Now here's an idea,,,Since we are simulating early morning practices let us in 2008 turn the clock back with regard to communication.

I remember queueing to use the hotel pennies-in-the-slot public phone under the stairs and getting about four hurried minutes to tell the family what I had done THAT WEEK, not a series of calls per day like we do nowadays.

Yes, what happened to the post card which often arrived with the family AFTER we had returned home. It was a collectable item which could be retained as a souvenir of a great holiday.

If we are going to reminisce we must do this year properly and write our postcards while we eat our fish and chips/ drink our Okells, they give the cards that special smell.

We are not a captive audience on the IOM so why do some of these links cost so much these days.