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The wonders of internet shopping…

I have been thinking recently that I would find it hard to imagine a world where the internet didn’t exist. At the very least, how would I book my holidays and theatre tickets and take advantage of those special deals on a well-known book site? So it’s really interesting to be evaluating Age UK London’s digital inclusion project, ‘MiCommunity’, because many of the older people in London who have signed up for the project have never even turned on a computer.

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The patience of a volunteer?

I taught my mum to use the computer.  And it took the patient of a saint.  I love my mum, but I got very close to breaking off all contact and going out to adoption.  To be fair, she got close to disowning me.

At the time I suggested that just as you should never get your husband/wife to teach you to drive (it took her 20 years to take another lesson after my dad tried to do just that), your children shouldn’t teach you to use a computer.

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