Cancelling

A lovely blue sky again today, but a cold wind prevents us from sitting out for long. The Orangery, however, is wonderfully warm and bright.

The Gorse Fox and Ellie spent some time playing in the Orangery this morning. He was trying to keep things to a small subset of toys, but Ellie was intent on spreading out. Having said that, she was very good and cheerful.

The Gorse Fox finally got an email from Virgin Travel today. It explains that there are several options open to us, but these do not include our scheduled holiday. We have yet to decide which option we will take, but we'll discuss this later.

For now, what it does mean is that the various ancillary services we had booked can all be cancelled. The Gorse Fox has spent the last hour sorting through each of these and sending cancellation notices and requesting refunds. So that's: transfers to/from Gatwick, the hotel room in Gatwick the night before travel, the VIP Meet and Greet service on arrival and departure in Jamaica, and the luxury private transfers to/from the resort. Now he just has to wait and check that all of these are confirmed and refunded.

Meanwhile, back in Chichester, Cousteau-Cub is meant to be working from home but her broadband has failed. A line test implies the problem is on their line rather than the service as a whole. Because she is in a high-risk group, however, BT won't send an engineer for at least 3 weeks. Checkmate. Let's hope the WiFi hotspot through her phone has sufficient bandwidth to provide cover.