Internet Restored.

And we're back on-line. We had just got to tea-break time in our Zoom class on Thursday a little later than usual when we found the internet no longer working. Peter reported it to our provider - Sky, at 2.30 and they told us there was a problem with the line and we should be back to normal by the end of the day, then it was by the end of Friday followed by nothing over the weekend and eventually the BT men turned up today around 2.30. and got us back on-line in an hour or so.

We had seen some BT men (above) working at 3.00 on Thursday which left me impressed at the speed with which they had responded to our problem but when Peter spoke to them later it turned out they were installing new lines for one of the houses being built up the road. It turned out that our line got taken for this purpose. Below is today's chap fixing our line. According to him there's now no way to test if a line is in use which is why ours got used for somebody else. It's only when you lose something that you realise how much you use it. Apart from blogging there's FB which can be a time waster but is fun to dip into, plus our house phone comes through the internet. Then there are emails, Zoom, How-to videos, checking if next door has come up for sale and on-line shopping, 

In the meantime I carried on playing the piano and the guitar and working on my crochet. Peter put up more shelves in his study which I painted first. I've also been working in the garage rearranging stuff and generally tidying up. Each time I came across a nail I hammered it into the high window frame and used it to hang yet another coiled up rope. I've got every length from 20m to just a couple of feet, you never know when they could come in handy. Maybe more so when we lived at Dingles but it's best to be prepared.

The weather has been cold and grey for the last few days. Very monochrome today but not as gloomy as the photo above suggests, more like the photo below of a couple of SUPs out for a late afternoon paddle.