July 21st

I painted a short fence a green color, the fence runs along the roadside with a fringe of grass. I had finished the painting and was putting things away before moving the traffic cones. It looked like rain. The engineers from the network company were attaching optical fibre to the house. She let them in and directed them to the rooms. Drilling a hole through the house to feed the cable through. They had arrived an hour ago in two white vans. One man in each van. Ladders, drills, toolboxes and equipment. After they finished drilling and attaching cables one of them went round the house to check the signal strength. We put the wireless router in the wrong place, so the signal was a little to weak across the other side of the house. It worked. I made espresso for one, and a long black for the other. They asked about the woods… And looked at Relko’s German Shepard that had come through the fence from next door to see what was happening. We tested the broadband and the speed of connection…