19 April
Yesterday
afternoon I decided to put me lappy down and watch a bit of telly instead, easy
eh? Nope, Mr Virgin wasn’t having it. So after farting about trying to get the
TIVO box sorted we gave up. I picked up HP2 for the evening, Jan played on her
lappy until bedtime. This morning nothing has changed with the TIVO box, Jan is
on the phone to Virgin and tests are being done to find out what the cause it.
It’s all done through the fibre-optic cable of course, but I have a feeling
that the TIVO box is knackered.
Now she
on the phone to them and still getting nowhere. I suppose after 20 minutes of
this they will give up and send someone out – and is what is happening now,
between 12 and 4pm tomorrow. I’ve just thought that all this time can now be
used to get some writing done instead of sitting reading HP2 for the third
time.
This the
longest break in service we’ve had with Virgin and we’ve been with them for
years now, from 1998/9 I think. I can’t see us moving to any other provider
though, the poor reports I’ve heard about them are putting me off. Why these companies
act in the way they do over customer service I just don’t understand at all. It
can’t do them any good in the long term can it?
Last week
a load of travellers set up camp on the carpark at the Walsgrave hospital. This
will of course have knock effects on both patients and visitors. Over the
weekend another group set up in part of the Hussy carpark too. The local paper
this morning is urging those attending to give themselves extra time find a
space so they are not late for appointments. This silliness has to be stopped
but various governments have dragged their heels over it for years now, afraid
of violation of human rights claims. Maybe there’s a little cowardice there too
because of the violent reputation travellers have? That ignore the human rights of the general
public who end up paying through the nose so they can live for nowt; just not
good enough!
With Virgin
being down means I need to go elsewhere for me daily news fix. I opened Edge
browser, which opens on MSN home page for me, the first item I saw on there is about
two children’s writers who live within 15 miles of each other, have gone
missing. I’ve not heard of either of them, which is not surprising considering
how many writers there are in Writersland. Yet two going missing from the same
area and within days of each other, that does sound rather strange to me. I
hope they turn up safe and sound. Meanwhile …
In
Cambridge a man has been arrest in the connection with the death of a 6-year-old
boy found naked and strangled in woods near Peterborough. I hope they have caught
the right man, who was probably only a teenager when the boy died.
Interestingly, the boy’s mum was charged and cleared of his murder but later
admitted cruelty and served a seven-year jail term. Perhaps she knows more than
she is saying? It wouldn’t be the first time would it?
Today’s
photo …
I’ve gone back to before 2008 for this one. It’s my study area in the
spare room of our bungalow in Bed’th.
Today’s
funny …
What do you call an alien from outer space who is overweight?
An extra-cholesterol.
An extra-cholesterol.
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