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Tonight Current Affair ?Chnl 9 program featured locals talking about our struggles re phone and internet in our area...... it gives you a look at the sort of area we live in.
I had a part as rent a crowd last week on another channel and got spotted and one of our local club members tracked me down via good old white pages to ask me some Mac questions he wanted sorted :-)?
Jude
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Not good! ?One of our criteria when we were looking for houses in Dorset last autumn and winter was good Internet. ?The house that we’ve bought has the fibre cabinet about 30m away, so my Internet is as fast as it can get in most parts of the UK – 73 Mbps download, 20Mbps upload.
But that looks like a beautiful part of the world.
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Tonight Current Affair ?Chnl 9 program featured locals talking about our struggles re phone and internet in our area...... it gives you a look at the sort of area we live in.
I had a part as rent a crowd last week on another channel and got spotted and one of our local club members tracked me down via good old white pages to ask me some Mac questions he wanted sorted :-)?
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It is very beautiful here but the mountains work against us an difficult terrain. The joke up here was roads just wound round trees and cart tracks.?
?Down the road right opposite the Telstra rim cabinet one family there get a download speed of 2…. I’m a couple of klms further and I get 15 or even a tick better if I’m lucky. I have the reputation of being “you know that woman with the marvellous speeds on Cedar Ck Rd” :-)
When we came here there was a box on the wall and we turned a handle and someone answered up at the exchange on Telegraph Hill as the locals call it - and we had two digit oh numbers. Internet was non existant back then.?
But you’re right these days it’s becoming a question you have to ask if it’s important to you. Newer residents obviously never asked or were promised something that never happened. Unfortunately in covid people are buying out in these areas even sight unseen. ??♀??
Jude
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On 15 Jul 2021, at 10:09 pm, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:
? Not good! ?One of our criteria when we were looking for houses in Dorset last autumn and winter was good Internet. ?The house that we’ve bought has the fibre cabinet about 30m away, so my Internet is as fast as it can get in most parts of the UK – 73 Mbps download, 20Mbps upload.
But that looks like a beautiful part of the world.
Chris
Tonight Current Affair ?Chnl 9 program featured locals talking about our struggles re phone and internet in our area...... it gives you a look at the sort of area we live in.
I had a part as rent a crowd last week on another channel and got spotted and one of our local club members tracked me down via good old white pages to ask me some Mac questions he wanted sorted :-)?
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Yes, people in the UK, particularly down south, have been desperate to buy and some are sight unseen as well. ?We paid over the odds for this house, but we weren’t going to find anywhere at a reasonable price in the frantic rush for houses – the Stamp Duty “holiday” had a lot to do with it as well.
In fact we had only two twenty-minute visits, in the evening and the morning, when it wasn’t fully light, before we had to head home. ?So when we arrived to move in it was a real pleasure to see the views: we can see all the way to the Mendips from this location in West Dorset.
Here’s a view towards our village at sunrise, looking from Beaminster Down:??— click on the small thumbnail lower down. ?My car is halfway up the lane while I flew a drone for the view.
The photo attached is the view north towards Yeovil and the Mendips further north.
Chris
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It is very beautiful here but the mountains work against us an difficult terrain. The joke up here was roads just wound round trees and cart tracks.?
?Down the road right opposite the Telstra rim cabinet one family there get a download speed of 2…. I’m a couple of klms further and I get 15 or even a tick better if I’m lucky. I have the reputation of being “you know that woman with the marvellous speeds on Cedar Ck Rd” :-)
When we came here there was a box on the wall and we turned a handle and someone answered up at the exchange on Telegraph Hill as the locals call it - and we had two digit oh numbers. Internet was non existant back then.?
But you’re right these days it’s becoming a question you have to ask if it’s important to you. Newer residents obviously never asked or were promised something that never happened. Unfortunately in covid people are buying out in these areas even sight unseen. ??♀??
Jude
<image.jpg>On 15 Jul 2021, at 10:09 pm, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:
? Not good! ?One of our criteria when we were looking for houses in Dorset last autumn and winter was good Internet. ?The house that we’ve bought has the fibre cabinet about 30m away, so my Internet is as fast as it can get in most parts of the UK – 73 Mbps download, 20Mbps upload.
But that looks like a beautiful part of the world.
Chris
Tonight Current Affair ?Chnl 9 program featured locals talking about our struggles re phone and internet in our area...... it gives you a look at the sort of area we live in.
