[shillelagh]

beginning of october i lost my internet on friday dinner time and it came back on monday teatime .. i also lost my landline at the same time. Turned out bt openreach hadnt flipped a switch at the box and so i lost it all. It drove me nuts not being able to catch up with everything .. i watched tv a lot and read books .. but it made me realise how much i depend on the internet .. and how much time i spend on it ... having a landline is important for me its a back up to having a mobile .. in case i need to speak to family because of an emergency. But also brought back memories ..of the phone book!!! I know you still get one but its not like what we got given back in the dark ages before internet. It had everyones number in it .. and then you had the yellow pages for business .. Now we just get one very thin one and not everyones number is in it. I remember when i was a kid looking up someones number .. now i normally stick it google bring it up .. I couldnt do that .. but another ..how many use the internet for zoom/teams/skype calls especially video calls .. spugster said he missed me .. we spoke on the phone but only for a couple of mins .. not like normal ... a couple of hours of skype call ..

Now its a case everyone depends on the internet .. whether for calls, socialisation, business, banking etc .. when it goes down what do you do ..