Our fibre optic cables were taken down at the weekend by a cherry-picker with its cradle raised.

So I’m typing this (with too-long fingernails) on a 16 x 7cm phone screen, although my usual preferred keyboard is a full-size plug-in with number pad. I hope to post it via a flaky mobile network.
I’m beginning to come to terms with predictive text, but apologise in advance if any slips through, as I’ve been unable to share files with my laptop via Bluetooth (in spite of my phone telling me I can and both devices telling me they can see each other).
I will try to use this distraction-free time productively by story-writing (although, since I won’t be doing it on the mobile, I’ll be unable to send anything out until we’re reconnected).
As it happens, I’d already scheduled a series of reposts on commas over the next few weeks, which probably won’t interest most of my readers (but I hope the writing group are reading. We’re planning a new anthology this year).
In the meantime, I apologise for the lack of comments on blogs I’ll be following by mobile. We may be reconnected some time next week.
If we’re lucky…
(The mills of OpenReach grind slowly, their wonders to perform.)

Postscript: I’ve found an old bluetooth keyboard for the mobile that I bought way back and forgot about. I find bluetooth flaky at the best of times, but when I can get it working, it’s a lifesaver for emails and comments.
We’ve been given an update on when we can expect our cables to be restored… work begins on 29th March – at the earliest!
Grrr!
I hope you get fully reconnected soon Cathy. We are having problems with Virgin media, just back online now after the latest outage.
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Thanks, Phil. Not just BT then…
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No we have been having several outages of late.
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Fully understand the picture at the end of your piece, there’s nothing more frustrating when you have come to rely on this form of communication. Fingers crossed you are all sorted soon.
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Fingers and toes…
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Must be annoying, hope everything’s fixed asap x
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Thanks, Irene 🙂
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I hope the outage does not last too long…
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Thanks.
It took them two weeks to get us all connected when we finally got fibre installed… and all 12 of the houses here are down.
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well hopefully it goes faster the second time…
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