WE were talking in the pub about what to do when your computer goes on the blink.

Charlie mends his own and Alan has an IT expert who calls round. Bertie said the last time he had a problem, he asked Wayne, the 11-year-old lad, who lives next door.

He is a whiz with computers, mobile phones, iPods, X boxes and any kind of new technology.

“Mind you, I won't be using him again,” he said.

“Why's that?” I asked.

“Because the last time he came round, he fixed the computer in about five minutes flat. So I asked him what had been wrong with it and he said it was an ID ten T error. What's that? I said and he just smiled and said, 'Write it down' and then left.”

Bertie wrote it down. It said ID10T.