<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=774" rel="attachment wp-att-774"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-774" alt="talktalk(jan13)" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/talktalkjan13.jpg" width="250" height="194" /></a>OK so I don't mean this literally but more and more our lives revolve around the Internet. For me that means keeping up with emails, working on my own blog (is once a week really a blog?) and trying to encourage engagement with the Rothersthorpe Village web site (<a href="http://www.rothersthorpe.info/">www.rothersthorpe.info</a>).

Our broadband usage has been creeping up over the past 12 months and seeing as we don't have an unlimited download package it has been costing us more and more. Eventually we reached the stage when if we put our broadband into the phone package with TalkTalk then we would spend less on our communications. I did all the sums and took to giant step with a full expectation this was going to be a nightmare. Today was switchover day. It should read switch-off day because although broadband continued the phone went dead for over an hour. As I write this I'm still using the old providers service and although emails are coming in, I cannot send emails.

If we have a working phone and broadband service at the end of the day I will be happy.