_Seems_ to now be fixed (automatically) [Wednesday 8th Oct 4.30pm
GMT], and therefore I suspect it was a more generic (ie less local)
problem at my ISP. (This has happened once before, though I don't
_remember_ the 'cable' light on the modem going out before). Their
site status report lists/listed an issue ticket for roundabout this
area (and a few other postcodes), so I guess that was probably it,
even tho' it didn't list our exact postcode. Anyway, that's good
news, :))) I'd better phone to cancel the engineer coming out!
J