Yawning, Amy sat her mug of coffee down on the step of the veranda before sitting down next to it. Last night, although Amy had managed to get a few hours' sleep, she'd woken up feeling like she wanted to return to bed. Seth however, had woken up at eight and expected Amy to be awake at the same time.

Turning to look over her shoulder, Amy looked at her son who was happily gurgling in his cot that was on the veranda. Lou had bought Seth a beautiful mobile which had little stars, varying in colour, rotating around.

Smiling, Amy turned back around and watched Lobo and Nev skitter about the yard. The two dogs were happily running about, sniffing and playing. Lobo was getting a bit older but, he still managed to keep up with Nev, who'd found a tennis ball.

"Nev!" Amy shouted, beckoning the puppy who immediately ran over to her. "Drop it" she commanded, holding out her hand for Nev to drop the tennis ball into her hand, "good boy!" Amy praised the puppy before throwing the ball across the yard, immediately both dogs ran after the tennis ball.

After scrambling around in the grass next to the barn and a bit of a squabble between the two dogs, Lobo triumphantly trotted towards Amy, holding the tennis ball in his jaws.

Just as Lobo dropped the tennis ball at Amy's feet, Tim's truck pulled into the yard. "Amy!" He bellowed out of the window waving.

Jogging over to the truck, Amy quickly shushed her father, "Dad! Ty's on shifts, he's still asleep!"

Oblivious, Tim got out of the truck and slammed the door, "I need your help, and possibly a bit of breakfast?" He asked cheekily as he passed Amy two shopping bags.

Peeking into the bags, Amy followed her father onto the veranda. "Hey here's Grandpa Tim!" Tim excitedly picked up Seth from his cot and cooed over him.

"You've been to the tech shop?" Amy asked, seeing that her father, who had previously detested any new technology apart from his old 'brick' mobile, had bought a new laptop and mobile phone.

Shrugging, Tim pushed open the screen door and sat himself down on a stool that was near the kitchen units. "Thought I'd get up to date" he said playfully to Seth, before turning and looking at Amy, "could you fetch me a coffee?"

Putting down the shopping bags, Amy got another mug out of the cupboard and poured Tim a coffee, "here you go, I'll put Seth in his highchair" she said, scooping a chuckling Seth out of Tim's arms and into his highchair.

Once Seth was settled, Amy pulled up a stool next to Tim and began to look at the laptop and mobile phone that he'd bought. "Lily's here by the way" Amy mentioned in a hushed tone.

"Lily? As in Ty's mom?" Tim exclaimed, looking around the room as if he expected her to pop out from behind something. "When did this happen?"

"Last night, when Ty was at work, I had absolutely no idea what to do." Amy said as she opened the various boxes. "It was so awkward."

It was unusual for Tim and Amy to approach such a complex topic, usually their conversations revolved around the horses, Heartland, Tim's cowboy lifestyle and High River, his ranch. However, Amy found Tim's absent and sometimes ignorantly inconsiderate rather comforting today. Instead of the twenty questions she would've gotten from Lou or the obscure, puzzling advice that her grandfather would reel off, Tim simply brushed it off, providing Amy with blunt and honest answer.

"She still here now?" Tim asked, reaching for an apple from the fruit bowl and biting into it.

Nodding, Amy untangled the charger for the laptop and plugged it in. "I didn't know what else to do, tried to ring Ty but I couldn't get through."

Shrugging, Tim replied "well he can't get mad, it's Lily's fault for putting you in an awkward situation. She's lost a couple of marbles that one if you ask me" Tim said, before being distracted by the laptop's screen lighting up. "Now Amy, I want you to show me how to work the camera on here."

Smiling, Amy laughed "the camera? Are you sure you haven't lost your marbles?"

"I'm not saying anything else on the matter, and neither are you. Now just show me how to work the bloody thing." Tim said, swivelling the laptop towards Amy and tapping the kitchen unit.

Turning to face Tim, Amy made sure all the emotion had drained from her face, "right Tim, are you ready to listen and concentrate? I'm only doing this once."

Inevitably, it took more than one explanation for Tim to be able to turn on the webcam, take a photo of himself and view it again. Amy found herself slowly regressing into simple vocabulary and slowing down her speech.

"Well done Dad! There you go!" Amy praised Tim as he finally uploaded a photograph of himself.

Chuckling, Tim examined the photograph that he'd taken of himself, "don't look bad for a Grandpa do I?" He said cockily, turning the laptop to face him. "Tell you what Amy, I'll mind Seth for a bit here, you go and sort the horses out or whatever."

Frowning, Amy was suspicious of Tim's willingness to look after Seth. Generally, babies weren't really Tim's thing. "Um okay, I'm going to work with Duke just in the round pen. I've got my mobile on me, if he wants feeding you know where the bottles are."

Staring at the computer screen, Tim nodded robotically at Amy, "yep, no problem. What's your wiffy password Amy?"

Laughing, Amy typed the password into her father's password, "it's Wi-Fi Dad" Amy said heading towards the door. "And keep an eye on Seth, not just the computer." She said turning back to look at her father eagerly typing away.

"It's a laptop Amy, not a computer, jeez!" Tim said jokingly.