The TV comic Dom Joly would be envious of this giant phone. He’d have to go to Urswick Road, Clapton in north Hackney to see it: the dial-up giant is sitting in a front garden.

Pictured is Dennis Murphy, who has had enough of it taking up most of his plot. So it’s for sale at £500, or for hire, negotiable. Tel: 07984 540268 or 020 8985 0149.
The glass-fibre phone was commissoned as a publicity device by the NSPCC, for which Murphy and his brother David have occasionally worked.
It would certainly end that dilemma faced by many, “Now where did I leave my phone?”