A handy tool for Vicarage life
You need to have a mobile phone if you live in the Vicarage. Polly has used it three times recently to call the house:
- When our doorbell was broken and she was outside the front door without a key and I was in the kitchen listening to music with the dishwasher and microwave going.
- Yesterday evening when she was at the front gate, which had jammed shut.
- Also yesterday evening, when she’d been up in her attic room putting her baby to bed and the Joker had locked the door leading up there.
Mobile phones are so useful.
The Vicar's Wife 
Indeed without my mobile phone, I’d often be stuck on the front doorstep on days when I’ve walked places – house keys being on the same keyring as car keys. I’m often pacing up and down the path by the front door saying “answer the phone, do” while Helen is obliviously in the shower.
Colin has been reduced to reading in the library opposite when we have gone out without mobile phones and he’s gone out without his keys! For him to have taken a phone and not keys is unusual. Fortunately our little local library has quite extensive opening hours! But sadly doesn’t help me on a sunday when I’ve given my key to Helen (who doesn’t hang around at coffee time after church) and then I can’t then get in to get on with lunch!
Hi Chris. We don’t have a handy library opposite, so being without keys is more of a problem. We usually go out without phones, though. Or have forgotten to charge them.