.. and for three reasons too
- I crashed out early. Well asleep before midnight and that hasn’t happened too often
- I didn’t think that much had happened
- I lost the internet connection for a while and I couldn’t be bothered to wait until it reconnected itself.
And so I had to post it this morning.
Well, saying that nothing happened is not quite correct. It was something of a late start again – I was woken uo by someone from my ISP. Apparently my internet speed has been increased, which I can see, and to celebrate my 3 years of subscription, would I like an internet dongle for €1:50 per month extra, giving me 6 hours worth of surfing per month away from home where there is a mobile phone signal?
6 hours is nothing – hardly worth bothering with you might think, but it’s a start of a thin end of a wedge and it isn’t where we start, it’s where we finish that’s important. I’m going for this and I’ll see in due course if it can be increased to something reasonable – like “unlimited”. because this is the future of the internet. Forget your land lines and wifi hotspots. Internet via satellite on mobile phone wavelengths, that’s the way to go.
After that I had a lengthy chat with Rhys on the computer and then another phone call – from the President of Pionsat Patrimoine. Apparently in le Quartier there’s an old Roman well excavated by the Romans and used to supply water to Neris les Bains via an aquaduct, much of which is still visible. He wants to know if I could go sometime and photograph it. And as usual with him, a 5-minute chat turns into a recital of War and Peace, and that was the end of the afternoon.
I wasn’t feeling up to making tea and so I had a quiet relax and then an early night.
