Friends are lovely but....

[Sarico]

My BB is back on. BT have been working on underground lines near our telephone exchange for several weeks now. It turns out that they accidentally disconnected me and several other people in the area.

My son has calmed down and apologised and the business is continuing. He's only been able to deal with the business himself for a couple of days and can't see the impractabilities of dealing with stock from somewhere else. I've had to make abject apologies to several customers and hope they forgive me for being lax.

I'm determined to make this a success; a) because my son needs an income stream and b) to stick 2 fingers up to my ex.

Glad all sort it. You both need to learn from this experience. Like other suggest if you need the broadband 24/7 you need to invest in a second back up option like a dongle or using a mobile like wifi hotspot. Accident happen and when you pay few pound for a service you can't complain. I have talk talk and at least once a week go down. Luckily I now some stuff and doing some reboot and enter in the router I get all sort it. But when I use to pay 3time more with Virgin media everything was faultless.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Glad all sort it. You both need to learn from this experience.

Both the technical, and the emotional - you do need to have a contingency as others have said, and if you are in business with your son you need to be able to work together on a professional level. That means that you don't pick up *all* the flak when something goes awry.........

My son has now said he doesn't want to talk to me, he's cancelling the account and he doesn't want me at the hospital on Tuesday.

....... and that your son stops behaving like a two year old.

Hope all goes well at the hospital tomorrow.