Present difficulties

Things are very slow at the moment as I haven't had the Internet for over a week. It feels like being blinded and then being allowed to see bits of things very slowly through a keyhole (thank heaven for my iPhone). Now they tell me that waiting for permission to dig may be causing the continual deferments (!) - it's a 'general outage' not a personal one - and that I may get it back next Tuesday. So apologies if things seem to be grinding to a halt somewhat or I'm slow in responding to things - all will be well, I hope.