When technology fails... and when it doesn't.
Six days ago, we moved house. Three days ago, we were meant to have internet installed but no one turned up. I kept meaning to arrange someone else to cover this blog, but I never got round to it, so here I am, typing this, hoping to get it online via the one bar of 4G signal on my phone. (The computer isn’t set up yet either. My desk is in pieces on the floor of the new office, waiting for an adjustment so it can fit beneath the built-in bookshelves.) There are times when technology is wonderful and times when it isn’t. Anyone who’s self published, designed their own author website, or done anything at all involving Microsoft Word, can surely attest to that. Yet, I’ve discovered you can do rather a lot on a phone with one bar of signal when you have to. Tesco shops. Address changes. School applications (those require a bit of running around outside waving your phone in the air). Bus journeys to one new school have turned into opportunities to make use of some extra bars, ca...