by Helen Bills
Our wine and cheese party last night via Zoom was great fun.
We are using Zoom to have virtual gatherings with family and friends two or three days a week. You can also use Skype or FaceTime (Apple) in the same way.
In the interests of social distancing we exchanged cheese, half bottles of wine and cake via an esky at our front door so we both had the same food and wine and could discuss just as we would at a face to face gathering. No driving home required so the wine flowed freely, bubbles, white wine then red wine then stagger!
Roger and Helen Bills and their drinking pals.
The ZOOM app is free. If it’s 1 on 1 (which our party was) then time is unlimited, 3 — 100 participants you have 40 minutes.
I downloaded the FREE app, ZOOM Cloud Meetings, from the Apple App Store onto my mini iPad. Then I opened and followed the prompts. I’m sure there is an android equivalent. You can also get an app on a computer, with a bigger screen.
If you use a laptop, put it on a few books so the camera doesn’t look up your nose!
There are a lot of tutorials on YouTube, but if you try it out with friends it is not hard to work out. A phone call can sort it out if necessary.