Another good idea!!!!!!!

 

While we have been here Paul saw an advert about aerials for dongles.(for those of you who are interested the advert is in March’s Tow path page 33 the web site in question is www.gsm-secure.co.uk or phone 0845 4580229). The information he gathered was that the dongle adaptor lead which cost £25 is just a short fly lead with a plastic insert to which the dongle fits. This fly lead is then, through a connector connected to a 5 db gain antenna this also costs £25. Now you know what Paul is like as far as opening his wallet is concerned, he dived into the depths of a cupboard to fine his old 5db gain half wave cb aerial with mag mount and on realising that the dongle is only a touch contact  proceeded to waterproof the dongle and inserted it within the bottom coil held in place with a tie wrap.  Since we have had this

  on the roof the once awful internet signal at Braunston has turned into 3g+. Now we don't know if Vodaphone have upped their signal or if this increase is due to the new aerial. But it is a great improvement on the broom handle which has kept us warm for about 10 minutes. Will be interesting to see what the results are elsewhere in the country. These cb aerials can be found at Maplins for around £15.

Yesterday Paul was on the phone yet again to the computer shop bending their ear and quoting the sale of goods act. He gave the guy till the afternoon to ring us back with an update. We were duly rung with the answer that Samsung wanted another 2 weeks to fit a new hard drive which we were lead to believe was a 5 minute job so it was agreed that the laptop would be returned to the shop by courier where he would replace the hard drive at his expense. Now this guy Louie has bent over backwards to help us and he has had words with Samsung hence him doing the work himself. We called into the shop this morning and we were told that there was definitely a problem with the hard drive and it was on the verge of self destructing so now we have to return to Daventry yet again tomorrow hopefully this will be the last time but Louie is confident that it is the hard drive that is at fault but should the problem re-occur  he  has agreed that he will replace the laptop with a new one at no cost to us.

Here you are Keith here’s the picture of the 3oz bream 

  Paul spotted this dead fish by the side of the boat unfortunately this large bream had been hit by a prop.