Heyyyyyy!<\/p>\n
How you doin’?<\/p>\n
Crikey, I sound like a cross between Joey (off of Friends) and The Fonz (off of Happy Days).<\/p>\n
So.<\/p>\n
I have moved house.<\/p>\n
Yay!<\/p>\n
I have been without t’Internet for four-and-a-half days.<\/p>\n
Boo!<\/p>\n
But now I have it back.<\/p>\n
Yay!<\/p>\n
But not the fibre-to-cabinet I was promised.<\/p>\n
Boo!<\/p>\n
Apparently when Openreach tells an ISP that “fibre-to-cabinet will be enabled on 25th September”, that translates, to you and me, as “fibre-to-cabinet will be enabled on 14th October”.<\/p>\n
No, me neither.<\/p>\n
But if I supplied IT services to my customers like that, I’d be out of a job yesterday.<\/p>\n
Or on the 26th September.<\/p>\n
So anyway, here I am on cranky old copper until the middle of October.<\/p>\n
Or until the middle of April – because Openreach do seem to speak a very special language, and one which only they fully understand.<\/p>\n
I also have a new job, that I started on Monday.<\/p>\n
I’m currently commuting on the VFR, because it’s a fun little bike and makes me smile every time I hop on.<\/p>\n
If I open my wrist I can do the door to door trip in a smidge under 22 minutes.<\/p>\n
If I don’t hoof it, the journey takes precisely 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
My route is, essentially:<\/p>\n
I’ll have to video it, the M1 leg is much less stressful than one might think, but sometimes the driving\/cycling I see on the A426 stretch has had me in fits of laughter.<\/p>\n