Love across the ocean

It's very hard with Pod boy and pod dog so far away from me. We're relying on Skype to talk each night after we've both finished doing all that we have to do, but the connection is often dodgy for the pod people. Of late Skype has been acting up and refusing to let us connect properly, we're coping: but barely.

Pod boy has the pod decked out with batteries, satellite broadband and two laptops. We've found through trial and error that with BigPond providing the internet service he gets internet all over Melbourne, so he can be settled anywhere for the evening and we can talk. We've also got the battery life down to a fine art, and there aren't many nights now where we are unable to have Skype running all night without the battery giving up.

In terms of electrical appliances that currently live in the pod, we have: the laptop, a heater, a fan, electric hair clippers, a slow cooker, a toaster and lastly (but most excitingly) a fridge! Pod boy bought the fridge about 10 days ago, just after I last left him and pod dog. It was a very exciting purchase, I was eagerly waiting near my laptop to hear whether the fridge had found itself a space in the side of the trailer that we call a kitchen. The fridge is run from external power at the moment, but we're hoping to hook it up to solar panels in the near future. Neither of us know much about them, so we have more research to do.

Pod boy is breathing very deeply at the other end of Skype right now, he sounds very peaceful so I'm off to join him in dreamland.