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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it


I was having lunch with family recently when my mum handed me her mobile phone and asked me to save some numbers for her. This would have been a simple enough task if it was a smartphone. But instead I was dealing with a ‘manual’ phone because my mum is one of the most practical people I know. I could almost swear that the old saying, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ came from her.

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