But this week-end took the strangest turn of all. Mrs W. is a confirmed technophobe - the Sky+ remains a mystery after years, and as for computing - lets say the few attempts I have made to introduce to the PC as a labour saving device had always ended in marital discord.
However on Friday Mrs W. decided she wanted to have a Nintendo DS and start playing brain-training games. And she has.
Wow - this is the first positive engagement with computing based technology, she has rapidly become obsessed and I can only hope that even though she is accessing a UI on a very small screen it will be a pathway to a point where I can help her use this as a entry to the world of grown up computing.
Everything changes