Retirement can be a Problem!

28th - Moored Hillmorton

I have to smile sometimes, retirement they say is suppose to be a time of rest and relaxation, well that is true 99% of the time

I have been ultra busy these last few days, and predictably am feeling rather tired. This morning started well enough with a beautiful morning after the storm of last night. I sat out on the front well with an early coffee when suddenly the Sterling Battery Management System started giving off a high pitch alarm. It had been playing up since Vic had switched the engine off at Hillmorton with the key.... well we have been used to switching the engine off with a key with the old engine, but with this new BMC you have a knob to pull before switching off the ignition, and we both have now done the same thing.. I really must put up a sign or something by the key until we get out of our old habits!!

No matter what we did to the electrics, switching them on, off, isolating everything, no nothing would stop that high pitch din. A phone call to Charles Sterling ended it all "Take the red wire off the battery terminal, leave it about 15 seconds then connect it up again, that will do it" Well done Charles, hooray peace again.

I have been having trouble with Dial-a-phone, an online mobile phone company, lately, I had ordered four phones for the family, their contracts were up last month. "It's OK I will sort it this year, give me something to do" says I! Oh boy, it certainly has been giving me something to do, have a look here, but more importantly, let me say I would not recommend anyone buy from this company. I spent a good hour and a half writing an email to the company today.

This afternoon Chas on Moore 2 Life received his Orange 3g Datacard for his internet connection. I use this also, but had a lot of teething problems with it as I was one of the first people to actually use one, I think I have been their guinea pig since. I thought Chas's card would install easily.. No it hasn't, but I had had enough today with anything to do with phones, so will give a hand tomorrow talking to orange and configuring the software so it will behave....

So you see, I don't exactly lead a boring and totally peaceful life here on the cut!

A friend of mine has found a wonderful program called BlogJet, it looks really good, and I am trying tonight for the first time, so I hope this blog looks OK...