MONKEYS ATE OUR PHONE LINES

Image Simon Cowling - Epiq

In case you have been wondering about our lack of updates over the past few days.... the reason is typical of the kind of challenges we face daily in our unique part of the world. Our phone lines run up a heavily forested mountain side and over the past month one after another of our lines dropped out or crossed with our neighbours. The problem is that the monkey troop who share the mountain with us have developed a fetish for chewing insulation and they have eaten through to the core of our 10 line cable in so many places that it has had to be completely replaced! That is over 2km of heavy duty cable and most of the phone poles moved as well. Service is way better now but the monkeys are still here so we wonder for how long!