It has been a busy time with all the fuss over the coming 30th Anniversary of the Falklands Conflict. The arrival of Facebook and Twitter since the 25th Anniversary, especially the latter, has enabled anyone and everyone to offer their views and opinions on the situation with the result that if you get into the line of fire the twitter traffic becomes heavy, sometimes aggressive, often rude, often ill-informed and, just occasionally, amusing.

I feel sorry for Lisa, our Newsletter Editor and Editor of Penguin News in the Falkland Islands, who is having to cope with journalists and TV crews from around the world trying to say something original and often getting 'the wrong end of the stick'. As we have seen with the rioting in London last year the advent of the mobile phone has given fast and efficient communication to the masses, a double edged weapon for good and bad. Language can still be a barrier although Google Translate sometimes manages to make sense of some tweets.

Sales of 'Diddle Dee and Wire Gates' has been a trickle but, apart from a small ad in the Penguin News alerting UK readers that we had copies, hardly anybody knows we have got them to sell and the main ad will go out with the Spring Newsletter.

Whether we will get the Newsletter out early is anybody's guess as Lisa is overloaded with other duties so I am not too hopeful. Even if we got it out on time it will probably be too late to pick up many takers for the visit to Kew on 25 April - I have managed to gather 17 visitors so far so still have 8 places to fill.

At least I know that all my material for the Newsletter is with Lisa so it will not be my fault if we are late getting it out. We are adding to our number of proof readers this time which might help us to pick up any errors before it is published.

Taking a three day break to celebrate my sister's 70th birthday but I expect I will be watching twitter if nothing else! One good spin off of all the press coverage has been an increase in the number of new members joining us - all via the website which is proving its worth and on which we hope to increase the material we have on view, we are clearly not using it to its full potential.