This, currently, is the view from our house. The slope is very popular with young tobagganeers. The grass should have grown back by Spring.

Today, I walked the half mile or so to our shiny new public library where I teach technophobes how to use computers once a week. This is for AgeUK, a charity for older people. Actually, the idea that people have similar needs because they are of a broadly similar age seems vaguely ridiculous to me (like “black” music), and this is being born out by experience. The people I have been teaching over the last few years are varied, enthusiastic and, mostly, interesting. They are as capable as anyone else, but have simply never got around to taking the plunge into the intimidating world of information technology. (Too busy fighting wars and raising children!) Often, they have always had their children or, now, grand-children to do it for them.

Because of the weather, though, today’s session was cancelled. So I walked back home again.