Waiting for Infinity...

Spent a large part of today waiting for Infinity.  BT were meant to arrive between 8 am and 1 p.m.to upgrade us to their new almost-to-the-house fibre-optic broadband service.  So, we were awake about 7 am ... About 11 am, Su went out shopping - but she forgot to take any money with her (which is good for the bank balance but not for the wardrobe or the fridge).  I got a call from the BT engineer at about 12.30 to tell me he should be with us in about 15 minutes. Nearly an hour later he finally appeared, cursing his colleagues who had wired up the new switch box down the road back to front.

As I have been recovering from the Symi cold that Su kindly passed on to me, the whole saga unfolded without much aggravation to my addled brain.  We are now connected, and have yet to test out our new service in earnest. The literature does advise that connection speeds may fluctuate - even stop for a while (!) - during the first ten days, so time will tell which variety of Infinity we have actually been sold.

Tomorrow we plan to get up to Westonbirt as the rain is forecast to have gone by then.  Our wanderlust is undiminished by our recent travels - if anything it is stronger, and we are talking about all sorts of possibilities for our next moves. On Monday, I will talk to people at UWE (my first visit there since July!) about the Hong Kong connection next February & April and we have booked some more time on Symi next May.  All this seems a long way off, so don't be surprised if we blog from somewhere else before too long! Till then (with the line that Paul H. stole from me in a comment yesterday) we'll be going "To Infinity and Beyond"!