So near and yet so far.
Many of you will know about our battle to get fibre optic and thus Wi-Fi for our lovely customers in this rural idyll. So, this week we thought we had cracked it. Installation and box ordered, the technician came to do the deed. Then disaster, the cable to the campsite had been damaged and there was no telephone line in the building that we could find. There had been a fixed line here many years ago before we had been here.
French telecom came out the following day to mend the damaged cable, and I asked the bloke if he knew or could find where the telephone wires came into the office. He searched and again couldn’t find it. We asked our mate Terry who came with his divining rods and found everything else but the telephone wire.
Today we have a very clever man with a machine that locates cables and he can’t find it so now I am at a loss what the next step should be. We were so close and again it’s got complicated. There is still plenty of 4g signal in the area for phones but still we can’t offer WIFI. I will plod on though and try to resolve it.
We opened for the season on April 1st and welcomed many hardy campers and glampers. Which makes all the hard work getting everything ready meaningful. I love it when clients find joy and calm in this lovely place. We have seen lots of wildlife including deer on site in the early morning, foxes and even red squirrels! There have been many otter sightings on the lake too. Sadly, our swallows haven’t returned at the moment which is really sad maybe they are just late. They cause such excitement here when the young are hatching in the washing up area and are so clever, I just hope they haven’t been blown off course by the shenanigans in the middle east !
It’s a wonderful thing to create joy and happiness, I had a great friend who did just that, but as is often the way with special people we lost her far too soon. I ended up making an unexpected trip back to the UK for her funeral. She would have laughed at me though as we forged across the channel in a force 6 gale. Rocking and rolling it was very exciting bobbing along although there was a lot of sick bags being used…not me though!
My friend was so brave and even when the chips were down, she was determined to survive and always so positive. Her funeral while very sad was also uplifting, we sang “Wild thing” at the end. I think of her and smile most days.
As Spike Milligan said” smiling is infectious”.
So, you will catch me here smiling at the campsite and hopefully you will all smile too.
