cheers!!
strangely i have just got home and the phones are still down - - but the internet connection is working. cant complain about that!
BT say its an underground fault because of the fire, engineers are coming tomorrow but dont know what they will find or when it will work again!!
there is a silver lining to all this... parking on my street had become impossible since they changed the old bingo hall to a church, that issue has now been solved (i swear it wasnt me who started it ;) )