Skype

Have to say, it was really funny, sitting up in bed last night with the computer on. Mel appeared for her first attempt at skype. Suddenly she was there - on our bed, but in her own house, and frantically holding up hand written signs saying 'I don't have sound' (more frantic scribbling) 'I don't know how to work it' and all the time we could hear her shouting at the kids, telling them to answer the phone, get the eldest out of bed so he could get 'this thing' working. She couldn't hear US so we had to do frantic hand signals to let her know that WE could hear HER.
I can see me living half in Scotland, half in New Zealand, quite easily.
The New Zealand half that I will live in will be the sunny one. It was very pleasant doing a bit of trimming in the neighbours garden this morning. 9am - warm and heady with perfumes already. Sewed some lettuce seeds in the afternoon, so am well on the way to a bowl of salad. I drew the line at radishes (which Pat had offered me along with the salad seeds,) as the children are already struggling with asparagus (not home grown at this stage).
 They can cope with giving up all their friends, their school, their home, family and everything that is familiar, with barely a backward glance - but present them with a new vegetable??????????