Location

As my long suffering readers know, I do have taste when it comes to choosing the places where I live. As this picture taken before the snows shows.

Meet the Neighbours

Thanks to the talking tree for the welcome back, and when the snows here first started, I did think of you. Then after making that posting last night I heard of the snow storms over there, and just like an American you have to do it bigger. Well at least I now know what its like to have four feet of snow, temperatures of minus 18 and to be snowed in for four days.

As I hope to show with a few more images, it is actually a really nice place to be living in. When I moved to the previous village I was in, people would ask why have I moved there? But here, people say “Oh that's a nice place to live” They also add that it can be difficult in the winter as the snow can (and does) drift cutting off the road. But all and all, people have said its a great location.

The village itself is actually in the fold of a hill, just two hundred metres from a high peak. Thus the poor cellular reception, but I do get great TV reception as I can see the TV mast from the back of the house. As I am antisocial and don’t like talking on the phone that much, at least I can blame reception for that.

Also the people seem to be reasonably nice here too. And even though its a small village of only 240 people, there are two pubs. One is my neighbour, so I don’t have far to stagger for a drink. Additionally there are great food shops within easy reach. Well as long as the public transport is running. Although I can easily walk into the next village and back for the shops there. Even though I have returned frozen to the bone and found it warmer in the fridge than outside at times.

But in spite of my moans, its great to be back.

Back after the Move

I am finally back to torment my long suffering reader. It has now been two months since moving, and I am finally able to get back on line. Not with any help from the useless company that is supposed to be supplying my telecommunications, Talk Talk. I will still have to wait another four weeks before they will get me online. Even before then, I may see if I can get service from another supplier. Well if Talk Talk just don't care about retaining customers, customer care or keeping promises, then I do not care to support their business.

To get online I have had to buy one of these mobile dongles. This also entailed me moving the computer to the second bedroom, from the living room. As where the new house is, in the second highest location in County Durham, I get very poor signal on cellular devices, all networks, and where I have the computer is the only place where I can get a reasonable connection.

Well apart from that moan about telecommunications companies, I really like the location that I have moved to. Even though Britain has suffered the earliest snows for a generation, I had four feet here at one point, it was something I was preparing for. It came sooner than I expected, but it was something that I had expected to happen eventually. I will be posting more on the snows at a latter date.

Moving here could be somewhat short lived, not because of the snow or the location as I only have to walk into the next village where the shops are, there are none at all in my village, and the way the landscape unfolds to reveal the views just lifts my spirits. The only reason I may not stay is because of the number of serious and previously known faults with the house. As I write, I have no hot water except what I can heat in pans. While I could see problems when I looked at the property, I was given reassurances regarding these. However, the examples of the workmanship thus far exhibited as well as the clear attempts to cover and conceal the problems has left me less than happy.

Had the property been only suffering minor problems, I would have been very happy here. But these combined with a request from my better half that I move closer to her place of study so we can see more of each other, and well I am considering that.

It will take me time to catch up with all that’s going on in net-land, I had over one thousand emails to work though when I finally got back online, but its great to be back.