Mole

Whoops. Have had to drastically alter this post as I missed the most important event. Teach me to back Blip 4 months later!

Today the sub-contractors working for German Telekom who are the contractors appointed by the parish to lay fibre cable to the 40 odd isolated houses in the parish, arrived with a big mole machine to burrow a hole from our property under a stream and out the other side in a farmer's field (now belongs to the parish but rented out) and then reverse the process pulling over two empty pipes into which later the fibre cables will be laid.

The machine has an operator who just as with an oil well drill has to keep adding two-metre lengths of pipes which are then turned & bore there way through aided by water cooling. There is an electronic signal emitted by the head which an operator on the surface follows with an ultrasound device and can give instructions back to the machine to go up/down/left/right. 

Very efficient and quickly done. I wonder how much it cost though. Luckily we don't have to pay a penny. Pleasing that the council has had the sense to put in two pipes so that one is spare for anything that may come along in the future.

Sometime soon the cable will come from the village & be hooked up and a cable from where the machine was right up to and into the house. FTTH they call it "Free To The House", even in Germany.

In the evening I got involved in what I originally posted today, the corresponding photo is now the extra photo.


Sometimes you will see these rings of very different assorted bread rolls in bakeries but more often than not you need to order them if you want a spectacular display for a party.

In this photo, only half of a ring is shown plus some various other loaves of bread. I don't remember the exact reason for the photo but it had something to do with cheese and bread and Twitter, so I guess it involved Nogbad.