Yup! Not that anyone would have noticed seeing how quiet it is here. But we had a storm the other day and lightning struck our router and fried the ADSL cable (only we didn't know that at the time), so we were without the geek's necessity all day yesterday. My mum called our ISP at midday today and they said an engineer will be round in 24 hours to look at it.

Obviously, I can't wait 48 hours, so my dad tried replacing the cable. And it worked! It was like summer 2013 all over again.

tl;dr:

well, congratulations! 

and the English "mum" will never cease to be jarring to my mind 

He's back, I knew it was quiet round here!