Electric Shocks!!!

  I received my first on line electricity bill from Southern Electric this week and yesterday was the first chance I had to check it over.. I was unprepared for the shock of seeing that my quarterly bill including VAT was for £448.49! Just for electricity! Well I...

The Power of ‘The Blog’!

For many years I dealt with customer complaints, customers would ring me or turn up at my place of work and I would listen to them ranting about their purchase (cars – a very emotive subject), it never did me any harm. BUT it did teach me the right way to...

Check Out your Check in!

I recently made an online booking for an all inclusive holiday to Tenerife. I did this last year and spent a lovely week in the hotel in Callao Salvaje, a really nice seaside place where it is not as touristy and manic as many resorts on Tenerife, and as my brother...

Jobsworth Strikes Again

I hope all the traffic wardens out there are enjoying their power trips. It takes a truly unique individual to take on this task and enjoy it – but they all seem to. Perhaps they get brownie points from their boss for the amount of tickets they issue – but...

A missive for the locals

photo credit: g-hat Here is a message for the people who think its great fun to go knocking on my door on October 31st begging for sweets or threatening retribution. I am going out! My daughter is working until after 10p.m. There is nobody here…. and neither are...

Communication Problem Here!

I am one of those annoying people that like to get things ready before writing a post. Not the words you understand, I like to write as I would speak and I don’t think it works writing it all down and then copying it across to my blog sites. So, imagine my...