Update on office situation

And the good news as of this morning is that we still have no phones or ADSL. Which means we cannot have any contact with the world outside of our four office walls. According to the phone company (British Telecom - not some little tin-pot company), we will being connected on September 5. Only a month since we moved in. Initially they said it would be 5-10 working days. Then it became longer, but not sure how much longer. Then we were put at the top of the priority list, where we sat for a week with no progress at all. The irony is that the business park where we are now sits above the main telephone exchange for South London. All of the wires are 20ft below out office!!

Luckily I can work from home a bit so can still do some work, but I wonder how people managed before e-mail and the Net? I've never worked in an environment without e-mail, but has anyone else? what did people do to send data to each other? And did people just spend the whole day on the phone?

You just have to smile though (through gritted teeth!)...