New Broadband Speed

Setting up at the new house and yes, the download speed is fine.. Upload however is not, not at all....

I've a guarantee for 17-18Mbps upload, and I've seen it peak at 6.  It's currently, during daylight running between 1 and 5 tops.

And annoyingly asking my provider for assistance they've still got my mobile linked to the OLD postcode, so it's becoming a bit of a struggle to get any help from them as they've not realised "I moved"... and they know I moved because they activated the new socket this morning at 7am.

Upload speed before 9am was marginally better, around 6-9Mbps, but still well below their guarantee,

Ghosts.... From the BBC (A Fan Theory)

 Talking about Ghosts.... Sorry, I mean... 

I've gotten quite into this, watching them all over a couple of times, and I've come to a bit of a fan theory; which I'd love to think is true... Alison can seem to only see Ghosts whom have been murdered...

That's my whole theory, here's the thinking.

Mary - Burned at the Stake

Thomas - Shot in a duel

Fanny - Thrown from a window

Pat - Shot with an arrow

Humphrey - Beheaded by accident, but whilst hiding from being wrongly accused of plotting against Queen Elizabeth I.

Then secondary ghosts, she see's:

Luftwaffe pilots - you could say were murdered, killed in action, they're still "mid-flight".

Civil War (Round Head) - appears to have been skewered by a pike.

Hitch-Hiker - Literally says she was murdered.

60's Architect - looked like he had been stabbed in the head as he waved from the window.

And the whole basement plague pit are all found to have been killed by Mick bringing the plague back with him.

So, murder or killed, each has a known perpetrator of their death.

This leaves a few holes in my theory, which I would like to plug...

Kitty - It does seem in Series 3, Episode 5, we have the lead up to her adoptive sister murdering her... We're yet to hear the full truth, but it seems to be the way that is played out.

The Captain - Well, he's a soldier, stationed at the hall we can't rule out a bomb or accident taking his life, he certainly was willing to sacrifice himself by throwing himself over an explosive device; and his love interest subordinate had been posted to the middle east, so there's something there to be explored.

Assuming the above this only leaves us Robin and Julian... Robin lived in pre-history, the stone age, a brutal time, his death may very well have been at the hands of another, be it animal or human; it does not seem likely with his describing wolves removing faces and eyes, and keeping his fathers skin, that he met his maker from his fur bed.

Julian is perhaps the biggest stretch for my theory, as we know a lot about his death, "the perfect death, booze, bit of rumpy pumpy and out".

But it wasn't alone, clearly the woman with whom me was in congress had a literally deadly effect on him, and he found the whole episode to be the most traumatic event in his life...

So there's my theory, the persons who remain are those who meet their end at the hands, or by cause, of another; and they can't resolve it.

The only two I can't answer this for are Annie the maid and the Ghost Doctor.... We shall see.

Covid-19 : Has the Break Down of Society and Community Begun?

Dystopia and apocalypse are common themes in fiction, for many alive today Covid-19 is the first real taste of such a global catastrophe, the removal of social and stable norms of life, the dramatic secession of normal work routine and the imposition of lockdown put a massive strain on society; I have lived this.

And today ask Was That The Start Of the End Of An Era?  An era where you had relative silence from neighbours, a time where you had rules of sleep at night, work in the day broken irreparable, a time when pub, club, entertainment shifted unending from going to be entertains over to remaining at home to be entertained and that leaking out of your space into that of others?

Of course this is a subjective and very personal question, your mileage may very well vary.

However, I have had the vast number of reports from friends and coworkers that their personal space has been irreparably invaded by the actions and selfish nature of others.  I myself have lived this nightmare.

With social norms broken certain people seem to accept that they are going to party at home, be entertained at home, be themselves however they wish that means drink, drugs, music and other people - despite the lockdown.

For us this happened at two different properties (yes we moved) at the first people in the high vulnerability groups were happily accepting visits and then also crossing over visiting each other, in one case over 70's were receiving their grand children, who were out playing in the street with other children, and then they would walk into the houses of other over 70's... And then these self same idiots would ask "Why are we getting sick?"

In the second this happened because our neighbour, she wanted her drink, drugs, music and sex at full on volume, and literally said to me "I'm just trying to have a bit of fun".

So that's cause, people doing whatever they want, despite social restrictions, law and quite obvious risk and disturbance they are causing others who are similarly struggling to find some semblance of peace in these trying times.

How does that then convert into the break down of society?

Well, the agencies charged with resolving these issues, the police, the district and county councils, all seem extremely toothless.  Even in one situation we resorted to the extreme of a private prosecution; WHICH WE WON.  And the court was toothless to enforce anything.

People annoying others, loosing court cases, breaking the law and yet council police and commonsense do not reel them in?  What can?

Well, I believe violence, frustrated in such situations something has to give, you deprive your neighbour of sleep for a month and they will snap, they will be extremely antagonised, doubly so when they have spoken to you and tried to talk over the issue before all the other agencies were involved.

That is the first crack, the first chink in the armour of the old social norms breaking down, and I believe anyone in a property with an attached neighbour, a flat or any other con-joined property can and will run into this, but since Covid I think they'll run into this far more often.