Well I've had an interesting week digitally!
I impressed 'all and sundry' with my photos that I have loaded onto my DVD player, direct from my camera. I've saved them to the harddrive-and wow did they look fantastic!
I wanted to copy the photos to a memory card and put some onto this blog. I ran into difficulties there...instruction book in hand, I couldn't find anywhere on how to save it to this, even though there's a portal there. I learnt how I could attach a printer though and print pictures off it! Amazing really.
Whilst my achievements are probably low level...I did feel a certain level of 'bravado' whilst I was busy fiddling with all the buttons, memories of phrases such as 'kids just aren't afraid of touching things...'
And on that note, it reminds me- my kid should be afraid of touching things! We were away in ChCh over the weekend and whilst we were at Joe's Garage having a scrumptious Bacon and Bratwurst bun, I told him he couldn't play games on his phone...as his Dad would be trying to phone him and I didn't want it to go flat...meanwhile, there he is fiddling...'Oh I'm not playing games, just checking out the menu, reminding myself what else the phone can do'...'Ok' I say...after all where's the harm in that???
Well blow me down if the sad face and tears in the eyes didn't look like mine...'It's locked me out !'.
Needless to say I was wild with him. I obviously hadn't had enough coffee as on reflection I felt guilty about my reaction. It turned out that one of the other children had changed his password about a year ago as a joke and now no one can remember it.
So....a trip into Vodafone is called for. Apparently though these things cost a lot of money to access and a change of 'sim card' might be cheaper. So there you go...It should be the child learning from the parents mistakes, however, I can say I've learnt from my child's mistake!

Reflection is a good thing...in my 'ire' I told him he had to pay for the phone to be sorted. I've changed my mind about that...I can't penalise a kid for being inquisitive, and exploring etc- I want to encourage that after all.