So reliant on the internet!

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This week I am away in Wales, and overnight we got 5 inches of snow so given that I am at the end of a narrow stony track you can imagine I’m not going anywhere. I have some jobs to do, but many of them are outdoor jobs which are difficult to get to when everything is covered in so much snow. So it would be the ideal time to catch up with all the things I haven’t managed to do at home in the hurly-burly of family life. The snag is that I don’t have a permanent internet connection here. I can use the hotspot from my phone but since the house has thick stone walls this generally only works outdoors. I can send an email by standing outside the door but it’s too cold for a long session of browsing, and now it’s stopped snowing the snow is starting to melt and drip on me! I need to pay for the girls’ music lessons, but that requires online banking. I need to submit the last couple of months’ worth of data from my bird-watching surveys, but that is all done online. I need to book a ticket for an event later this week, but that is available online. I need to sort out an issue with my savings account, but I really need to access the account online to get the details so I can ask for help over the phone (I have those details on paper at home, but didn’t think of bringing them with me). I need to look for some documents, but even those which are saved in my folders are stored on OneDrive and so although I think of them as being on my computer, they are only actually available when I am online. The same goes for sorting through photographs or trying to find out what I have written on a subject before. And of course reading and writing on MyLot – can’t do that either. I’m only writing this because I always write my posts in Word first, so I can write it now and upload it some time later when I get a chance. I really should have brought my sewing machine with me because it would have been the ideal time to start on my backlog of projects! PS: Home again now so I am able to upload this! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2024.