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As I said in Week 1, I now rely a great deal on the Internet for all sorts of things – answers to quizzes and crosswords, general information and emails to the family. My son, daughter-in-law and two grandsons live in California, and the 8-hour time difference makes telephoning very difficult (except at weekends). I wouldn’t want to go back to a time without the computer, and yet we seem to have lost a bygone Age of Innocence.
I have many happy memories of playing hopscotch in the street, filling in I-Spy books and playing marbles on the garden path (that is, before I lost my marbles completely!). Most of all - ‘only-child syndrome’, I suspect - I enjoyed escaping to a world of fantasy which I found in books. I was an avid reader – anything from Every Girl’s Pocket Book through to the Chalet School Stories, from Never Land to Treasure Island, from Ian Fleming, to Dorothy Sayers.