Alexander Graham Bell

"Part of the reason we garden and vist gardens is to escape: from ugliness to beauty, from tension to tranquility, from noise to peace. The mobile phone is changing all that." Anna Pavord, The Curious Gardener

I cannot agree more with Anna Pavord.

Whilst gardening, my two pet peeves are first, having to watch the clock, and second, being bound to attend to a ringing mobile phone or house phone. I fail to understand why one has to make oneself available at anytime simply because one has a phone.

Isn't the point of the phone to allow ourselves the option of being contactable when one wants and chooses so to be?

Why is there an expectation that the person on the other side of the phone must pick up its call immediately (or immediately soon after) when the phone rings?

Surely one is entitled to the freedom of engaging in other matters (less pressing as they may seem to you)?