The Daily Novel

I am connected to the web again. But it may only be for ten minutes. Like last time. So here is the blog I wrote then. Will post it now. And then provide an update. If I am still online!!!

Monday 21 August 2007

Disconnected yet again.

Woke to another dawn in Dorset feeling at peace with the world again. Glanced at my computer modem, thought I saw the appropriate green light for I signalling that I was still connected to the internet. Started to write a blog in my head. The sun was dazzling me through the window beside my computer and brightening the white clouds in the mostly blue sky with just a few streaks of threatening black cloud. The sea, which I can now see from my typing chair thanks to Peter’s efforts in cutting back the bay hedge yesterday, is mostly a greyish blue.

There was no need to hurry because I had the whole day before me. So I cleared some of the books stacked below my writing desk. Most of them I put on the shelves. But some I happily chucked into the recycling box, like the vast Windows 95 Bible and Quark Express Step by Step. After making my second cup of tea I checked the phone. More bliss. I had a dialling tone. I switched on the computer. It seemed to boot up more quickly than usual. I called up Firefox and clicked on the bookmark for my blog: ‘Problem loading page’. Down on my knees to look at the modem. The I green light is out.

Picked up the telephone again and dialled my home number in London: ‘The number you have dialled has not been recognised.’ Dialled the main City University number; lot’s of crackling on the line but no connection. Switched on my mobile and dialled my number here in Charmouth. Nearly jumped out of my skin. The phone rang in the house. Before I could cancel the call I heard my youngest daughter jumped out of bed and answered the extension. Snarled when there was nobody there and stormed down the corridor to take her shower.

So BT has got me by the balls yet again. I cannot ring them on the line I am paying them for. They could ring me, if only they cared.

But they don’t.

Completed this blog at 8 AM Monday 21 August 2007. But still don’t know when I will be able to post it.