Keeping in contact

This morning we did a fun thing. For some years Celia has checked out the webcam overlooking the Sheringham Station Car Park whenever she was feeling a bit homesick. Now, of course, the car park is only a few miles away.
So a couple of days ago we arranged that the kids should check out the internet at 8.30 pm NZ time, and we would be in the car park waving at the webcam at 9.30 am our time. As it happened only one of the kids turned out to be on the computer when we were there - as far as we know - and so we also rang her on Skype. This meant we were standing by the roadside railings, leaning the laptop on them with the mobile connect device hanging out of a USB socket, and the skype headphones trailing between it and the various persons wearing them (my sister-in-law came with us), talking to someone on the other side of the world while she watched our movements at 30 second intervals. Totally daft, but something that gave us a curious connection.
And we learned that England isn’t the only place suffering floods. Apparently Dunedin has just had another bout of them too.

Photo from the Otago Daily Times, Dunedin