Archive for the tag 'Internet'

Mr C had a good idea… We would upgrade to Fibre Optic broadband.
The process should have been completed on 9th March but do to miscommunication between the various services this did not happen. It also led to our internet connection being cut on 16th March. Despite all the internal and external works being completed on [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 26th 2026

… I have a post (on war elephants) ready to share but I am unable to upload the photos to accompany it.
Grrr!
Hopefully normally service will be resumed soon…

8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 23rd 2019

The weekend before last, our washing machine decided to leak onto the kitchen floor. We had been experiencing a few other niggles with it and considering its venerable  age we decided it would be more economical in the long run to purchase a new one. We went to a local shop to order a new [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 7th 2014

I was sitting quietly minding my own business yesterday afternoon when suddenly the silence was shattered by several house alarms going off at once.  The power had gone off.  When it came back on again it became apparent that the incident had fried the network router, so I no longer had an internet connection.
On further [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 18th 2011

The internet is useful for connecting to the world. It allows you to keep in contact with friends near and far, share information, provides endless sources of information and even opportunities to meet new people and make friends.
Of course it does have it’s faults but on the whole I wouldn’t be without it and [...]

9 Comments CherryPie on Sep 11th 2010