Boy, this is a novelty! I can’t recall the last time our internet connection was up and running. Our first BT engineer turned up on the 22nd June, so it was certainly prior to that. And he was just the first. Since then, we’ve had a new router and more line-checks than a proof-read of a Wagner opera score. Still no broadband though. Not even narrowband. And, in the depths of the forest here, that means we have no phone connection either. We’d previously accepted an offer to use mobiles exclusively, connecting through broadband. So we’ve been effectively cut off. No phone. No email. No iPlayer. No internet. No ability to upload the videos I’ve been making to my YouTube Channel, Music for Good. And no way to tell you the problem, either…

It’s now 4 o’clock in the morning. Having tossed and turned for a couple of hours, I’ve just tried logging on, with no reason for hope. We’ve got an engineer booked to come later today and another tomorrow to try and trace the fault. But hey, I just got through! So this is a brief hello. I don’t know how long this connection will last, but I’ve not forgotten you! When morning comes, I shall try logging on again and hopefully find you’re still reachable. And I shall share news, even a video I hope. In the meantime, I hope you’re safe and well – and better connected than us!