WAMT....what annoyed me today!

Mine's called Mrs Nod! (She's a Sun worshiper while I usually burn in mid February.)
 
Nod said:
Be aware of the effects of keeping E10 petrol for a long time (over a couple of months), especially in metal cans. Be aware of it's effect on rubber parts (seals etc as well as pipes) too. If you do go down the petrol route, I'd only use Super Unleaded which tends to be labelled as E5 but often contains no ethanol. (Mrs Nod's MX-5 doesn't like E10 at all - she put a tenner in when she discovered that our normal Sainsbury's didn't have Super [allegedly a cracked tank - been "unavailable" for several months] and noticed the difference even with her light-footedness and in town. Topping up with Super at a different fuel station improved things and the next tankful was pure Super.)
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I was advised to use Briggs & Stratton fuel additive for our lawn mower when using E10. It claims to keep the fuel fresh for up to 3 years & protect against the effects of ethanol in the fuel. So far, after several years no problems with the mower engine.
 
Repeat prescription at the vets. Do it online, it said they would call if there was an issue. Get an email with a pick-up slot yesterday.
When I get there they tell me she needs a medication review with the vet before it can be done. No senior people there to complain to either
 
Mild annoyance - of my own making. Well, of my parents' making really!

For my 60th, I'm being taken away for a long weekend which will be lovely. WAM is that that weekend is the local classic car show which I haven't missed other than one year when I was ill and a couple of years due to the recent plague. Main consolation is that I've probably seen all the cars that will be there in previous years! (And the weekend away with Mrs Nod, naturally!!!)
 
YaY! I cut the lawns for the 2nd time this year. I've been held up by rain and soaking ground but today there was no rain and the glass and soil were dry enough. I must have raked a near record amount of grass up but it all went in the compost bin. Since we got it I haven't needed to put anything in the garden waste bin.

ps.
Included in this thread because I was whinging about not being able to cut the lawns.
 
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woof woof said:
YaY! I cut the lawns for the 2nd time this year.
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Yeah that would annoy me too. :p

WAMT?
(i) I had plans for gardening today, but its bloody cold out there, so that went on hold. Its supposed to be warmer tomorrow, though.
(ii) People discussing politics in this thread.
 
Amazon driver rang the doorbell this afternoon. I was in the back garden but heard it and by the time I got to the front door he was driving away having left this box on the doormat. Neighbours either side were at home. Our car was on the drive so maybe he thought we were in but it could have been stolen had neither of us been at home.. It's not really why I'm posting, though. The reason is that the box measured 2' L x 9.1/2" h " x 10" w . We haven't ordered anything that size. Surely, it's not the Delia Smith book my wife ordered ? It was. The book measures 9 1/2" h x 6 1/2" w. and was sitting at the left end of the box. Surely, they have boxes that would suit this size ? Infact, books often come with just a cardboard wrap around them,not a box. Waste bothers me. At least it will go in the recycle bag.

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Cobra said:
(ii) People discussing politics in this thread.
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WAMT? (again)
(i)People continuing the politics crap after I dropped a massive hint
(ii) Having to move said posts to HT.
 
Cobra said:
WAMT? (again)
(i)People continuing the politics crap after I dropped a massive hint
(ii) Having to move said posts to HT.
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I was going to comment, but having been responsible for too many sh1tstorms I though I'd skip this one. :coat:
 
Vodaphone called in response to a request I made over four months ago. As coverage is awful I asked if I could be allowed to terminate early and they called to 'discuss'. Turns out there is nothing they can do but do accept coverage in my area is poor. I cannot terminate early without incurring a termination charge. If I were to cease using the service but continue to pay for it I will be deemed to have terminated my contract and would attract a termination charge. When asked why they bothered calling after four months, I understand that there has been an unprecedented demand on their service. When asked what they could do for me they tell me that they have now logged my complaint. It felt like they were just trying to provoke me. Either way my phone takes two sims.
 
I've had ..another...notification by text (via my wife's iPhone)..that I am due a medication review. Dates are written on my prescription. Some years ago I contacted the surgeryafter seeing it written on the top of a repeat prescription and they knew nothing about it. I recall being given a prescription for antibiotics one day and thought I'd get a few items at the supermarket ..there's a pharmacy inside..whilst I got a few items. I think the local pharmacy must have been closed. When I went to collect it the assistant said the pharmacist wanted to see me. Strange, I thought. He took me into a small room and went through a form re my medication and got me to sign it. It happened again but with a differenmt pharmacy a few years after that. THEN..I read in the newspaper that they get £28 per review. I felt I'd been duped just to increase the bottom line. Why would I need a review. I only take three tablets a day and one of them is the government-sponsored statin which I don't count as 'medicine' Sometimes what you think is misplaced but I don't think it was at the superstore. On both occasions I just carried on with my regular two tabs.

