Fibre

Eva and me had a very good rehearsal this morning, even producing a program order, mixing her poetry with the songs I've chosen. We believe it's going to work fine as an hour long concert on the first sunday of Advent. She'd brought some lunch-in-a-box from the local shop, a fairly nice salmon pasta. 

After a rest I had a fairly long walk, passing these two guys, busy digging for laying  broad band fibre cable in the ground. They were in a very good spirit, joking while working  but their work was hard. They are making a connection from the main cable into one of the houses along the way but to get there they had to get to the other side of an ancient stone fence. "The fences are holy and may not be moved", they said, so we have to dig a tunnel half a metre under it, using a couple of skewers. It looked to be hard work and tricky because there were lots of rocks under the fence too. I'm sure their work was made more easy making a lot of jokes while doing it.