Sunday, 22 December 2024

Internet down for Christmas

Cold and windy again today with a few showers. The internet was inaccessible when we switched on, for the second day in a row. Nothing I did could restore it, so we left everything switched on and went to the Eucharist at St Catherine's. There were about thirty of us this morning. No Sunday school today, as the kids are all turning out for the afternoon carol service. 

When we got home I spent an hour and a half in Direct Messaging the TalkTalk troubleshooting line using my mobile phone. We went through all the tests imaginable and in the end, had to book a house call from an engineer. The router works and so does the device through which the fibre optic cable connects to it. Unless I'm mistaken the fault is outside the house, or at the network relay box in Romilly Crescent. We have an appointment for a week tomorrow. It's just as well we're away Monday to Friday.

After a snack lunch, I started a batch of bread dough, prepared the Brussels sprouts for supper then walked for an hour in the park before going to St Catherine's for the service of lessons and carols. It was an event for the entire Ministry Area. It was good to see a congregation of about 200. The kids did their Nativity tableau as part of it and we had an 'angelic' dance from a dozen girls in white tutus, who attend a local classical ballet school. Beautifully done.

As I was leaving church, greeting a few folk I knew from other parishes, my phone rang. It was Clare to tell me that Owain had arrived and supper was cooked, so I went straight home instead of socialising over mince pies and mulled wine in the church hall.

After supper Owain went out to meet his local friends. We watched the first in the new series of 'Murder in Paradise', a Christmas edition introducing a new lead detective who starts as a holidaymaker on St  Marie island. Enjoyable colourful watching with a lovely mix of Caribbean accents in the dialogue. It takes me back to my time in St Pauls Bristol nearly fifty years ago. Happy days indeed.

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