I had a part as rent a crowd last week on another channel and got spotted and one of our local club members tracked me down via good old white pages to ask me some Mac questions he wanted sorted :-)?
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Lovely view. Does the soul good doesn't it. ?I like an outlook myself which is why the search for a place to move to has been never ending and difficult because I am used to 360deg view and lots of trees and scenery and wildlife. How did you fare in winter as regards snow etc. Were roads trafficable in bad weather. ?We get cut off when our bridges go under at creek crossing occasionally but those of us who have lived here a while always have a plan B and provisions.?
Jude
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Yes, we feel very fortunate to have found this place. ?My wife’s father was born and brought up in the town of Beaminster, a few miles south, as was his father before him. ?There’s a hill, Beaminster Down between Corscombe and Beaminster, which divides the weather many times in year, it appears. ?We’ve been here only since March, but apparently the village is quite frequently snowbound; I have a 4x4 (well, a BMW X3 ;-)) so we should be OK, even though the lanes to the south are quite steep. Our house is on the hillside so there’s a downslope to negotiate as well in slippery weather, at the bottom of which is the local pub (The Fox, owned by celeb chef Mark Hix), but then it’s level ground to Yeovil in the north. ?We’re not out in the bundu as you are, but it’s very pleasantly secluded.
We feel for those poor people in the Eifel and Rhineland of Germany. ?It can’t have been many years ago that much of central Europe was under water; we’re going to have to be ready for these extreme weather events.
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Lovely view. Does the soul good doesn't it. ?I like an outlook myself which is why the search for a place to move to has been never ending and difficult because I am used to 360deg view and lots of trees and scenery and wildlife. How did you fare in winter as regards snow etc. Were roads trafficable in bad weather. ?We get cut off when our bridges go under at creek crossing occasionally but those of us who have lived here a while always have a plan B and provisions.?
Jude
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Yes, there is a flight to what we call “the country” here too, with prices in our area, or indeed anywhere rural enough to boast a sizeable garden, going silly. ?We have a garden, which is quite big enough for us non-gardeners, and receives the occasional hedgehog visitation, so that’s nice. Best Susan
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It is very beautiful here but the mountains work against us an difficult terrain. The j oke up here was roads just wound round trees and cart track
?Down the road right opposite the Telstra rim cabinet one family there get a download speed of 2…. I’m a couple of klms further and I get 15 or even a tick better if I’m lucky. I have the reputation of being “you know that woman with the marvellous speeds on Cedar Ck Rd” :-)
When we came here there was a box on the wall and we turned a handle and someone answered up at the exchange on Telegraph Hill as the locals call it - and we had two digit oh numbers. Internet was non existant back then.?
But you’re right these days it’s becoming a question you have to ask if it’s important to you. Newer residents obviously never asked or were promised something that never happened. Unfortunately in covid people are buying out in these areas even sight unseen. ??♀??
Jude
<image.jpg>On 15 Jul 2021, at 10:09 pm, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:
? Not good! ?One of our criteria when we were looking for houses in Dorset last autumn and winter was good Internet. ?The house that we’ve bought has the fibre cabinet about 30m away, so my Internet is as fast as it can get in most parts of the UK – 73 Mbps download, 20Mbps upload.
But that looks like a beautiful part of the world.
Chris
Tonight Current Affair ?Chnl 9 program featured locals talking about our struggles re phone and internet in our area...... it gives you a look at the sort of area we live in.
I had a part as rent a crowd last week on another channel and got spotted and one of our local club members tracked me down via good old white pages to ask me some Mac questions he wanted sorted :-)?
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Ooh, lovely! ?We would get a splendid view of the motorway, if we went dronewards! ?There is also a flood plain, which I hope will fulfil its duty if called upon. Best Susan
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On 15 Jul 2021, at 15:15, zuiko < ftog@...> wrote: Yes, people in the UK, particularly down south, have been desperate to buy and some are sight unseen as well. ?We paid over the odds for this house, but we weren’t going to find anywhere at a reasonable price in the frantic rush for houses – the Stamp Duty “holiday” had a lot to do with it as well.
In fact we had only two twenty-minute visits, in the evening and the morning, when it wasn’t fully light, before we had to head home. ?So when we arrived to move in it was a real pleasure to see the views: we can see all the way to the Mendips from this location in West Dorset.
