I is for...

(not immediately obvious)...internet

I've been pondering my I blip all day and kept coming back to Internet. I'm of an age where computers have always been an integral part of my working life, but I remember the excitement of first computers at home and of sitting meticulously typing in lines of script with Grandad to create a pretty basic tennis game!

Today I blip our new bed - ahhhh at last! Searched for online and in shops but eventually ordered through the internet. Not that I think that shopping is the best part of the internet and I confess to gladly paying £4 for the pleasure of not having to traipse around the supermarket (I think I make double that back in not buying things we don't really need plus I don't lose an hour of my life doing something I hate!).

I know that some (many?) are cynical of communicating on line, but for me with a family spread around the UK and friends around the world it is a great thing. I can listen to my dad on local radio from the Isle of Skye, whilst chatting with his other listeners on facebook. I can see the ever changing faces of nephews and neices who live too far away to see as often as we'd like. I can text a friend in the States for nothing, as if she was still London. It is amazing really, 16 years (ish) ago one of my sisters went to China for four months and travelled for two afterwards. We got much cherished letters but didn't hear her voice in all that time except once when she sent a tape home. I'm sounding very old here but blimey, the world has changed with the power of the internet.