Internet FAIL

I tried to do a Skype video link-up with Hawkes­dale P12 — a lit­tle school in the south of Vic­to­ria, just inland from Port Fairy and War­rnam­bool — today but was thwarted by bad inter­net caused by bad weather at Hawksdale.

Some stu­dents from Hawks­dale P12 attended my Mel­bourne Writ­ers’ Fes­ti­val ses­sion in August and have been in touch with me on this blog ever since. It was a shame not to be able to chat to them prop­erly again today. It has left me with a dark and stormy feel­ing inside. I will now express my feel­ing of stormi­ness with this very lit­eral pic­to­r­ial representation:

clouds



4 Comments

Camko

Yes the wweather wwas really bad today wasent it haha to bad we couldnt talk on skype i was in the room to haha

Thanks Heaps for your coo­ment Andrew your blog is also preety cool i think it is funny how you took your goats to work haha!

Hope to hear from you soon Camko

marg murnane

Hi Andrew,

We had 100 very dis­ap­pointed stu­dents as well. We have ordered a class set of your book and hope to read it as a class next term. I started read­ing it last night and it has made me laugh and smile already. I love that you named the duck Bar­code, and that is was the com­pro­mise between a cat and a dog. I’m also sure that I have sat down to a bowl of slushy corn flookes in my time, as well have being guilty of hav­ing dished it up to my chil­dren over the years. Hope­fully we can set up another link up when our inter­net has recov­ered. I think, like the rest of us, it is tired and look­ing for­ward to the end of term. Cheers
Marg

Tiana

Hi Andrew,
Gee, that sucks about the inter­net.
Though Queens­land was a warm a sunny day. I wish we got bad weather here, though. I like the cold.
Any­ways, prob­a­bly said this about 50 times in my head, but thank you for choos­ing me as one of the win­ners of your con­test. I’m typ­ing from the Mac I got right now, actu­ally. I absolutely love it.

Thanks every­one. The weather was bad but I appre­ci­ate you all tak­ing the time to *try* to chat to me :)

And Tiana, you are more than wel­come! It’s cool that you’re com­ment­ing on my blog with the very mac­book that you won through the Great­est Blog­ger com­pe­ti­tion. I have been mean­ing to blog your win­ning entry too. You’ll be a star!

A