flowing sand type?) for use with the telephone when you ‘dial-direct’. The S.T.D. (subscriber trunk dialling) service is wonderfully advanced for such a young country but it can ‘cost a fortune’ through excessive use (or absue!). The Post Office will by request disconnect it which is a fact not widely known!

John Lentell – Barum & Sarum

January 12th, 1968