I don't usually have a coat or bag with me. I do usually have my phone in my pocket, along with my key, credit card and a clean hanky. I don't want to carry more "stuff" than that. Coats and bags are a pain; easy to lose or leave behind which would be a double nightmare if they had everything in them.


I wouldn't recommend it, but my phone has been dropped plenty of times and it seems pretty robust. I've broken far more pens, and at least a phone never leaks ink all over your only suit. As to banging in fence posts, I don't usually do it with the phone. Last time I used a JCB, but that's a different story.


It happens to me a lot, although less often in my current position. It's called "the second job of the day", and could be anywhere in the country.


I usually seem to wait in small deserted reception areas with a piece of "art" on the wall, a plastic plant and a view of a brick wall. To be honest, it holds little interest for me.


I use calendar to organise work and stuff like doctors appointments. When you work with people, they tend to need to know what you're doing and where you are. I can't see any use for a "secret schedule" unless you're a crack international assassin?


I couldn't work without a phone, so it's going to be there whether I like it or not. We clearly have very different jobs, although I'm pretty sure there's a chainsaw app for iPhone.


My personal phone is a cheap indestructible brick. I think I've put £5 on it since I first got it about 8 years ago. It came with £2 which lasted the first couple of years, and I think there's about £3 left. I don't generally make personal phone calls; certainly not from a mobile. The last few calls have simply been to keep it alive, because you need to use it once or twice a year to avoid losing your credit.

When I was working at home, I didn't wear a watch, but now that I am commuting and running round all the time, I wear my watch again, a fairly plain Seiko titanium kinetic. It is about 10 years old and generally loses less than a minute a year.

Given that I have my watch with me more often than my 'phone, it is always there, easy to see and I don't have to turn on the display to see what time it is. A mobilephone is just too cumbersome to be a good replacement.

I'm also with Rusty when it comes to maps and GPS and navigation devices. My last 2 phones had Google Maps and I can get Navigon, TomTom or about half a dozen other navigation apps for my current phone. My car has a built in navigation system. I used Google Maps once on my old 'phone and haven't used it at all on the iPhone. I've had the Mondeo for about 4 years and I've probably used the navigation system a dozen times in anger - I sometimes punch in the destination, so I have a ready-reckoner for how long I still need to get there, but that is about it.

I rode all over Europe on my motorbike without a map or navigation system and I never got really lost. In Czech once, the main roads were closed due to flooding and I had to drive over some high hills over back roads. Because I had looked at a map before setting off, I knew roughly which direction I had to drive in and which towns to look out for. I made it to my destination without navigation with about a 30 minute delay, because I had to circumnavigate 60KM of close roads...