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Post by lynette on Aug 5, 2019 17:31:54 GMT
We were hoping that work would start on our kitchen today, but the company we've been dealing with have made promises and so far failed to deliver. I hadn't got any shopping in anticipation of this, so had to have a tin of rice pudding for tea. Will have to have some chips at the pub quiz I think. Sympathy, sympathy. Kitchen fitters use completely different diaries to everyone else. I think they buy them when they visit outer space which seems to be where they are when you try to phone them.
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Post by ruby on Aug 5, 2019 21:48:20 GMT
We were hoping that work would start on our kitchen today, but the company we've been dealing with have made promises and so far failed to deliver. I hadn't got any shopping in anticipation of this, so had to have a tin of rice pudding for tea. Will have to have some chips at the pub quiz I think. Sympathy, sympathy. Kitchen fitters use completely different diaries to everyone else. I think they buy them when they visit outer space which seems to be where they are when you try to phone them. You're right, they must use different diaries and also emails in which Monday 5 August doesn't mean the same as it does on Earth.
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Post by peggs on Aug 5, 2019 21:51:16 GMT
[br Did try that, he could sleep through an earth quake. Shamelessly shared small child's tea when no one was looking.
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Post by peggs on Aug 5, 2019 21:53:29 GMT
We were hoping that work would start on our kitchen today, but the company we've been dealing with have made promises and so far failed to deliver. I hadn't got any shopping in anticipation of this, so had to have a tin of rice pudding for tea. Will have to have some chips at the pub quiz I think. Pretty sure I've had a tin of rice pudding voluntarily for tea before when it was late and it seemed perfectly reasonable but that may just be me. No kitchen though, that sucks.
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 5, 2019 22:01:27 GMT
he could sleep through an earth quake. I actually did! Well ok, a tremor. I used to live in a country that experienced regular tremors. (This is a good thing - the locals started to worry if they hadn't had one for a while.) Anyway, one morning I got up to find the dishes on the draining board all over the place and a couple* on the kitchen floor. Also, some of the pictures on the wall were wonky. Thinking only that I must have got in the night before slightly worser for wear then usual, I headed off to work to find everyone in extra early and discussing the early morning tremor that had woken them up and lasted for more than 30 seconds. Gulp.😬 *A couple of dishes I mean.... not A Couple...... Although, thinking about it, that would have been quite normal back in those days, tremor or no tremor.🤪
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Post by ruby on Aug 7, 2019 19:51:39 GMT
Not that anyone probably wanted a kitchen update, but we're now 99.9% sure we've been scammed. Going to pursue the deposit return through the small claims court next week if we still haven't heard anything. Trying not to mope too much about the loss of my dream shiny red and black kitchen as I realise it's entirely a first world problem and we do still have a functional if not pretty kitchen.
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Post by The Matthew on Aug 7, 2019 20:24:06 GMT
I always worry about being scammed. That's why I like to do as much as possible myself: right off the bat I know I'm going to get mediocre workmanship from someone with no idea what they're doing so I'm not disappointed.
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 7, 2019 20:57:40 GMT
I know I'm going to get mediocre workmanship from someone with no idea what they're doing Have you also perfected that morosely shaking head/tutting/sucky-in-air thing?
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Post by peggs on Aug 7, 2019 21:03:40 GMT
Not that anyone probably wanted a kitchen update, but we're now 99.9% sure we've been scammed. Going to pursue the deposit return through the small claims court next week if we still haven't heard anything. Trying not to mope too much about the loss of my dream shiny red and black kitchen as I realise it's entirely a first world problem and we do still have a functional if not pretty kitchen. Oh no that's rotten news. Hope you can get your deposit back.
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Post by The Matthew on Aug 8, 2019 11:03:22 GMT
Have you also perfected that morosely shaking head/tutting/sucky-in-air thing? And the "just going to get supplies" then pushing off to the pub thing? Funny you should mention that. It's midday. Time to get some supplies.
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Post by The Matthew on Aug 8, 2019 12:32:01 GMT
Supplies acquired.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 8, 2019 21:23:23 GMT
Got free ice cream at work today. No complaints.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 8, 2019 21:27:41 GMT
@theatremonkey You need to add a dislike button to the board for that sort of post. 3 hours? You could have walked home in less than that, I would think!
I'm on my way home from a really enjoyable comic ballet (& thus far all the transport has worked). A great end to my theatregoing season. I now don't have any theatre booked for over a month as I find the current London show line up utterly uninspiring, apart from a few long runners that I don't need to see again just yet.
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Post by showgirl on Aug 9, 2019 4:03:50 GMT
I should like to thank the total f**kwit who wandered around the tube tracks at Willesden Green, thus making my 40 minute journey home closer to 3 hours. That is all. Really sorry about this; my journey was also affected by this but in my case I was trying only to go from the NT to the Barbican as quickly as possible as I had a timed entry ticket to the art gallery. Would've been faster to walk or get the bus had I known but I was already on the tube and was fortunate that we were only held for about 20 mins, albeit going east so away from the worst disruption.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 9, 2019 11:19:40 GMT
Twice, by my calculation, LOL. You were lucky going the opposite direction. In the end, going westbound, it was a double whammy. First they cleared the loon, then minutes later a train broke down stopping the entire line again. While I can't get a refund for the maniac incident, I'm hoping for one for the train failure, so an ill wind etc... Hope you at least didn't have to spend the whole of the 3 hours in a train. If you did then I'd sue them for heatstroke & psychological distress! I found 10 minutes in a Piccadilly Line train bad enough last night.
