Tele-phoney

We're a bit thin on the ground today (I wonder how often I've said that). T.Aldous surveys the serried ranks of nobody there and wanders over to Noreen in the Acq. Team.

"I'm very worried about telephone calls getting answered," he says.

"If we hear a 'phone ringing and it's not answered we pick it up and either take a message or try and hunt down whoever's being asked for. That's what we've been doing ever since we moved in here with you."

"We need to have some sort of a system."

Self-discipline I can only dream about stops her from saying: "You could answer your 'phone occasionally."