Oh Plasmo, I remember learning to measure margins and how to make invisible corrections. I learned Tline and Pitmanscript and how to use a gestetner or roneo machine for duplicating ... office skills are very different nowadays.

As a household that has four laptops, a pc, several mobiles, five digital cameras (shall I go on...)I can't avoid technology but I do miss things like having proper telephone conversations (even my 73 yrear old mum emails and texts me instead of calling) and writing and receiving handwritten personal letters - oh the pleasure of a cream envelope hitting the doormat. Life was slower but ...

I emailed a friend's work email recently and got a reply back almost instantly. But she was on a beach in Turkey on a family holiday and had picked up the message on her Blackberry! I refused to reply until I knew she was back at work! Tsk!