IT’S just a rumour at the moment. There’s talk that Apple are thinking of getting rid of the headphone jack or at least changing the size of it.

I think we have reached Peak Passion. I saw an advertisement this year, for an accounting technicians course which asked the question of those potentially interested: “Are you passionate about accounting? Take your passion one step further with our accounting qualifications.”

THE pattern is roughly the same each time. My wife is watching something on the screen. Every so often she’ll make the cringing expression as one of the characters does something cringeworthy or an “mm-TsnAWWW” when the heartstrings are tugged.

YOU could find out in advance, but it’s better to wait for the surprise. Walk along the carpeted corridor in anticipation. No it’s left, not right.

I CAN’T remember much from my formal education — just useful snippets: “Stony grey soil of Monaghan you burgled my bank of youth”; the stages of development of an oxbow lake; how long it takes for an oven to cool if the oven-door is left open; and the Hardness Index.