Undecided

It’s one of those days. The weather doesn’t seem to have quite decided what to do. It is undoubtedly windy. At the moment it is dry but dark clouds overhead threaten something else. I’m now undecided. Do I put the washing out to dry? The wind will undoubtedly dry things quickly but will I end up running (in as much as I can run) to get things in as it starts to rain. I’m leaving it for the moment. Maybe the day will look more settled later on.

Today’s dinner is certainly going to be a use up of odds & ends. The next item on the list is 125g Cumberland sausage – not much for two hungry people. A look down the freezer list reveals some rashers of bacon, 2 thin pork sausages, 2 slices of black pudding. So it’s a mixed grill/fry. I’ll throw in an egg each too. After that it will be back to the minced beef.

As for our phone line, we managed to get onto our ISP to be told they do not deal with problems with an extension line.They suggested looking for a telecommunications engineer in the yellow pages. We did. The nearest one listed was based near Middlesborough on the other side of the country. It would be an all day trip to come out to us & no doubt cost us a fortune.

What annoys us is the fact that this disruption we suspect is to do with the repairs done at the end of July by BT but these days you can’t go direct to BT unless you pay direct to them. Like many people our phone line is paid along with our internet services & not with BT. And, of course, we’ve changed ISP since those repairs otherwise I think the old company would have got back to BT to complain whereas the new one won’t. Why does life have to be so complicated? We would be prepared to pay a fair rate to have the situation remedied if we could just get that BT engineer out. I’m half contemplating going a few streets away, where I’ve often seen a BT van in the drive & so suspect an phone engineer lives there, to see if he would come round to help us for cash in hand.