This is great but the more I think of it. Should the top one be someone with revels face and then the mask is removed and it is an imposter?
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It truly is dire. For some reason it only opens for me if I get really really close to the camera, basically having my nose touching the screen. I can’t believe it’s difficult to use the system API for FaceID, which I would assume is infinitely more secure.
I’m shocked they’re even allowed to use something other than Apple’s implementation of FaceID.
I know, I’ve taken to always using passcode instead as it’s quicker - which annoys me when I’ve got this state of the art technology in my phone, and I’m keying in a code like it’s 2003!
I’m going to hazard a guess and assume, though, that your passcode isn’t…… that? 
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No, and it’s 6 digits anyway!
The reason I said 2003 was actually because it’s got precisely nothing to do with anything, other than being around the time mobile phones (in their original Nokia brick incarnation) became mainstream.
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Forgive me, I was being “moderately” flippant.
See what I did there? 
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Excellent, and to be clear - I did think so, but thought it best to reply anyway just in case!
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A blatant theft of one of my regular lines Graham. I suggest you take yourself to the virtual sin bin 
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Bought my first mobile phone in 1999 when, on a car drive home from Grantham, on roads surrounded by snow covered fields, I realised that if I was to break down there and then, the pager in my pocket would be of zero benefit 
Fair do’s…
“I’m here all week 
”
You’re not having that one 
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And I thought civility had gone out of fashion 
This has all the makings of a cracking novel - opening paragraph. I like it
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I still have an old Vodafone pager sat in a draw circa mid 90’s. I wonder if it’s worth anything
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It may well be!
The last I read, the NHS were struggling to get hold of them as nobody makes them any more, but they still use them to page on-call doctors in hospitals.
They may have moved on in the five years or so since I heard that, though.
Ah, so that’s what I can do with all my free time in early retirement 
They can have mine for a free flu jab in October, oh, hang on, I’m over 50, so I get it for free now anyways 
I have to admit mate, it is a bloody brilliant opener, save it, I forsee big bucks for you
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Sounds quite nice.
I always thought that Roald Dahl’s writing shed sounded quite romantic. Get yourself a nice shed and you will be set!
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