British scientist, Dr. Aubrey De Grey recently declared that the first person ever to live to be 150 years old has probably already been born.

Then along comes the telegraph pole equivalent of Glucosamine, and now there's every chance that our beloved telegraph poles will reach a similar age. 

According to Honorary Technical Adviser Keith S****, a well treated telegraph pole is already capable of making it to its 100th birthday.  But the main vulnerability is the point the pole meets the ground where conditions for decay and rot are ideal - substantially shortening its useful life.  That's where Polesaver come in.  Their patented polesaver barrier sleeve system protects a utility pole at this point of contact - saving you up to £3,000,000 a year*¹.  Wow ! I'll have some of that.  Anyway, with that kind of dedication to saving telegraph poles, how could they not be friends of this society.

Meanwhile, should my septuagenarian neighbour be the first person to make it to 150, then at his present rate of driving his 1961 Morris Traveller ever slower into town, I reckon that by 2050 he will have more than a million cars tailing back behind him.


*¹ If you have 100,000 telegraph poles that is.