Texting etiquette
Q My granddaughter brought her boyfriend over to have lunch with us and he spent most of the time, between courses, texting. I felt this was very rude, but does this mean I'm an old fuddy-duddy as it's common behaviour these days? Or was he just being rather bad-mannered?
Eleanor G, Edinburgh
While this might be normal behaviour for the young, most people of any age know that this isn't what you should do in the presence of older people, particularly