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It's Mayfly here again with an update. On Monday Openreach installed the fibre optic cable into the lounge, set up the broadband box and plugged in the new Yealink base station and it is wireless with a good signal. The engineers left the copper cable running from the telegraph pole to the house, so all was well. The BT engineer who Wass supposed to come too set up the broadband and phones never turned up. Yesterday BT must have done the switchover and we were cut off with no broadband or landline! Thankfully our IT man was able to get the broadband up and running but not the phones. The mobile signal is not good here so we need the landline. BT have told us it be a week before an engineer can come out. The question is - do we need an engineer? - does anyone know how to set up these Yealink W73P phones? Have looked on the web and none of it makes sense. Any thoughts or help would be much appreciated.

It’s Mayfly here again. It's Mayfly here again. Thanks so much to you all for your advice and thoughts. It’s very helpful and so kind of you to respond. I think we are going to have to bite the bullet and get through this somehow. If we don’t have to take the house apart we’ll be so grateful. The FO cable could come into the lounge, run along skirting boards, go through the wall, along skirting board, up and around lounge doorframe, along skirting, up and around middle room doorframe, through the wall to avoid concrete floor. BT have sent us new router + Wifi booster + 2 FO compatible phones. Can anyone tell me if the router, booster and main phone (with voicemail) have to be connected to the computer and be in the same room? Could we do what Jenijenjen suggests, which is to have the router in the lounge, the booster in the middle room. As she says – it’s supposed to be wireless. We do have two electrical sockets very near where the FO cable would come into the lounge. But what happens to the phones and where and what do they get plugged into? Hoping you can enlighten us some more and apologies for ignorance. Mayfly

Has anyone had problems with BT installing a new fibre optic cable? We have just had to renew our phone/ broadband contract with BT, and were told we would have to have a fibre optic cable installed. Two new hubs and two compatible phones were sent. (phones will cost us £100+). No engineer turned up for the first appointment. BT wanted to charge £130 although we were here so have refused to pay. An engineer (from Morrison) did turn up for the second appointment, but could not do the work. We had been assured that the old copper cable inside the house would not need changing, and it was just a question of putting a box on the outside and setting up the broadband and phones. The engineer said this was not the case, and floorboards would need to come up beforehand in the lounge and hallway in order to run the new fibre optic cable to the middle room – complicated by the fact that this room has a concrete floor. The lounge is currently used to store a lot of stuff, carpeted with hardboard underneath. It will be a massive undertaking to sort things out due to mobility and health issues. BT don’t seem to realise the disruption involved. They have been exceedingly rude, unhelpful and just want to set a new date which we can’t make as we don’t know how long it will take us to make ready for them. They cannot offer us any other contract and say that we must go through with it. Do we have to do this? Any advice or your own experience relating to this would be greatly appreciated.

Can anyone tell me where I can take old worn out clothes, sheets, pillowcases etc that are not fit for charity shops? Is it just household waste or does the Old Kent Road recycle such stuff? I want to avoid it going to landfill. Some pairs of trousers could be turned into shorts and One king size cotton sheet with a tear could be made into pillowcases if anyone is interested.

Animal charities will accept them but not if they have feathers.

Party in Amott Road has been going on since lunchtime. Have had enough. Anyone nearer? Could you go and tell them time is up?

Party in Amott Road has been going on since lunchtime. Have had enough. Anyone nearer? Could you go and tell them time is up?

I need an eye test, but have had a problem with one particular eye for the last few weeks. Would it be best to go to Paine and Hunter or Woodfall on Lordship Lane? Went to Paine and Hunter for my last test but wasn't totally satisfied they got the prescriptions right. Was sent by Northcross Rd chemist to Woodfall with a red eye problem a while back and they were quite good. Would value your thoughts.

Many thanks for your comments, especially to you FatherJack. Only have a dinosaur mobile, not a smartphone, and don't use a credit card, so I'm b.....ed too. Have a walking problem and use a stick which is why I parked to go the Blackbird bakery for several loaves of bread and jars of marmalade. What I'm really interested in, apart from alerting folk, is: when did we have to start registering to park there? Have tried to appeal but council website says "error".