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[NickFitz]

Thought I got hardly any sleep last night but my snoring/swearing recorder tells me its wasn't bad at all and I had quite a decent not tired day. Volunteer litter pick this morning chatting to another old fart and loony lady 1 walk this afternoon.

She's a bit stressed out due to the absurd increases in her leasehold service charge fees, seems to be a national problem:

How London's soaring service charges are hitting homeowners - BBC News

Our service charges have gone up quite a bit, but we also got a thing explaining why which made a lot of sense. The lift, which I like because I reckon it's the original 1960s one, will need to be replaced in fifteen years or so; the roof of the block will need doing some time in the next twenty years; and a whole load of other stuff like that, looking thirty or so years into the future. The idea is we build up the reserves now, and then we don't get hit with massive one-off charges every couple of years. Makes sense to me, but of course we're in the fortunate situation that nobody profits from the increase. I'd be unhappy about it if it was just lining somebody's pockets

[xoggoth]

Thought I got hardly any sleep last night but my snoring/swearing recorder tells me its wasn't bad at all and I had quite a decent not tired day. Volunteer litter pick this morning chatting to another old fart and loony lady 1 walk this afternoon.

She's a bit stressed out due to the absurd increases in her leasehold service charge fees, seems to be a national problem:

How London's soaring service charges are hitting homeowners - BBC News

[NickFitz]

You heartless bastard. . .

I know! So much for solidarity with the working class

But it just pissed me off that I'd cancelled my plans for the morning and waited around on tenterhooks (because UPS don't have a map you can check like the others) only for the git to lie about me not being here

Tea has been a rack of ribs and chips - well, about half of a rack as this variety from Sainsbury's is actually big enough for two people, as confirmed by the assertion "Serves 4" on the packet

[DoctorStrangelove]

You heartless bastard. . .

[NickFitz]

I whined at UPS on Twitter and they actually responded, requesting the details via DM

As a result, I just had a phone call from them. They checked the driver's GPS and reckon he was within a minute's drive of here but not actually here, so he's in for a bollocking for fabricating a failed delivery

However, he's now finished for the day so all they can do is make sure it gets delivered on Monday; in other words, the same outcome for me as if I'd never bothered moaning at them

Oh, and I assume this means that on Monday, I'm expected to answer the door to a bloke who's just been given grief by his boss specifically because of me

[NickFitz]

When I got back from shopping, one of the crows was wandering around the lawn a few feet away from where I parked. It completely ignored the car, but I wondered if it might fly off, or at least move away across the lawn, when I got out. No, it turned out: it carried on strutting about the place, completely ignoring me. At least it didn't chase me away like a squirrel

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

I also made a minor detour on the way back to pop into M&S and then over to W. H. Smith's, where I bought a copy of Commando #5800 Cannonball Casey

They only had two copies left so I just bought one, as I have some on their way in the post. My brother bought every copy at Meadowhall, but there's bound to be a kid out there who tries to get every issue but has to wait until their parents take them to the retail park at the weekend, so I thought I'd give them a fair chance

[ladymuck]

Oh great, now they've pulled the "Delivery attempted" stunt

[NickFitz]

Oh great, now they've pulled the "Delivery attempted" stunt

I suppose I can go shopping now

[NickFitz]

FFS. "We have updated your delivery time" - yes, it now says "By the end of the day" so don't go pinning your hopes on winning that "most informative delivery service" award any time soon

[ladymuck]

Cheese omelette for lunch

[NickFitz]

Lunch: fish finger bap (wholemeal) with ketchup

Still no delivery though to be fair, it's expected to arrive some time up to 13:30

[NickFitz]

Ah, UPS don't fly from Cologne to the UK - apparently it's brought here by road or rail via some place called Stanford-le-Hope on the banks of the Thames near Canvey Island. No chance of it getting here tomorrow, then

Turns out this is not always the case - they flew it over to EMA around three this morning, and it's out for delivery as of about twenty minutes ago!

I was about to go shopping, but I'll have to put that off to this afternoon now

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Bright, glorious sunshine! Had you going, no it's just cloudy and dull again. Currently 9 degrees and that's it for the day. The weather app claims the sun will appear this afternoon but I don't believe it. No rain forecast. Barometer at 1024 mbar.

Scratchy eyes this morning, sniffles still sniffling. First coffee inhaled, I suspect I'll need a couple more before I feel like doing any work.

Forgot to mention yesterday that smalls and such were laundered. They will be replaced on the clothes airer by work dresses and other larger items of clothes later.

[WTFH]

Morning all

Overcast and gloomy, but dry.

TFIF, etc.