My wife is now settling in

[Arthur Little]

In some ways I think it was better.

At one time, Graham ... ... I'd have agreed.

Modern technology was something I used to do my best to steer clear of at all costs. Never had to contend with it (thank God!) throughout much of my working life - in spite of administration being my livelihood for more than 31/2 decades as a "penpusher" - though, I knew full well that, sooner or later, it'd be "on the cards" for record keepers like myself ... hence one of several reasons for my opting for early retiral.

[bod]

We have a Vonage box out in the Philippines, which means we can phone any UK landine for free (well, apart from the £6 a month for the box); also means when we phone from here it's free as we are with talk talk, so they think its a UK call!

It's a lot different to sending C60 cassettes with voice recordings to the kids grandparents!

[Arthur Little]

We have a Vonage box out in the Philippines, which means we can phone any UK landine for free (well, apart from the £6 a month for the box); also means when we phone from here it's free as we are with talk talk, so they think its a UK call!

... that's odd, Bod ... we're also with 'TalkTalk', but we haven't
heard of anything like that!

[bod]

... that's odd, Bod ... we're also with 'TalkTalk', but we haven't heard of anything like that!

You can choose your number and std code with vonage, we have the same std code as our local one, when i phone the UK from the Philippines it comes up as a UK number complete with std code. Talk Talk just think its a call to the UK and as all their calls are free to landlines it dosn't cost us anything, i have the box in the Philippines restricted to UK numbers so no one out there can phone anywhere else and run up a bill!