Welcome to the wonderful world of virtual reality! Mia has just been introduced to the virtual world of Club Penguin (no, not Second Life – that’s where her mother goes). But sometimes it is really difficult to find your way round these virtual worlds so you just have to phone your friend and spend 15 minutes going through the ‘Higher! Higher! No lower’ Golden Shot routine before you can find each other. Club Penguin is apparantly 100% safe for children.
Meanwhile somewhere west of Vladivostok:
‘I am just in town for a day to go to the 5th birthday party of a boy whose Mum is American and whose Dad is Russian – they have German shepherd dogs that hunt after tiger poo! I know it sounds daft, but these dogs are clever enough to be able to recognise single tigers by the smell of their poo. This enables Linda and Misha to know how many tigers there are in the forest! Isn’t that amazing! David, the son, speaks very good English considering he never hears it. Anyway we are off to his party!
Can’t stop, but just to say I am alive and well (not yet eaten by a tiger), that although it is very cold at night when we work I have got a sun tan because of sunny days. Now it is snowing very heavily and we have given up trying to catch mergansers for the weekend while the weather is so bad.’
Quote from Toy’s latest email.