That's a shame Possum we could've had a nice Christmas chat. Hankster, the idea of Skype is that you can see and hear the other person and it's free but yes you need a computer.. Just thought it would be nice to do at Christmas and make people feel less alone. But judging from the response ( like other things i've suggested) nobody is interested. No doubt they will all be on here bleating about how lonely they are at Christmas. I'll stop there before i get accused of being nasty and uncaring.