thank you for all your support, but no, we didn’t do everything I had planned. While in the middle of the nappy change, about 3 minutes after I’d blogged, the phone rang. It was the nice man from BT – I’ve got an appt to set up broadband this afternoon.
Yes?
Can I come a bit earlier?
Um, yes?
Like now?
Oh well. I got the nappy changed, and then hovered around waiting for the phonecall to say that it was OK to cut off our phone (aargh…) and then pottered around putting the tent down. I should point out here that it wasn’t fully pitched, just had four pegs holding the corners. Even so, I was surprised to discover that it only takes 25 minutes to take it down and put it away neatly. Couldn’t put the washing out – dd and I spent about half an hour crawling around on the lawn looking for the hole the airer is supposed to go in, before I caved and went to find the push lawn mower. So we’ve a bald patch now 😉 Didn’t get to put the washing out though, what with tootling up and down stairs, moving furniture, having home education chats with the bt engineer – dd has got her answer to the big school question down pat – I nearly creased when she informed him “I’m never going to school. I’m going to home educate. I’m going to learn things at home.” She can be very precise when she sets her mind to it.
So eventually we’d had lunch, and we had broadband, and a phone line, so all we needed was the connection kit – load ’em up! Guess what, the Aldi at M’hell is sold out of sunsuits as well…and the Hobbycraft sale is rather pathetic, although they did have a stand of wire beads and Derwent pastel pencils for 9p a go (seriously considering going back and getting more pencils – bargain!) Plus when we got home dd sat and made herself a necklace out of beads, so that went down really well as well.
Finally got the washing out at 4pm when we got back in, and managed a tiny bit of gardening too. Other than that, not quite sure where the day has gone…
but hey, we’ve got broadband!
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10 responses to “the best laid plans…”
yay broadband! Ours is seriously slow but I think that’s our crappy computer which requires a sledgehammer applied to it!
Well done jax and you helped numskulls like me get on board too
how did you manage that all in one day you brilliant person you.
Yes, well done – and broadband – hooray! Steve is making me try a lower speed when we move, in an effort to save some money each month – I’m not sure about it at all 🙁
The whole ‘washing the tent and drying the tent out when you get home’ thing is one of the thoughts that seriously puts me off tent-buying. Can’t stand the thought of it! Maybe I’m going off this camping idea after all …
Well that does sound like a very busy and productive day! “not sure where the day has gone” you say… cough, cough! And broadband too – woohoo!
Sarah – please don’t gwet put off the camping – I’m banking on your example to convince us to get a tent for next summer 😉
Hey, washing and drying the tent is fun – small child with large sponge and adult with watering can – I’m sure you can fill in the blanks!
Well….holds head in shame….I don’t think we have ever washed and dried a tent after use. We just ensure it’s dry when we put it away. Well, I am firmly in the camp that unless you do significant amounts of uploading or downloading then a 512kb connection is really *not* necessary. We briefly had a 128kb connection a few weeks back and it really didn’t make that much difference to day-to-day emailing, IM, web-browsing. Where it made it harder was downloading films (not me honest guv’). Our 512kb ‘performs’ more like a 128kb for web-browsing but is fast for downloads (go figure that) and we are happy enough…though I am quite tempted by Bulldog’s 4Mb connection for £30pcm….
I did need to get the tent out and sort it – it just got shoved in the bag this time, and it took ages to untangle it to put up. Would have hated to have to do that in a field under pressure or rain or anything!
I’m given to understand that the speed of the connection doesn’t make a great deal of difference to browsing (apart from on websites which haven’t heard of image optimisation! lol) as it doesn’t particularly affect the speed of handshake as it were from browser to server. It makes a huge difference to us financially though – we needed always on for the amount of work we both do online and dialup was a terrible standard, so broadband is the only way to go. The higher speed would probably make a difference to quite a bit of what we do given that there is a fair amount of image downloading and uploading going on…can you tell I’m in work avoidance mode?
I think always-on is the key…..I was just siding with Mr Clarke over whether Sarah really needs a 750k connection as opposed to a 256k connection (assuming they use blueyonder). I am quite interested in the Bulldog service called primetime where you get a 1mb connection off-peak (evenings/weekends) and a 512kb one from 8am to 6pm……
Well! We’re actually on 1mb at the moment cos they reconnected us wrongly and we didn’t tell them 😉 I must try and use the pc less anyway, so if it starts being annoyingly slow that might help. At least, I think that’s what Steve is hoping 😉
I found it being annoyingly slow meant that I was on there longer waiting for pages to load…sorry, but there you go! Wouldn’t have thought that you would realistically see all that much difference between 256 and 750 apart from piccies though.