Cut off from civilisation?

I'm sitting out in the garden writing this blog post.  Its such a nice evening it seems a shame to sit inside.  In preparation for the recent visit of some of the McDowell family, we did up the garden. The top five improvements are as follows;

1. Removal of excess biological material.  In English, the removal of the decorative tree stumps (beautiful when first installed years ago but had become rotten) and the pruning of the trees.

2. Creation of extra space.  A product of the aforementioned activity, we found space to store the bins out of sight and to store the chairs and buckets and stuff in sight, but out of the way, and last but not least space to arrange the garden furniture in a vast array of new configurations and locations.

3. Addition of new biological material.  New plants in other words.

4. Creation of new decorative centrepiece.  With the tree stumps gone, there was a need for a new centrepiece to fill the rectangular hole in the paving.  We filled it with pebbles and put a chiminea on top.

5. Protection of security assets.  The gate got a lick of weatherproofing wood stain.

So with these and other improvements, you’d think our garden might be perfect. You’d take my outdoor blogging as supporting evidence.  But you’d be wrong.  There is something still missing: high technology.  Yes, I know I brought out the laptop, but it is crippled!  Crippled I say! By a laptop-devastating lack of wireless signal.  For reasons unknown to modern man the signal reaches as far as the back door, but not through the open space of the frame.  Unconnected to the information superhighway, it doesn't do many of its primary functions.  And so like a neanderthal I type my blog outdoors and will have to tramp indoors to post it!

PS - I really enjoyed referring to the ‘information superhighway’ - who calls it that any more?  It’s a term from the days when the internet promised much and was a very exciting, but when you look back and compare to today’s functionality, delivered very little indeed.  Information superhighway?  More like information dirt track!