with Skype we can see you any time and joy oh joy we will see you in person when you make the long trip from London to Australia in 3 weeks for a couple of weeks holiday in the sun. What a lovely way to start the new year.
(our son, our grandson and our daughter-in-law)
Oh such a precious photo Chris, what excitement for you all! Your picture on Skype is wonderful, we can't get a decent picture at all, blurred & it freezes & even speech is broken up. Work in progress at the NZ end. I didn't realise your family where coming out so soon, you as lucky as we are!
How lovely that your family will be visiting soon. Always difficult when you live so far apart. When we moved here from the uk there was no email or Skype. Much different these days.
@happypat thought you might spot the selfie. What a shame your Skype conversations are unreliable. Sometimes ours freeze but luckily not often but it is very frustrating.
@onewing we are very fortunate to have this technology. It makes us feel much closer and children just accept it as normal. When we visited them last year and Henry first saw us he immediately looked at the computer as if to say "how did you do that"
@kategoring@olivetreeann@yaorenliu
yes, Skype is a wonderful thing. You can just chat or even move around the room as we do with our lap tops if we want to look out their window or see something special.
@cruiser
However with a letter you can read it again and gain. I loved to see a letter arrive with my father's handwriting ... little things I now miss.
@pennystot ooh yes I know what you mean. Just to hold something that a loved one has written is so special and recognise their writing and I agree, to be able to read those words over again is so special.
@pennystot I have some letters written by my great grandfather in the UK to my grandfather when he first came to Australia as a young man. They are a real treasure.
The joy that this technology brings is without measure! As I write I'm reading some comments just above about losing the handwritten letters... Only yesterday a friend said she'd been writing letters (as in a journal) for her grandchildren, but kids today are no longer even learning cursive! One of my daughters opened email accounts for the kids when they were born so we could leave letters for them, but it somehow feels so impersonal (I've yet to leave anything) The times have changed, but now we need to find a way to truly SAVE things for the grandchildren and generations to come. As Ken's pointed out, we once saved things to video tape, floppy discs, CD's, then DVD's and even tiny CD's that were out for awhile. He'd noted you can save all this, but when they stop making machines that play them (think "8-track tapes" and even just audio tapes!) the record is as good as gone... I don't know the answer. "Type Letters" maybe... (I joke with Ken that I save photos to Shutterfly and use them for ordering cards & books. They advertise "We'll Never Delete your Images"... to which I say, *NEVER* is a very very long time...and I have my doubts...
@Weezilou I totally agree Louise. I am a scrapbooker and have four huge albums of photos of my oldest grandson who will soon turn 21. I have tried to capture all the special moments in his life but I am not really a journalist so the pictures have to tell the stories. Because he lives far away I am keepin them all for the time being so I can look back but they will be his eventually. I am just starting out on albums from my 2.1/2 year old grandson and hope to keep going till he's 21 too.
@cruiser I have close friends who scrap all their photos and make wonderful albums. I think it will be the closest thing to what we once had in the old photo albums handed down to us...only probably better notated! I really treasure the old photo I have...I hope they will realize the love that went into your as well.
January 4th, 2016
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yes, Skype is a wonderful thing. You can just chat or even move around the room as we do with our lap tops if we want to look out their window or see something special.
However with a letter you can read it again and gain. I loved to see a letter arrive with my father's handwriting ... little things I now miss.