Being about as keen to embrace new phone technology as drying myself with nettles we have reluctantly taken the plunge and have joined the Twitter generation.

But like a petulant child who realises that he does actually enjoy sprouts, I have to grudgingly admit that it's superb. We can now keep tweeting when we are covering festivals and events, or when we get site updates, or we fancy a vent. Finally I won't have to look at my unused 500 free text messages a month and feel that I am missing out. If only I could learn to remove all vowels from my messages ...