Seasons of Mist and Motorway Madness....

As you can see we left the dacha in glorious autumnal sidelight and slipped into the fog of war. Well not really but it's a nice turn of phrase.

I've spent the weekend fighting with BT's call centre trying to get some sense out of them. Suffice to say that I felt less happy after speaking to them than I did before which wasn't saying much.

The problem is that we don't have mobile cover in the house so if the phone goes down we're in a real pickle as we have to go four miles down the road to get a signal and even then it's in a really small spot.

To add insult to injury (another nice turn of phrase I feel) the strength of the signal is governed by the state of the tide.

Now imagine trying to explain that to a call centre at the other side of the world.

On the plus side it was like an unexpected weekend off but in reality is was less than relaxing.

Ah well!