Fiona's Quiet Life

My quiet life is get­ting crowded with happenings.

Hav­ing been to the wed­ding and then helped.…or hindered the mov­ing in of JJ (Jonathan James).i went back to Chip­pen­ham to try to keep the small boys from boun­cing on their mummy’s newly sewn up tummy and to deliver them safely to and from school/nursery for a few days.

This is not one of the boys des­pite it being the same col­our as the hair on one of them.

Thursday was Nicola’s birth­day so i got a tiny cake in a local shop and nathan put on all sorts of candles

Hav­ing engin­eers for par­ents has its uses, chris bought the boys light sabers at the school disco, need­less to say they were feeble and not at all of any use to frat­ri­cidal broth­ers but mummy and daddy took them to bits and got the LED s taped up again

Today’s beef is with BT Openreach.….….…..for two reas­ons, one being more ser­i­ous than the other.

in the good old days if you had a prob­lem you phoned 151 and some­body spoke to you then fixed the prob­lem and if you were a dis­abled per­son or a per­son with pre­cari­ous health you got very speedy help.….….….not in the won­der­ful 21^st cen­tury, you can’t get at them ‚when even­tu­ally you get to speak to a human they can’t do any­thing speedily. that was for JJ’s phone.

On 28^th Oct I repor­ted my phone was off when my upstairs neigh­bour noticed that my Inter­net con­nec­tion didn’t come up on his screen.….……we know each oth­ers encryp­tion keys in case of that sort of thing hap­pen­ing for­tu­nately for sev­eral days later when i get home. no com­puter, not tele­vi­sion, no phone and my mobile only gets a sig­nal if i stand on the front door step. so i try phoning on my mobile, no luck it keeps cut­ting out. i am not sure if they got the mes­sage or not so i wait a day, noth­ing hap­pens so i access the net via his con­nec­tion and man­age .….……and it wasn easy ‚what with pass­words and pin num­bers and account numbers.….……to book an engin­eer to come out , they tell me to agree to pay­ing £120 if the fault is in my house. i agreed partly because there was no way there was a fault in the house. engin­eer took two hours to fix it and among the mes­sages it had stored was one from BT days earlier say­ing they had fixed the prob­lem and if i still had the fault to con­tact them.….….no comment.

I am back in Lon­don because Abby and i fly to Brazil, Chile and Argen­tina tomorrow.….……what quiet life ?

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