GOING DIGITAL

Daughter No. 3 won a camera at the Gateway holiday kids club today.

It is a 35mm film type camera, not a digital one. She was completely baffled by it. Grace and I really struggled to explain it to her - not just the mechanics, but the very concept of a camera you have to put film into. What is film? Where do you see what you're taking a picture of? How do you get the film out? Where do the pictures come from? Do you throw the camera away afterwards?

Bizarre, that something so familiar should be so alien to a 7 year old.

Exciting news in our local paper: Poole Park is going to be the first public park in the UK to go digital. In a few weeks free wi-fi is going to be installed so that you can sit in the sun, feed the ducks, and surf. I remember when I was 7 and there was talk that one day most homes might have computers in them.

Man I feel old...