Today we went and saw Claire’s dad and as the weather was reasonable, we took a drive out to Tankerton.
Only after looking this up, found out the land you can see in the background is Southend.
Author: Michael James
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Week 216 – May 4th – Tankerton
Trawler out on the English Channel -
Week 216 – May 2nd – Voting
This evening we went and voted for the mayor of London, plus the constituency London Assembly and the London-Wide Assembly members.
It been a major battle over the ULEZ and knife crime.
This was the first vote that we had been too, that you required photo-id.
I always wonder why the voting is done with a pencil.
When will the General Election vote be?
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Week 216 – May 2nd – Oh come on now, of course your stay working
Today we switch over from a BT copper line to a BT fibre line.
The engineer turned up and asked me if a cable had been sent. The answer was no.
After discussing where the hub was best to go, he advised to call BT for the cable to be sent. When I spoke to BT, they were surprised the engineer didn’t have a cable, I mentioned that to the engineer, but he said they never carry them. I thought I wasn’t going to argue between them, so got the cable to be sent.
The engineer explained what I need to do with the cable and the hub.
After everything had been completed, the engineer came and checked everything was working OK, I said this is still on the old system, which he confirmed. Earlier in the week I had done speed tests and these were coming back much slower.
After checking on another machine, after rebooting, that seemed OK, so I rebooted this machine and yes it was all OK.
So I was happy for the engineer to leave.
I went to where the hub was and was surprised that the engineer hadn’t cleaned up the dust from the drilling, so I dealt with that and put the room back.
I then checked my phone and saw that I had two emails from BT, with the first saying we’ve completed and you now need to plug the cable in. I thought WHAT.
Sure enough, I checked the machines and they were no longer connected to the internet.
I was not happy.
I rang BT, and I must admit this guy was very helpful, but this had been handled all wrongly.
The engineer should have explained to me, without the cable, the internet wouldn’t work, because once he is completed, they switch off the copper line over to the fibre line and there is no way of going back. If I had known that, I would have said no and rescheduled.
Also for the engineer to come and stand next to me and check everything was working and knowing that this would be stop as soon as he had sent some communication back to office, was not impressed at all.
Whilst on with the BT, I checked a draw and found a cable, after reading out what was on the cable, he said, that may work.
So I connected up the hub to the new BT box and thankfully the machines worked again on the internet.
He had put in a complaint, but it was from them to the engineer provider.
Luckily I knew what I was doing and had a cable, at no point during all the communication before the visit was there a mention of a cable required.
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Week 215 – Apr 26th – QPR v Leeds United
Queens Park Rangers 4 – Leeds United 0 – HT 2-0
I. Chair, (8′)
L. Andersen, (22′)
L. Dykes, (73′)
S. Field, (86)
Assists –
J. Clarke-Salter (8′)
C. Willock (22′)
I. Chair (73′, 86′)
The season was not ending the way I wanted, the last 5 games have been terrible, and especially after the run we had from the start of the year, this game about summed up the last five games, a hammering of 4-0.
Queens Park Rangers secured their Championship survival in style with a stunning 4-0 win against Leeds – a result that sent Leicester up to the Premier League.
First-half goals from Ilias Chair and Lucas Andersen, followed by second-half headers from Lyndon Dykes and Sam Field, gave the Hoops a deserved win in their final home game of the season.
Hoops goalkeeper Asmir Begovic made big saves to deny Joel Piroe and Crysencio Summerville in the first half, but the home side never looked back after Chair’s early opener.
The defeat for second-placed Leeds hugely dents their hopes of automatic promotion and means Leicester return to the top flight at the first time of asking.
The Whites now look increasingly likely to have to settle for a play-off place with Ipswich one point behind with two games in hand.
But it was a night of elation for Marti Cifuentes’ Hoops who are now seven points clear of the drop zone and move up to 16th.
We have thrown away the chance of being promoted straight back up as I can’t see Ipswich failing to overtake us to claim 2nd place and meaning that were be in the play-off’s which we have a dreadful record in.
Marching On Together
League position 2nd after 45 games
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Week 215 – Apr 26th – Pet Shop Boys
This morning I had delivered on the day of release, the new album by the Pet Shop Boys.
It’s the first vinyl record I have brought in years.
I paid more, so that I got a double album and that it was in white vinyl.
Can’t remember the last time I used the record player, but the album was brilliant.
Well done the Pet Shop Boys!!
Pet Shop Boys new album – nonetheless -
Week 215 – Apr 22nd – Claire consultation
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Week 214 – Apr 19th – Ocado Shopping
This morning we had our first delivery by Ocado shopping.
There was good communication from the company about the delivery and was done during the time frame.
The delivery person was very pleasant and helpful.
Overall a good service.
First delivery by Ocado, a raspberry van. -
Week 214 – Apr 15th – Derek Underwood
Today was a sad day, as one of the legends for Kent and England cricket, Derek Underwood sadly passed away at the age of 78.
He was one club man, taking 4-40 on his debut at the age of 17 in 1963, and became the youngest player to take 100 wickets in their first season of county cricket.
He went on to play over 900 matches for Kent between 1963 and 1987, claiming 2,523 wickets at a staggering average of 19.04.
His nickname of Deadly was definitely true, especially on rain affected wickets, he became virtually unplayable, as Australia found out at the Oval test 1968, after fans had help to dry the outfield, he led England to victory to tie the series with only 6 minutes left of playing time.
He played 86 Tests for England and is still England leading spinner with 297 wickets at an average of 25.83 and 6th overall in the all-time England bowling list.
He received an MBE in 1981 for his services to cricket.
Then in 2011, a stand at Kent home ground Canterbury was named after Underwood & Knott, in recognition of their partnership for Kent and England – (CT or ST Knott b Underwood).
I remember watching him on TV and his line and length at the speed he bowled was incredible to watch, especially with Knott behind the stumps.
RIP Deadly, thank you for the memories and what partly got me into cricket.
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Week 213 – Apr 14th – Fence down
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Week 213 – Apr 14th – New plants
With the weather finally being decent, we went and got some new plants for the garden.
As you can see the lawn is pretty high due to the amount of rain we have had. When will it stop?
New plants. 
New plants potted. Obviously the lawn needs to be cut, but the weather is not helping. 
Flowers in the beetle.
