The reading glasses are going back in the drawer.<\/p>\n
I complained to my husband about the minuscule font on my Guardian app and he managed to fix it in seconds. Don\u2019t know why I didn\u2019t think of it. There was one of those \u201cAa\u201d signs in the top corner of the page so I should have worked it out for myself. Of course he is now smug, and I had to be suitably grateful whilst grinding my teeth in mortification.
\nThere\u2019s a life lesson in there somewhere but I\u2019m not going looking for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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