The Joy of Skype

Not entirely sure what we did before this came along. Video calls were non-existent and even regular overseas calls were expensive, tinny and subject to erratic delays.

We got skype set up when Mrs Doubleu was in Boston for 6 months but the internet with the mentalists wasn't that good and we struggled even just to talk on it.

 The past year though, it's been a revelation. Absolutely essential for keeping in touch with Mrs Doubleu whilst she's been in Pittsburgh. I'm used to her yelling for me from the other end of the house, but now I can hear her dulcet tones hollering across the Atlantic. And they call this progress?

I first saw Fin, my nephew, at 2 days old on skype when he got home from hospital in London. Since then I've stalked him by skype from Joburg to Cape Town and then onto Sydney. He is one well travelled 8 month old!