Well, it’s all well and good setting yourself up to write a blog whilst you’re away. But the technology we use every day at home is not always available when you’re on your travels.

Yesterday my niece, Rebecca, e-mailed me to ask if I would upload some photos onto her blog. It seems that even now she has the technology at her finger-tips she doesn’t have access to her blog.

I take some time to upload them, one by one. I have positioned myself as the anonymous blogger but my brother Alan is on the case almost immediately and I just don’t have the skill commonly known as “bare-faced lying”. My cover is already blown.

I take a moment to share a photo from Rebecca’s trip here on my own blog. Rebecca is front right and her friend Suzannah is on the left. I don’t know who the young man in the middle is – though probably not the Mongolian monk who features in another of Rebecca’s photos.