Keeping in touch with home is easier now using email. I also listen to the radio online - it's great waking up and choosing whether to listen to Terry Wogan, Steve Wright, Chris Evans or Woman's Hour. We are 8 hours behind the UK so it's all happened by the time we get up! Simon is very happy that he can get up on Sat morning and see the football results immediately :-) Crystal Palace don't seem to do any better though ;-)
The TV is quite bad here, due to the excessive amount of adverts you get so I will often sit and listen to a play online with headphones on in the evening (we have a small apartment at the moment so there's not many places you can go....) - it's very reassuring somehow, to hear UK accents. What did we do before t'internet?