I’ve spent the afternoon setting my mum up with her first laptop. She’s going to be Eighty Four tomorrow – a real silver surfer!

She’s got a Facebook account, knows how to get to times online and has just about got the hang of point and click. I guess there’ll be a lot of handholding for a while. Already she’s being bombarded with Facebook emails as my niece tags her in photos. Slowly, slowly does it – but all power to her for having the guts to embrace the internet at all.

Wait till I get her videoconferencing with her relations in Norway – There’ll be no stopping her.