See that slug ?

That's our broadband that is......except it's a slug who has inadvertently eaten it's way through an entire crop of skunk marijuana and wonders why it can no longer move........

We are back down to an unspectacular 135Kbit/sec on our broadband, the modem down trained overnight and our BRAS profile reset itself..... so we have another 24 hours at slug speed until it resets....(or maybe not) the thing is this shouldn't be happening, if I averaged out our bandwidth over a month since this whole fiasco started we are being allowed a fraction of what we are actually paying for......

It's so bad I have had to throttle the kids PC and limit their bandwidth or everybody else suffers when they use high bandwidth applications on the internet, they are currently enjoying 10k/sec as I am .... getting rather fed up with this to be honest..... Ahhh well Xbox boy ..... you're life is over again......

I feel a Chairman's office telephone call brewing for Monday....

although other than ripping out the telephone lines and putting fibre optic in I can't see how they are going to resolve this...... I'm also reticent about letting another BT engineer over my doorstep because thus far they have lowered our synch speed from 2.2Mbits to 1.4Mbits by altering the signal to noise ratio.... which for every 1db given takes away 200-300 kbits sync speed... if they take us any lower we may as well go back onto 56K modems.....

Anyway that's enough about BT....... Yesterday Andrea and I had a lovely day down at Pendine beach with Freya she had a whale of a time digging in the sand, collecting sea weed and even going for a chest high paddle in the sea after the longest walk she's ever done.... (the tide was completely out).... she even found a winkle .... thankfully she didn't try to eat it ......



We finished off with a walk back to the ice cream shop and treated her to a lovely strawberry ice cream.....I'd show you the picture we took mid ice cream..... but it's not pretty or clever.... ahhh bugger it.... here it is :)


The colour is a bit out because the camera was set to a white point on a previous day.... not Auto white balance..... I could correct it with Adobe Photoshop but that's for another day :) .... it was a brilliant day out, the sort of day you don't want to end really :) and yes that is a black eye on her right eye..... she decided to open a drawer on her eye socket a few days back.... thankfully she didn't hit it too hard.. it's fading now... tough cookie this girl ;¬)

Anyway on the way back Andrea decided Freya needed a hat, so off we went into one of the shops and Freya chose her hat..... see below
We have some friends coming over in about half an hour, we haven't seen them for a while what with our commitments and theirs..... it will be good to see them again