mornin' dad..

Google adverts pick up whatever is on the page and puts ads it thinks are relevant.. I think all the wetsuit ads might be due to Peters wet suit obsession and Devon.. clotted cream and SURFING... its brought in three dollars so far so over the year may pay the entire cost of the site.

Now then listen everybody... Steve talked a while ago about this Skype thing.. well now it works very well on the Mac and gives you free computer to computer phone calls to anywhere in the world... for it to work properly you need to pop down to dixons and buy a computer headphone and mic set(from about £15 just explain that it's for Skype. The application is free and can be downloaded from http://skype.com it does work straight out of the box (without a headset) but obviously you get alot of echo as the incoming voice is picked up by your computers inbuilt mic. nevertheless Ruth and I downloaded it seperately launched it and now we can call each other from Kitchen to (makeshift) studio. Imagine calling Singapore free and chatting for half an hour!!!
When Ruth is in Saltzburg for the summer she has free internet access so we won't have to pay a penny in phone calls. YOU REALLY MUST TRY IT!! When you call someone the computer rings like an old style phone bell... c'est genial!!!.

you can skype me at julianmerrow-smith just add that to your contacts... right back to the easel.