Quiet

June 14, 2008

It’s been quiet here for a while now. Due to several reasons. First we’re quite busy. Work on the shed continues and block work is nearly done now. Weather continues to be good, and every hour is spent outside so the shed will be ready before the bad weather is back upon us again. Second we had a batch of four Dutch guests which needed attention, so the house was quite full of life.

And there’s football of course… Last night was a true feast when we butchered the French. It’s been a while since their national team had a good trashing (I read somewhere that it was in the late 50’s but correct me if I’m wrong). Anyway, it was good fun nonetheless and 16 Skinidin cheered loudly for the Dutch team. It was a tense match and at times we were lucky, but then again… luck can be enforced and I think that’s what the Dutch team did.

Enough on football. We can now sit back and wait for the quarter finals.

Last, we had a bad disturbance in the force… the internet force that is. A fault taking for as long as 2 nights kept us away from anything internet. First we thought it had to do with the laying of cables but the moment the phone went dead I decided to pop over to our neighbors to see whether they had the same problems. They didn’t so we called BT to see whether they could help. Within 2 hours an engineer from Dunvegan was at the pole checking the wires. It appeared that the internals of a little grey box up in the pole which actually connects the wire from the exchange to our phone cable were completely disintegrated due to rain and salt air. The box was replaced and the problem was sorted.

By the way, the engineer did confirm that the Glendale exchange was upgraded and now supports up to 8Mb speeds! We’re not getting that as we live too far from the exchange, but still a 2.2Kb is not bad compared to the 0.5Kb we were used to. So the speed upgrade had nothing to do with the cabling which is going on.

Posted by roger | Filed Under Blog, Local 

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