According to (relatively) recent research by AXA, Britain's OAPs are just loving this new fangled interweb thingy. In fact, our ma's and pa's spend an average six hours a week on the internet, buying stuff, banking, reading the news and searching for things, beating more tech-savvy nations like Japan and, erm, just Japan really. In fact, so popular is da web that our pensioners are even eschewing more typically elderly pursuits such as gardening, DIY and hiking in favour of sitting in front of a screen for hours on end.

I suppose all I could add to this fascinating insight into the social lives of our nation's old people is that they certainly didn't survey my folks for it. And I hope that all these web-enabled silver surfers are fully secured and not in danger of exposing their PCs to some nasty viruses. But then again, if they have Macs that won't be a problem, according to Apple's latest ads.