online again

whod've believed that BT would come to the rescue? thankfully the fuzzy phone line wasn't the result of any faulty equipment, so I didn't have to stump up the £199.58 engineer's call-out fee. turned out to be corroded wires up a pole in the back yard of a vacant property up for sale some 42m down the street. now that normal services have been resumed, no excuse not to blog. damn.