Clearing Up

After the storm, there's the clearing-up. These days, the most time-demanding problems always seem to relate to electronics and the internet. Last time we lost a router and two telephones. This time, we're struggling with our broadband speeds which have dropped drastically following the recent power cuts, from a very acceptable download speed of 4 Mb/s to 0.23 Mb/s. The Diary has spent a long time on the telephone to India, talking to a very nice man who finally decided that the problem must be at our local exchange. He has sent a message to an engineer who will fix it over the next 48 hours - hopefully, he or she lives in Scotland rather than India, or perhaps such fixings can be done from half a world away. Meanwhile, The Diary won't be uploading pictures of more than 500 Kb.

Anne Jackson has cheered us up with this super picture of the Sanna beaches taken during the storm, during a lull when enough sunshine appeared to spark a rainbow.