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Post by Xanderl on Aug 11, 2019 7:30:35 GMT
Weirdness last night which I hope I did the right thing about ... I was in one of the restaurants near the Festival Hall last night, a woman in her 70s with a walking frame was shown to the table next to me. Noticed she was wearing what appeared to be a hospital gown. After looking at the menu she didn't like the look of it so left, at which point I noticed she only had socks on, no shoes. Mentioned this to the waiting staff who didn't really seem to understand my concerns (to be fair, they were very busy), and by this point she'd wandered off towards Hungerford Bridge. I did see someone stop her to ask if she was OK
Anyway ended up calling 999 - their reaction seemed to be that I'd done the right thing and they were going to send an ambulance crew out to see if they could spot her. I presume she had wandered off from a nearby hospital.
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Post by Xanderl on Aug 12, 2019 17:09:25 GMT
OF COURSE YOU DID THE RIGHT THING!!!!!!! AND A MASSIVE ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO YOU FOR CARING. Also, a huge "F.U." to the waiting staff and particularly the manager, who should have been all over it. Tell me which restaurant, and I'm boycotting it.
That could have been one of the staff's mothers or sisters, right. Thanks! Decided I will mail the restaurant some feedback. Will see what the response is before naming!
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Post by lynette on Aug 12, 2019 23:00:35 GMT
OF COURSE YOU DID THE RIGHT THING!!!!!!! AND A MASSIVE ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO YOU FOR CARING. Also, a huge "F.U." to the waiting staff and particularly the manager, who should have been all over it. Tell me which restaurant, and I'm boycotting it.
That could have been one of the staff's mothers or sisters, right. Thanks! Decided I will mail the restaurant some feedback. Will see what the response is before naming! Yes, certainly you did the right thing. Thank goodness there are people like you.
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Post by Xanderl on Aug 13, 2019 9:17:13 GMT
Thanks! Decided I will mail the restaurant some feedback. Will see what the response is before naming! Heard back from them ... area manager is going to contact branch managers to do "refresher training" on dealing with this kind of situation. Made the point they do have branches near hospitals where people may come in wearing "hospital attire" so they can't make assumptions, which is fair enough, and he accepts they got it wrong in this case.
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Post by dippy on Aug 13, 2019 21:58:40 GMT
Yesterday I learnt a bit more about the helpfulness of some people in London, or should I say the lack of. I was driving along the road that goes past Holland Park, so not the biggest of roads but relatively busy. I saw a man standing besides his car with the bonnet open and jump leads in his hand. I stopped and asked if he needed jump starting, it took about 5-10 minutes of my day to get his car going again, but he had spent an hour waiting in the hope that someone would stop, crazy.
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Post by david on Aug 15, 2019 18:34:43 GMT
Having an online read of the London Evening Standard, someone posted this. Why can’t all train announcements be as good as this?
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 16, 2019 13:46:09 GMT
Do I get the prize for being the first to cave and put the heating on? ⛄️
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Post by justfran on Aug 16, 2019 14:01:56 GMT
Do I get the prize for being the first to cave and put the heating on? ⛄️ I had my heating on for a bit on Wednesday! Brrr, where has the summer gone?!
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 16, 2019 15:05:17 GMT
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Post by david on Aug 16, 2019 15:13:13 GMT
I'm not to sure @theatremonkey would be too happy with this -" annual hunting season would help control numbers and provide a cheap source of protein." Though on a positive note, and I'm sure @theatremonkey would agree - "Monkeys are the most sentient and intelligent of the animal kingdom."
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Post by NeilVHughes on Aug 19, 2019 14:32:29 GMT
Mindlessly entered an ECB competition for tickets to the 3rd Test at Headingley and thought nothing more of it as cannot remember the last time I won a competition.
Now hastily making travel plans for an unexpected day out.
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Post by tysilio2 on Aug 24, 2019 19:00:25 GMT
Novel ways to pass time waiting for the tube #387: Watching a trio of pigeons have a threesome on a girder over the track at Wembley Park Station. Seedy.......
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Post by lynette on Aug 24, 2019 19:29:31 GMT
Mindlessly entered an ECB competition for tickets to the 3rd Test at Headingley and thought nothing more of it as cannot remember the last time I won a competition. Now hastily making travel plans for an unexpected day out. How was it? Fun?
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Post by NeilVHughes on Aug 24, 2019 20:21:17 GMT
lynette , a mixed day a full days play in half the number of overs, left positively, knowing we had the Aussies on the ropes. What a difference 24hrs makes, yesterday all hope lost, today a glimmer of hope. No sport like Test Match Cricket, impossible to explain its magic but once hooked the travails especially with England is a microcosm of life. Like Shakespeare on the surface intimidating and incomprehensible but with unlimited depths and magic once hooked.
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Post by lynette on Aug 24, 2019 22:56:24 GMT
lynette , a mixed day a full days play in half the number of overs, left positively, knowing we had the Aussies on the ropes. What a difference 24hrs makes, yesterday all hope lost, today a glimmer of hope. No sport like Test Match Cricket, impossible to explain its magic but once hooked the travails especially with England is a microcosm of life. Like Shakespeare on the surface intimidating and incomprehensible but with unlimited depths and magic once hooked. Yep, excellent description of cricket! Glad you had a good day.
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