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Telstar managed to get onto the roof of the dovecote, and then refused all inducement to come down.
Telstar managed to get onto the roof of the dovecote, and then refused all inducement to come down.
Normally we don’t allow the children to play on their devices during the “school day”, but last Friday we made a special exception, partly due to the upheaval caused by moving mid-week and partly because their parents were tired.
How did they spend their special device time, I hear you ask? Did they reach new levels in Pokemon Shield or Just Dance? Achieve a new high score on Space Shooters or Doug Dug? No. They built a school for creepers in Minecraft on the Nintendo Switch, complete with playground equipment, multiple classrooms, and Forest School [pictured below, with campfires].
How did they spend their special device time, I hear you ask? Did they reach new levels in Pokemon Shield or Just Dance? Achieve a new high score on Space Shooters or Doug Dug? No. They built a school for creepers in Minecraft on the Nintendo Switch, complete with playground equipment, multiple classrooms, and Forest School [pictured below, with campfires].
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...by a terrible internet connection.
Telstar looks very fetching as he hunts butterflies under the rose arbour in Norfolk.
Telstar looks very fetching as he hunts butterflies under the rose arbour in Norfolk.
Ill Communication: A Very Short Play
Upper Management: How do you all feel about having calls to your currently inaccessible campus work phones forwarded to your mobiles?
Us: Our personal mobiles?
UM: Yes.
Us: That would be an emphatic no.
UM: OK, how about having calls redirect to your Skype for Business accounts?
Us: That would be acceptable.
UM: Great! Here are instructions on how to set that up through the IT portal.
Us: We've all tried and none of us have that option available to us.
UM: Oh dear. We've opened a service desk request on your behalf to correct that.
~~~Three Weeks Later~~~
IT: We've fixed your issue! Please log out of Skype for Business and log back in, and then you'll be able to redirect your calls.
Us: Um, so, we've all tried, and what you've done is enable calls to be re-directed from our Skype for Business accounts to our currently inaccessible campus work phones. We still don't see the option to do the reverse on the IT portal.
IT: ....Ohhhh, is that what you wanted? Sorry.
Us: ...
We're going to be back on campus full time before this gets fixed, aren't we.
Upper Management: How do you all feel about having calls to your currently inaccessible campus work phones forwarded to your mobiles?
Us: Our personal mobiles?
UM: Yes.
Us: That would be an emphatic no.
UM: OK, how about having calls redirect to your Skype for Business accounts?
Us: That would be acceptable.
UM: Great! Here are instructions on how to set that up through the IT portal.
Us: We've all tried and none of us have that option available to us.
UM: Oh dear. We've opened a service desk request on your behalf to correct that.
~~~Three Weeks Later~~~
IT: We've fixed your issue! Please log out of Skype for Business and log back in, and then you'll be able to redirect your calls.
Us: Um, so, we've all tried, and what you've done is enable calls to be re-directed from our Skype for Business accounts to our currently inaccessible campus work phones. We still don't see the option to do the reverse on the IT portal.
IT: ....Ohhhh, is that what you wanted? Sorry.
Us: ...
We're going to be back on campus full time before this gets fixed, aren't we.
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The bloke watches Keiki negotiate a steep climb on his own.
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Poll #24223 What We Do in the Shadows returns
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23
What is the state of the Nanila now that Series 2 of "What We Do in the Shadows" is now available on BBC iPlayer?
Yes, so I'll see you in a few weeks after I've watched every episode multiple times until I have them all memorised.
I wish to reassure readers that His Lordship is not suffering unduly due to the escalation of building works at our house. In fact he is developing a bit of a tum as a result of extra rations/treats being distributed by soft-hearted builders who are wrapped around his noble paws.
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Now we’re down to the last four contestants, it’s time to re-run the Great British Sewing Bee poll! I’m also attempting to get over the fact that we’ve dedicated two evenings in a row to staring at light fightings trying to work out the best arrangement for the kitchen and outdoors, and I’ve just dropped over £200 on the ones we selected. I may need a glass of wine or three to be able to cope with the idea that I’m now apparently a person who cares about light fittings.
Anyway.
( The poll is behind the cut for those who have not been watching synchronously )
( Wittering )
Anyway.
( The poll is behind the cut for those who have not been watching synchronously )
( Wittering )
The bloke knocked down the old shed the weekend before last to make way for the new shed. The Polaroid above is in one of two pretty paper notebooks that the bloke brought back on his last trip to Delhi before the lockdown. I take a pair of Polaroids every few days, and file them to make a Covid diary for each of the children as a memento of this peculiar time.
Here you can a very happy man in his fancy metal shed. It has power sockets and light switches and a work bench. We celebrated the new shed’s arrival with our first takeaway food in 2.5 months, which included our first chips and ice cream (not consumed simultaneously) in the same duration. This is because we don’t currently have a functioning freezer, for reasons too dull to elucidate. The takeaway was from our local pub, which has just reopened for said purpose. Anyway, we wolfed down our burgers and chips and gobbled up our desserts with indecent haste. Food that someone else had made has never tasted so delicious.
Finally, here is a photo of Telstar on the wooden bench in our garden, taken by the bloke with his fancy new iPhone.
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