For us during
this lockdown, videoconferencing has become a magic carpet. It is as easy to have a natter with friends
who live at a distance as it is people who live just round the corner.
Some of our
friends have lived miles from us for many years and we are used to putting
aside weekends to see them. But
recently, several other friends have moved away from the south east and are now
a day trip away, or even a whole weekend.
And there are only so many weekends in the year.
However, we
can now see them for an hour or so on any evening. If they’re not already busy videoconferencing
somebody else, that is!
Similarly, because
Pascoe lives in Edinburgh, it is rare to have all our offspring in one room
together. But now we are achieving this
once a week.
All this
was available before, but it was not socially accepted to meet a bunch of
friends as if it was a work conference call.
It is one of the things from Lockdown that I hope we keep.
Now when we
make a social arrangement, we ask “Skype or Zoom?”
Nigel
figures it’s become the new “Your place or mine?”