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Monday, 12 September 2016

Silence

The other day I was speaking at a meeting and we had a problem with the loudspeakers.  That is not unusual.  The more specific problem was that we were hearing the radio through the speakers.  It was a fairly conventional station fortunately but irritating nonetheless.  we twiddles with a few buttons and knobs to no effect.  

The matter was resolved when a lady found that it was her radio (or at least the radio on her phone) broadcasting from her handbag . . .

This summer I wandered into St Clement Danes church in Central London.  As an island in the middle of a very busy road it must have wrestled with background noise for over a century.

I picked up a leftover Order of Service.  These days it is the Royal Air Force London chapel rather than a parish church so I was most impressed by the appropriateness of its advice about mobile phones - switch them to 'flight' mode.

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