Here’s a view towards our village at sunrise, looking from Beaminster Down:??— click on the small thumbnail lower down. ?My car is halfway up the lane while I flew a drone for the view.
The photo attached is the view north towards Yeovil and the Mendips further north.
Chris
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It is very beautiful here but the mountains work against us an difficult terrain. The joke up here was roads just wound round trees and cart tracks.?
?Down the road right opposite the Telstra rim cabinet one family there get a download speed of 2…. I’m a couple of klms further and I get 15 or even a tick better if I’m lucky. I have the reputation of being “you know that woman with the marvellous speeds on Cedar Ck Rd” :-)
When we came here there was a box on the wall and we turned a handle and someone answered up at the exchange on Telegraph Hill as the locals call it - and we had two digit oh numbers. Internet was non existant back then.?
But you’re right these days it’s becoming a question you have to ask if it’s important to you. Newer residents obviously never asked or were promised something that never happened. Unfortunately in covid people are buying out in these areas even sight unseen. ??♀??
Jude
<image.jpg>On 15 Jul 2021, at 10:09 pm, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:
?Not good! ?One of our criteria when we were looking for houses in Dorset last autumn and winter was good Internet. ?The house that we’ve bought has the fibre cabinet about 30m away, so my Internet is as fast as it can get in most parts of the UK – 73 Mbps download, 20Mbps upload.
But that looks like a beautiful part of the world.
Chris
Tonight Current Affair ?Chnl 9 program featured locals talking about our struggles re phone and internet in our area...... it gives you a look at the sort of area we live in.
I had a part as rent a crowd last week on another channel and got spotted and one of our local club members tracked me down via good old white pages to ask me some Mac questions he wanted sorted :-)?
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Dear Mr Noah, ?Do you, Ham, Shem and Japhet have any leftover timber? ?:D Best Susan
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On 16 Jul 2021, at 07:38, zuiko < ftog@...> wrote: Yes, we feel very fortunate to have found this place. ?My wife’s father was born and brought up in the town of Beaminster, a few miles south, as was his father before him. ?There’s a hill, Beaminster Down between Corscombe and Beaminster, which divides the weather many times in year, it appears. ?We’ve been here only since March, but apparently the village is quite frequently snowbound; I have a 4x4 (well, a BMW X3 ;-)) so we should be OK, even though the lanes to the south are quite steep. Our house is on the hillside so there’s a downslope to negotiate as well in slippery weather, at the bottom of which is the local pub (The Fox, owned by celeb chef Mark Hix), but then it’s level ground to Yeovil in the north. ?We’re not out in the bundu as you are, but it’s very pleasantly secluded.
We feel for those poor people in the Eifel and Rhineland of Germany. ?It can’t have been many years ago that much of central Europe was under water; we’re going to have to be ready for these extreme weather events.
Chris
Lovely view. Does the soul good doesn't it. ?I like an outlook myself which is why the search for a place to move to has been never ending and difficult because I am used to 360deg view and lots of trees and scenery and wildlife. How did you fare in winter as regards snow etc. Were roads trafficable in bad weather. ?We get cut off when our bridges go under at creek crossing occasionally but those of us who have lived here a while always have a plan B and provisions.?
Jude
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Dear Mr Noah, ?Do you, Ham, Shem and Japhet have any leftover timber? ?:DBest Susan On 16 Jul 2021, at 07:38, zuiko < ftog@...> wrote: Yes, we feel very fortunate to have found this place. ?My wife’s father was born and brought up in the town of Beaminster, a few miles south, as was his father before him. ?There’s a hill, Beaminster Down between Corscombe and Beaminster, which divides the weather many times in year, it appears. ?We’ve been here only since March, but apparently the village is quite frequently snowbound; I have a 4x4 (well, a BMW X3 ;-)) so we should be OK, even though the lanes to the south are quite steep. Our house is on the hillside so there’s a downslope to negotiate as well in slippery weather, at the bottom of which is the local pub (The Fox, owned by celeb chef Mark Hix), but then it’s level ground to Yeovil in the north. ?We’re not out in the bundu as you are, but it’s very pleasantly secluded.
We feel for those poor people in the Eifel and Rhineland of Germany. ?It can’t have been many years ago that much of central Europe was under water; we’re going to have to be ready for these extreme weather events.
Chris
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