Manor House

While killing a few minutes waiting for my timed slot at the opticians this afternoon, I took a few shots of the attractive houses in the village High Street.  This is probably the prettiest with its monkey puzzle tree.  It looks late Georgian/early Victorian.  The manor of Chinnor changed hands regularly over the centuries.  In the earliest record it was owned by a royal servant of Edward the Confessor, who still owned it at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086.  Soon afterwards it became the property of a Norman baron.  It was finally broken up and sold in 1917, when lots of estates couldn't keep going through WWI.

We've been waiting a couple of days for PlusNet to connect up our new fibre broadband.  By the time I got home, MrHCB was in the middle of installing the necessary new router.  We are neither of us technical experts but we have somehow muddled through and have all systems go again.  Not a simple task - we had 19 devices attached to the old router!    It runs not only our PCs, iPads, iMac and iPhones, but also the gate intercom, security camera, burglar alarm and heating controls.  The extra shows the current broadband line speed test.  Our download speed this morning was 7 and our upload speed below 1 - phew!