Maybe a better question is why broadband works at all, on a phone system that still uses Victorian cabling technology for the last mile.
If the job is done properly, there's no reason why the entire system cannot be weatherproofed. But in the rush to lay millions of miles of new competing cables over the last 10 years, I am sure some corners have been cut - especially in those countries that prefer lawyers over engineers. You can't be me, I'm taken
Plus the usual threat of gas supplies running out, which seems to happen every time it gets cold for more than four days running. Probably something to do with how marvellously efficient our gas market is. keep to the Fen Causeway
Hearing that I bumped the thermostat up a degree to 20 C. (my preferred temperature). If the other 5 million Finns do the same....
<blackout> You can't be me, I'm taken
The Met Office is threatening that the entire south of England will be blanketed by thick snow by this time tomorrow, but I think they're being a little dramatic.
Then again I did an emergency shop today, and at least some of the heating here is off-grid, so I'm ready for almost anything, as long as it doesn't last more than a week or so.
Got 3 big bags of of split birch logs in the porch - just in case. And if the ice does really hit the windmill, I've got lots of huge oak Bilnås furniture from the Finnish Fifties. That'll burn nicely. Plus, I won't ever have to move it again. One 2 m upright cupboard with rolltop 'doors' is a 3 man job on it's own. You can't be me, I'm taken
Why wait for an excuse?
When the Swedish language daily Hufvudstadsbladet finally refurbished its offices a few years back, a treasure trove of 30's furniture found its way into the backs of vans and cars. You can't be me, I'm taken
here it's raining at medium strength, and the snow is melting, so every brook and stream is coursing copiously.
snow still here and there, but going pretty fast.
we'll be ok unless it all freezes hard.
it's more about keeping the air in the house dry than fighting the cold.
i'll be really surprised if i hear people whinge about lack of water this summer, the reservoirs must be brimming, and winter only half over. snow and insistent rain act more permeatively than hard rains, the whole hill and woods feel pregnant with humidity.
drip, drip, drip... another system heading our way, somewhat milder though, wheew.
just pulled a loaf of bread out of the oven, spelt flour with millet flakes, smells good.
going to bake a (homegrown) pumpkin tart later, with cinnamon and raisins, yum.
first some yoga, then dinner, a hot bath, and back to tele-blogging.
dreaming of spring... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
