Today we are back off to the farm, we have some rectification work to be done by the plumber and the carpenter and we want to be there. Also we need to plan the house blessing and village party for the following week. The drive has its moments of beautiful views but gets a shade repetitive, oh well we love it when we get there.The problems are lack of web, making me feel very much as if I have 
returned to the dark ages. I remember using what I think were 8" diskettes in the early days working in Saudi. KSA was where I bought my first computer and how things have changed since then, I remember a computer shop in UK being amazed at my having 4Mb of ram installed. Now I have 2Gb but I think I got as much pleasure from the early ones as I do now, or maybe I do like the net enough to say I prefer it now?
The other farm problem is the lack of wine and my diet, as I am regularly reminded by Alice, precludes beer, even the delightful Red Horse. A great and cooling drink, which sort of sneaks up on you and
makes you fall over. But Alice likes me to stay away from this fattening stuff. I am a lover of Perrier and just hope that it could be improved more to suit my tastes.
Actually, again casting my mind back to Saudi and my second and longest period there, there was one water that I prefered to Perrier but I really cannot recall what it was. Perhaps because of the amount of Sid I consumed, being a fairly newly bereaved widower.
Anyway getting back to the point and the differences between our two homes. The farm house is great and slightly larger than the city house but the lack of web and satellite TV makes me feel that it's a somewhat ersatz existence.
returned to the dark ages. I remember using what I think were 8" diskettes in the early days working in Saudi. KSA was where I bought my first computer and how things have changed since then, I remember a computer shop in UK being amazed at my having 4Mb of ram installed. Now I have 2Gb but I think I got as much pleasure from the early ones as I do now, or maybe I do like the net enough to say I prefer it now?
The other farm problem is the lack of wine and my diet, as I am regularly reminded by Alice, precludes beer, even the delightful Red Horse. A great and cooling drink, which sort of sneaks up on you and
makes you fall over. But Alice likes me to stay away from this fattening stuff. I am a lover of Perrier and just hope that it could be improved more to suit my tastes.Actually, again casting my mind back to Saudi and my second and longest period there, there was one water that I prefered to Perrier but I really cannot recall what it was. Perhaps because of the amount of Sid I consumed, being a fairly newly bereaved widower.
Anyway getting back to the point and the differences between our two homes. The farm house is great and slightly larger than the city house but the lack of web and satellite TV makes me feel that it's a somewhat ersatz existence.
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