I just realised what was nagging at the back of my mind about yesterday’s Pinkie Burger story – to the best of my knowledge Millie’s never actually had a burger before!

Something else I find interesting is how quickly she’s taught herself to use my iPod Touch. With the home PC she’s still having a few problems figuring it out (because it is quite customised, and there’s a lot of stuff on there).  But the iPod Touch?  Uh-uh, no problem – she’s taken to it like a duck to water, and knows exactly how to use all the games and most of the utilities on there.

I was thinking this morning, watching her use the Bloom music app and showing Amber how it worked: how weird to grow up where easy to use touch-screen computers are the absolute norm; or, at least, weird to me – to Millie and to Amber it will be perfectly normal: the PC will be the clunky, weird, old-fashioned thing that doesn’t respond to fingers on the screen like a proper computer should.

Even the Lovely Melanie has adapted to touch screens (thanks to her addiction to gaming on my Touch). She’s commented that when using either of our mobiles she keeps forgetting they aren’t touch-screen – trying to press icons on the display and getting annoyed when she has to use the stupid joystick!

Speaking of Amber and ducks to water: she loves the Touch, too – especially the Rubber Ducky app, which is just a screen full of ducks that all make duck-esque noises when you touch them.  Try to imagine being one year old and having an entire flock of ducks at your command.  That’s probably how Mussolini got started…

Amber quite likes Bloom, too, but whenever she hears music at the moment she tries to, ahem, dance to it by bobbing her head about – quite difficult to do with ambient music…