Yesterday ..

Ring, ring ..

"StudioFiveFour! Can I help you?"

"Yes, I'd like a portrait taken of my daughter. She had some done at school but they're not very good. They don't even look like my daughter. How much for a shoot and four prints?"

"Sixty-five pounds madam!"

"Oh, er .. let me have a think about that"

"What do you need to think about, may I ask?"

"Well, that's considerably more than the school photographs cost"

"Well, the photographs will be considerably better than the school photographs, madam! Goodbye ..."