Since the last posting we lost our internet connection and our phoneline!!! Why? how? WELL!
himself decided that he would like to have the same facilities with the TV that our younger son Stuart has - a Sky + box that allows you to pause, rewind, record, playback and a lot of other things.......while we are going to Sky for their TV we may as well have the package that includes cheaper phone and broadband!!! OH how I wish we hadn't even started all of this.......we could have had a similar box from our original service provider! Virgin also do a +box! and I had been reserching it on line and had told him about it - problem ?- Sky was cheaper......Virgins was a £5 a month.......Sky's you bought for a one off payment of £49 !
The Sky dish was installed, the +box connected to the TV, then we had to order our Sky Talk and Broadband.......their phone system is dreadful! too many options and no one answering.....but we got through eventually (India?) - told them we wanted to transport our phone number over and were told 'that's Ok, no problem ' - I then went down with the flu! didn't read the mail from Sky till I was up and about again - only to find that they were installing the phone the next day BUT with a different number! Back on the phone to them again and got the assurance that they would change it as soon as possible - three weeks later we cancelled Sky and now a month later we have a tempory phone number from Virgin as Sky have mislaid the number! Only one fly in the ointment - Sky have not acknowledged our cancellation letter......have they had it - is it still sitting in their intray with the other three letters we have written? Who knows - but after over 5 hours of calls to them and the letters, and being told that once we have our own number it will be ANOTHER two weeks before I can have broadband back again! we have now written to the Telecomuncations Ombudsman! and are happily back with Virgin........ who installed the broadband and tempory phone with-in three days of contacting them!
I suppose that having no internet has been good for me for a while - I have done quite a lot of sewing and knitting, but I have watched far too much TV!
I have made another caterpiller quilt and a large bag from a pattern in a magazine, from the lovely pack of Moda charm sqares that my good friend gave me for my birthday last year. I have no pictures yet - I will take some later ......
Today is lovely and warm (14c) and I have actually been in the garden doing a bit of tidying up....I always leave the seedheads on my plants so that the little birds have some extra seeds for the winter and something to shelter under. The stalks and dead heads have now been removed from the border nearest the house and when I feel like it I will do one of the others......I should really dig the borders over too but the ground is so wet......now I have cleared the rubbish perhaps the sun will dry it a bit - then it wont be so heavy to dig.
