Got an email earlier from The Swan inviting me to their launch event later this month.  Tickets cost £55 for lunch or £75 for dinner so I’ll probably not be going unless MPW wants to give me a couple of free tickets?

I might even say nice things about it.

Imagine my surprise, then, when I get home on Monday evening to have no broadband, no phone line. I phone up the faults line this morning and they tell me it’s not a fault and pass me on to Customer Services. The chap there tried to be helpful but clearly wasn’t going to be able to fix it for me. He blamed Openreach for actioning the disconnect early and offered to place an order for a new line. No guarantee when it would be done or if I’d have broadband again when it does come through.

I’ve also heard that the @BTCare Twitter account are quite helpful so I’ve emailed them to see if they can help. When I worked for Bluesock, BT were a constant source of problems for pretty much every client – I thought I was past that but no, just when you think something is going well they manage to fsck it up.