SPEAKING of Skype,

last week brought a new social revolution with the arrival of our first e-meal invitation.

I’m not entirely clear what it involves but it seems to be a video-gathering where we all munch our way through our separate dinners. Help! Do we all agree that we will eat the same thing, or are one couple going to be fiddling around with millions of boxes of Chinese takeaway, another dishing up a three-course meal, and yet another sticking to a speedy bowl of soup?

Are we all going to be shouting over each other for half the dinner?

And, most importantly, how do you go about refusing an invitation?

After all, who will believe you when you say you have to be somewhere else, now that we’re all meant to be housebound?