That Was The Week That Was

Explaining why I have not been able to post much of late.

For reasons that will become obvious as this post develops I am creating it from a machine in King’s Lynn library. It is by way of explaining why I have hardly been online of late.

The powers that be at Freebridge decided that my house needed its entire heating system replacing in full. Thus on Monday morning engineers from Gaswise turned up to begin the process which I discovered later that day was scheduled to run over three days (yes, even in an abode as humble as mine a full replacement of a heating system takes that long). The second of those days was a work day, so I spoke to the engineers, and equipped with them the spare key (giving them the key safe number was further than I was willing to go) and instructions to lock up when they finished and post the key through the front door. I arrived back that evening and was satisfied with the progress that had been made in my absence. However it was then that another problem surfaced: my broadband was down. I managed to get an engineer’s visit scheduled for this morning, and the external faults are all fixed, but it turns out that I need a new router, which I hope will be fitted on Monday, though I may have to cancel work on Tuesday. This means that I am without internet access from home at present. As for the heating system replacement that was indeed completed as scheduled on Wednesday.

My usual sign off…

Home Internet Restored

A brief post celebrating the fact that after a week and a half without it I once again have broadband access at home. Ends with a bumper photo gallery, including the first butterfly of 2024.

The engineer came round near the beginning of the official slot of 8AM – 1PM today and connected up my new EE Home Hub, so after a gap of a week and a half I have Broadband at home once again.

As I type this it is 12 degrees Celsius outside (53.6 Fahrenheit for USian readers), and that is far from out of keeping with the last week or so, when double figure positives have been the rule rather than the exception. February in high northern latitudes such as England is generally one of the two coldest months of the year alongside January, and the outside temperature hitting double figure positives on a regular basis is way out of kilter. Yesterday while out and about I saw my first butterfly of 2024, a small Tortoiseshell, while the spring flowers are in full bloom.

Saturday and yesterday were both good days for photography, in spite of being cloudy, and I therefore finish this post a king size gallery…