Last weekend whilst driving to babysit my grandchildren, who were all at a party, I called my daughter on my hands free phone.

“Remember and leave the telly on before you head off.

“Mum, it’s the same telly and the same remote we’ve had for two years now,” she sounded a little exasperated.

However, regardless of how long she’d had the blinkin telly, I still can’t work it out.

You see she’s got all the basic channels, Freeview, Sky, and three remote controls.

None of which I seem to be able to get my head around.

So all, in all, life is just simpler if she leaves the telly on and that way I just have to change the channels.

My friends found this very amusing until Christine piped up.

“Our generation get a hard time from the young ones when it comes to our lack of techy knowledge,” she continued.

“And all things considered, I think we do fairly well keeping up with everything.”

However, by the end of our Sunday get together, some of the jibes we received seemed justified.

“I remember at my first computer training class," explained Fiona.

“I just couldn’t get my head around any of the jargon.

“For instance,” Fiona started with her story.

“When the teacher said ‘now press control, alt, delete all together, I kept typing now press control, alt ,delete all together, over and over and wondered why nothing was happening!”

“What a numpty,” added Christine until I reminded her of the first time she came to my house for a computer lesson.

“I’ve run out of table,” she shouted through to me from the dining room.

“What do you mean you’ve run out of table?”

And when I went to check, Christine had the mouse in her hand because she had dragged it to the end of the table and didn’t realise that you just had to lift it back into position.”

To save her embarrassment Fiona brought the conversation back to her computer training class.

“The teacher then asked the class if they had Windows open yet.”

“At which point a bright spark shouted from the back of the room, ‘yes miss, the windaes behind me are open.”

By this stage I was beginning to think that perhaps my technology skills weren’t as lacking as I thought!

“The young girl in my office recently came out with a cracker,” giggled Yvonne as we waited to hear her tale.

“She was given a new laptop because she would soon be working from home some days, and when the IT guy tried to explain to her how to work the new system, she turned and asked.”

“So will my laptop get heavier the more data and software I load on to it?”

“No way,” I queried.

“I’m beginning to feel like a techy genius compared to some.”

“I’ll tell you a better one than that,” added Sandra.

“I overheard my dad ask the postman to stop delivering mail as it was all on the computer now.”

“Yes,” he said to the postie.

“Our Sandra gets all her mail on line now so you’ll soon be out of a job.”

“Not quite sure how I’m supposed to get my Amazon packages though,” laughed Susan.

After hearing all the techy faux pas, we came to the conclusion that perhaps we do struggle sometimes with technology, but for our generation we are still doing pretty well to keep up with the never ending changes.

“Do you know what girls?” I added.

“We have skills that young ones don’t have nowadays.”

At this point my pals wondered what on earth these skills could be as I went on to relay the conversation I had with a young trolley dolly on my recent flight home from Spain.

“One tea please,” I asked.

“That’ll be £2.60 please.”

“What?” I was shocked as the price of a cuppa.

“I could get 240 tea bags in Tesco for that.”

Unamused the young girl held out her hand for the cash, at which point I handed her a fiver.

Rummaging for what seemed like ages in her makeshift till I offered.

“Will it make things easier if I give you the 60p?”

The girl looked at me totally baffled.

“That way you only have to give me £3 change.”

“Eh.”

Next minute she took out her calculator and started pressing furious at the buttons with her long manicured nails.

“Em, em……”

Her brain now seemed to be in overload at the difficult calculation.

“No just give me the five pounds please.”

And as I explained to my friends.

“We might not be as technologically savvy as we could be, but at least we can still use our brain and count without a calculator.”