I still find it difficult to encompass the universality of the internet.
I suppose I am too ancient to understand easily that five seconds after I put up a blog or a recipe that someone in New Zealand, should they want, can have read it.
I am still foolishly excited when I get a comment from a stranger in New York, or even from someone from Limerick for God’s sake.
I have had a web page for years now (thanks daughter Caitriona) and should be used to it, but it still amazes me when complete strangers have information about me which they have picked up from the internet.
One night in the restaurant an American lady arrived in to eat with an American crossword book, “I saw on your page that you liked crosswords so I brought one for you”
Then there was the time we were sitting around the table in a Chambre d’Hôte in the Loire , chatting to the hostess when she said, “then of course I was married the same year as you”.
We had booked the room on the internet and my address is also the address of my site,
She had been nosey about us and looked us up!
There was the time I made up an Irish version of Huevos Rancheros
which I called Ranchhouse Eggs and a lady from Arizona kindly told me she thought my version was an improvement.!

So Hi to two new friends, one from New York and one from Limerick both of whom have excellent foodie sites.
Thanks for the contact lads!