Moan, moan, moan - 2013

[Michael J Campbell]

Its on ALL the channels here. 

[Roma]

MONSTERS IN MY FIELD

These appeared on July 1st and are still there .  The trench is now mostly filled in but they are using my field for access to the neighbour's one.  They say they will be finished by Wednesday.  I hope so because grass is getting scarce in the place where the ponies are confined.
It is the Scottish and Southern Electricity company laying three electric cables and one fibre optic one.

[Anthony Darby]

I think I've been ripped off. Vivienne and I need academic hoods for awards ceremonies at school. We hired ours at graduation, so I thought I contact Ede & Ravenscroft and buy them. The web site wouldn't allow me to combine orders, so I phoned. We both went to different institutions, so I couldn't budge them on charging double the postage! £44.13 per item. Must be really heavy I thought. First hood arrived, and and yes, it said 1kg on the label. I weighed the parcel. 287g! I have paid over £88 to have two parcels sent from the same depot with a total weight of less than 600g. The courier was UPS and I had to sign for them, but they could have gone in one package for a quarter the cost! Not happy!

[Brian Ellis]

I think I'd be downright livid Anthony, and as my mother always said, you should tell them again otherwise they will think it was fine!

[angie]

Someone decided to use my Paypal account today to buy a Samsung galaxy phone from eBay. £385 It really gets me mad. I had to spend ages on the phone and now have had to change my passwords. I hate these people  .

Angela 

[Roma]

This is a mixture of happy and moan.  I'm so pleased to be back on the forum again.  5 days with no telephone, no internet, no email and NO FORUM.  I must be addicted.  I was getting quite stressed.  Telephone and internet were not working on Thursday morning so I phoned BT on my mobile ( an older fairly basic model).  I got an automated response and was told it should be fixed by Friday night and if not by three working days.  It was not fixed on Friday and they don't work at the weekend so I was still without a connection today.  I phoned again and was told it would be fixed by tomorrow night.  I elected to speak to an adviser.  I was told there was a queue of about 5 minutes if I wanted to hang on or they could ring me back.  I was rung back in about 40 minutes by an Indian lady and was told it would be fixed by 5pm tomorrow.  I told her I was not happy.
I switched on the computer about 5pm tonight and thought i'd try the internet.  Much to my surprise it worked and the phone is working too.  We had a similar problem about three months ago so it is a bit annoying.

[Brian Ellis]

Glad to know you are back with us, I don't know how I'd cope without access to the internet.  On the local news there was a report of villagers in Drinkstone, near Bury St Edmunds who have been off for weeks

[angie]

Roma it just shows us how we are used to this technology. I would really miss my computer but my telephone I could easy do without. The first day back from hospital I got five phone calls that were of no interest to me, just wasting my time. What really bugs me is when I say I am not interested they ask me why. Is this not my business. Think I could easily get rid of my landline and just keep my mobile number to my friends and family.
Glad to have you back here 

Angie 

[Maggi Young]

Glad to know you are back with us, I don't know how I'd cope without access to the internet.  On the local news there was a report of villagers in Drinkstone, near Bury St Edmunds who have been off for weeks

To be fair, from the name of the village, those poor folks already had problems...........

[Maggi Young]

I couldn't contemplate life without the internet to keep in touch with so many friends around the world.
Doesn't bear thinking about.

The telephone, on the other hand, can be a real nuisance with the level of cold calls - a good point is that since we had to move the main phone we can scarcely hear it, so often we have no idea it's ringing!

[angie]

I couldn't contemplate life without the internet to keep in touch with so many friends around the world.
Doesn't bear thinking about.

Could be worse Maggi, no internet and no chocolate. What would happen to us.
Hope you made Ian a big chocolate cake for his birthday today. I know how generous he is so he would easy share (not like us two)   

Angie  .

[Maggi Young]

Oh dear, maybe it should be Ian on here moaning - I did not make him any kind of cake for his birthday - isn't that awful? It would be easy for him to share cake though - he's not as keen on it as we are!!!

We had beautiful Lemon Sole for lunch though - that's better than cake!

[David Nicholson]

Many happies Ian. Bit of a nondescript age really. Got the bus pass, waiting for the pension

[sippa]

Happy Birthday to Ian, I agree that Lemon Sole sounds better then cake.

Marianne

[Maggi Young]

Happy Birthday to Ian, I agree that Lemon Sole sounds better then cake.

Marianne

  Spoken like the slim elegant person you are, Marianne !
Ian sends you his best wishes 
He keeps mentioning the excellent quality of Roland's pancakes!