Looks like we're finally back ..... Phew!
Our host was migrating the whole site to a new server and one of the tables belonging to the forum became severely corrupted which put us out of action for virtually 3 days
. As the problem was at their end there was nothing we could do about it to fix it.
The site should have been back up last night but another bug appeared which thankfully after a bit of investigation on the SMF forum and some basic knowledge of the MySQL language I was able to fix myself.
Many thanks should go to WP for getting the forum back online after "discussions" with our host.
At the moment the forum looks different in the default colours and theme of SMF but I'll fix that later on when I get some time.
Thanks to everyone for their emails of concern and their patience.
Cheers,
WP and MT.