Hmm we'll see if anything is fixed on the wifi / broadband / home internets or not, but I have made another change. I accidentally factory-reset the router, which might have been a good thing. It did mean the pi-hole stopped working so ads started showing everywhere, and then the ip addresses all changed so it was hard to figure out what was going on for a bit. I've now got it all back online, and checking the settings of the pi-hole I think I saw the DNS was wrong. The router goes to the pi-hole for DNS, but then the pi-hole was set to either go to google or go back to the router again. This would surely make it freak out and go into a loop of not being able to find things wouldn't it? I've made it go only to google now, will see if that improves things.
There is screaming from the other room, the wifi is not better and it is all my fault.
I finished the Reginald Hill book and I'm reading Lord Of The Flies1 now. I have not read this before, this is Clare's copy from her school days with all sorts of notes written in the margins.
| Author | Book | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
| Ian Rankin | Westwind2 | Dated thriller, shame. |
| Ian Rankin | Doors Open2 | Really good crime caper in Edinburgh but with no Rebus. |
| Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games2 | Borrowed from the children, very good. |
| Suzanne Collins | Catching Fire2 | Hunger Games part 2, read this even quicker, a bit darker. |
| Suzanne Collins | Mockingjay2 | Hunger Games part 3, joyless and grim. Very 2020... |
| Karen McManus | One Of Us Is Lying3 | Another one liberated from the children's bookshelf. A Breakfast Club whodunnit, dying to be a film, not at all suitable for a ten year old... |
| Robin Paige | Death at Glamis Castle4 | Edwardian era mystery written by Americans. I read one of these before. Quite atmospheric, though a little twee. Sort of romance / crime. Written in accents, with plenty of "of the time" attitudes. |
| Jed Rubenfield | The Interpretation of Murder5 | A charity shop find, one you always see, have had it kicking around a long time. Historical crime fiction again set in New York 1909, featuring Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Great, but complicated and fairly unlikely! |
| Muriel Spark | Loitering With Intent6 | Branching out a little this time, it's not even a crime. |
| Julie Wassmer | Murder on the Pilgrims Way7 | Going back to the familiar now. Fairly gentle and local crime. Forgot I had this one from when we met the author in Waterstones. Mostly predictable and cosy but I did not get the actual end murderer correct. |
| Reginald Hill | Blood Sympathy8 | Even more familiar, have read this before, but keen to revisit this crime series. Very enjoyable. |
| Robert Webb | Come Again9 | Time travel action rom-com, not very good, feels like two unrelated stories in one with no resolution. |
| Reginald Hill | Born Guilty10 | Joe Sixsmith again, hoping I enjoy all of this series as much as the first one. Dated and a little complicated but lots of fun. |
| William Golding | Lord Of The Flies1 | Like I'm doing GCSE English! I have not read this before but we had it in the house. |
| Country | cases | deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 3833271 | 142877 |
| Brazil | 2075246 | 78817 |
| India | 1077864 | 26828 |
| Russia | 765437 | 12247 |
| Peru | 349500 | 12998 |
| Mexico | 331298 | 38310 |
| Chile | 328846 | 8445 |
| Spain | 307335 | 28420 |
| UK | 294066 | 45273 |
| Iran | 271606 | 13979 |
Very nice day out there, a high of 20° but I think we're going to have a very lazy one as it is the first day of the holidays. They are having the lazy one anyway, I've made the penne arrabiata for tonight and now I have chores to do11...
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + UK + Italy + France + Spain
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