Keeping Sam company!

I often phone Sam while she is on the train going to work. For me this is around 4pm and for her around 8am. However, these calls have been costing her quite a lot of money, because although I always make the call she is also charged. So to remedy this Sam has set up skype on her laptop and woo-hoo! we were able to talk yesterday for free. Well I say talk, it was more whisper so as not to disturb the other passengers. This made it difficult to have a real conversation but it was nice to actually be able to see her and great fun to see everything whizzing past the windows. I even took quick picture!


Sam Auntie Jill was delighted to get her 'Menu for Hope' biscuits, she brought them to show me and I took a picture so that you could see them. It's only a very small box, about eight little biscuits, unfortunately they got a bit crumbled in the post, but they look nice and she says thank you.

P.S. I would just like to thank everyone for the lovely Birthday wishes you sent me for yesterday.
Embee came home with these aren't they beautiful! I would just say the flowers that look blue are actually purple. Oh and I think he was a bit miffed that I hadn't mentioned he is also giving me a flight to Dublin. So now I can go twice~ I think he wants to get rid of me~ while the cats away Mickey mouse will play!!!

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We have just got back from London and to relieve the boredom of the journey I took a lot of photos. We drove along the Embankment just as the sun set and I was taking the photos through the window of a moving car so they are not very good but nevertheless I will share a few.

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Hoorah for Skype

Today I had my first chat with Sam and Fred via skype video link (this is not a picture of that link, it's a picture I took when they last visited and I've been experimenting with the colour). I last saw them when we met up in the 'Big Apple' back in June 2006.
It was so exciting as Sam hadn't seen Embee or her Granny for about 18 months and all this for free, imagine how much it would cost to be on the phone for nearly an hour and not half as much fun. Sam was a little shy of me taking a photo as she had only just got up (I got one which it's not very good as she kept dodging out of view) but I noticed she was taking lots of us and we were in our grubby gardening gear. Sam I don't want any published unless I have vetted them first!!

I had no sooner signed off with Sam when the phone rang and a little voice said 'hello grandma I haven't talked to you for a long time so I thought I would ring you' and it was my youngest grandson.

We had a lovely chat he told me all about the party he had been to, he brought me up to date with the family news including the fact his mother was feeling the after effect tired after a night out and was lying on the sofa under a blanket (no blogging today)!!

I didn't do all the things I'd planned to do but I had a much more enjoyable time chatting the afternoon away.