Taken from the Pharmaceutical Journal late 2019 for 2020 ..re who the government want them aimed at... The groups include people: who have diagnosed with frailty; living in care homes; with complex polypharmacy; with multiple long-term conditions and/or with high numbers of prescribed addictive pain management medication.

I read that it costs the NHS £400 million a year re medicine-related harm and they want to reduce this so I see the point. Maybe I being too cynical.
 
I got annoyed again today. It's becoming a habit :)

That lawnmower I ordered..posted in WCMUT..May 16..hadn't arrived by this morning so I planned to contact them when I got back from the Cheltenham hospital re my injured shoulder after that fall I had. Whilst there my wifer got a text from the lady next door saying that UPS had the lawnmower but with her house number on the box.. She told him I lived next door but he said he couldn't leave it with her as it had the wrong house number. So, back home I called UPS and after three attempts at getting the correct department via speech regognition (??) system I got through to a male. An Asian-sounding male who spoke in a dead pan monotone to the extent that I asked him (it) if he was a robot or a human. He said something I couldn't understand. Then he said "What is the tracking number? Despite the lawnmower company telling me in an Email that they'd let me know when it had started its journey from their warehouse and with a tracking number,they didn't. So.. I was then told by UPS that they won't re-deliver without a tracking number " I then called the mower company and they checked their records and said they had the right address on their system but when it was despatched the person in the warehouse put next door's house number on it. Big apologies, I have to say. The customer care chap got me to hold whilst he spoke to his supervisor. He returned and told me that his colleague was on the phone to UPS at that very moment and it should be with me tomorrow and he apologised that I hadn't been notified of despatch nor a tracking number which I now have.He agreed it was difficult dealing with UPS. Maybe change the delivery company then ?

UPS have a system in which an automated voice asks the caller to choose from about six options and 'say' which one you want. The one re a delivery problem wasn't clear cut so I'd tried two others first that sounded close but were wrong then I got Mr. Deadpan . I had to have a cuppa with a paracetamol :rolleyes:

How do they stay in business ? That's serious question. I think Yodel used be pretty awful but have upped their game because of so many complaints to Amazon.

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Re above post. Today, the UPS delivery chap said the person I spoke to yesterday could be located anywhere in the world.

Today, yet another call from someone who was heavily accented to the point I had to ask him to repeat his questions. It was just to arrange physio for my shoulder through privatre health care..a thirty week wait here in Gloucestrer for thne NHS. This chap wasn't Asian,though. I'm not sure the one from UPS was either. A strange accent. Today this chap had a heavy 'R' roll. It's a stupid policy especially when it's something important like a health issue and invariably causes frustration which I experienced. On the more positive side I spoke to a Spanish lady recently and she had a lovely accent and was easy to understand. Globalisation is good but I'm havinvg staff located around the world as UPS do to save money is not the way to do things unless they have very good english. Of course they may be calling from the UK and happen to be a foreign national I think it's why some insurance companies brought their customer care service back to the UK. Fine unless you get someone from Glasgow as I did once. The worst was a call I made to my car insurance company and I got a lady from India. I had to terminate the call..with an apology of course.
 
Found a pair of spectacles I though I had lost, in our attic. On top of spare kitchen cupboard boards....

I'd been looking for them for over a year, and spent a wad on replacements...... thankfully still usable.
 
JohnC6 said:
Re above post. Today, the UPS delivery chap said the person I spoke to yesterday could be located anywhere in the world.

Today, yet another call from someone who was heavily accented to the point I had to ask him to repeat his questions. It was just to arrange physio for my shoulder through privatre health care..a thirty week wait here in Gloucestrer for thne NHS. This chap wasn't Asian,though. I'm not sure the one from UPS was either. A strange accent. Today this chap had a heavy 'R' roll. It's a stupid policy especially when it's something important like a health issue and invariably causes frustration which I experienced. On the more positive side I spoke to a Spanish lady recently and she had a lovely accent and was easy to understand. Globalisation is good but I'm havinvg staff located around the world as UPS do to save money is not the way to do things unless they have very good english. Of course they may be calling from the UK and happen to be a foreign national I think it's why some insurance companies brought their customer care service back to the UK. Fine unless you get someone from Glasgow as I did once. The worst was a call I made to my car insurance company and I got a lady from India. I had to terminate the call..with an apology of course.
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Found out. The accent was Romanian or Serbian.
 
