Tap tap tap

Growing up as a child we had a couple of typewriters. My dad use to use them before he got his first computer. Once the computer came along we got to use the typewriters a bit more. I use to love to pretend to touch type, hitting the keys as fast as I could until it went ding to tell me that I needed to start a new line. Sometimes I would type things, with real words. And sometimes I would just hit the keys in any random order, I loved the way that it sounded. I love that my iPhone and iPad make that sound and that as I write this I hear tap tap tap.

I couple of years ago I found an old typewriter at the tip shop and decided that my children needed to be able to play with it the way that I had played with my fathers. It's ribbon needs replacing and sometimes all the keys get stuck but they love it. My oldest sometimes types letters and stories but mostly everyone likes to type as fast as they can until they hear the ding. My youngest had his first turn of typing and loved the tap tapping too.

Sometimes I use it to type them love notes. I still love the tapping noise of the keys and the ding.