If anyone
is still around they will probably have guessed that there have been disruptions to life
in these parts for several weeks. There are the ongoing health problems but the
big problems have been technology based.
One of the computers I made recently, the second of an identical pair, provided
me with all sorts of ‘interestingְ’ problems, on top of which my internet
connection has been behaving very oddly. Download speeds down to 20% of what they should
be (Upload barely 5%) and half, literally, of websites totally unobtainable, including Bonkers.
Firefox didn’t work at all, while Chrome and Edge struggled.
My home network is unnecessarily complicated because I used to do Beta testing
for a small ISP and it took ages and much tracing of long forgotten cables, to isolate where the problem was. The
simplistic answer was that something called Link Aggregation buried deep in the
router settings had become disabled - while a switch demanded it. All is well now, except that yesterday my
daughter announced she had wrecked a year old computer in a domestic accident.
I now have to build yet another!
Fortunately Bexley Council does not seem to have done very much recently.
The Leader’s report for next week’s Council meeting includes a little about
Transport. The Baroness is going on about
the SL3 Express bus diverting to
Bexley Village and the proposed SL11 from Abbey Wood to North Greenwich
diverting to Welling and being extended to Belvedere. Clearly the Leader has no
idea what an Express bus service is supposed to do.
For an alternative view read
Mr. Murky’s Depths.
The Leader also speaks of the Silvertown Tunnel. Last Tuesday I headed home
along the A13 late at night expecting to see a signposted slip road to the new
tunnel. Did I heck! It was a complicated route via about three sets of traffic
lights and a similar number of roundabouts and at least one unmarked fork in the road.
I considered myself lucky to see the tunnel portal ahead. I won’t be doing that again.
There has been total silence on our former two time
Mayor leaving the
Conservative Party nor have I again been pestered to sign a Gagging Order by
Reform UK. If someone wants me gagged does it not imply that I know something
about Reform UK that they are desperate to keep out of the public eye?
I have no intention of talking about it anyway but at times they do severely
test my patience and good will.
Despite Bonkers being somewhat subdued at present I fully intend to continue to
cover Council meetings because if I donְ’t Bexley Council will fulfill its
ambition to be a Secret Society. I really should start work on this year’s
Council Tax League Table too.
As part of the possible activity slow down I have refused to pay Adobeְ’s extortionate fee
for the use of PhotoShop. Up from £8·98 a month to £14·99. Maybe there will be
fewer photos on Bonkers but there is bound to be a free replacement somewhere.
The photo above is there for no very good reason. Taken today and reported by a
neighbour who takes a zero tolerance view of her drive being blocked, if only by a tiny amount.
When I have done the same nothing happens. Sometimes six or eight inches matters
and sometimes it doesn’t.