Boys and their toys

Anyone know how to mend printers? Ours is having a hissy-fit and the carriage won’t return to its proper place. Or are we going to have to buy another, along with the digital camera Ned wants? He’s always been keen on gadgets, but until recently was content with small examples, like his pocket saw or his flint-and-steel fire-starter. That was when he could handle his addiction, because the level of understanding required wasn’t too advanced and could usually be grasped by trial and error. Now it’s getting out of hand, and he’s getting into hard-core technology. He won’t be able to cope – this is a man who was only recently dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century, and for whom the term ‘technologically challenged’ could have been coined. In fact it probably was. I predict that before long I shall have to book him into a clinic to either cure his addiction or teach him how to read instructions first.