Mundane News

[oldwheels]

Got the last row of potatoes in an inconspicuous bit of my wild flower area. Not as hard as I thought and great news there are more worms. The earthworm population and the bramblings in the compost bins were wiped out by New Zealand flatworms I accidentally introduced by bringing a few shrubs from Shetland without rigorous inspection. Need to introduce bramblings from somewhere to get the population going again. Hopefully I have got rid of the NZ pests but they can hibernate for a long time apparently.
Virgin Money insist I have their “ exciting” new credit card which means I have to change several direct debits. Worse still they have given me a new pin with no obvious way of changing it. Fortunately it is not something I use for normal retail anyway as I certainly will not remember it if needed.

 

[Illaveago]

Oh gawd! Disaster Chef is on !
Why can't they spice up the programme by having one of the contestants being a homicidal maniac and people have to guess who the murderer is ?

 

[Reynard]

Turkish eggs with crusty bread & butter this evening.

 

[Reynard]

She realy likes the Aldi version of Dreamies. She knows where we keep them.

The girls like Dreamies, but they also don't mind the Tesco version. And the Felix crunchies go down well here too.

When it comes to treat sticks though, only the Webbox will do. Poppy will eat the Tesco own-brand ones, but Lexi turns her little nose up at them...

 

[Reynard]

I've been to Tesco, bought next to nothing (I thought) and spent around £66! Oooops!

Ummm, looks like you might have had a few snaccidents...

Easily done.

 

[classic33]

Some naughty person has used my name and address to set up a phone contract and isn't paying the bills. So my phone company has written to me to tell me that my service will be restricted. The original version of me has never had a phone contract; I'm Pay As You Go. Apparently, their fraud department aims to respond within 5 working days but fraud has become such a popular lockdown sport that it's now a 30 day wait for them to respond.

Have they blocked both SIM and handset?

 

[classic33]

Just managed to get my parcel into the post, so hopefully my mate will have his jar of marmalade tomorrow. He's a bit down in the dumps, so this will cheer him up. His partner is giving him a tough time over catching Covid, which is a bit of an arse considering she gave it to him in the first place...

Also managed to get one box of LFT. Places around here have been giving out two boxes at a time, but there was only one pharmacy that had any in, and so one box it was.

I now have a nice and a chocolate biskit.

Giving out free, not charging for them?

 

[Reynard]

Giving out free, not charging for them?

Yep, still free. Charge only kicks in next Friday.

 

[classic33]

Yep, still free. Charge only kicks in next Friday.

There's one footwear chemists selling them up here. Free disappeared about two weeks ago.

 

[Reynard]

There's one footwear chemists selling them up here. Free disappeared about two weeks ago.

Bloody spivs...

 

[classic33]

Bloody spivs...

I'd have tried getting a few more, but for having to pay for them.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Have they blocked both SIM and handset?

I managed to convince them that I was the original me through a process of imitating myself, and they assured me that my phone would work as normal. The phone of the imitation me might become a bit unreliable. As unreliable as the person pretending to be me. And then in a month's time their fraud department will get round to phoning me, asking lots of personal questions, and say ''There's a lot of it about.'' I assume the other me will get the phone unlocked, buy a new SIM or sell it on.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

There's one footwear chemists selling them up here. Free disappeared about two weeks ago.

It took me a while longer than it should have done but I now understand ''footwear chemists!''

 

[classic33]

I managed to convince them that I was the original me through a process of imitating myself, and they assured me that my phone would work as normal. The phone of the imitation me might become a bit unreliable. As unreliable as the person pretending to be me. And then in a month's time their fraud department will get round to phoning me, asking lots of personal questions, and say ''There's a lot of it about.'' I assume the other me will get the phone unlocked, buy a new SIM or sell it on.

If the handset gets blocked, there should be no unlocking it, and replacing the SIM card. They should be informing the other networks.

 

[classic33]

It took me a while longer than it should have done but I now understand ''footwear chemists!''

£27/£29 a box or £5 odd for a single test.

Outdoor footwear chemists may have been easier.