This month has made all of us here at Penny Lindop Designs
realise how much we depend upon the internet!
Back in Norfolk, Mum’s been having a lot of trouble with the
broadband speed (or lack of it!), probably a relatively frequent problem for
people living in the country!
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It makes running a small business extremely
difficult – no emails in or out, which mean orders, both trade and retail,
can’t be fulfilled! Nightmare! It also makes marketing a challenge – so much of
it is now based around social media on line (including messaging back to base through Facebook); taking card payments has been a
no-go too with additional problems there!
It’s not just out in the country where slow internet is a
problem; I’m having to write this from a Starbucks in Prague because the Wi-Fi
in our flat is very hit and miss! Mind you, the Wi-Fi is free, the tea is
hot, and the coffee shop is warm – outside it’s around 3 degrees, with more
snow fall over the weekend.
While having slow internet isn’t as much of a
problem for me, it does still cause some disruption – downloading materials for
lesson planning, checking emails, and updating the website all become very time
consuming! Attempting to have a conversation over Skype is almost impossible,
and the frozen video results in some extremely odd facial expressions!
Here is an interesting article on the possible consequences
and likelihood of the internet crashing.
While no internet is a problem, it does give us the
opportunity to do things that we probably otherwise wouldn’t: reading, a
thorough clean of my bedroom and the kitchen, and some very experimental
cooking!
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