It was only when I got up
this morning that I realised that I didn't spend all day yesterday
whinging about tennis elbow. Much as I don't like constantly munching
drugs I thought I might just have some more of that Ibuprofen, so
after brekkie I scoffed two more.
I took "Furry
Face TM" for our morning consitutional
round the park. We set off at 8am so most of the usual suspects
hadn't yet shown up, which was probably for the best. We did see the
two old boys who always insist on calling my dog over to feed him,
but I saw them before they saw us so we were able to take a diversion
to avoid them. On the one hand they mean well; on the other hand
Fudge's hanging round them for scraps adds ten minutes to our walk.
And talking of scraps I
had to extract a doughnut from my dog's mouth as we walked. Someone
had left one laying on the pavement.
We came home, and having
some spare time before work I spent a little time getting stressed
with phone calls.
I had been due to have
had a follow-up appointment at the hospital ten days ago. It had been
cancelled and I'd had a message that it had been rescheduled for some
time today. I'd tried phoning them last week to no avail. This
morning I was told that the secretary dealing with my case had been
on holiday and that the specialist I'd been seeing had left and gone
to East Grinstead.
There is talk of fitting
me in to an extra clinic some time next week.
I then phoned the mobile
phone people. "Everything Everywhere" sounds good as
a company name, but anyone who's actually used the EE mobile phone
network would agree that "Nothing Anywhere" would be
a better description. I had no signal yesterday on our Biggin Hill
walk but the Vodafone signal was fine.
After a lot of messing
around on an automated switchboard (which kept telling me that
they were committed to excellent customer service) I finally got
through to Chris who clearly couldn't care less. She told me that my
contract runs till 6 May 2016 and I can either suck it up till then
or buy out the remainder of the contract The fact that the phone
network doesn't work (apparently) doesn't invalidate the
contract.
She suggested I spoke to
the technical people who suggested I took the phone to the shop in
the town centre. The fact that the issue is with their network and
not the phone is neither here nor there...
I then phoned the vets to
arrange a booster shot for "Furry Face TM".
Apparently despite having contacted us, the shot isn't due for a
couple of weeks. I'll arrange something closer to the time.
And then I got through to
the optician who arranged an appointment for next Monday morning
And so to work. I did get
just a little bit cross over the news on the radio today. Whilst it
is hardly going to be the end of the world, it is vaguely possible
that there may be some power
cuts over the next few winters. The reason: building power
stations is an expensive business. Apparently old power stations are
closing whilst new ones either aren't yet ready or aren't even being
built. Some of the pundits were blaming policy makers for allowing
the National Grid to get into such a state. Personally I can't help
but feel the problem is that the policy makers have decided not to
have a policy and to leave it all to market forces instead.
I stopped off at the
cheapo-bargains shop and bought thirty sandwich boxes. I've ordered
the camoflague tape. Once it arrives I shall get busy....
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