I think this is worth recording, though it might take a while to explain. I’m currently using my iPad because, as I m the other day, my computer has given up the ghost. Recently, though, my mobile internet has been playing up, so yesterday I took myself up to the O2 shop at the dome. I was able to explain my problem to the assistant there in no time, and a few moments later I was back online. I went away happy.

Today I set off for the dome again, to see what I could of the Tennis. My new attitude is that you never know when something awesome will crop up: I may discover something as incredible as Monty Python or Star Trek at any given point, provided I keep my eyes open. Who knew what I could have seen. It was possible I could meet a tennis star, got on tv, or anything. Predictably, nothing of the sort happened, but as I was setting off for home I noticed my mobile internet was down again. At home i can use our network, but when I am out and about I like to be online in case of emergency, or if I feel the sudden urge to blog.

I got home flustered. Lyn and I tried to fix it, trying to do what the chap at the dome had done yesterday, with no luck. An hour or so later, I went out again, this time making for the O2 shop in woolwich; I reasoned staff there would be just as helpful as those at the dome. How wrong I was. They were rude and condescending, insisting i needed a carer with me. They even wrote a note on paper for me, in case I didn’t understand what they were saying. I was utterly insulted. I ripped it up before them and set off back to the dome.

It’s quite a long bus ride from woolwich to North greenwich, and when I got there crowds were streaming out from the tennis. I didn’t have to stay long there, though, as the nice lady in the O2 store very quickly understood my problem, looked at my iPad and got me online again. I immediately messaged Lyn to tell her. I now know I just have to tap reset in general settings. I still feel angry about how I was treated in woolwich, and that I had to go all the way from there back to the dome. The difference in attitude to me between the two places was remarkable. Indeed, I am seriously considering making some kind of formal complaint.