For the last week to ten days our internet connection has been desperately slow, so I haven’t been hopping around visiting quite as many places as frequently as I normally do. It has just been driving me up the wall – clockwise and in a buffering motion of course. I was feeling quite dizzy watching that circle go round and round, then sometimes it stops and starts turning ‘withershins’ – or in English, anti-clockwise. Honestly it’s so slow I could probably take my knitting out and get a row done whilst I wait, and then maybe another row!

I thought that the cavalry was arriving when Gordon turned up, I was thinking that maybe he could do the equivalent of ‘oiling the system’ as he’s a computer programmer – but no such luck. BT have been doing work in our part of Fife so that is probably the reason for the delays. Fingers crossed it gets better soon.

I have been flicking through the actual Guardian as usual and thought that some people might like to read the Pride and Prejudice article. It’s 200 years since P&P was published. You can see the article here. Sebastian Falks and PD James are amongst the contributors.

That linking wasn’t quite as painfully slow as yesterday so maybe it’ll be back to normal soon.