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the unknown internet

I hate not knowing – currently we have temporary slow internet, it’s slow between 5ish and 11ish every night. Simple i think it’s the broadband provider getting all slow – except it’s not because when...

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Grrr Arggg Slow Internet

Having slow broadband is like having your arm cut off; well that might be a bit harsh. It’s more like when you trap your thumb in the door, and then it swells up a bit and then every time you do...

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out of the darkness

It’s like a huge weight has been removed from my computer – or someone has given the hamster some performance enhancing drugs! after almost 6 months of dodgy internet Virgin Media have actually got...

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this post will cost the UK Economy…

It winds me right up – every time anything, and I mean anything is seen as getting in the way of people being chained to their desks, it costs the UK economy. Never a mention of how driving people into...

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I might start buying real books again

It saddens my little heart when I pickup a book and see my Kindle lying unloved next to the bed, but until some quite fundamental things change, I think I will be do that more often in the future. A...

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Vindictive legislation – really, is this what we’ve come to?

So, it’s all gone a bit quiet at theJumps, hasn’t it? I expect you’ll be wondering what’s been going on. Well, on the domestic front, we’ve just been pottering about. Seeing friends, learning about...

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(nearly) internet free

We’ve been living an Internet light life since Monday, when the cable modem started going on the blink – it quite literally blinks when it’s broken. I’ve had a quite irate call with Virgin over it –...

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green balloon youth

look - secret signals!   Is it just me, or is their something strangely unearthing about the green balloon club? I mean all the kids of the country of a certain age, are completely engulfed in...

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Missing the point (as ever)

I follow Ed Balls on Twitter. I don’t really get Twitter. I’m only following ten people, and one of them is Ed Balls. I would not like you to gain the impression that this is because I am a huge and...

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Ranty McRanterson

The election is making me ranty. Today, the Tories announced their manifesto, the most newsworthy bit of which is about extending Right to Buy – from tenants in council-owned properties, to those in...

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