Re my lawn mower saga. :) My wife and I attempted to assemble it yesterday but it was so difficult, the instructions so poor that we only got so far,so, I went to one neighbour,who I know has good spacial skills, to see if he could assist. He managed to get the rest of the mower together including the ratchet wheels that 'set' the angle of the handle but the assembling of the grass collector ..it's a mesh material with a metal frame..separate items ..was beyond even him. Fortunately, the other neighbour pulled onto his drive and came to look. We were on the front lawn. I'm posting this because it was amazing to see how quickly he did it despite him saying that the instructions were useless. In fact, we all wondered if the right grass-collection box had been included in the delivery. Was his autism the reason ? He sees things from a different perspective than other people. I read this ." Studies have found that because people with autism tend to excel at visual processing they are up to 40% faster at problem-solving than other people" Interesting.

I appreciate that my lawn mower saga may have been a bit boring ...not to us..more a case of frustrating.. but this aspect is interesting and I wondered if anyone had a comment to make on my beleif that it was my neighbouur's autism that allowed him to get it sorted so quickly.
 
I've never been diagnosed with anything but I think these days I could be. I spent years fixing things and I was very good at it. So yes. I think it's entirely possible that some people on that spectrum could be very adapt at problem solving in that way.
 
WAMT going to microwave breakfast, and remembering I broke the door latch and the new latch still hasn’t arrived….
 
It's Redhead day and nobody has given me a hug :(



Why is this day a thing? I'm a Carrot top amd proud, but don't understand these things :LOL::exit:
 
Gav-canon said:
It's Redhead day and nobody has given me a hug :(



Why is this day a thing? I'm a Carrot top amd proud, but don't understand these things :LOL::exit:
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:lol:

Have one on me :hug:

Of course I expect reciprocation when its ( almost) bald guy day (y)
 
WAMT?
ME! bloody plonker!

I went shopping, locked the car ( it has a touch sensor in the handle) 2 seconds later I couldn't find the keys.
I was sure they were in my pocket.

While I was thinking that I'd locked them in the car, although I know this isn't possible, my mind was racing how the hell was I going to get them out? I couldn't phone recovery, as the phone was also in the car :headbang:
I searched the area methodically, no sign.
Then a guy pulls up, points and asks are they your keys laying in the road?
2 steps from the car!

The reason I couldn't see them someone had briefly stopped waiting for a space and parked over them.
I thanked every deity, who's name I could remember, for not letting them actually run over them...
Those tricky remote thingies aint cheap!
 
Cobra said:
especially if it gets any hotter and I get sunburn head :(
At least "bed head" is very much a thing of the past :D
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I was Sunburnt in March!!

I don't miss bed hair, but I only had #4 most my life :D
 
Since discovering P20 (which I've now abandoned due to its clothes staining prowess) and then Calypso factor 30 "Once-a-day", I haven't been sunburnt. Used to burn in March at the latest but these days, I can be out in full (Devon!) Sun for 3 hours + and even Cretan for 2 or so.

Bed head is a distant memory but I do now suffer from bed-beard! Beard used to be fairly ginger - typical Celtic colouration.
 
WAMT is how a very simple plumbing task (changing the piston rubber in a loft tank ball valve) turned into almost an hour of sweltering in the loft! The actual task took all of 5 minutes (including descending from the loft to the garage to extract the recalcitrant piston from the assembly) but removing and replacing the tied on lagging/jacket took an age!
Not sure how the rubber bit got displaced with no outside influence but the new piston has a different system of retention so it can't happen again.
Cured the water pipe hammer/humming!!! :)
 
Nod said:
Since discovering P20 (which I've now abandoned due to its clothes staining prowess) and then Calypso factor 30 "Once-a-day", I haven't been sunburnt. Used to burn in March at the latest but these days, I can be out in full (Devon!) Sun for 3 hours + and even Cretan for 2 or so.
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I've not tried Calypso I'll give that a go next, thanks (y)
 
5 weeks and still waiting on Canon to replace a broken on delivery part :( .. got fed up with waiting and have over engineered my own correction.
 
I get it from Amazon now but used to get it from Wilko.
 
Cobra said:
You sure it wasn't rust, going on the amount of rain early spring?
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And now the Ginger jokes starts :oops: :$ .. :p:LOL:

It could have been rust now you mention it, I really should shower after work :D
 
BBC breakfast main news is some bloke called Philip will not be on the telly for a while:rolleyes:
 
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