What are you all up to

Thanks JVB. I don't  like these new street lights. They just throw down a light in a very small area and then in between there are pools of darkness.  I have a much younger friend who has perfect vision and she has remarked that she finds them difficult as well.

Yes. that was a useful reminder from JVB, affecting some quite a lot. It can happen in daylight too, I remember my BIL found it difficult to drive in Italy where the roads were lined with lots of upright trees which caused a flickering movement on his eyes. I've now got s strong pair of dark clip ons which I put over my reactolite glasses when needed.

B4RN https://b4rn.org.uk/ = Broadband for the rural north. It’s a non profit making community project which started in Melling near Lancaster. There are several communities for different areas. We are part of B4SW  http://www.b4sw.uk/. Broadband for South Westmorland; three parishes that have raised enough money through investors, loans and grants to get where we are now. The main digging is done by volunteers and landowners have given the wayleaves. The fibre comes in ducts right  to the house, where it is blown through the wall into a router. The fastest speeds are possible with an Ethernet connection to a PC etc (about 980 mbs download and upload), but even wireless in a house with thick stone walls is a vast improvement on standard BT Infinity etc.

Its taken three years to get to almost the end our project and we’ve a Parish Party planned for next month.

The monthly cost is less than we paid BT.

And now we use a house phone that is connected to the internet, rather than BT’s wires. VOIP = voice over internet protocol. We pay a monthly fee, again much less than we paid BT.

Previously some parts of our parish had speeds worse than ADSL. 

Sorry for the long waffle!

Goldie

Are you going to move your domain name away from BT as well? I use a web hosting company for mine. I did previously use both BT and Plusnet when they used to give you a limited amount of webspace but soon I outgrew the space available. 

David

Not for the moment - our website is hosted with them, so we will stay put for now. I created the website with Frontpage (now very out of date), and until I do it all again with an online service like Wix etc I haven't the urge to change. We also have another domain (with BT but created with Wix, managed by my daughter in law)

https://www.visitmyfarm.com/

Goldie, would you mind if I passed on the web site details to my cousin on the farm in NZ, you run such contrasting dairy farms I think they'd like to read about it! 

No problem!

I still use Frontpage for a bit of my website but mainly Expression Web although even that is a bit old hat now! But it seems to work for me. I use Fasthosts as they offer a fair amount of space for a reasonable price. Not heard of Wix but had a look at what they offer and it is interesting. 

David

Another very mild day with some sun, have been to the cinema today to see Bohemian Rhapsody, any one who likes Queen it is well worth a look

I think its on the list to be seen if we get the time. Mary Austin's sister worked in our Training Department for a while.

David